poets and... review

Poets and… Review

Our third event as Poets and.. ran on 29th April 2009
and I felt was certainly the best one we had done so far
and helped set the scene for the future.

Featuring the beautiful and fantastic Kylyra from
‘Dark World International’ – perhaps for the first time I felt
showed the potential what our Poets and.. night could do.

First started off in November last year, I was reminded
When looking at the DVD shoot off the first night (which
I received only in the post the other day) how
Far we had travelled in a short space off time.

Our first one I felt looking back at the DVD certainly
From my perspective and my co-setter up, Gary – both
Of our works had increased in confidence so far it
Was interesting to look at.

Certainly from my own perspective – the third show was
The tightest yet, despite some minor problems with the
Sound which I know caused some problems.

I think the audience was the joint highest we’d had so far
(with the first one) and certainly had the most varied
night we’d so far with Antonnonni doing a improvised
piece with my musical buddy, Jeff and Rob Goodier
also cropping with a song among some of the excellent
poets we had on board.

Me & Jeff did three pieces for our proper set, and
Despite a slight slip in our first piece ‘Don’t be Cruel’
The second and third pieces ‘Return to Kemptown’
(done jointly with my noise buddy, Matt Dalby) and
‘A Love poem for my shoes’ were a lot looser
and I was generally really happy with it.

Highlight of the night of course had to be Kylyra’s set
For me. Brimming with confidence that can be only have
Come from hours and hours of practice – she purred
Across her set with a Grace Jones diva quality with
a mixed backing that ranged from Beat Jazz to industrial
and completely engulfed the attention of the audience.

She even dragged me onto stage to help her out with
a piece called 'Not for the hair' which was a hoot.

Hopefully I'll be able to get the chance to do that piece
with Ky at somepoint in the future.