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GALLERY PANGOLIN CHALFORD GLOS GL6 8NT The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue 01453 889765 photography by Steve Russell Studios www.gallery-pangolin.com text by Sara Baume Wrens Nest 2009, Clear Cast Resin and Nest, Unique, 25 x 25.5 x 21 cm

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EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: ‘lightly touching the earth back’ EDITOR’S NOTE Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGN Artwork and Design: Adam Hinks [email protected]

Welcome to Issue 60 of Good On Paper – ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM your free monthly guide to music concerts, art goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ @GoodOnPaperStroud exhibitions, theatre productions, comedy shows, EILIS O’CONNELL PRINTED BY: film screenings and literature events in Stroud… Irelands pre-eminent sculptor Tewkesbury Printing Company And the Good On Paper Party came, sold out and went! We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the performers including the Giffords Circus Band, Hip Yak Poetry Shack (Liv Torc, Chris Redmond, Jonny Fluffypunk + 12 poet SPONSORED BY: slammers!), Maja Lena, Dave Ayre Ensemble, Alex Box and Derrick McLean + 7th March - 18th April all the film directors for allowing us to screen their amazing short films, our GOP Cover artists, Stroud Brewery (George Withy, Greg Pilley and team!), Jack Page, Kit Page and Nikoletta Monyok. Chartered Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk Following our annual celebration we are excited to announce that our new stroudbrewery.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk venture Hidden Notes also returns this year to St Laurence Church on Sat 26th – Sun 27th September for vol.2. We have just released the first batch of weekend tickets and our headliners which include none other than Penguin Café for Saturday and Jonny Greenwood with Katherine Tinker and Oliver Coates on the Sunday…. For further info including tickets visit hiddennotes.co.uk

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Stroud Film Festival 2020 is a rare thing, a genuinely independent film festival. Here, on our doorstep. In a world of blockbuster comic book franchises and studio marketing budgets, this is no mean feat.

Backed by the BFI, Stroud Town Beggars of Life. Country music luminary slapstick of Jacques Tati, you will love Council and local businesses, SFF Kate Lissauaer and bluegrass guitarist this. So, order a Tom Long, sit back, is now in its 6th year. Unlike other Jason Titley will serenade you while and smile. top-down festivals, it is a collaboration you watch one of Hollywood’s first While we’re on an uplifting vibe, check between 12 independent organisations feminist rebels. Louise Brooks’ young out the Aretha Franklin documentary and venues that curate their own woman on the run in a male-dominated feature Amazing Grace. This film was programmes, resulting in a menu of underworld shook priggish moviegoers unwatchable until recently because such range to appeal to even the most to their pious cores when the film the footage was out of synch with diverse palettes. The 2020 line-up is launched in 1928. the sound. In 2018, wizards of digital entertaining without being obvious; and technology fixed the glitch, and now challenging without being pretentious. AWARD-WINNING this time capsule classic is released in SFF is also unusually immersive and Bafta-winner, Bait, is an intimate portrait all its Aretha gospel glory. inclusive. Young and old are invited to of a Cornish community wrestling Another treat for film historians is shoot their own films, provide input into with unwelcome change. Martin is the work of Stroud animator Harold others’ films, bring their own projector, a fisherman struggling with a sense Whittaker and the former Stroud meet the filmmakers, ride a half pipe, or of displacement after his brother animation studio Halas and Batchelor, simply dress up. re-purposed his fishing boat as a which will be showcased across Co-directors Andy Freedman and Jo tourist tripper. In a neat collaboration several events at the Museum in the Bousfield are passionate about the with Atelier, Soup Versammlung will Park, including the 1954 Orwell classic community value of public screenings, offer soup and conversation with Bait Animal Farm. and they recognise the importance of producers Kate Byers and Linn Waite events like this to emerging talent. before the screening at Lansdown. FAMILY-FRIENDLY They also both relish the democratic The selection from Wotton-Under- Top tips for the tiddlers are Aardman manner in which the festival comes Edge’s Electric Picture House is Model Making Workshops at the together. “I really think it’s unique,” typically thought-provoking and Museum in the Park and the Willy says Bousfield, “maybe because this high-quality. Noah Baumbach’s Wonka (1971 version) chocolate and is a small town, the venues can talk, multi-award-winning drama, Marriage gob-stopper fest, courtesy of Strictly collaborate.” Story, is notable for its brutal honesty Cinema. So, here are some of this year’s many in the heart-wrenching, hand-wringing highlights: machinations of a divorcing couple. Never maudlin, and strangely uplifting. TAKE PART At the Goods Shed, Hollywood director Portrait of a Woman on Fire, written IMMERSIVE and Stroud local, Mark Jobst, leads and directed by the brilliant Céline an innovative pitch-in-progress event Immersive cinema meets e-sports in the Sciamma, is a beautifully disquieting for Home, his musical about three inaugural Rush Film Fest! Grab your romance, set in 18th century Brittany, young homeless people in Bristol. board, pop an olly, and head to Rush where a female painter and her muse Jobst, whose recent credits include Skate Park to catch a ‘sick’ evening of form a bond that challenges societal The Witcher, will narrate his film idea, action sports docs and shorts. norms. Credit goes to the Electric for accompanied by a live performance of More refined cinemagoers can join unearthing this woefully overlooked the music and movement that infuse the Crosby and Sinatra for Lansdown Film recent gem. Clubs’ screening of 1956 classic High story. If sharing work-in-progress were Society. Glam up with black tie and RARE GEMS not unusual enough, Jobst will also pearls, and quaff vintage cocktails from invite the live audience to contribute The folks at Stroud Brewery also ideas to his pitch. I put it to him that it Hollywood’s post-prohibition heyday. deserve a medal for digging out Hic… takes a brave - or foolhardy - filmmaker the unremittingly charming French to submit work-in-progress to public If you have never seen a silent movie animation Belleville Rendez Vous from scrutiny. “We can be all too exclusive with live musical accompaniment, then 2003, by comic book artist Sylvain in the film business,” says Jobst. “If I book tickets for William Wellman’s Chomet. If you like the surrealist #60 | Mar 2020 FILM 05

