Books & Spoken Word
Hammer & Tongue ft. Rosy Carrick & Sam Grudgings
Monthly open poetry slam night hosted by Hammer & Tongue with headline acts Rosy Carrick and Sam Grudgings.
Rosy Carrick has toured the UK and USA, and has performed at an extensive variety of venues ranging from Glastonbury festival, Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Albert Hall and one section of a three-man tent in a Brighton park. For seven years, she ran and compered the Brighton’s monthly Hammer & Tongue events. Since 2007 she has also co-managed and compered the cult movie-themed cabaret club event Trailer Trash!
Sam Grudgings is a poet perpetually on the edge of collapse. He yells stories about recovery, loss, 50 ft monsters, cities made of teeth & haunted people cos it’s cheaper than therapy and less physically taxing than porno.
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His debut pamphlet, Variations On Home thrums with stories from other worlds & beautifully fuses text with illustrations. Copies sell out almost as fast as they are printed. He has performed at many festivals, played punk shows, & has supported Dizraeli, Button Poetry’s Sabrina Benaim & Rudy Francisco as well as many others. He co-produces one of Bristol’s most popular poetry nights, Milk.
Slammers are chosen at random from the sign-up list to perform – spoken word only, no music, no props. Each competitor has 3 minutes from the time they start talking on the mic. After 10 seconds’ grace period, they start losing points (1 point for every 10 seconds!). At the end, they’re given points out of 10 by 5 judges chosen from the audience, while the top and bottom scores are removed to ensure fairness. The slammer gets a score out of 30, and the competition moves on.
The winner of that evening’s competition goes through to the Regional Final (the Bristol one is in June), and the winner (and runner-up) of the Regional Final goes through to the National Final. The winner of the National Final gets crowned H&T National Slam Champion.
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