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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 →

No one signed up for numbers One and Two so we began with Michele, surreal as ever at number Three. This sounds like this week’s pop charts. Michele’s vision was a kaleidoscope of plastic jasmine, vodka rabbits, the girl of … Continue reading →

Troy’s The Butcher of Belleville: Troy’s art was on show at Eglise Reformé de Belleville. Most of it on the theme of the Persecution of the Menonites. Troy, the church’s janitor, a position he was headhunted for, says he is … Continue reading →

The Hand & Ichi: Therese: Troy & his painting: Ellen Adams, come back soon: Audience photo:

A most strange night. Lorris and Anastasia (don’t they look pleased with themselves?) demonstrated their Instant Translation Device. One of its translations came out as ‘Lorris likes sex with hamsters.’ John McNulty asked ‘Who’ll drink?’ I was wounded by tenderness. … Continue reading →