Roll Up Roll Up — the literary cavalcade known as The Golden Hour is storming the South. We’re going to Sheffield, Newcastle, Bristol, Brighton and London! Dates are below —  It is physical and mental. It is a reading. It is a gig. It is a party.

When?  20th – 25th May, 2010!

Featuring:

Readers / Writers:
Ryan Van Winkle – poems & stories from the Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Ericka Duffy – Southern (Ontario) Gothic fiction & Poetry.
Jason Morton – Shouts from the barroom floor.
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Jane Flett – winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award and seamstress of many fetching stories.

Music / Song Writers:
Hailey Beavis – an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings.
Jed Milroy – bouncin’ bluegrass from the banjo balladeer.
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Taperecorder – weaves a shoegaze-crunk house hybrid as suited to cocooned winter days as to sweaty late-night adventuring.

PLUS a variety of SPECIAL GUESTS each night – no two shows alike!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

20 May – The Rude Shipyard, 89 Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield 8 – 11pm,  £3    [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Matt Clegg – beautiful poems, wonderfully restrained. Matt Black – serious, sharp, surreal, irritated and funny. + Pete David (of The Payroll Union) – The local hero shares some rustic country of his own making.
21 May – The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol 8 – 11,  £3    [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Rachael Boast – poetry with the confident ease of a tall glass of iced-tea. David Briggs – idiosyncratic poems where clowns and teacups are lit at the edges with a gunsmoke-blue glow.  New book due out from SALT! + Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
22 May – Redroaster Coffee House, 1d St James Street, Brighton BN2 1RE 8 – 11pm,  £3   [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose. The Half Sisters – Ukulele, flute and drums combined with three point harmonies create a lush and mesmerising chorus of catchy pop hooks and adorable honesty. + Possible special amazing comedic guest who we can’t quite pin down but will pop like a snake in can!
23 May – SECRET VENUE, London – Free —- Shhhh, Secret Special BBQ gig… 4pm – midnight, FREE! SPECIAL GUESTS: The Itinerant Poetry Library – ‘Reaching the parts other Libraries have yet to reach!’ INDEED! + Paper Cinema & many surprise friends!!!	Contact us for the magic venue!!!
24 May – Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden, London 7 – 11pm, £5  [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Mario Petrucci – Imaginative, sophisticated and effortlessly masterful poet. AMAZING! Kirsten Irving – The editor of FuseLit brings poems of effortless and funky finery. Sam Taradash – stories from the hard shoulder. The Itinerant Poetry Library – ‘Reaching the parts other Libraries have yet to reach!’ + Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
25 May — Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne 7.30 – 11pm,  £3   [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle – local heroes bring their brand of bluesy country/folk hillbilly mix of utter eccentricity

We can’t wait to see you at the GOLDEN HOUR!

Forest Publications, bringing it to your backyard (or garden).

Now available for a bargainous £2 is the first issue of Volume 2 in Forest Publications’ Chapbook Series: Lawrie Clapton leads the way with a short story entitled, The Ones You’ve Had, The Ones You Get & The Ones You Want.

An excerpt:

“There are plenty of great ways to introduce a story; you can start with a death, like Albert Camus, or you can start with rainfall, like Edgar Allen Poe, or a wedding, or an introduction, or an elaborate pratfall, drunk, down a set of stairs. Being original and being clever were never my strong suits – besides it should probably be with what you remember best that you start off a story. I remember the songs the best. This song is My Generation, by The Who, and the year is nineteen-sixty- something – probably sixty-five – and it’s December. I think it was, at least – it was cold. I remember sitting on the pavement in Piccadilly Circus watching Dez (Derrick to his mum) ride his scooter up and down the street, screeching to a halt in front of prams and bicycles and parents with their five-year-olds. There was a tape player down at my feet…” Read more!

Product details

• Title: Vol.2 Iss.1 ‘The Ones You Have, The Ones You Get & The Ones You Want’
• Author: Lawrie Clapton
• Pamphlet: 12 pages
• Publisher: Forest Publications (18 Mar 2010)
• ISBN-13: 978-0956338853
• Amount: £2

GET YOUR COPY TODAY from the FOREST PUBLICATIONS STORE!:

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THE GOLDEN HOUR!

