Lyrical Ballads Cabaret @ The Birdcage 6 with Hollie McNish

Lyrical Ballads Cabaret is back for June! A live mash up of music and poetry showcasing some of the best talent in Norwich and beyond.
This month features our special guest HOLLIE McNISH, alongside L.EAVES, JOHN WILLIAM BROWN and FAY ROBERTS.

Not forgetting of course THE LYRICAL BALLADS HOUSE BAND.

With music from KING LACONIC and a little flash fiction from KIEREN McCALLUM.

19th June, doors 8pm.

£2 advance, £3 on the door
Get your tickets from The Birdcage bar or from their site www.thebirdcagenorwich.co.uk

Hollie McNish is a published UK poet and spoken word artist, based between London and Cambridge. She has released two poetry albums, Touch and Push Kick, both to critical acclaim, and a first collection of written poetry, Papers, published by Greenwich Exchange, London.

She has appeared in venues as diverse as Glastonbury festival, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Bar, London’s Southbank Centre and Cambridge University and has had poems commissioned by Radio 4 Womans Hour, WOW festival, Channel 4 Random Acts and The Economist Educational Foundation.

She performs across the UK as well as abroad, with previous tours and residencies in Belgium, Australia, France and Portugal, and for the British Council in Latvia and Poland. She was the UK Slam poetry champion 2009, through which she represented the UK in the Slam du Monde finals in Paris, coming 3rd behind the USA and Canada. She now runs Cambridgeshire’s youth poetry slam for young people ages 12 – 25.

As well as poetry performances, Hollie runs poetry workshops and recitals for schools, youth centres, charities and more around the country through her poetry education organisation, Page to Performance.

“I can’t take my ears of her”
Benjamin Zephaniah

holliemcnish.com

L. Eaves is a Norwich based performance poet and has performed his unique brand of bizarre, touching, poetry, rap all over The Fine City. A talented writer and musician he is the leading authority in the critical study of R Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet. An upcoming talent who must be seen to be believed.

John William Brown is a formidable performer of formidable poetry. Like a mixture of Allan Moore and Allan Ginsberg his poetry is hard, dark, topical and immaculately, dramatically delivered. Lyrical Ballads Cabaret is very excited to welcome John William Brown to the stage for a soul chilling performance.

hear him here

Fay Roberts organizes and hosts the Cambridge chapter of the Hammer and Tongue poetry slam. As well as curating the Spoken Word stage (Mad Hatters) at Cambridge’s Strawberry Fair again, this year (2013) she somehow found herself agreeing to be Artistic Director for the Spoken Word section of PBH’s Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In her spare time, she sometimes sleeps. Fay’s poetry is both thoughtful and heartfelt, with plenty thrown in about love, relationships, the perils of getting older, illusion, delusion, and problems with the colour orange. A proponent of free verse and paperless performance poetry, she likes to play with haiku and senryu in her spare time along with the odd obscure pun.

“… her poetry combines lyrical flair with a solid emotional core. In a scene full of copycats and trend-chasers, there is no one quite like her…” – Tim Clare

King Laconic is a Norwich-based singer-songwriter. Guitar playing reminiscent of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake in its intricacy and expressiveness. He transcends his influences through sheer passion and an often startling originality, from delicate picking to propulsive chord progressions and back again.

Visit his site here

Kieren McCallum is a musician, writer and performer of quirky, thoughtful and fun flash fiction, his audiences have glimpsed slivers of eternal truth, such as ‘no one likes you when you’re a dinosaur’.

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