iPlod. Hip-hop for the middle-aged. I didn’t forget the words to this one - it was a lot of fun. Ended up with 3rd place in this competition (Royce had a well-deserved 1st.) Thanks to Ivan for the sax-work which was totally impro.
RIP Tuxedo Cat…
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How embarrassing. My first appearance at RebelSlam last week was the Adelaide Poetry Slam’s swansong at the Tuxedo Cat before the wrecking ball smites the old building in Synagogue Place. The hardest part was trying to look cool when I went to jelly internally at forgetting my lines. Knowing it was being videoed for Youtube didn’t help. Next time I take a prompt card!. This is the same poem I performed at Goolwa with Max_Mo (see the last post.) The better-remembered and better-produced version is on MySpace. Amazingly I survived the dries to make the second round!
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I’m really looking forward to our first live gig at the Salt on the Tongue poetry festival (which will be HUGE) at Goolwa this Sat night.
The poetry is hot and the music is cool. Max_mo is poets Amelia Walker, Mike Ladd & me and musos Steve Matters (bass), Andy Mills (drums) and Derek Pascoe (tenor sax). We’ve been rehearsing at the ABC studios over the last couple of weeks & we’re ready to roll. This will be something VERY new. Hope to see some of you there at the Brewery, Goolwa 10:30 pm April 24. Cost: FREE!
I never did mention on this website that my son Ben and I won the 2009 Newcastle Poetry Prize (New Media) for our collaborative effort bibliophobia. In fact we were in Newcastle accepting our prize just hours before my dad died.
Thanks to Ben for posting the news on his website. (You can view the video HERE.)
There’s also more background on The Newcastle Poetry Prize site HERE.
Cath Kenneally
Cath Kenneally will be reading my short story Running out of time on Radio Adelaide’s Writers Radio on April 5 & 10.
The programme is usually available as a podcast about a week after broadcast.