am going to do this properly, I want to throw it open and engage with people. With this subject matter, it can’t be too pat.” Jobst, rather disarmingly, admits WHAT'S to being both nervous and excited by the experiment. There’s also nothing safe about the ON AT winner of Stroud Shortcuts, the pitch competition for 16-25s, says filmmaker and mentor Joe Magee. “I was excited SFF2020 by originality of the idea,” says Magee, of 16-year-old Louis Gardner’s winning submission. Magee and Gardner shot FRI 21ST FEB SAT 14TH – SAT 21ST - the 90 second film in February. Home Film Posters Reinterpreted SVA Goods Shed The Sub Rooms Aspiring young filmmakers at Flies on the Wall youth theatre have also made THURS 27TH FEB SUN 15TH

10 short films for the Festival, and Marriage Story Aardman Model Making Electric Picture House, budding ‘Scorceses’ of all ages are Workshop Wotton-Under Edge Museum in the Park invited to take part in the 60 Second Film challenge on 14/15 March, when SUN 1ST SUN 15TH this year’s theme will be revealed. Refugees On Film Opening the Earth and the Selected entries will premiere on the Museum in the Park South West Fibreshed Project Atelier big screen at Film Stroud on 20 March, TUES 3RD MAR – alongside the Shortcuts winning film. SUN 31ST MAY SUN 15TH If projecting films is more your bag, Collections Showcase: Lansdown Film Club Presents: then BYOB Bring Your Own Beamer Harold Whitaker Beggars of Life w/ Live at Studio 18 invites you to join this Museum in the Park Soundtrack DIY one-nighter in which artists FRI 6TH MAR Lansdown Hall and enthusiasts will bring their own Blackbird MON 16TH projectors to screen a dizzying array Atelier Rush Film Fest of films on every surface; walls, floors, SAT 7TH Rush Skate Park ceilings. Register your interest via the The Language of Grief TUES 17TH SFF website. Open House The Edge of Wonder: SUN 8TH Your Health Is In Your Gut LOCAL HEROES Atelier Festival Launch Cultural preservation is juxtaposed with The Prince Albert WEDS 18TH the perpetual change of modern living SUN 8TH Tales from Hoffnung in the award-winning feature, Blackbird, and Ruddigore written by Nailsworth-based filmmaker Lansdown Film Club Presents: Museum in the Park Robyn Pete. A Q&A with Pete and her Amazing Grace Lansdown Hall collaborators follows the screening, WEDS 18TH organised by the Stroud Women WEDS 11TH Belleville Rendez-Vous Stroud Brewery Filmmakers Collective and Atelier. Animal Farm Museum in the Park Stroud filmmakers and founders of The THURS 19TH Good Grief Project, Jimmy Edmonds WEDS 11TH Beyond Solastalgia: and Jane Harris, have curated an Peanut Butter Falcon Reimagining the Future Hawkwood College evening of films exploring love and Electric Picture House, death, The Language of Grief, hosted Wotton-Under-Edge FRI 20TH by Open House. Edmonds’ and Harris’ WEDS 11TH Film Stroud Lansdown Hall non-judgemental and genuinely curious Southern Journey (Revisited) approach to bereavement debunk this Hawkwood College SAT 21ST culturally suppressed subject. THURS 12TH Strictly Cinema Presents: Beyond Solastalgia at Hawkwood Eight Grade Willy Wonka and the asks climate experts to contemplate a Electric Picture House, Chocolate Factory sustainable future. Peter Moseley’s film Wotton-Under-Edge Lansdown Hall also celebrates the work and life of Polly THURS 12TH SUN 22ND Higgins, Stroud-based environmental Working For Victory Soup Versammlung: campaigner, who died last year. Museum in the Park Meet the Producers of Bait And finally, SFF pays tribute to Rick Atelier THURS 12TH Vick, another Stroud hero who died last Stroud Film Society Presents: SUN 22ND year. Vick is remembered for the huge The Street Lansdown Film Club Presents: contribution he has made to film culture Open House Bait in the local community. Lansdown Hall FRI 13TH As I said, Stroud Film Festival is a New Creatives WEDS 25TH rare thing. Please support it in all its SVA Goods Shed The Halas and Batchelor Short wondrous and manifold guises, not least Film Collection because of the wondrously talented SAT 14TH Museum in the Park people and manifold organisations Stroud’s 60 Second Film THURS 26TH behind this brilliant event. Enjoy. Challenge Portrait of A Lady On Fire - SAT 14TH Electric Picture House, Wotton- For further information including Five Seasons: The Gardens Under-Edge the full programme and tickets visit of Piet Oudolf stroudfilmfestival.org Museum in the Park SAT 28TH Closing Event: BYOB -

