Alternative press fair 2010

Ok so the COMPLETELY FREE Alternative press fair is 1 year old this February (Saturday 13th to be exact) and to celebrate were having FREE evening special times to commence after the FREE fair.

The details are as follows:

12 noon till midnight: A day of zines, comix, poetry, radical literature, printmaking and anything else self-published! Come along, browse, buy, swap, chat, laugh, drink, eat, for FREE.

6pm onwards: A FREE party of sorts! there’ll be music, DJ’s, spoken word performances and open mic so bring your creative endeavors and come and join in its gonna go off! (in a good way)

Did i mention it was FREE!!!!

Good. Cause it is.

All being well I’ll be selling my comics and greetings cards as well as being available for general chatting and merry making purposes and later on ill be performing some poetry.

And just in case that wasn’t enough heres some flyers to tell you what I’ve already said only prettier.

Theres rumers going round that there’ll be a things to make and do workshop including live screen printing and all sorts of other creative stuff!

If any of you guys are excited enough about this to tell all your mates then please do so by turning their attention towards this blog or our official website here:

www.alternativepress.org.uk

Be well my friendly peeps!

Cx

Are you Zine Friendly?

It on Thursday Night at the Foundry see here

bring your zines, books comics and all things handmade and sell, swap or create new.

Theres a poetry work shop by miss Ceri May and if your into knitting bring your wool and needles (knitting needles!).

Might be some sort of freestyle word play later on.

Some of it might be in my voice.

That is all. See you thursday peeps.

Cx

New Etsy store!

Ok so i know what your thinkin’. If only there was a place where I could go and purchase items of poetry filled drawing-tastic loveliness on such subjects as ice cream induced evil, sweetie fueled feline zombie action and metallic cake making? Well fear not loyal subjects there is an answer and you’ve got first dibs, you lucky people.

My new Etsy store is now live, you can buy all 5 comics aa well as greetings cards and coming soon, art prints and t-shirts.

Its well wicked! You knows it.

Go to

http://www.etsy.com/shop/killerhippy

for the skinny.

(there’s also a direct link on the right hand side under blogroll ->->)

Cx

its time to get serious.

ok as you can probably tell from my blog history ive been a bit of a lazy bar steward since i started this in July. The time for dilly dallying is over. Its time to get serious so here goes.

Ive been playing open mic nights fairly regularly for about a year now as well as helping to run a one off spoken word night at the Griffin back in July (for the Alternative Press Fair).

Im usually to be found reading or comparing at ‘Y tuesday’ which is a lovely little poetry night in Clerkenwell see here

http://www.myspace.com/ytuesday

I’ve wrirtten a poem for Richard Tyrone Jones ‘Utter’ prime numbers night which is at the Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday 22nd although i wont be there to read it meself (im going up north to see me mum for her birthday, aww!)

http://bit.ly/utterprimes

On the comic front Ive just put the finishing touches to my latest book entitled ‘Hobo vs Wino part II’. Thats right there is a part one and is available (along with other stuff) from me at a comic and/or zine fair near you soon. Alternatively you can buy direct from me once ive got me paypal account sorted oot.

Watch this space for news on that.

Speaking of comics fairs, I have a stall at the comica comikett at the ICA, London on Sunday 8th November. see here for more

http://www.comicafestival.com/

It’d be dead good to see ya.

Also my stuff will be on sale at the next ‘are you zine friendly?’ event on the 12th of November at the Foundry, London. Details here

http://www.alternativepress.org.uk

Now for some pictures of my covers, just to give you a taste of the sort of stuff i do.

The subject of my first book. Evil Steev is a) French b) evil and c) addicted to ice cream. Poor luv!

Poopahsoo! was book number two! that even rhymes dont it? Once she was a queen, now she’s just pissed off and full of telekinetic powers!

My third book was all about these two jokers! Angie San is a scientist and Meekay Robotto is her faithful robot servant. Did i say say faithful servant? I probably meant slightly useless but adorable creation didnt I? Yep I did mean that.

My fourth book entitled ‘Hobo vs Wino’. They weren’t always so scummy, it all gone wrong for them but don’t worry they’ve got a plan.

the aforementioned book number 5.

Hope that was informative.

till next time peeps

Cx

gigedy gigedy (reprise)

Ok so i played the  ajar mike last tuesday and it went really well even though there was a tube strike and only two of the four contestants tuned up, and i didnt win!

I dont mind really, I had a great time and Anna Mae Selby (who won) was a worthy adversary.  

Got some good feed back and listened to some wicked poetry. 

id recommend these guys

Mike Freedman. Dirty, filthy and definitely tongue in cheek (i hope)

Alan Wolfson. Funny, rhymy and a very clever.