April 21st, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free! (byob)

Readers:

Helen Mort – unbuckles her new poetry chap.

Misa Klimes – brings poems for ears.

Nik Cook – holds on and says things.

Music:

Endor – rousing streams of breezy, Celtic-tinged jangling.

The Sparrows – 3 girl eclectic folk band originally from Japan. They tote a variety of instruments including (but not limited to) violin, ukulele, cello, flute, keys, guitar, a deathmetal kazoo, and warbly bird voices. Likes cake and bad puns.

Freight Tray – a bouillabaisse of salty a capella vocals, spicy guitar action and wet synth.

Strap on your dancin’ wellies!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5BfQcj4H8

The Golden Hour Highland TOUR!

Join us for a literary cabaret which has played to sold-out audiences in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is poetry and prose, original eclectic songs and visual amazement. It is physical and mental. It is a reading. It is a gig. It is a party.

Featuring:

Readers / Writers:
Ryan Van Winkle – poems & stories from the Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Ericka Duffy – Southern (Ontario) Gothic fiction & Poetry
Jason Morton – Shouts from the barroom floor.
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Jane Flett – winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award and seamstress of many fetching stories

Music / Song Writers:
Billy Liar – starter of many a folk-punk riot
Hailey Beavis – an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings
Jed Milroy – bouncin’ bluegrass from the banjo balladeer
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Toby Mottershead – a rare solo set from the Black Diamond Express frontman. Old time rock n’ roll goes stomp box blues.

Special Guests:
@ Moniack Mhor:
Chiew-Siah Tei – new fiction.
John Glenday – The poet launches his crazy shining diamond – Grain.

@ Ullapool
Jon Miller – the poet, musician and Tom Waits fan graces us.

@ Aberdeen
Sarah J Stanley – big songs on a tiny uke

Tour Dates

* 25 March  
Glenurquhart High, Drumnadrochit
1.45 – 2.45pm
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Moniack Mhor – Teavarran, Kiltarlity, Beauly
7pm
Special guests: Chiew-Siah Tei & John Glenday

NB: John Glenday is one of my favourite poets and he produced the most stunning and quietly beautiful book of the past year. If you have not bought Grain – do buy it. It is the real deal and everything that poetry should be. You can hear my interview with him here:

Listen now…

* 26 March
Stornoway Library, 19 Cromwell St.
5.30 – 7pm

* 27 March
The Ceilidh Place 12-14 West Argyle Street, Ullapool
8pm
£5 entry (Free Stolen Stories Book for ALL!)
Special guest: Jon Miller – the poet, musician and Tom Waits fan graces us.

• 28 March
The Blue Angel – Findhorn – The Park, Universal Hall, Findhorn / Forres, Morayshire
7.30pm

* 29 March
Blue Lamp – Aberdeen – 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen AB25 1BU
7pm
Special guest: Sarah J Stanley – big songs on a tiny uke.

March 24th, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free! (byob)

Reading:

Kona MacPhee – with her brand new collection!

Lawrie Clapton – rocks the chapbooks!

Jenny Lindsay – poetry gets the slam.

Music:

Burnt Island – Short stories set to music for late nights and early mornings,
with Rodge Glass, a guitar player better known for writing books.

Sam and Mike – they might have a tune.

Billy Liar – his machine kills fascists.

Put on your listenin’ hats and dancin’ shoes!

February 17th, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free! (byob)

Reading:

Claire Askew – editor, poet, dragon slayer, jewellery maker, teacher.

Ewan Morrison – we bus Mr. Trouble in from Glasgow to kick over a few tables and tell some stories.

Tom Pow – even if his name wasn’t Tom POW we’d still use an exclamation mark to describe him!

Music:

Gary Stewart – exhilarating and masterful songwriting.

Diddley Squat – last time we counted they were a massive 12 piece regaee band. We think they’re growing.

Robin Grey Band – In a small white room with a blue door they create gently experimental nu-folk. you will like.

And don’t forget to check out our interview with Alan Bisset:

There is a double-bill of two of his plays, The Ching Room and the Moira Monologues, at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow from 9th-13th Feb. Bissett himself will be starring as ‘Moira’. He also helps with the splendid reading series, Discombobulate (where literature and comedy collide) in Glasgow. Alan read at The Golden Hour in January 2010.