SAT 14TH Bring Your Own Beamer A former journalist, Jane has worked Lansdown Film Club Presents: Studio 18 in the international TV business for High Society more than 20 years, across production, Lansdown Hall commissioning and distribution. She is now Chief Commercial Officer of Sky Studios. 06 FILM #60 | Mar 2020

ROBYN

PETE inform their main objective which was which won $15,000 dollars and resulted By Judith Gunn to make a feature film. Robyn came in the short film 13 starring James on board as screen writer and first Harkness. It won best production at the assistant director. She worked through UnderWire Film Festival. “There is no such thing as a gap year in South the draft scene by scene, with the A trailer and some fundraising raised Africa,” says filmmaker Robyn Pete. “but I did director, to produce the screenplay and then, as first AD, called the shots. “On finance for the charity Duchenne UK really want to travel. I thought ‘I’ve got a degree the set itself I send out the call sheets. and Robyn is preparing a documentary I make sure the director is ready and about four women who are dealing with I have made a feature film I want to go to the UK the cinematographer is ready, and the the impact of Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy on the lives of their children. and work for the BBC’.” sound people are ready and I say ‘roll sound‘, ‘roll camera‘ and the director Meanwhile a script for a new feature calls action. It worked well for me Seeds of Love (co-writer Dave Fadesh) What could go wrong? having written the script”. was shortlisted for the Euro Script Competition. Blackbird was the film and “it was Robyn’s career in film started after served them their vindaloo she would made on a beautiful shoestring”. Its “I really enjoy learning, I really enjoy she completed a degree in Drama at find an opportunity to “sing her little theme was to explore the loss of culture being the auteur, I think that’s why Stellenbosch University in South Africa. song” to them about how she was through the eyes of a young man trying sometimes the short format suits me, She signed up for an MA course and hoping to work in the UK in film and to remember the oral tradition and because I do like the writing, and the with 2,000 rand in hand (approximately media, and after many vindaloos, on the songs and stories of a Scottish editing, and I do like finding the stories.” $200) made a film, a feature no less. the penultimate night…”there were two community before the songs disappear. Robyn is regular contributor to the “And I came out with change!” she Brits in and I went over and sung my Stroud Women Filmmakers Collective says. “I think that’s when I fell in love little song and they happened to be The film also brought a more literal and works with Cheltenham Arts Award. with filmmaking. It was filmed on video, working for the BBC!” Details swapped, meaning to the phrase cliff hanger. It Blackbird’s title is from a song by we had to do everything, we had to contacts made future assured… was a fraught night shoot on a beach. Martyn Bennett part of the community shoot it ourselves, we had to edit it The fire was lit, the cameras ready. in Scotland where the film and the ourselves…just me and two first-years Through her contacts Robyn spent The Scottish summer night is only four documentary were made. It was who helped out. I think it was great some time on a film set and got a hours long, so time was crucial, and nominated for the Michael Powell to wear many hats and learn what job working for the APA (Advertising then the producer had to head back up Award in Edinburgh, won Best Picture everybody does.” Producers Association). She began from the beach to get some supplies to shoot film again. She entered the “so he got in his car but he had to at the Catskill Mountains Film Festival The screening was a success. “It did Straight 8 competition, shot a short film go up this coastal path in the dark.” and will be screened at Atelier on Friday well for me, people laughed where they on a Super 8 cartridge given to her by Robyn recalls, filming was frenetic 6th March as part of this year’s Stroud should have done, bless the actors the competition and won a screening in and the dawn on its way. “I could see Film Festival. there was no rehearsal it was just the Cannes Lions selection…”that was his tail lights go up the path from the For tickets and further information visit ‘please can you show up and perform a really lovely taste of where film can beach.” Then. “I got a radio call from stroudfilmfestival.org at this time’.” She graduated top of take you” she recalls. him… ‘Robyn I need you to call off the the class! The next step was to save shoot! I need you to send everyone up But it was the London Film School that enough to come to the UK. here I’m hanging from the cliff in my gave her the breakthrough she needed, Judith Gunn is a frustrated screenwriter car.’ I looked up and I could see his tail Waitressing is a traditional preparation by now married and living in the UK, and the author of Dostoyevsky: A Life lights…”. A cliff hanger indeed, but no for a media career and it provided she took the PostGrad course and of Contradiction. She has two stories in producers were harmed in the making the latest edition of Stroud Short Stories Robyn with the opportunity, not just she met a producer (James Barrett) of Blackbird and the film’s scenes on and is the creator of online educational to raise money, but to meet Brits. She who had been working with Jamie content and books. She does this while the beach made it to completion. bagged any table seating someone Chambers on a short film titled When tutoring students online and writing the with a British accent, once she had The Song Dies. This short film was to Since then Robyn co-wrote a script great novel. judithgunn.com #60 | Mar 2020 THEATRE/DANCE/FILM LISTINGS 07