Niall Spooner-Harvey. An excellent performer and a sweet and lovely man. 

as for gigs and stuff im performing at the Tuesday Poetry Club @ the three kings pub on the 7th July see here for details

http://www.myspace.com/ytuesday

and at Poetry at the Park in Hyde park on the 26th of July. 

more details to come im sure.

Cx

gigedy gigedy

Ive got a gig on the 9th of June at the Ajar mike night at Utter 

see here

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=45677498381&ref=ts

Its a monthly poetry event at the Green Note in Camden which also a really good folk venue. 

Ive got a five minute slot, the winner is voted for by the audience and will receive a full paid slot the month after so feel free to come down and cheer me on.

Heres a little something to wet your appetite

Peeps

I hate the inebriated peeps

that wander round our city streets

around 2 am or maybe 3

loitering suggestively

they call to me in coded language

whilst eating greasy donner sandwich

formation crouching tells the crew there’s something living on the brew

there’s three or four of em you see

I couldn’t say exactacly

like some lurid ancient race

They lurch,

I run

And they give chase

I extract my phone to call police

I’m tearing down a darkened street

I turn a corner then another

I hear them calling to their brothers

A fearsome shrill their species make

I think as I step over grates

Around phone boxes in between alley

As just behind a monstrous scally

Lunges forward teeth laid bare

An attempt to cap my derrière

But being sober at least from drink

Being not white but pink

I could maneuver out of sight

and twist and turn into the night

but soon I ached my limbs were failing

Muscles seizing power waning

I stop and hear the sounds of silence

And in the distance casual violence

I prick my ear but hear no cry

I looked behind and there I spy

an empty street

devoid of meat

a memory of lunging claws

I recognized the blinding flaw

was I running on my own?

my stalkers caught the next bus home

and as i stood so thought with glee

as I had fleed from revelry

of the worst sort at least for moi

I do not like Stella Artois.

Jimi Gherkin

Jmi Gherkin is wicked! End of. Finito. Yeah

Also theres a video of im talking about the small press scene here,

http://www.lasthours.org.uk/archive/interviews/jimi-gherkin-of-alternative-press/

I suggest you watch, and learn.

Also his name ryhmes with lurkin which im syre he’s very good at .

That is all.

Cx

erm…

So yeah thought id better add summink else on this thing as I havent done any since my first entry ever! And what an entry it was was, it had words and everything and here we are at number 2 so fast 

a) this joke is gonna get really dull really fast 

b) i just said number 2! (he he)

welcome to my sense of humour.

Well I’ve been up to stuff like going to the alternative press fair and it was wicked. Check here for any info you may require 

http://comicsandzines.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/alternative-press-fair-london-2009/

Met alot of cool people bought a couple of comics and read some of my poetry. Also will hopefully be making something new for the anthologie that mr Ghirkin is doing to accompany the press fair and basically show off the small press/ zine/ poetry scene in London and beyond. There’s all kinds of info on the site above if you wanna know more. 

Speaking of poetry im gonna be putting ideas as well as finished poems up here so by all means let me know what you internet types think. All opinions are welcome but unhelpfull ‘thats shit!’ type comments will be noted for your file. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

ahem so without further a do heres some poetry wot I wrote. hope you likey. 

 

An almost imaginary imagining of A Moment in time

The moment we met was like any other,

but one from which I am still to recover,

first impressions were good

you tick every box,

in short,

you’re a fox.

compliments to the chef

why thank you kind lady,

good impressions continued

and tuned into a maybe,

a familiar feeling is starting to brew

disappointments are usual

successes are few.

a dangerous game you are entertaining

but I do like the look of the neck you are craning,

and later I find myself beside you and saying,

nowt, not a thing, my powers are waning

I find my smokes in your bag with your purse

you apologise profusely and we start to converse,

I listened and talked though more former than latter

and felt myself sinking into idle chatter

this is easy I think or at least easier

she listens to me when I talk to her

and then comes the line that makes me fall flat,

my boyfriend does this my befriend does that

at this my attention is usually sapped

but something was strange in the way I remained

to be uninterested was a skilled that I lacked,

I concluded that something I cannot explain

occurred at that moment in my pink squidgy brain

what’s important I thought besides word to ya mother

some decisions in life are much smarter than others. 

 

that is all

Cx 

 

Hello world!

Hello one and all and welcome to this, the very first post of my very first blog. Not much to say at the moment as im just starting with all this stuff but expect news of my poetry readings and books, lovely image posting type behaviour and well anything else that I feel you, the peeps on my page should know about !

Happy reading.

Cx

ps just to get you started heres a picture of a kitty