Coming home

Michael Frearson from Writing East Midlands on Vimeo.

Thanks again guys.

Work for cheese

Michael Frearson Poetry from Writing East Midlands on Vimeo.


Thanks to Jamie at Rock, Kitchen, Harris and thanks to Henderson Mullen, Catherine Rogers and Antonia Bell at Writing East Midlands for this video. Big up!

Dick Whit (in poetic form)

Continuing from the post about supporting Ty in London, I'd love to stick some photos up from the gig but I only got pics of me, sort of stood in between people's shoulders. Anyway the night was great, short and sweet. We had the studio room in Soho Theatre from 8-10 so it was a swift affair, then we all had to dash out sharpish to make room for Michael Macintyre's crew.

Anyway, Benjamin Mellor kicked off with some social, global and personal insights that were excellently written and presented. Ben works with Moksha as a writer, performer and facilitator up in Manchester. Hopefully we'll see him down in Derby pretty soon.
Following Ben was local MC Angel, winner of some open mic competitions down in London. Quite a fun character with a strong stage persona, Angel dropped a few tunes before we all dashed out to grab some water in the sweltering heat.
After the break I stepped up to do my thing, opening with Cynic and following on with Being that person, A break, and then closing with Work for cheese. The crowd was great and I had a brilliant time up there, especially since I got to pave the way for Ty, who stepped up next and did a load of acapellas which was really what we'd all been waiting for.

All in all a really really good night, met some ace people and had a fantastic time. Thanks to Apples & Snakes for putting on the night and inviting me down. I'll leave you with a few pics of me...

...and this one of a very impressive cafe in Amsterdam:

Sh! again

I've had another instalment accepted by the interactive library novel Sh!
It's a proud day in Frearson history...in episode 67 we return to The Boss' struggle for clarity of consciousness and rediscover John brandishing his arch nemesis Idiot's Guide.
The title of the chapter is Or something worse.

Ty

The last time I saw Ty was ages ago. That's bad, because he played in Notts last year and I didn't go and check him. Something I'm sorry about.
The good news is that I kind of get to make up for that by supporting him at Soho Theatre in February. Yes.
It's a gig through Apples & Snakes, a national outfit supporting the development and promotion of performance poetry. Big those guys up for giving me the opportunity.

If you look on the Soho Theatre events listings I'm the one called 'up-and-coming poetic support' - they actually used my middle name.

So the gig's on Wednesday 25th February at Soho Theatre, London, and I'm well excited about it. Hopefully I'll see you there.

Sh!

It's a bit late, but I recently contributed to Sh!, the interactive library novel.
My chapter is number 66 and is called The lingering smell of sellotape.

I'm helping to fill in for Jenn Ashworth while Jenn is making busy on another project. Fortunately for me I seem to have been welcomed into the library quite graciously. My favourite part about this blog is the borrowers, I love the way they are written and it has me guffawing out loud in the computer room at work when I sneak some time off to read it. I'd recommend anyone who has ever been in a library - and especially anyone who has ever worked in one - to give this blog a go.

Here you are. Enjoy.

Xmas on Christmas Island

This was a great night; yet again a different flavour from what we've witnessed in the past at Big Blue. I think in all it was quite understated - for the most part it wasn't as busy as previous events, but there were some heavier moments, and again there was quite a nice lineup to entertain and distract.



No photos from the night as yet; if I get hold of any I'll stick em up here. For now you'll have to imagine Kevin in a black shirt with a Christmas tie and Jo Lewis dressed up in some kind of sexy santa's helper type thing.