the Angus Prune Tune (and the OPEN HOUSE tickets early! 7:30pm £5 (all proceeds THEATRE/ unavoidable smells of sing-a-long-a- go towards the Antony Nolan Trust.) gibbon-stuffing). 8pm £17.50 THURS 5TH stroudbrewery.co.uk Stroud Film Society Presents: DANCE SAT 7TH BlacKkKlansman ARKELL COMMUNITY CENTRE Ceilidh: Juice Spike Lee won the Oscar for best NAILSWORTH LISTINGS With a 40-year history spanning script for his film about police officer two generations, Juice is a highly- Ron Stallworth. Back in the 1970’s, FRI 13TH COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE experienced Ceilidh band from black officer Stallworth and white Nailsworth Film Club Presents: Wales. They specialise in traditional partner Flip Zimmerman managed Shoplifters THURS 19TH – SAT 21ST/THURS dance music from Ireland, Wales, to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, at great 26TH – SAT 28TH Scotland, and the other European personal risk. Spike Lee’s intelligent On the margins of Tokyo, a ‘family’ of dysfunctional outsiders live together The Cotswold Players: Nell Gwynn Celtic nations. Amongst their many script (which veers between humour accolades, Juice has been described and tension) manages to draw and supplement their meagre Set in 1660s London, Jessica as “The best jigs and reels Ceilidh parallels between the racism of that incomes with a routine of petty theft. Swale’s Nell Gwynn is a band in the UK”. They know what time and modern America. 7:30pm £6 This changes when they take in and wonderfully entertaining homage they are doing, love to play, and shelter a neglected young girl and to an extraordinary woman and her always delight their audiences. 8pm THURS 26TH their motives and habits come under remarkable life. After more than a £12.50/£6.50 much closer scrutiny. Hard-hitting decade of rigid Puritanical rule, the Stroud Film Society Presents: Divine social comment on modern Japan Monarchy has been restored and thesubrooms.co.uk Order but told with tenderness and gentle the theatre doors are thrown open Did you know that Switzerland humour. 7:30pm £6 once again. King Charles II, an avid PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY denied women the right to vote theatre-goer and notorious seducer, until the early 1970’s? The social nailsworthfilmclub.co.uk then revolutionises the theatrical FRI 20TH changes of the 1960’s seemed to world by permitting women on the have passed sleepy Switzerland by, PAINSWICK CENTRE Outside the Club stage. From inauspicious roots in a however a growing movement of back-street brothel, Nell’s life moves Outside the Club is a collaboration disaffected women are preparing to FRI 6TH between two circus schools; from an orange-seller to becoming rise up. One such woman is Nora Wick-Flix Presents: The Good Liar one of the first women on stage; Circomedia and NNCA and three (an excellent Marie Leuenberger) who Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian to becoming the favourite mistress remarkable jugglers - Ben Nicholson, changes from a mother and wife to a McKellen star in this crime thriller of King Charles II. Nell’s irreverent Charles Brockbank and Robin Dale. campaigner for rights. Winner of the as a wealthy widow and a career and irrepressible spirit brings chaos Many of you will remember Robin audience award at the Tribeca Film con artist, with a plot full of twists, yet huge success to the Drury Lane from his show What Does Stuff Do Festival. 