May 6, 2012

More Bank Holiday Madness !

This Bank Holiday Monday, Spoonful will be at the Stag’s Head, Hoxton. There are oddles (sic) of open spots as ever but we have already confirmed this bunch of performing monkeys to make sure there’s some quality FREE entertainment for all you random Bank Holiday Weekend spectators still in need of somewhere more entertaining than bed :

Music from : JUDE COWAN + JD SMITH + HELEN ROBERTSON + BB METS + Barnaby Griffin

Comedy from PERI WHITE + CUSTARD CHUCKER + TIM RENKOW

plus the Victor Meldrew of London poetry : NIAL SPOONER-HARVEY

on the dex : THEE INTOLERABLE KIDD

turn up 7.30pm-ish to grab a spot !

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April 29, 2012

as expected – Stokey Spoonful splutters to a halt again…

Last Wednesday’s Stokey Spoonful was our last at the Trashbar. There will be no Stokey Spoonful this week. See my previous post on the subject… don’t think the management ever really got it, really don’t know why we were asked to do it in the first place… durrrr….

nonetheless, onwards… we’re at the Star of Kings this Monday, you can still get your weekly dose !

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April 20, 2012

Trashbar continues… for now….

See, the trouble with the Trashbar is that the terms of their license necessitate that they have to pay a doorman, and the terms of their PA hire currently means they also have to pay a soundman, despite the fact I (Spoon) have always done my own sound at Spoonful since the very first one in 2005. This obviously results in a substantial wedge of expense before the night begins, and we all know how fickle and potentially sketchy the bar-take at an open mic is capable of being. You have to wonder why they took us on in the first place… for now they’re gonna continue with us, but don’t be surprised if they suddenly change their minds !

In the meantime we remain, at least for this Wed 25th April, and don’t forget, this coming Monday 23rd April we will be at the Stag’s Head in Hoxton… see the Special Guests page for a list of our booked acts….

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April 18, 2012

What’s Going On ?

The trouble with these blog-style website things is that you HAVE to keep updating them or the front page of the site can be quite misleading – I’ve just realised the front page of this site has said TONIGHT WE LAUNCH IN STOKE NEWINGTON ! for over 2 weeks…

Tonight is our 3rd at The Hackney Trashbar in Stoke Newington and there is unfortunately a chance it may be our last… it’s tricky to say more at the moment, but I guess there’s a chance that having a great turnout tonight might tip the scales in favour of us continuing… who knows…

WED 18th APRIL : tonight’s musical, comical and poetical guests are

GRAHAM SMITH
COS MECHANICAL
JOJO GEOUGIOU
DANIEL BENNETT
ERROL McGLASHAN
MARIA LINDGREN
JACK GARDNER

plus loads of open spots as ever, arrive between 7 & 8pm to sign up !

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April 4, 2012

STOKEY SPOONFUL is back TONIGHT !

It’s finally here – A Spoonful of Poison’s return to Stoke Newington ! 

The first night of our weekly residency features :

FUZZY LOGIC BABY
THE FILTHY ORPHANS
THE YETZER HARA BOX
STEVE FORBES doing a rare 15 minute set !
HRH DEAN MORGAN
DONALD CHEGWIN

and more, including original Spoonful DJ Purple Pie Pete !

get along by 7.30pm to be sure of grabbing yourself a spot :)

Hackney Trashbar, 175b Stoke Newington ROAD, N16 

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April 2, 2012

A SPOONFUL OF POISON does it TWICE a WEEK !

More info on this can be found below and via the VENUES page, but tonight we’re back in Kings Cross and then on WEDNESDAY we relaunch our Stokey department, with a new weekly residency at Stoke Newington’s cracking new punk dive THE TRASHBAR ! in celebration of our new weekly home we have an awesome line-up of guests :

FUZZY LOGIC BABY
THE FILTHY ORPHANS
THE YETZER HARA BOX
STEVE FORBES doing a rare 15 minute set !
HRH DEAN MORGAN
and OH!STANDFAST

plus all the usual myriad open spots ! it’s gonna be grimey !

