Saturday 7th May 7pm
Mr Fluffypunk's Penny Gaff with Thick Richard, Diego Brown & The Good Fairy
ROLL UP! ROLL UP!
It's Penny Gaff time again...
THICK RICHARD
Thick Richard has been pedaling his potty-mouthed poems at festivals and clubs up and down the land since 1999. His cynical, lyrical, jet-black humour, intelligent wordplay, well-crafted verse, and occasionally acerbic, well-targeted comic attacks have earned him much respect from artists and audiences from Edinburgh to Glastonbury.
He has supported acts including; Kate Tempest, The Fall, The Courteeners, The Lovely Eggs, Jerry Sadowitz, John Hegley, Arthur Smith and Frank Sidebottom. Thick Richard has been heard a number of times on BBC radio, including presenting and writing BBC 6 Music's Beat of the Day and performed live on the channel for National Poetry Day.
A regular headliner of Hammer and Tongue nationwide poetry tours and is usually to be found performing a wide variety of live music and cabaret venues. He has also had a sell out tour of his solo show “Swear School. His work has been published into two poetry collections with Flapjack Press, "Vaudavillian" in 2018 and "Read Em and Weep" in 2020.
“Thick Richard’s poems remind you of things you’d forgotten were true. His words are rattling and brilliant and shoot life back at you in all its futility and chaos and wonder.”- Kae Tempest
"I like a bit of fun, but this is ridiculous... Stu-fucking-pendous!" John Cooper Clarke
"Thick Richard is one of the greatest spoken word performers of his generation. His fierce, funny diatribes offer an essential antidote to an ever more sanitised and derivative culture. A unique and authentic working-class voice." Byron Vincent
DIEGO BROWN & THE GOOD FAIRY
The original twisted folk. Pop songs, dance tunes, warm feet. These sibling multi-taskers, sometimes described as 'The Carpenters on a Lost Weekend in Twin Peaks', expect a lot from their audiences and usually get it.
"Someone once said we’re the most surreal musical experience since the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
One writer said we were the talk of the chip van queue at Sidmouth international festival.
We tend to think of performance as a two-way thing. We have high expectations of our audience. And they usually come up trumps.
If it doesn’t have a story we think it’s unlikely to make a song. And if it’s not a song, what’s the story?
If you want the facts, try these: guitar, banjo, ukelele, drum, accordion, fiddles, swannee, kazoos, cymbal, shakers, drawings, cake, prizes, fuzzboxes..."
Plus more TBC, including a film and the usual daft competition.
All hosted by the lovely JONNY FLUFFYPUNK
7pm door for 7.30 start.
£10 adv; £12 on door
Tickets £10 advance, £12 otd