7:30pm £6 Theatre Company. However, can it from Prema’s summer programme bluffs and double-bluffs. Director Bill stroudfilmsociety.org protect her from the dangers lurking in 2019. His performance style Condon ‘distills from the McKellen- within the newly-restored Royal is accessible, playful, funny and Mirren team an energy that is Court? Full of comedy, plenty of massively engaging with huge STROUD BREWERY devastating’ (The Observer); ‘they live music, love and heartache, Nell appeal to audiences of all ages; are an enormous pleasure to watch, Gwynn celebrates a life as vivid and therefore a great night out for THURS 5TH individually and playing off each other on screen for the first time colourful as anything fiction could the whole family! Suitable for Stroud Brewery Adventure Film Night invent! 7:30pm £12/£8 under 18 those over the age of 8. 7:30pm in their decades-long careers’ (LA £10/£7concs/£8friends/£6concs/ A collection of outdoor adventure Times).7pm £7otd (includes a free cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk £23family/£20concs/£15otd films to inspire and intrigue. This is drink!) a regular sell out event so get your painswickcentre.com ST LAURENCE CHURCH HALL SUN 29TH Touched Theatre: Little Monster THURS 5TH Little Monster explores difference, Journeymen Theatre: Lock Down fear and friendship, using the magic Lock Down, commissioned by of shadows, live songs and the Positive Justice Gloucestershire, is unique, loveable puppets for which a play by the renowned Journeymen the amazing Touched Theatre are so Theatre, now on their 4th visit to renowned. Face your fears and find Stroud. It tells the story of Ron and your friends. Ideal for young theatre Kathy. Ron is an elderly lifer and goers over the age of three! 11am Kathy new to prison chaplaincy. £8/£6concs/£7friends/£5concs/ It’s a strange bond they develop £20family/£18concs/£12otd COMEDY IS BACK! but important to both of them. Through the prism of life inside, prema.org.uk Kathy is forced to go on a journey of MARCH 21 8PM discovery and Ron is her guide. Lock Down explores the hidden plight of FILM the elderly and infirm inside UK’s jails and asks some big questions about how the system is coping with this LISTINGS ever increasing problem. As Ron is fond of saying ‘There is no system. LANSDOWN HALL That is the system.' 7:30pm journeymentheatre.com FRI 13TH Seed Bank Presents: Seed – the THE SUB ROOMS Untold Story Presented to you by Stroud FRI 6TH Community Seedbank and Transition Stroud. In the last century, 94% of Offstage Theatre Group: I’m Sorry, I’ll our seed varieties have disappeared. Read That Again…Again! Seed: The Untold Story is a harrowing Performed on stage in classic radio and heartening story about reluctant comedy style with live music and heroes rekindling a lost connection sound effects, The Offstage Theatre to our most treasured resource and Group recreates the anarchic and reviving a culture connected to seeds. Join the Goods Shed Comedy Club with more mirth deliciously surreal cult comedy show Before the film, there will be a short and merriment from James Cook, Andy White and that laid waste to BBC Radio in the talk from one of the Seed Guardians 1960s and 1970s. Featuring actress who can shine a light on seed saving fresh from Britain’s Got Talent El Baldiniho! and TV presenter Lisa Maxwell – in your local area. There will be a Join them for a night of adult humour known for being one of ITV’s Loose chance for questions after the film. Women, as well as her roles on Tea and light refreshments will also Tickets in advance £10/on the door £12.50 The Bill, Eastenders and Hollyoaks! be available. 6:30pm £5 (suggested Stand by for wicked parodies, donation) glorious puns and silly ditties. It’s full-frontal radio, live on stage – lansdownhall.org www.shed-arts.co.uk with the unmistakeable strains of 08 MUSIC #60 | Mar 2020

