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
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.
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.
