Check out the lovely videocast of Beth Jeans Houghton courtesy of the Observer Music Monthly here. They think she’s a rising star and so do we - she’ll be appearing on the Phrased & Confused stage at Summer Sundae on Saturday 15 August.
Skint & Demoralised and Byron Vincent are the latest acts to be confirmed for Phrased & Confused’s festival tent at the Summer Sundae Weekender (August 14-16).
Byron is your perfect festival poet. Not only does he look as if he’s fallen out of the Arctic Monkeys’ tour bus, his poems and performances contain just the right mix of self-deprecating humour and poignancy.
Meanwhile, Skint & Demoralised blend with seemingly effortless ease John Cooper Clarke-inspired poetry with Beach Boys pop sensibilities to joyous effect. Enjoy!
After working through some 75 proposals from poets around the country, we’re really pleased to announce that we’ve commissioned Joshua Idehen, Sifundo & Jamal Msebele, Hannah Silva & Alexis Kirke and Sound of Rum to create new material for the Phrased & Confused stage at Summer Sundae Weekender (14-16 August 2009). Find out more about them and their work here.
Yay! We’re excited to be heading back to Leicester’s finest music festival this August, where we’ll be pitching our tent and dishing up our signature blend of poems, songs, conversations and the not-to-be missed Fridge Poetry. Oh yes.
So what delights do we have in store for you this year? So far the line-up includes Beth Jean Houghtons, Woodpigeon, Jeremy Warmsley, Joshua Idehen, Inua Ellams, Sound of Rum, Francesca Beard, Salena Godden, Ross Sutherland, Tamsin Kendrick, Stephanie Leal and John Osborne. More programming announcements to come, including our new commissions but it’s already shaping up to be one of our best-ever line-ups!
Check out the full details here.
We’re really excited to be able to commission four spoken word artists to create new material for this year’s Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester (thank you Arts Council England!) Each commission is worth £1000.
We’re looking for new work which responds to the question, Which Came First, The Music or the Words? and which will appeal to a music festival audience. The festival takes place between the 14th and 16th August and the deadline for applications is the 22nd May. If you’re interested in applying you can check out the full application details.
Phrased and Confused had the privilege of producing a stage at the Summer Sundae Weekender 2008 in Leicester. We had a ball and below you’ll find a slideshow of some of our festival highlights.
Visit flickr if you can’t see the slides.
It was a fantastic festival and we’re tired, exhausted and as phrased and confused as ever. There will be more about the festival on our site soon but in the meantime for the next seven days you can catch Stephen Merchant’s (of 6 Music and The Office) interview with commissioned artists Mark and MC Mixy via BBC iPlayer (fast forward to 1 hr and 17 mins in to find them). Do check back here for our video cast from the festival. If you were there please do send us your feedback on info@thehubuk.com – and why not contribute to the general discussion about summer sundae on eFestivals or post P and C photos too the SummerSundae group on flickr.
After some nerves of steel negotiations, and much mopping of the collective Phrased & Confused brow, we’re pleased to say that we can now announce the final Phrased & Confused festival line up. Welcome then to our line up the brilliant Ben Mellor, whose Television Will Not Be Revolutionised is one of our favourite poems, and the rousing Excentral Tempest, whose gutsy performances and messages make her the darling of hiphop heads and the literati alike. Click here for a full festival line up.
After ploughing through some eighty-odd proposals, we’re really pleased to announce that we’ve commissioned Jean Binta Breeze, Aoife Mannix & Janie Armour, Andy Craven-Griffiths and Mark Grist & MC Mixy to create new material especially for the Phrased & Confused festival stage at Summer Sundae Weekender 8th-10th August 2008.
Find out more about them and their work here.
Hold on to your pens as I tell you that in the run up to this year’s event, we’re looking to commission four spoken word artists interested in creating and performing new work for our latest Phrased & Confused outing – the Phrased & Confused Tent at the Summer Sundae Weekender, a cracking festival which takes place in Leicester 8-10 August.
Each commission is worth £1000 and in addition you’ll receive a weekend pass for you and a guest, camping space in the artist field and travel expenses to and from the festival. Artists we commission will be asked to create at least 15 minutes of new material, and to perform it at least once at the festival.
The deadline for applications is the 11th June and to find out more you can either check out the commissions page, or download a copy of the commissions brief here as a pdf or rtf. Good luck!