SOUND RECORDS By Ben Wardle

“I come here mostly on a Wednesday

from Cheltenham, have a nice little bowl Image by Emilie Sandy of soup and a pot of tea at Star Anise first, then I end up taking away a big bundle of records. It’s a great day out!”

Excitedly flipping through an enormous idea of the sort of thing they are after bigger premises at the top of the High Sound Records is that it’s about 75% pile of freshly-delivered Japanese but they want us to guide them towards Street, the shop has become a social second hand vinyl. Sure, they’ll order second-hand vinyl, Spencer, a man in what they might like. So they’ll say hub for music fans, “The new location new releases if they like them (Tom his mid-50s, is clearly besotted with something like ‘I really liked that Middle is fantastic, – we can stock a lot more shows me this week’s delicious haul of Sound Records. GOP is here to talk to Eastern tune have you got more like records and now customers can spend Soul Jazz compilations, the new Tame joint owners Tom Berry and Sean Roe it?’ – and our role would be to find quality time in here, have a cup of Impala album and a Sam Cooke re- who in March will celebrate the shop’s something that has the same feel but tea and explore – we’ve got listening release) but most of their stock comes second birthday. For vinyl obsessives maybe takes them somewhere different. stations, we host live events; we’re right from us, the public, when we decide to like Spencer - and indeed this writer I guess one of the biggest selling points in the heart of the Stroud community; part ways with our discs, so they have - it’s hard to imagine that there was of the shop is our knowledge really. we get teenagers coming in and buying to be gentle. “Selling a collection often once a time when Sound Records We’re very different people too, that’s The Cure or Paul Simon’s Graceland.” coincides with a major life event,” says didn’t exist. But since it opened at the our greatest strength: I’m structured Tom, “maybe someone’s got divorced bottom of Gloucester Street in 2018, and organized; Sean’s a lot more So is it like that scene in High Fidelity or a family member has passed away, it’s seamlessly entered into the fabric esoteric and creative; I’m more fluent where John Cusack whispers, “I will so when you’re approaching people to of Stroud despite the fact that the town in dance music, hip hop, contemporary now sell five copies of The Three EPs buy records you have to be sensitive. already has one of the South West’s music and classic rock.” “And I’m from by The Beta Band” by just playing it You’re very conscious of the fact that most established and beloved record the experimental side,” adds Sean, in the shop? “Absolutely,” says Sean, people are giving away their whole life shops, Trading Post. “jazz, but not just bebop, free jazz as “We put records on and they sell – it history or their partner’s life history. So well; I’m also pretty strong on African happens with Talking Heads’ Remain In it can be very emotional – sometimes So what’s special about Sound music as well as old school electronica Light as well as Speaking in Tongues – people are in tears…”“One woman Records? from the 50s and 60s. There’s a lot of people know Burning Down The House asked us to take photographs of all and the rest of side one but when you Sean leaps in first “I think we have a crossover too - we both love world the records she was selling so that she music, Arabic music, reggae and put the other side on they start nodding could remember what she had.” adds diverse collection of records, they’re their heads and asking ‘what’s this?’” well organised - and they’re pretty afrobeat.” Sean. Has it ever got awkward? “There was an incident,” he explains, “where cheap! We love records and the music It’s true, there’s nothing that music “There’s an album called Rat by a local that we’re selling, so we can actually act called The Rat Affair and whenever someone actually gave away their fans like more than discovering new partner’s life history. She came in the talk about the stuff.” “Exactly,” adds music via the traditional route of human we put that on there’s a lot of interest,” Tom, “I think sometimes people come says Tom, “we’ve sold loads of that by next morning demanding her records interaction – something the world of back because her husband had sold to the shop and they don’t necessarily Spotify algorithms just can’t compete playing it.” know what they want – they have an them! We gave them back, of course.” with. Since they’ve moved into their Of course one of the key things about #60 | Mar 2020 MUSIC 09

“Selling a collection often coincides with a major life

event, maybe someone’s got With records being so personal, have Like Soul Jazz or Honest Johns, we they ever discovered any long-forgotten want to do current stuff as well as divorced or a family member mementos in a collection? “Well, there historical releases and compilations.” was a ‘herbal’ roll-up and a pubic hair “Whatever we do,” says Tom, “it’s going in a copy of the Beatles White Album!” to be eclectic. We’re never going to be has passed away, so when laughs Tom.“Or it may have just been a pigeonholed into one genre…” bristle from a paintbrush…” adds Sean with a raised eyebrow. Throughout our conversation, Spencer you’re approaching people has been looking through the Japanese So how are they going to celebrate vinyl and is now ready to pay. He’s a to buy records you have their second birthday? “Well, for our jazz and blues fan but Sean and Tom first birthday we had a great show with have clearly blown his mind and his The Orb at the Goods Shed,” says Tom. choices reflect this. As I turn to leave to be sensitive. You’re very “We’re very excited about the show this he says, “This shop has helped to year; we want our party every year to be introduce me to all sorts of other music conscious of the fact that a reflection of what we are doing in the like reggae, punk, post punk, world shop. Musically, we think Flamingods music particularly Brazillian music people are giving away their are very much in sync with what we’re and afrobeat. It’s just such a fantastic all about: exotic but melodic. Plus, eclectic selection.” Sound Records, we’ve got an amazing supporting how long can we keep it a secret? whole life history or their bill: Graham Dunning, who’s going to make techno from household objects; Sound Records Presents: Flamingods partner’s life history. So it can Dubbu and Mendoza - who are two of takes place at the SVA Goods Shed Stroud’s best DJs; Moina Moin and of on Saturday 28th March. Tickets start course Wooolheads, who are an electro from just £10 (for under 25’s) and are be very emotional” groove megaparty!” Sean looks mildly available now from Sound Records, uncomfortable but also slightly chuffed SVA John Street and on-line at sva. at his partner’s bigging up of his own org.uk band which also includes local poet/ performance artist Uta Baldauf. Ben Wardle is a writer and lecturer in Music Business at University of Any plans for Year Three? “A record Gloucestershire. label,” says Sean without hesitation.

