Year Zero Not at the Oxford Literary Festival
by Dan Holloway
Dropping the Beat: Year Zero Live at The Albion Beatnik, Walton Street, Oxford
24th March, 6pm, FREE
visit: http://yearzerowriters.wordpress.com/our-gigs/year-zero-not-at-the-oxford-literary-festival/
Our very first gig was held at Oxford’s coolest shop, The Albion Beatnik, back last October. And we loved it there so much we’ve foisted ourselves upon poor Dennis once again.
The Albion Beatnik is everything an Independent bookstore should be – it serves coffee in mugs you can hand pick from the shelf (I always drink out of Sylvia Plath, and there’s not many can say that :p); it specialises in books on jazz and by and about the Beat Poets; it has an in-house artist; and it’s an incredible venue for reading and music.
his gig promises to be extra special because it’s slap bang in the middle of the Oxford Literary Festival, and Year Zero intend to show the literary establishment just what live literature SHOULD be, and put on a party that no one will forget. Oh, and there may just be a little announcement…
In keeping with the spirit of this fantastic venue, we will stuff the programme full of our work that’s been influenced by Beat culture:
Daisy Anne Gree – The Dead Beat
Dan Holloway – Songs from the Other Side of the Wall; A Life Drawn Freehand
Larry Harrison – Glimpses of a Floating World
Ali Cooper – The Girl on the Swing
March 17th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Thank you for posting this. We are absolutely delighted to say that in the last couple of days we have secured the wonderful Christi Warner (http://www.myspace.com/christiwarner) to provide acoustic music as wella s poetry for the night.
We should also mention frewe wine
March 20th, 2010 at 9:42 am
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