RRRANTS Presents Mark & Mixy’s Dead Poets Show

Entry: free; featured performers – The Dead Poets supported by Danni Antagonist, Fay Roberts, and The Antipoet.
This is what The Scotsman had to say about The Dead Poets at Edinburgh Festival 2011:

“What do you get if you mix a hip hop MC with the former Poet Laureate of Peterborough? Answer: a funny and insightful combination of two art forms that have much in common, but are rarely seen in the same room.

“Through the story of their unlikely partnership, Mark Grist and MC Mixy use their different forms of lyrical wordplay to break down the clichés associated with both of their musical genres.

“When Mark, an English teacher, uses poetry to enthuse about the bright young minds of “difficult” kids, Mixy counteracts this with the perspective of someone who never wanted to go to school. While Mixy battles with being a rapper from “the sticks” rather than “the hood”, Mark paints himself as a rapper from “the sticks” rather than “the hood”, Mark paints himself as a cosmopolitan city dweller looking for a “girl who reads” – as he explains through a feminist anthem that will bring joy to the hearts of anyone who is sick of R&B songs about hookers. Meanwhile, Mixy’s rap about poet John Clare proves rap nor poetry need be limited to the subject matter they have come proves rap nor poetry need be limited to the subject matter they have come to be associated with.

“Things stay just the right side of funny, rather than geeky, and when our likeable hosts decide to swap modes of storytelling, the results are frequently hilarious. By the end you’ll see both rap and poetry as entertaining, uplifting hilarious. By the end you’ll see both rap and poetry as entertaining, uplifting and freeing styles of storytelling united by their potential.”

http://www.deadpoetry.co.uk/

Danni Antagonist is a vibrant, urban poet from Milton Keynes whose fierce and passionate rhymes about life, love, sin, snow, and sorrow will have you begging for more. She runs Poetry Kapow! with Fay Roberts.

Fay Roberts is a lyrical wordsmith and singer from Cardiff who started making poetry in a serious way in Milton Keynes and now performs her heartfelt and soothing verses that make audiences quietly go “Oh!” in all sorts of parts of the UK. She is currently based in Cambridge and you can find out more at http://www.fayroberts.co.uk

The Antipoet are a law unto themselves, beholden to no-one and thank goodness, otherwise numerous audiences would be bereft of their anarchic take on life, politics, law enforcement, the perils of scientific establishmentarianism, gender dynamics, theocratic misdemeanours, and anything else that dances across their brains to a synchopated bass beat. Dynamic lyricist and snappy dresser Paul Eccentric is aided and abetted by Ian “Sir Gigalot” Newman on his double-bass. FInd out more (if you dare) at http://www.theantipoet.co.uk/

So come along – you’ll be ever so glad you did! 😀

This is a Rrrants presentation for the Poetry Link: http://www.rrrants.com

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