Author Archives: David Barnes

Welcome to the Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide. Have a drink and a pancake cooked up by Vanessa at the bar. Flo kicked off in French, with what he read in his horoscope. Charlie (photo) stuck his nose into other people’s business. … Continue reading →

12 poets, singers, performers. Improvised poetry! And a full bar. SpokenWord is back!I kicked off with an account of how I broke my arm the day we found the electric vagina in the cellar. Pieton, Utopianist, revait d’un pays qui … Continue reading →

SpokenWord returns Monday 7th September, 20h30 at the Cabaret Pop/Culture Rapide, as ever.It will then be every fortnight until at least 14th December. As I have just broken my arm, with the help of a certain cello player, the theme … Continue reading →

The night was good! (unexpectly)When I arrived the culture rapide was completely empty and dead.And so it was even at 9.15 except Michele.I was kind of letting Michele doing a one man show when everybody arrivedtogether in almost 10 minutes … Continue reading →

Still sat on the eurostar. In fact I’ve been on here since 6.43 and it’s now 11.16 – the train broke down and we had to return to gare du nord to get another one. Arghhhhh! On to the report … Continue reading →

Seeing as I’m stuck on a eurostar, time to catch up on SpokenWord reports. I will try to reconstruct the night of 15.6.09 from these scattered notes.Water & Air, 15.6.09Alberto got lost in the zodiac, bitching about girls. Maxx looked … Continue reading →