THE GOLDEN HOUR 2k10!

January 20th, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free! (byob)

Reading:

Kirstin Innes – The story-charmer!

Alan Bissett – The ring-leader!

Colin McGuire – pedestrian, provocateur, wanderer, confronter of shadows!

Music:

Mat Riviere – Electric repetition, loops that don’t stay in time, and self-Harmonizing.

The Maple Leaves – A massive aural hug.

Skeleton Bob – Songs about Glasgow that sound like they’re about America; songs about girls who did them wrong/proud. The long-awaited, rarely seen in Edinburgh floor-stampers!

* The Forest, 3 Bristo Place

Rodge Glass -- novelist, biographer, intellectual and teller of many a fine joke.

Anneliese Mackintosh -- stories told so well you feel as if you lived them.

Jason Morton -- unwraps his present.

Ben Lancaster -- live via satellite from snowy Canada. What, oh
what, will he wear?

music:

Forest Choir -- they will unleash their full might upon you.

Jed Milroy & Hailey Beavis -- New and traditional songs from
two of our best friends. Like Christmas morning all over again.

The Stormy Seas -- place their brand of ‘aggressive folk’
under the GH tree. Featuring all the stuff you want — guitar, bass drums,
banjo, melodica, squeezebox, fiddle and Sea Shanties with a Punk
attitude.

with Special Guest -- Dirk Markham!

And if that isn’t enough, here’s a little video treat from The Golden Hour Tour in the Highlands. Featuring: Hailey Bevis, Jed Milroy, Billy Liar and Withered Hand!

Don’t say we never gave you anything.

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There’s  going to be a blow-out party and you know the Naughty Boys are always ready to blow. So, come drink and freak with us durring the legendary Forest Blender!

The Forest is Licensed for One Weekend Only.

Once a year the elusive and enigmatic Naughty Boys get together for a session of live, improvised, performance. Poems vs computers vs drums vs salvaged keyboards and whatever else we can find.

You will come.

Featuring:

* Dan Seizure on keys and computer loop. (http://danseizure.com)
* Stevie Paterson on keys and percussion noises.
* Ryan Van Winkle — Spoken Words (http://ryanvanwinkle.com)

More information on Forest’s weekend of wild activities:

Autumn has come and the rainiest season is upon us. Help The Forest mending the roof before all of the lovely volunteers drown! The roofs needs fixey fixey, and therefore we throw a 4-day long mini festival!

We will open every day TILL 1am and we will be FULLY LICENSED.

All concerts are free!

From the 5th to the 8th November

Here is the smashing programme:

THURSDAY 5th NOVEMBER

We have live bands in the Café all night:

Martin Boland & Mike Bennet - multitalented musicians

Devils & Medals – blues band

Sons of Fionn - an eight piece folk band (www.myspace.com/sonsoffionn)

Manje - Manje means now and now is the time for this tasty melting pot of world sounds (www.melvitronica.com/manje)

FRIDAY 6th NOVEMBER

The Forest presents Jiggery Fuckery in the Cafè. Jiggery Fuckery is one of the monthly parties at The Forest, and a fucking amazing one too!

In the Hall:

New Urban Frontier - Politically charged noise for the new generation (www.myspace.com/newurbanfrontier)

White Heath - one of the best “alternative” acts in Scotland (www.myspace.com/whiteheath)

Fox Gang - add punked-up reggae and pop and Fox Gang is ready to rock! (www.myspace.com/foxganger)

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SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER

In the Hall:

Amazing music in the Hall by The Bridge Rectifier - a collective of artists who produce original electronic dance music.  An unique opportunity to hear new live styles, the only rules being NO vinyl, cd or mp3! (www.thebridgerectifier.com)

In the Café:

Witches revenge – raw angry punk girls

Plastick Fork  Night with

Naughty Boys - The elusive and enigmatic Naughty Boys get together for a session of live, improvised, performance. Poems vs computers vs drums vs salvaged keyboards and whatever else they can find.

Cosmic Dork

Lipsync For A Lullaby – (www.myspace.com/lipsyncforalullaby

SUNDAY 8th NOVEMBER

In the Café:

Reggae Sunday - Reggae Sunday is back! Improvisatorial reggae that will make you move your feet!