With regular Brixton Blog contributor Catherine spreading the good word of Poeticat at WOMEX, Ziggi, the band’s vocalist, takes up the keyboard to blog ahead of the Poeticat Halloween Special at the Windmill.
This month Poeticat is putting away the glittery make-up and colourful feathers and pulling out the bright-red blood and pasty-white face paint from the cobwebs. We’ve had this date booked in the diary with Tim, promoter for Windmill Brixton, for some time as he appreciates how seriously we take dressing up and creating an immersive experience for audiences. But as well as being a chance to dress up and eat lots of sweets, Halloween has a tradition of storytelling (I’m thinking of ghost stories) which, if you allow yourself to get carried away make it all the more memorable and sensory an experience. Perhaps by the light of the moon, Poeticat has put together a line-up of refreshingly entertaining and unusual acts that have storytelling at the centre of what they do in order to really shake your bones.
They are:
The ukulele-wielding songstress (with a punk attitude), Wendy Solomon, whose tales range from stalking an ex-lover on Facebook to one of my favourites – a song about her hatred of Barbie dolls (I particularly like the jab: ‘your boyfriend doesn’t even have a penis’).
Joelle Taylor, a celebrated performance poet who made her debut on the spoken word scene supporting the Pogues in the late eighties. This will be a chance to catch her in the raw atmosphere of the Windmill before she performs at the Southbank Centre in November.
Bird Radio: a solo ‘one-man-band multi-instrumentalist’ who uses vocal loops, guitars, effects and a worn suitcase bass drum which has travelled with him on tours all over the world. He’s been hailed by press as a ‘mix of old testament preacher and Captain Beefheart’.
We’ll be continuing the vocal-looping and experimentation theme with a trio that, like Poeticat, come from various musical backgrounds referencing classic soul/blues, grime and psych folk with virtuosic and yet child-like simplicity.
Join in the festivities with Poeticat at the Windmill on the 31st October and bring along a carved pumpkin if you want to to light up our ‘Shed of nightmares’!
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