Spoken Word

Green Note now plays host to some of London’s best spoken word nights:

Hammer & Tongue - Taking a summer break... back in September... watch this space!

Hammer and Tongue promotes some of the best spoken word the world has to offer and engages diverse communities, promoting open poetry slams and developing new artists. In the past four years H&T has branched out from its original incarnation at the Brickworks in Oxford, to both Brighton and London and now offers established poets a chance to tour all three cities and slammers a poetry-hungry audience to wow.

Hosts Michelle Madsen and Sam Berkson welcome all slammers, practised and novice, to sign up for London's most dynamic spoken word open mic from 7.30pm on the first Monday of the month.

 

 

 

Better Living Through Comedy - Taking a summer break... back Tuesday 19th October

Better Living Through Comedy attempts to provide the worthy burghers of London with top-quality comedic entertainment. Fat Kitten Improv are as sick as you are of stale, lazy comedy nights featuring the same straight white male standups in their early twenties with identical Hoxton fins trot though a load of lazy, misogynistic jokes about their girlfriends. Come see us instead! A mix of improv, comic performance poetry, stand-up with something fresh, original or radical to say, sketches, music, magic, burlesque, the miscellaneous and unclassifiable. The best of London's indie comedy.

 

 

 

Utter! - Tuesday 14th September

We are now THE ONLY Edinburgh preview show to not only take place AFTER OUR EDINBURGH SHOW HAS FINISHED, but also featuring NONE OF THE ACTS WHO WILL HAVE BEEN ON ON IN EDINBURGH, who are:

Special guest host GEORGE CHOPPING, previous 'Utter!' Paid Gig contest final 2008 WINNER and host of gigs in Oxford and further abroad with poems and haiku on shit towns and illness, amongst other things. Engaging, sarcastic, funny and looks a bit like Doctor Who, but his material has less plot holes.

ABI PALMER, previous Paid Gig contest winner with raps about Philosophers, sexiness and invisible disabilities

PAUL LYALLS, host of one of London's longest-running and best-loved nights 'Express Excess' and host of BBc TV's 'Big Slam Poetry House', reading from his witty debut collection 'Catching the cascade'.
'A gifted poet...his work is witty, well constructed and well delivered.' - The Stage

MARK NIEL, charismatic head honcho of Milton Keynes's popular spoken word show and writing group TONGUE IN CHIC, editor of their anthology Tales from Mirror City and serial slam-winner. A mild-mannered Clark Kent who transforms on stage into a slightly portly poetic superman.

DOUGIE HASTINGS, winner of the paid gig contest at the Whitechapel gallery and purveyor of funny and poetic filth.

MORE TBA


Paid Gig contest:
YOU, the audience, vote to decide who wins a... you guessed it, PAID GIG! and a slot in the final with a chance to win £100+. 5mins each from:

SOPHIE BUCHAN reads the poetry of esteemed dead German nihilist poet Thomas von Ritter

Steve Hobbs - part of the Milton Keynes poetry cartel and also inventor of the ipad.

FAY ROBERTS of different Milton Keynes poetry collective POETRY KAPOW!

GARY FROM LEEDS - Wide-eyed Yorkshire romantic showcasing material from his Camden Fringe show 'Inside the M25: A User’s Guide'

And of course one lucky member audience will win an Utter! BAG OF BOOKS! (Some of which are really quite good, others of which take the piss a bit really)

PRICE: £5 - arrive before 7.30pm to get a seat!