Hammer & Tongue Cambridge featuring Kate Tempest and Hollie McNish

Time for the next round of the Cambridge Hammer & Tongue 2011-2012 season…
This is your chance to become part of the spoken word slam brilliance that has graced this here fair city for over two years. Sign up as one of the eight to compete for a place in the Regional Final, or just dive in and soak up the atmosphere and talent on display. And some great beer.

Doors open at 7:30pm; advance tickets are a paltry £6.50 full price, an even more paltry £4 for concessions, and a ludicrous £2 for slammers. Tickets on the door are £8 full price, £5 for concessions, and £3 for slammers, which is quite the bargain! Buy your tickets in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/143677, (slammers need to pay on the door) or get in touch (cambridge@hammerandtongue.com or 07904 488009) if you’d prefer to get them in person.

Kate Tempest truly is a force of nature. This 25-year-old is already a veteran of the UK poetry and hip-hop scenes, having been slamming in rap battles in London since the age of 16. She is a rapper, a poet and a playwright whose band “Sound of Rum” is currently touring the UK with Billy Bragg. She has performed at all the major UK Festivals – Glastonbury, Leeds and Latitude (where she received a standing ovation) to name but a few – and is a favourite of Scroobius Pip’s Spoken Word Surgery on Radio One, as well as having her tracks played repeatedly on national radio. She has supported such diverse legendary performers as John Cooper Clarke and Femi Kuti, and she shows no signs of slowing!

Her work is influenced equally by a love of hip hop and a love of great literature, her heroes include William Blake and Gza from the Wu-Tang Clan. She completed her BA in English Literature in 2008. Her dissertation was a study of the similarities between the work and philosophy of rappers and Romantic Poets.

Find out more via http://onetaste.co.uk/collective/excentraltempest/

Hollie McNish’s poetry influences span hip-hop, grime, and sixties protest songs, while her lyrics themselves span at least five languages. As well as performing her gorgeous poetry all over the country and running workshops and poetry demonstrations with not-for-profit organisation “Page to Performance”, she has played with drum ’n’ bass acts like Beardyman and Jungle Drummer, and was named a Great Briton last year! Find out more at http://holliemcnish.bandcamp.com

Hosted by Alex Iamb and Fay Roberts.

“The best live poetry is to be found at The Hammer & Tongue slams”
(The Sunday Times)

A poetry slam is a live democratic poetry competition where random members of the audience are made judges giving scores to a series of 3 minute spoken word performances with an Olympic-style score system.

“Hammer & Tongue have reinvented the medium for the hip hop generation”
(The Guardian)

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