Books & Spoken Word
John Hegley: Peace, Love & Potatoes
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- John Hegley
Keats, Daleks, soot, belief, osmosis and “compassionate autobiographical poems and correspondence between family members” (Poetry London). Verses spoken and sung. Hearts broken and repaired.
John Hegley was born in Newington Green, North London, and was educated in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University.
His first public performance monies came from busking his songs, initially outside a shoe shop in Hull in the late Seventies. He performed on the streets of London in the early Eighties, fronting the Popticians, with whom he also recorded two sessions for John Peel, and has since been a frequent performer of his words, sung and spoken, on both local and national radio.
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He has produced ten books of verse and prose pieces, two CDs and one mug, but his largest source of income is from stages on his native island. An Edinburgh Festival regular, he is noted for his exploration of such diverse topics as dog hair, potatoes, handkerchieves and the misery of human existence.
He is an occasional DJ, dancer and workshop leader, using drawing, poetry and gesture. He has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts from what is now the University of Bedfordshire, and once performed in a women’s prison in Columbia.
“More Elvis Costello than Alan Bennett” – The Scotsman
“Scandalously talented” – Sunday Times
8pm/doors 7.30pm, £15.50. For more info, visit www.thecomedybox.co.uk/site/301.asp?catID=1580
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