Tonight at the Star of Kings we have :

music from BROMIDE + UNIQUE TECHNIQUE + JAIMZ

worm poetry from THE WORM LADY

comedy from TOM HOLMES + STUART MITCHELL + DAVE MILLETT + BEN ADAMS

and magic from HARRY SCOTT-MONCRIEF

woah !

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March 31, 2012

The Beast is upon us ! Mashup TONIGHT !

Yup ! the 2nd 30-act plus Beast of Spoonful Mashup is TONIGHT at The Urban Bar, Whitechapel, E1.

We’ve had a couple of cancellations, but we’ve replaced them swiftly, and we still have 30 performers PLUS Spoon MCing and Thee Kidd DJing, so plenty for your completely FREEpence.

Kicks off 7pm sharpish, and with any luck we’ll get everyone on and off by half midnight !

For more info see the mashup page !

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March 26, 2012

Tonight : Hoxton Spoonful !

The first Hoxton Spoonful was a cracker, and we’re looking forward to more fun and games tonight at this wicked little backstreet boozer… as ever a nasty rash of open spots available to all singers, rappers, musicians, comics, poets, magicians and random slapstick weirdos who scribble their name in a box on the night (ideally before 8pm) plus a healthy smattering of featured acts, including 15 mins of spontaneous guitar-pedal generated avant-glitch-techno from COS MECHANICAL…

..and this little lot :

Music from BB METS + ANDY QUIRK

Poetry from
ERNESTO the NAKED POET
CATHY FLOWER
DONALD CHEGWIN

and in-character comedy from
GUY CHANCER

And manning the Intellectual Interludes, playing eclectic, warped, twisted and joyful blasts of musical sound from circular slabs of plastic : THEE INTOLERABLE KIDD

be there ! fun for all the family ! all disciplines welcome !

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March 22, 2012

a bunch of stuff, more to come

So ! the Hoxton launch went nicely, a good mix of madness, a smattering of random unexpected open micers (it was our first time in a boozer down a backstreet in the Hoxton no-man’s land) and a bill over-stuffed to compensate that consequently over-ran quite spectacularly ! Thankfully the barstaff and landlord enjoyed what we were giving them and were gratifyingly tolerant ! nice !

This week’s Kings X Poison was also unnervingly good – for a change I didn’t get too twatted, Harry got his magic trick gob-smackingly perfect and we even squeezed in 20 mins of theatre-noir at the start without completely losing the Spoonful spark. And we finished before midnight for a change, just as well as I had to be up at 6 am the next morning…

so, that’s another launch out of the way, and 2 cracking Spoonfuls on the trot – the 2nd Hoxton Spoonful is this coming Monday 26th March, followed by the 2nd Beast of Spoonful Mashup on SATURDAY 31st March at the Urban Bar, and then the WEDNESDAY after that we relaunch in Stoke Newington, this time at brand new venue the HACKNEY TRASHBAR.

It’s all going on, keep on coming down !

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March 12, 2012

Hoxton Poison Launches TONIGHT !

oi oi ! don’t forget the riot of madness that is Spoonful launches in Hoxton tonight at THE STAG’S HEAD, 55 Orsman Road, N1 5RA.

It’s dead near Haggerston Overground station.

we kick off at 7.45pm so sign up early if you wanna perform – the list opens at 7pm.

We’ve got a fat brace of 10 minute feature spots tonight from : BB METS, PROTAGONISTS OF DAVID GADSDON, MARMADUKE DANDO, COS MECHANICAL, THE LONE GROOVER, NIALL SPOONER-HARVEY, DANIEL BENNETT, MARC MacGONAGLE, JOHNNY ARMSTRONG and STEVE FORBES

loads more detail on the facebook event !

 

see you all there ! it’s gonna be messy !

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