Well we had a riotously good time at Clapham Books last Thursday. here are some edited highlights of the readings and a few photos.
Cherry Potts reads from Mosaic of Air
Nichol Wilmor reads from Weird Lies
Bobbie Darbyshire reads from Lovers’ Lies
Carrie Cohen reads on behalf of Rosalind Stopps from Stations
Phil Mulryne reads on behalf of Martin Pengelly from London Lies
Our next outing is this Saturday at Leeds Cross Cultural Book Fair
We’ve been a bit arbitrary deciding on a date for the anniversary (it took a good six months of planning to get to the point of registering the company, but it was registered at the end of July 2012, and we do have an event planned, so let’s make it a party.
Join us at Clapham Books, 120 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UH on THURSDAY 18th JULY 7pm, for cake and readings from all our books including the two due out in September.
London Lies: Martin Pengelly‘s Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore, read by Phil Mulryne.
Stations: Rosalind Stopps‘ How to Grow Old In Brockley read by Carrie Cohen.
Lovers’ Lies: Bobbie Darbyshire Something Missing
Mosaic of Air: Cherry Potts, Penelope Is No Longer Waiting
and
Weird Lies: Nichol Wilmor, An Account of Six Poisonings
A few events to look forward to and to liven up a dull wet Friday.
Tomorrow, Saturday 30th June 11-6 we will have a stall at Crystal Palace Overground Festival, Westow Park SE19. We will be selling books, and signing them if anyone wants us to, and – depending on the ambient noise – maybe an impromptu reading…
Arachne founder and Author Cherry Potts is reading at Brixton Book Jam on Monday 8th July at the Hootananny, 95 Effra Road, Brixton, SW2 IDF sometime after 7:30 and can also be caught singing in the chorus of Blackheath Halls Community Opera, Verdi’s Macbeth for most of the rest of that week.
Further readings to be had at
Southwark Arts Fair at Hays Galleria 1 Battle Bridge Lane, London SE1 2HP (right on the river)
Saturday 13th July 6-7pm
with readings from
London Lies: The Suitcase Rosalind Stopps
Stations: A Place of Departures Cherry Potts
Lovers’ Lies: For Your Ears Only Bartle Sawbridge
A threat at London Bridge Station … a tour guide who may be more than he seems …
and temporary deafness cured by art.
On the same day, 13th July, earlier in the afternoon, Arachne author Liam Hogan will be reading at the OxJam Dalston Takeover launch party. The Party goes from 2pm -7pm but Liam is on at 4-4.15pm (so make sure you are there in plenty of time!) – that’s all happening at the Tipsy Bar 20 Stoke Newington Road N16 7XN
Arachnefest at Clapham Books
Thursday 18th July 7pm.
We are celebrating Arachne’s first birthday with a reading at Clapham Books
120 Clapham High Street SW4 7UH
readings from all our books:
London Lies: Martin Pengelly‘s Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore read by Phil Mulryne
Stations Rosalind Stopps’ How to Grow Old in Brockley read by Carrie Cohen
Lovers’ Lies Bobbie Darbyshire Something Missing
and from our forthcoming books
Weird Lies Nichol Wilmor An Account of Six Poisonings
Mosaic of Air Cherry Potts Penelope is No Longer Waiting
On Saturday 27th July we will be at Leeds Book Fair
St Johns Shopping Centre, Merrion Street, Leeds, LS2 8LQ
with a stall, and readings (times to be confirmed) from
Lovers’ Lies – This isn’t Heat by Richard Smyth and Mirror by Cherry Potts,
and from Stations – Morning Sunshine by Louise Swingler.
Martin Pengelly gets on the phone before breakfast to talk to Cherry Potts about London, coffee, art house cinemas and art – and writing in the laundry room.
Martin is the author of Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore and Girl with Palmettes, both of which were published in London Lies
http://arachnepress.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/martin-pengelly.mp3
Part 4 of our LSE Space for Thought Branching Out festival work.
We collaborated with Summer All Year Long, our singing friends, and actor friends from Liars’ League to match songs and stories to the themes being explored by the festival.
Finding stories for Art Curation was easy Martin Pengelly‘s Girl with Palmettes (from London Lies, read by Lisa Rose) and Rob Walton‘s Lenny Bolton Changes Trains (Stations, read by Ray Newe) were obvious choices – finding a song was not so simple. Many (lovely) songs were considered and discarded by SAYL, until Patrick came up with Crash Test Dummies’ When I go out with Artists. A couple of hours of footling until it was in a key everyone could manage, and we were away.
Apologies for the sound quality here, the battery on the video camera went flat, and the backup was struggling even more than the respectable camera with an odd background hiss from the PA system.
I’ve been having fun graffiti-ing the cover of Lovers’ Lies for the poster for our reading at Wood Green on 28th February. It shows what a versatile design it is.
Lovers Lies Wood Green reading original image copyright Annie Rickard Straus
Join us at 6 pm (come straight from work!) for a brief tour of the book – 5 stories in an hour – well, segments of stories perhaps.
Then of course we have our all singing all dancing outing to London School of Economics Branch Out Space for Thought Festival on Saturday 2nd March, which is actually showcasing all three books, where actors Gloria Sanders, Will Everett, Sophie Morris Sheppard, Greg Page, Jo Widdowson, Ray Newe, and Lisa Rose will be reading from stories by Cherry Potts, Emily Cleaver, Bartle Sawbridge, Martin Pengelly, Rebecca Gould and Rob Walton; and are joined by Summer All Year Long (who are doing the singing – there isn’t really dancing).
And a bit of new news:
Bobbie Darbyshire will be reading from her story Something Missing at Booked event Words & Music #2 for Women’s History Month.
BOOKED poster for 17/3/2013
LSE Space for Thought Festival 2013: Branching Out runs from Tuesday 26th until Saturday 2nd March, and everything is FREE (Including a workshop from Katy Darby on Saturday morning)!
On Saturday 2nd March Arachne Press will be providing entertainment in the foyer between the main events in the auditorium. We are going for a Liars’ League style with readings by actors, and have chosen stories from all three books to fit the themes of the other events. Each section will be introduced by a very brief burst of (equally appropriate) song from our friends Summer All Year Long to draw attention!
12.30-1 (oral tradition/ human rights) Frog (Emily Cleaver – London Lies) read by Will Everett and Speaking in Tongues (Rebecca Gould – Lovers’ Lies) read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard
2.30-3 (Conflict/poetry/art/politics) Mirror (Cherry Potts – Lovers’ Lies) read by Will Everett and Rich & Strange –extract (Bartle Sawbridge – Stations) read by Greg Page.
4.30-5 (food fashions/landscape/nature) Monsieur Fromage (Rosalind Stopps – Lovers’ Lies), read by Jo Widdowson Birdland (Joan Taylor-Rowan – Stations) read by Gloria Sanders
6.30-7 (art curating/ comedy) Girl with Palmettes (Martin Pengelly – London Lies) read by Lisa Rose Lenny Bolton Changes Trains (Rob Walton – Stations) read by Ray Newe
More video snippets from Wednesday’s jolliest outing of the week, the London Lies launch at London Review Bookshop.
Want more? Want to hear stories read live? Come along to our next events.
A very successful launch for London Lies at the London Review Bookshop. Stock of books sold out! No doubt they will be ordering more for their regular customers who couldn’t make it.
We’ll be posting more pictures and video soon.
Other events to celebrate the publication of London Lies in September: Wednesday 12th, Thursday 20th and Thursday 27th.