Sound Records Sean Roe Recommended Listening:

Tom Berry 1. Mogadisco: Dancing 3. Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 Angel Bat Dawid: - 1991) (Analog The Oracle Africa) (International Compilation of Somalian Anthem) disco 2. Chicago clarinetist 1. 3. Ut: In Gut’s mixes free jazz with House (reissue) black life documentation Alabaster Gill Scott Heron: (Out Records) deplume: To We’re New Again Cy and Lee 2. - A Reimagining New York female pre Instrumentals Vol by Makaya Sonic Youth punk Caribou: grunge 1 (Lost Map) McCraven (XL) Suddenly (Merge) Musical poetry from The Chicago “beat Dan Snaith’s electronica the label run by Prince scientist” remixes SH’s moniker Albert regulars Pictish final album Trail 10 MUSIC #60 | Mar 2020

THE RAT By Tom Berry —AFFAIR Imagine a show that encompasses puppetry, music and theatre. A story with adult themes but appropriate for children as well. A story without words which enables the listener to form their own version of the narrative – such a show is RAT and it comes to Stroud this month…

Born out of a collaboration of two became one of Sound Records’ heard on the record, his work is done! and will visit Stroud before taking in musicians on the set of a stage albums of 2019. It first reached our Bristol, Wolverhampton and other version of We’re Going On A Bear ears when Joe brought it into the There are also a couple of locations before a possible wider Hunt, The Rat Affair project has been shop last summer. We put it on and puppeteers, lighting and sound tour and even festival dates in the in gestation for over two years. Stroud within an hour we’d sold a couple technicians to help bring the story to future. The show will literally evolve resident Joe Carey (saxophone) of copies to interested customers life and, in particular, the simple but as it is performed each night with and Cornishman Louis Gulliver King drawn in by an unlikely but fantastic beautiful drawings of Ailsa Dalling, enough flexibility in the storytelling to (piano, accordion) met through a combina-tion of soul, soundtrack, which gives the whole project its enable different outcomes if that feels shared love of Eastern European klezmer and rock. The record works unique char-acter. Lino prints of appropriate at any time. music and the groundbreaking very well as a standalone piece or as Ailsa’s drawings are put onto acetates production of Shockheaded Peter a sound-track to the story itself. As to illustrate the story and provide What comes next for the group is as by The Tiger Lillies devised theatre. 2020 arrives however, it is the story the audience with pointers to the yet unclear but there are plenty of Once the idea of developing a similar that has become the primary focus narrative. Joining Ailsa on stage will ideas in the pipeline. In the mean-time concept-based show based around as the project moves into the stage be puppeteer Nix Wood, the pair we have a unique opportunity to see The Pied Piper of Hamelin was born, show phase. have worked alongside each other for a project which has involved over the initial draft of the show was many years, and will be creating the twenty people in its inception and is written by Louis almost immediately. Integral to the live show are three visual world of RAT. continuing to mutate. Whether you other musicians, double bassist/ love theatre, storytelling or just damn The pair worked with other musicians On one level the story of the Pied over an intensive week to develop guitarist Eliot Allison, drummer and good music you’d be a fool to miss vo-calist Roger Luxton and Alyssa Piper is very simple – a town is its arrival at the SVA Goods Shed on the storytelling and, this in turn drove infested with rats and a piper is the music. Lynch whose violin underpins Wednesday 4th March. so many of the most memorable employed to take them away – but Already an album, now a stage passages. There is clearly a desire actually there are a number of more Tickets available from sva.org.uk and show and ultimately a book, this is to bring a ‘gig’ mentality to the adult themes that the story explores visit therataffair.com for further info. very much a multi-media project. storytelling, to bring a gig audience to – greed, migration, generational gaps As the first piece of the jigsaw, the a theatre show and vice versa. Louis and ostracized communities are just Tom Berry is a record shop album is a triumph. Recorded at readily admits that if he gets a whoop a few of the narratives that the team proprietor, DJ and Minnie Riperton the legendary Sawmill Studios in of recognition for any of the pieces ex-pect their audience to consider. obsessive. He can be found propping Fowey and pressed on vinyl as well of mu-sic on the upcoming eleven The show has already played to up the counter at Sound Records at as available digitally, the record soon date tour based on what people have receptive audiences in Cornwall 31 High St. #60 | Mar 2020 MUSIC LISTINGS 11

