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The Fluid Group
What is the Fluid Group? Flowing out of the cosmic soup, zapped into
life by te cracking electricity of Hammer & Tongue's forge and
mixed with the multi-threaded fusion of Oxford's poetry scene, the
Fluid Group is the Oxford slam! team and all our local slammers.
Any verse speaker, griot, ranter, scop, dub poet or wordsmith is
welcome to join this ever-nascent whirly-gig of performance poets.
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A.F.Harrold is a prize-winning performance poet, non-prize-winning literary poet, comedian, novelist, mime-artist, actor, artist, artiste, journalist, journaliste, bandleader, bon vivant, bugbear, book-reader, lover of comfortable shoes and paddling, porpoises and purposes. He is also available for children's parties and grown-up's dinners. www.afharrold.co.uk Richard Brotherton Richard Brotherton is a musician, performance poet, and music teacher who also thinks he’s an artist. His influences include Theodor Geisel, AF Harrold and Jack Daniels. His hobbies include eating his goldfish and poor punctuation. Rapunzel Wizard Rapunzel Wizard is an environmental activist as well as a performance poet, mixing comedy and politics in his verse. He has performed everywhere from a muddy field at Glastonbury Festival, to a muddy field at Newbury Bypass protest. He has moved to Aberdeenshire to find new muddy fields to gig in. Peter Wyton At 12, Peter Wyton was financing his collection of Arthur Ransome books on Childrens' Hour, which paid seven shillings and sixpence in book-tokens per broadcast. The money's got no better since, but he has 12 Slam titles under his best, 16 first prizes in written competition & six 'slim volumes'. Elizabeth Mc Hale (Lizzie Mac) is new to the art of the slam, having been rescued from the abyss of abandonment by amazonian warriors and retrained in the art of parenting by black widow spiders. She intends to militarize motherhood. Steve Larkin is the current International Spoken Word Olympic Champion (Ottawa 2004). A performance poet of ten years experience he has shared shared stages with the international greats (including Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Hegley, John Cooper Clarke and Taylor Mali.) Funny and gritty, thoughtful and foul, Steve Larkin performs poems and songs and leads workshops and slams in nightclubs, pubs, carnivals, schools, prisons and other venues throughout the UK. He has played major UK festivals including Edinburgh, Glastonbury and WOMAD and is also a founder and compere of the UK’s largest Poetry Slam, Hammer and Tongue. Steve Larkin has recorded one album of high energy spoken word, “The Midas Touch and Other Curses” and also fronts Oxford’s popular world-folk-punk-skiffle band, Inflatable Buddha. Ali Magnall a 40 something wonderwoman with too many talents to name. Working as a Nurse since 1980 with a Degree in English at Oxford in between (No not brookes). Ali divides her time between dog walking, semi-anarchist activities, disciplining a loveable teenage UXB and working bloody hard. Latecomer to poetry diverse influences: Ben Jonson, W.H.Auden,Wendy Cope and AYM. Dave Todd is often seen performing both poetry and music around Oxford's cultural fringe. He describes himself as a practical working-class no-nonsense woolly-brained hippie idealist. Jim Thomas has performed all over the world from Australia, The Philippines, The USA and even Outer Mongolia but quite perversely has never been featured at the "living breathing monster" of a gig he helped set up in Oxford. The H&T Annual Slam Final will be the first chance to see the award-winning poet and techno-activist in action and the last before he leaves us for a long and well-earned break. ELF (Ellen McAteer), is a writer/performer of twisted faerietales and wicked songs. She has had short stories and poems published in, among others, West Coast Magazine and The Illustrated Ape. Her play, Portrait, was performed to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe and went on to be recorded for local radio. Sophia Blackwell is an anarchic lesbo guinea goddess who writes rhymes about sex, feminism and soft fruit. She is never seen without high heels and lipstick. Her main poetic influences are Ani DiFranco, Roots Manuva, Joyce Grenfell and caffeine, and her number one ambition is to get paid. John Hoggart is fond of asking the question: "Obscurity or Notoriety?" and knows that for him a little notoriety goes a long way. He was recently asked if his glass was half full or half empty and within two days supplied the completely accurate answer that it was half-cracked, covered in greasy paw prints and anyway, the dishwasher was broken. He has lived in Reading for over twenty years, has historical links to the artistic elite of this country and is immensely talented. Alan Buckley aims to write poetry that lives equally happily on page and on stage, and sometimes succeeds. He would like to point out that he's not the pheasant plucker, but is simply filling in for the time being. Inspirations: Philip Larkin, Steve Larkin, skylarking. Claire Fauset aka Radical Supergirly writes poetry of political power, passion, fizz and fervour. Check out her blog, ''Re-Claire the Streets'' Other Fluid Group members include: Andy Tilling AYM George Roberts Laura King Lord Toad Noel Tucker Pilgrim Sam Berkson Stephen Hancock TSSSSS (Topless Society of Sociopathic Slacious Sirenas) Vanessa Dubuisson Tabatha Troughton Joe Butler |
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