Evidently... Sophia Walker and Jeff Cottrill

Join us for another night of "clever, witty and thought-provoking entertainment" at Evidently! 

Boasting the fabulous talents of Sophia Walker and Jeff Cottrill and hosted by Salford's own Kieren King. 

Sophia Walker is short, blonde, and can often be found wearing a hat. You might have stumbled across her ranting about stuff somewhere. She does it often. Sometimes it rhymes. Sometimes it appears to rhyme, but doesn't. But that only happened once.

On Tuesdays she can be found fighting the good fight, whatever that means to you. She can be very accommodating like that.

When not pulling off feats of imaginary goodness Sophia writes the odd bit of poetry, which she then takes around Europe and recites at rooms of people, often with beer in their hands. The month of August is spent doing a lot of that on the Edinburgh Free Fringe.

Sophia won the 2012 Poetry Olympics, the Edinburgh International Book Festival Improv Slam 2012, and represented the UK at Capturing Fire. She's a touring poet and teaching artist, available to deliver performance and poetry workshops in schools, universities and anywhere with people interested in poetry. She has previously taught at schools and universities across Scotland, England and South-East Asia.

Hailing all the way from Toronto, Canada and on his fifth U.K. tour, Jeff Cottrill is a journalist by day, performance poet and classic-film nerd by night, who likes to make audiences laugh, cringe or (preferably) both. 

His performance style is influenced by slam conventions, but subverts them with wit, ironic humour and a satirical tone. For more than a decade, Jeff has performed in venues throughout Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. while authoring four chapbooks and recording three CDs; his latest CD is titled "This Album is NIT FENNY!". TorontoPoets.com once called him "One of the funniest spoken-word artists in Canada."

Also ten open mic spots are available (one poem - two minutes per poet) in the event that more than ten people wish to sign up, priority will be given to first time performers. We are filming each night so everyone who performs will get a shiny new Youtube video if they want one.

£3 on the door. 

Forget what you learned at school, this is poetry as entertainment.

"The clues are all there: hard work behind the scenes, a unique performance space, an up-for-it crowd, friendly hosting, top tech, a high standard of open mic and ace guests. Evidently a great poetry night!" - Tony Walsh - AKA Longfella.

"Evidently is a rip roaring, verse slinging, cheer rousing, heart filling, feet stamping riot of rhythm and rhymes. Hosted with humour, passion and spark. Top talent and true comradery among word weavers and watchers. Beautiful." - Dominic Berry.

“Evidently, for my money, is without doubt one of the best spoken-word nights in the country. Brimming with Manchester’s customary sense of rebellion, artistry and swaggering streetwise cool, it never fails to attract a large and loyal audience usually hungry for something new and host Kieren King always delivers.

Acting as both effortless compere and staggeringly good wordsmith he holds together a brilliant monthly event, which has so far attracted some the UKs best and most outspoken talent from the performance poetry scene.

This is no Dead Poets’ Society – just dead good poetry. Do yourself a favour.”

Andrew "MulletProof" Graves