I’m performing at Littlest Birds
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Ssshh littlest birds is a secret.
May 26th from 8 til 10.30 with the bar open to 11pm.
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden.
Entrance is £3.50 or £2.50 concessions
The lineup will include poetry from Aoife Mannix, music from Bilkis and performance artist Zoe Darling.
Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first collection of poetry ‘The Elephant In The Corner’ was published by Tall Lighthouse (www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk) in 2005 and her second ‘Growing Up An Alien’ in 2007.
Shane Blanchard of Tasty Fanzine writes of Bilkis that the tracks are ‘…quite beautiful, stark, pared-down harmonic (tracks) quite unlike anything else I’ve listened to this month. There’s a kind of devil may care attitude at work here where tracks stop when you think they will carry on, where vocals harmonies spiral in all sorts of directions and where guitar parts are and percussion are only used as an aside to the vocals. Reminiscent of early PJ Harvey without the obvious angst, this makes for sublime listening.’ I agree.
Zoe Darling is a contemporary performance artist and often sings songs, sometimes accompanied by her Dad.