David Bryant: Two forthcoming events - Utter! and Sweet Thursday

Monday, 3 February 2014

Two forthcoming events - Utter! and Sweet Thursday

I'll be appearing at two events this month.

The first is Richmond's long-standing and very relaxed poetry night Sweet Thursday on the 13th February at 8pm. It takes place above a pub called The Old Ship on King Street, postcode TW9 1ND. I'll be appearing there with the usual bunch of open-micers and "Racker" Donnelly.

Then on Sunday 16th February from 4:30pm until 10pm you can catch me at the 10th birthday celebrations of legendary poetry night "Utter!", along with James McKay, James Ross, Fay Roberts, Frog Morris, Mark Dean Quinn 'brilliantly deadpan' (Chortle), Tim Wells, Richard Sandling, Sophia Blackwell, Keith Jay, Paul Birtill, Dec Munro, Dan Simpson, Tony Walsh (before 6pm), Charley Lucy Harrison of 'CU next Thursday' comedy, Pickering of 'Stand-Up Tragedy', Lee Nelson, Jazzman John Clarke and of course Richard Tyrone Jones himself ("fascinating, sobering, hilarious" (New Scientist)) who will apparently be doing stuff from new show 'Crap Time Lord'. Also music from: Nathan Loughran & Jude Cowan Montague

That takes place at The Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6TY, and the Facebook invite page is here.

There are no other appearances confirmed for February apart from those two, so please do drop by to one or other, or even both if you're particularly adventurous.

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So....

I'm David Bryant. You'll hopefully have gathered that anyway from the title of this site, and the URL. It's supposed to be polite to introduce yourself, but in this instance I'm a bit like one of those irritating sales representatives who approaches you at conferences to tell you who they are, even though they have a horribly whimsical name tag placed boldly near their one of their nipples informing you of that anyway. Anyway, hello. Take my calling card from my hand, please - it contains details of my Twitter account, and my mailing list.

I write poetry and short stories, and over the last decade have had them published in numerous places and also performed them all over London. I've been featured in "South Bank Poetry", the Hearing Eye anthology "In The Company of Poets", "The Delinquent", "The Alarmist", "The Gloom Cupboard" and "The UK Poetry Podcast". I've also performed for many well-established and well-known nights and promoters (and lots more not-so-well known ones) including "Apples and Snakes", "Utter!", "The Cellar", "Y Tuesday", Borders Bookstore, Whitechapel Art Gallery, "New Blood", "Tall Lighthouse", "The Klinker", "The George Tavern" in Stepney, and other people I could mention, but won't because otherwise this biog will just end up becoming reduced to one long list of places and people and you'll just surf away.

Of course, it's perfectly possible that you'll know me from the blog "Left and to the Back", which focuses on obscure and lost vinyl recordings. That's been featured as an Internet pick of the week in "The Guardian" and picked up attention from numerous entertainment websites worldwide (even Belgium) and remains the most successful thing I've done. Poetry and short stories cannot yet compete with old vinyl recordings of adverts from the Milk Board of Mississippi, I'm afraid, but if you like what I do over there, you'll probably enjoy my other material as well.