TONGUE FU Weds 30th July

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TONGUE FU
Weds 30th July - doors 8pm
The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road London EC1
5.00 / 4.00 concs.
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Hello!

Please read on for news of the best Tongue Fu line up so far..
Michael Horovitz, Polar Bear and Last Mango in Paris..
coming to the The Betsey Trotwood on 30th July..

The show is being filmed for a feature length documentary about the
goings on in rooms above pubs, so we've put together a line-up you are
quite unlikely ever to see again in a room above a pub..this is a one
off!

For the uninitiated, Tongue Fu is a forum for the UK's more musical
poetry performers and poetic musicians to collaborate in a spontaneous
show of top flight wordplay and improvised musical madness. We've had
stunning sets from the likes of Scroobius Pip, Kate Tempest, Poem In
between People, Niall O'Sullivan, Zena Edwards, Jamie Woon, Ross
Sutherland, Chris Hicks...etc etc..

This promises to be a really special event. We are expecting the show
to sell out, no advance tickets, so please get there early..and please
spread the word..... huzzah!!!

Tongue Fu – Summer Special!

Tongue Fu returns on 30th July after a brief sojourn to the Jazz
Lounge at Glastonbury Festival, with a sizzling summer bonanza of red
hot performance poetry, backed by the dizzying collective talents of
The Ventriloquist Band..

Featuring

Michael Horovitz
Jazz Poetry pioneer, editor-publisher of New Departures, torchbearer-
coordinator of Poetry Olympics, singer-songwriter anglo-saxophonist &
leader of William Blake Klezmatrix band. “Popular, experienced,
experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard” (Allen
Ginsberg).
"a dreamer, a maverick ... transmedial crusader" (Martin Amis)

Polar Bear
One of the UKs finest young performance poets fusing humour, humility,
dazzling wordplay and hip hop delivery. His one man show ‘If I Cover
My Nose You Can't See Me’ opens at the South Bank’s Purcell Rooms in
July.

Last Mango In Paris
Currently putting finishing touches to his brilliant debut album, Last
Mango is a poet, prankster and master performer, of Indian root and
British fruit. He has worked with Talvin Singh, Alex Wilson and
recently he toured in Don Lett’s show, Speakers Corner.

Hosted by

Ventriloquist
Poet, performer and musician who hosts Tongue Fu with members of the
Ventriloquist band (Nostalgia 77, Heritage Orchestra). “…a wordsmith
wizard whose sublime art of story telling in verse is impossible to
ignore" (Poetry Book Society).
“riotously entertaining” DJ Mag