Punk poet, latterly dub poet, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Attila the Stockbroker exploded into public consciousness in 1982-3 via two John Peel sessions and a Melody Maker front cover and is now celebrating 44 years earning a living doing what he loves. So far: 4000 gigs in 24 countries, some 20 CD/s LPs, ten books of […]
Frome Storytelling Circle is a monthly local group for practicing the art of traditional oral storytelling in a friendly, relaxed setting. The shapes of the stories may be old, but the behaviours they describe and the lessons they teach are as common and as applicable nowadays as they ever were. Each teller has their own […]
He’s the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour. The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on – including Celebrity Gogglebox, and I‘m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, among many others – redefined the sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll lifestyle during […]
What constitutes a good life? The stories we tell? The people who remember us? The moments that endure? Part performance, part investigation, Black Box pieces together memory, family, humour and loss in search of the hidden mechanisms that shape who we become. Through poetry, conversation, movement, song and unexpected encounters, Marina Sossi opens the black […]
Frome Storytelling Circle is a monthly local group for practicing the art of traditional oral storytelling in a friendly, relaxed setting. The shapes of the stories may be old, but the behaviours they describe and the lessons they teach are as common and as applicable nowadays as they ever were. Each teller has their own […]
With over 500,000 followers on social media and a host of sell-out shows across the country, Brian Bilston is one of the UK’s most popular poets. He has published several bestselling collections of poetry, including You Took the Last Bus Home, Alexa, what is there to know about love? and Days Like These. His novel […]
