Evidently... Louise Fazackerley and Gary From Leeds

Join us on 10th August for another night of "clever, witty and thought-provoking entertainment" at Evidently!

Boasting the fabulous talents of Louise Fazackerley and Gary from Leeds and hosted by Salford's own Kieren King.

Louise is now a professional performance poet and artist-in-education. Winner of the Radio 3 Verb New Voices commission with her spoken word show 'Love Is A Battlefield.' Louise has appeared on Radio 4 Women's Hour, Radio 3 'The Verb', BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Manchester. She has blogged for The Guardian Northerner. Alongside her own work, she has a particular interest in combining contemporary dance with poetry.

As an inspirer of novice poets, she works with youth groups and in settings from pre-school through to college and community grassroots writing groups.

Louise writes to make the ugly, beautiful and to mirror the misunderstood. Think heavy rain, mental health, dandelions and feral dogs.

'A great performer' Will Self
'A voice that tingles with promise' Ian McMillan

 

Unsurprisingly born and raised in Leeds, Gary From Leeds is currently holed up in London. He performed his debut solo show Yeti at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe.

He got to the Hackney Hammer & Tongue Final in 2011, got commended in the South Bank Poetry competition for a poem about protecting yourself from flying spunk using umbrellas, and was Day 6 on the Poetry Advent Calendar. No, really.

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