Poets and Pasties opening night

Some of you may know I recently helped co-run as a trial

Basis, a poetry open mike night called ‘Poets and Pasties’

As a test to see if the demand was there to start one in the

New year on a more regular basis.

The idea came about from discussions with Gary and

Amanda, my collegues from ‘Trio Writers’ simply because

It could be fun to try and do one as we had all being to

Those on a semi regular basis over the past year or so.

Despite some reservations on my side, owning to the

Distance of the venue, which I thought may cause people

Some problems tracking down, we agreed to go ahead

With and even set up a date for it to start on 26^th November

2008.

I set up a few pages on myspace and facebook advertising

It and Gary did some P.R. on his side and we set up what

We could.

And off the top of my head, we attracted 25 people including

The bar staff.

Now I know there was a few people who were disappointed

By the turn out, but I must admit it was pretty what I expected

Firstly for a first night and secondly I knew from similar

Events being held in the local area what they had being

Attracting, we pretty got what I expected.

As for the night itself – me and Gary were pretty busy

Organizing and sorting things out and even at more than

One point re-scheduling orders, crossing people and when

Some people turned up we weren’t expecting to turn up,

Re-adding them back on.

And then the food… Home made pasties! Now that I

Believe was when the real fun started as I know Gary

Had some major problems with it, and Amanda I believe

Ended up taking over in the kitchen when they arrived.

Respect to her, she pulled them brilliantly as I have had

Loads off good feedback since then.

The event itself? Well – on the whole, it worked

Quite well! We will need to get more people in

For the future certainly, I felt for us to survive

But considering it was a trial run, we pulled it

Off fairly well.

I managed to persuade a few pals along

And even used a multi media section off the gig

Where my pal, Matt Dalby did his standard

Experimental poetry set, which I then followed

By doing one myself, and at the start of the

Second half, my friend from County Cork,

Kylyra which I know surprised some people.

I’m not going to name all of the acts there as

Love and respect to everybody for attending

As I loved you all.

Three lovely girls from MMU recorded the

Full gig and I am hoping to get a recording off

It in due course off them, but I did also take

A audio recording off it, which I aim to share

In the next few days online.

Cheers to all who attended of course (You

Know who you are!)

Snake Poem by Elise (Reprint)

This actually is a reprint of a old poem by my god daughter, Elise

from a few years back which I published on a old blog which

I discovered the other day and thought I would share it with you.

“I look to see the
slithering snake
and he starts
hissing
and gets into
a poisonous snake

It turns
Me into a snake”

A snake poem
By Elise aged nearly 8.

2 x new poems

Dear all;

Here are two new poems for you all to enjoy!

Two parts of the same puzzle, or maybe not?

Enjoy!

Cheers

Andy N

Nothing to Save (I)

The petals fell into the fountain

At sunset

As I watched you

Walk into the distance.

The petals fell into the fountain

As sunset

As I watched you

Turn back

And shout I love you.

The petals fell dripped into

The base of the fountain

As I watched you

Stand there

And start crying.

And when the petals

Soft as the bed in the earth

Started to reflect

In the moonlight

I almost wanted

To run back towards you

And hold you in my arms

One more time.

But I disappeared back into

The shadows.

Nothing to Save (II)

There is nothing to rescue

When I see

Petals drowning

In the fountain

At sunset.

There is nothing to rescue

When I see

Tears start to form

On their slight frames.

Perhaps if I'd got

There earlier

I could have reached

Out and held them in

My arms.

But like my memories of you

Perhaps it is best

To let them drown.

New FREE download from 'Deemed Psychotic'

Running ‘Setting Sun’ as I do

frequently involves besides all of the trudging and constant

updating that you have to do with websites do occasionally

involve some nice surprises which often come out of nowhere.

Take for example, the new recording by Dark World recording

artists ‘Deemed Psychotic’. Instead off going through the usual

procedure that many acts go through with releasing records and

stuff have instead released NINE tracks for FREE download from

the official darkworld website (http://www.darkworld.com/10page.html)

Describing themselves as heralding back to the days of the 70’s

super bands of rock for example ‘Heart’, ‘Ted Nugent’ and

‘Led Zeppelin’.

Deemed Psychotic previously released an 8 track album in 2006

called ‘The 1^st’. The forthcoming album due for release in 2009

called ‘2^nd take’ includes according to the band the addition of

a Deep Purple-esque organ to their rhythm section and

more serious lyrical content than their first release.

According to Kylyra from the band ‘It’s not all dark and

gloomy. There are a few lyrically lighter songs on

‘2^nd Take’ including 'Smile on Delivery' and

'The Lighter Side of Life', both of which we wrote in the

studio."

Speaking from a Setting Sun perspective, while there

is certainly all of the above mentioned, the sound is not

straight-forward as that and I picked up all kinds of other

influences and little bits in their sound that certainly don’t

make it sound like a progessive rock tribute band and even

from a few listens to the 9 tracks have got enough variety

to hint at a major force at work here.

Why not check them out for yourself?

Pop over to http://www.darkworld.com/10page.html

It's worth it, believe me.