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Remember
This - Adrian Spendlow & Tony Morris.
You might be surprised to hear that this fresh new collaboration between
these two celebrated York-based performance-poets is an experience that
(unlike much poetry) bears repeated listening - in fact, it reveals more with
subsequent plays. Wholly befitting its title, Remember This consists
of a wonderful 21-minute sequence of 14 poems with a loosely nostalgic bent
relying heavily on our collective folk-memory. These are expertly (and
memorably) declaimed by Adrian (I won't use the more conventional word
'recited', since he even approximates singing on one occasion!) in his
inimitable, upfront and irascibly entertaining style, with tasty and suitably
entertaining instrumental accompaniment by Tony (on guitar, lyre, kazoo and
sundry percussive implements). These poems are all Adrian's
own creations, and if you've not heard or seen him before be prepared to be
both enchanted and challenged by his lively wit and knowing yet wide-eyed
sense of fun that owes as much to a child's humour as to that of an adult. The
longest of the poems, Beside The Seaside, contains some particularly
delicious images, whereas Don’t Fight makes potent use of assonance and some
of Adrian's shorter and pithier pieces may recall the elliptical surreal
wordplay of Ivor Cutler. Magic!... Info from: Diamond Music,
Whitby; or email adrian.spendlow@ntlworld.com or www.tonymorrispoet.com Review by Dave Kidman in Folk Roundabout |
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