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The return of our festive frolic Word of Mouth & Knees UP! mash up. Come join us on Sunday 15th December from 2-6pm to relax into the holiday spirit with performances from a carefully curated clutch of top spoken word artists and musicians.Running order to be announced soon.
In the poet's corner:
Anita Karla Kelly
Anita Karla Kelly’s stage play, Buzzing, was part of Bristol Old Vic’s Rep season 2020, tackling sexuality, mental health and teenagers. Anita was part of Sphinx 30 women’s playwright initiative where she wrote ‘Fish Tank’. Part of Royal Court Theatre and Graeae’s ‘write to play’. Commissioned by Theatre Royal Plymouth and Graeae theatre for The Day the Birds Disappeared.
Her monologue Flesh, was voted as one of the top eight monologues written in lockdown by The Guardian. Her radio piece Red Flags produced with Naked Productions received Highly Commended at the BBC Audio Awards 2021. Currently she is writing a graphic novel Land of the Pretty funded by the arts council.
Anita’s poetry and short stories have been published in Dangerous Women, Comma Press, Bath Flash Fiction and more. She has been short listed by Bristol Short Story Prize, Creative Futures amongst others.
Beccy Golding
Beccy Golding is a poet, clown and the founder of QWIM+ (Quixotic Women In Menopause). In 2022 she was awarded a grant from Bristol City Council to create Stone the Crones, a project supporting and celebrating the creative voices of older / aging / elder women in Bristol. Stone the Crones is about finding our voices and reclaiming the concept of crone as a fierce, strong, wise elder woman.
In 2021, Beccy received Arts Council funding to write a poem a day every day. The poems are all written on card index cards. To date Beccy has written well over 1,000 poems and only missed one day. Find her short daily poems on Instagram at @FridayIsPoetsDay.
Bertel Martin
Bertel is a veteran of the Bristol poetry and spoken word scene as a performer, publisher, producer and facilitator. He founded Word of Mouth with Richard Jones almost 15 years ago and has showcased scores of poets with regular events at venues including The Thunderbolt, Bristol Old Vic, and most recently KCC.
In the musician's corner
The Twelve Hour Foundation
Comprising Polly Hulse (Yamaha CS-10, flute, vocals, field recordings) and Jez Butler (Moog Rogue, Korg Volca Keys, concrète sequences), the Bristol-based duo mixes elements of musique concrète, 1970s library music, early electronic pop, and the Radiophonic work of John Baker and Paddy Kingsland.
The majority of their tracks are built using a pair of 45-year-old synthesizers, mixed with treated field recordings and sounds created from samples of household objects: plastic tubing, bottles, corks, a wire draining rack, electrical appliances and the human body. The duo have released a number of albums and EPs on a variety of labels, receiving airplay by the likes of Stuart Maconie (The Freak Zone), Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music), Pete Wiggs (The Séance / Saint Etienne) and Project Moonbase. Their first album The Lighter Side of Concrete also featured as a Ghost Box Records ‘guest’ release.
"...a sparklingly produced, fresh distillation of the spirit and bright breezy feel of classic British library electronics and BBC recordings.” - Jim Jupp (Ghost Box Records / Belbury Poly)
You can sample their fine offerings here https://thetwelvehourfoundation.bandcamp.com
Davey Woodward
Davey Woodward has been the singer and songwriter for a long time! Playing in The Brilliant Corners he was part of the 80s alternative guitar scene which became known as the C86 scene. The band had a string of indie chart albums and singles including Brian Rix, Teenage and Delilah Sands, which they self-released. The Brilliant Corners did sessions for John Peel and Janice Long. In the last decade they have found a new audience of ‘indie’ fans with their albums being reissued by Cherry Red Records.
Davey was a founding member of avant garde jazz group Spaceways , playing bass in the group.(1988-92) they released 2 albums on Bristol’s Cup of Tea Records In the mid 90s. He’s also been the driving force behind The Experimental Pop Band and the band Karen along with Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans. Friend of the KCC, Davey will be doing a rare solo show for this event.
BBC 6 music Gideon Coe is a big fan frequently playing songs on his show.
Enjoy his astonishing output here https://daveywoodward.bandcamp.com
The Lovely Basement
The Lovely Basement
Friends of the KCC, the members of The Lovely Basement arrived in Bristol from far and wide. Distilling their music in rehearsals and long meandering conversations, their songs are slow, driving and dreamy by turns, achored in the tried-and-true combo of two guitars, bass, drums and fine harmonies to float their passing thoughts on class, death, evolutionary biology and knowing when to stop.
They’ve notably found a second musical home in Spain; their third album, Lazy Travellers was released on Catalonian label No Aloha earlier this year. Gus Ironside of Louder Than War described it thus: Lazy Travellers is characterised by a push-and-pull between British and American aesthetics, combining terse post-punk indie with strong Americana influences. The resulting mix of art-rock and roots styles is not dissimilar to Paisley Underground veterans The Dream Syndicate, or the classy post-Velvets pop of The Go-Betweens. The Bristol four-piece have succeeded in carving out their own distinctive, fully-developed sound, with sharp, purposeful lyrics that reward repeated listens.
Listen and enjoy here https://thelovelybasement.bandcamp.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
162 Wells Road, Bristol, BS4 2AG, United Kingdom