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26 - 28 October 2001 - the beat goes on - original poetry,
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Friday 26 October 2001 @ 7 pm
LIPS' CABARET PARTY and PRESS LAUNCH TRAFALGAR HOTEL Saturday 27 October 2001 @ 7pm LIPS' REBEL NIGHT an evening of poetry, song, comedy and beat rebellion Hackney
Empire's Bullion Room Theatre LIPS' BEAT AFTERNOON an afternoon of beat memories, film, music and poetry
Hackney Empire's Bullion Room Theatre
£8.50 adv. £10 door, £6 concs, £15 double ticket
LIPS' BEAT NIGHT an evening of lyric and song, original and classic OCEAN, 270 Mare St, Hackney E8 As well as great bands playing original songs we pay tribute to modern beat masters like Bob Dylan (performed by the superb Peter Jagger) and Van Morrison (performed by the Bap Kennedy Band, back from supporting Van the Man in Belfast). LIPS' BEAT NIGHT will feature an international cast of performance poets headed by The King of New York, the mighty Bob Holman, plus Ron Whitehead and Frank Messina of USA, Bart FM Droog of The Netherlands, and local talents including Richard Deakin and Tania Glyde plus Icelandic poets Bragi Olaffson (formerly of the Sugarcubes) + the Pollock Bros + further routines of Lord Buckley. Five hours of lyric and song - the final night of the LIPS Festival will try to mark the start of a new millenium of poetry and music with the mad ones, the bad ones, the ones who blaze and pop like fabulous yellow roman candles in the night and the crowd sez aaah... Richard Deakin: +44 (0)20 8674 9311 LIPS was formed in July 2000, in response to a request from directors of the first New York Underground Music and Poetry Festival (Nov. 2000) and of other previous festivals of verse and song to the poet and writer Richard Deakin to originate a London version of the ongoing series of Festivals that had hitherto encompassed various European countries and the USA. Most of these festivals involved David Amram, legendary jazz and world musician, who actually introduced the jazz-poetry format to New York playing with his friend Jack Kerouac in 1957. As part of the LIPS festival David will be discussing his experiences with Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, on an off the road, with Carolyn Cassady, Neal's longsuffering wife and perhaps the love of Jack's life, tales of the Tradition being handed down by two "Soul Survivors" of the Beat Generation. All these festivals have had a common theme and a thread running through them, contemporary performance poetry with a musical background within a Beat heritage. LIPS (and its two associate companies Fringecore and The Literary Renaissance in the USA), thought it was time they brought the formula, appropriately modified and reborn, to London, so that the poets and musicians involved could reach London audiences and wail with their fellow spoken word and musical artists in a cross-fertilization of the cultures and countercultures involved - and do it for the first time in the coolest city on Earth. LIPS will make London the focal point of an artistic collision between a a core of major international artists and a small army of young pretenders to the thrones of poetry and song.
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