David Bryant: Two forthcoming gigs

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Two forthcoming gigs

Hello there. I just thought you might like to know about two gigs I've got coming up next weekend.

The first is a DJ set I'll be doing with the Dirty Water Club's Arthur Scott at the "Well Versed" event as part of the Stoke Newington Literary Festival on Saturday 7th June. You can expect the usual mix of sixties garage pop, soul, funk and other oddments besides, but perhaps more importantly the featured poetry acts will be:

Phill Jupitus + Tim Wells + Niall O’Sullivan + Chimene Sulyeman + Bob Constant + Lucy Ayrton + Sam Berkson + Chris Coltrane + Captain of the Rant + Paul McGrane + Lisa Kelly + Emma Jones

We'll be at Mascara Bar, kicking off at 8pm and with DJs until 3am. There's also another full day's Well Versifying ahead of the Saturday gig, with full details available on their Facebook event page if you're interested.

But then I'll also be putting in an appearance at the Garden of Abandon on Sunday afternoon (8th June, Olden Garden, Whistler Street in association with the Chelsea Fringe) from 2pm. Also there will be:

SALENA GODDEN
NIALL MACDEVITT
FRAN LOCK
PAUL VAN GELDER
CAT CATALYST
THE BUNDY BOYS
JAZZMAN JOHN CLARKE
ERNESTO SERAZALE
DAVE BRYANT
CATHY FLOWER
FRAN ISHERWOOD
CHERYL MACLENNAN

Again, the relevant Facebook invite is here. I look forward to seeing some of you at both events.

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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.