FRI 20TH Line up tba soon! piano, drums, ukulele, tickling and MUSIC Texas Tic Fever rubbing your senses into a fun stew. facebook.com/BarnysLiveMusic Enjoy yourselves, if you can; they are Moonshine fuelled Americana. 8:30pm greater than you think. 9:30pm Free LISTINGS Free THE PRINCE ALBERT SUN 15TH THURS 26TH SUN 1ST Katey Brooks ALE HOUSE Rodda’s Hairy Craic The Undercover Hippy With her new album Revolute newly Irish Acoustic Session with Tim Potts. A rare treat to catch Billy Rowan, released, the mercurial songstress is FRI 6TH 8pm Free aka The Undercover Hippy, giving more determined than ever to do things The Rockers SAT 28TH an intimate solo performance, an her own way. Revolute isn’t just an Authentic sounding rockabilly, opportunity to hear the songs in their album – it’s an awakening for both artist Crooked Stylus Crooked Equinox dismantling and re-arranging some rawest form, up close and personal. and listener. The wider music scene will of the biggest chart-toppers and pop DJ Night with DJ Darius and friends. One of Billy’s biggest strengths is be watching the rise of this once-a- classics they could think of, stripping 8:30pm Free the way he manages to pack his generation talent. 8:30pm £12 from them down and hot-rodding them just songs full of political and social ticketweb.co.uk crownandsceptrestroud.com as back yard mechanics did to '32 commentary whilst at the same time Fords in the 1950's. 8:30pm Free remaining playful and uplifting, and this WEDS 18TH HAWKWOOD COLLEGE playfulness is even more apparent in an Jon Wilks FRI 13TH acoustic setting. Covering topics from Acoustic guitarist, folk strummer THURS 26TH Limelight fake news, internet privacy and the U.S. and singer-songwriter, based near Classic and progressive covers. Created @ Hawkwood election, to nappy wearing barristers Winchester also part of The Grizzly Folk 8:30pm Free Informal concert resulting from a and best friends trying to snog your “one of the best of the New Wave of week-long Artist Residency with mum, his performance takes you on a Folk Blokes”, says fRoots Mag, adding, SAT 21ST Matthew Barley, internationally known rollercoaster of storytelling and thought “As a guitar player and arranger of Mekon Man cellist, improviser, arranger and artistic provoking protest pieces. 8:30pm traditional songs, Jon already deserves £12adv from tickettailor.com Garage rockabilly with its roots in the director. His musical world is focused speaking of in the same breath as your on projects that connect people in Simpsons and your Morays.” 8:45pm juke joints of the Medway Delta, the MON 2ND band formed after moonshine fuelled different ways, blurring the boundaries Free Singing Group sessions on the verandas of their between genres and people. Alongside THURS 19TH hidden shotgun shacks in the Stroud is Abel Selaocoe who is redefining the Monthly meeting of likeminded singers valleys.8:30pm Free parameters of cello, moving seamlessly and storytellers. 8pm Free Swamp Stomp String Band between genres and styles. 8pm (by Not your average Americana band. THURS 26TH donation to Hawkwood Bursary Fund) THURS 5TH Twangy Banjos, driving guitars, Ale House Jazz Sefrial scratchy washboards and a thudding hawkwoodcollege.co.uk The Split Tone Quartet featuring With influences as diverse as John double bass sit behind anything from Zorn, Medeski Martin and Wood, drinking songs that will have the room American born saxophonist Craig HOLY TRINITY CHURCH Crofton and celebrated guitarist Matt and Tin Hat, Sefrial is the brain-child stomping their feet and shooting tequila Hopkins.8:30pm Free of rising star Sophie Stockham. to ballads that will break even the most SAT 28TH With a saxophone-heavy front line toughest folk, to ragtime songs of bar FRI 27TH Stroud Symphony Orchestra featuring the energy and lyricism of fights and gambling. Taking a mixture Liam Ward Band Stroud Symphony Orchestra return Sophie's alto, complemented by the of Jazz, Country, Swing, Blues and unmistakeable sound and brilliance Ragtime - it is safe to say their music Original harp-driven rhythm and blues. to the Holy Trinity Church to perform of Jake McMurchie on tenor, groove is there to be enjoyed by people young 8:30pm Free Overture,Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Sibelius Violin Concerto and invention is provided by the chief and old, rich or poor, or who just love to with soloist John Pearce and Brahms composer Matt Brown on drums, stamp their feet and have a ho-down. BOX VILLAGE HALL Symphony no.2. 7:30pm £12/£10concs under-pinned by the warm sound 8:30pm Free from the Sub Rooms of Greg Cordez on bass. The band SUN 29TH is completed by the distinctive Joe SAT 21ST The Great Cabaret Safari stroudsymphony.org.uk Wilkins on guitar, who blends the blues Slate Trio The ‘effortlessly funny’ ShooShooBaby, and energy of Jimi Hendrix with the Albert favourite and maverick guitar have been appreciated by audiences LANSDOWN HALL subtlety of Bill Frisell or Marc Ribot. hero Neil Smith (This Is The Kit, all over the world, earning them a 8:45pm Free Milon, The Brackish) brings his new reputation for their excellent singing SAT 28TH instrumental trio with truly exceptional SAT 7TH and musicianship. Expect water-tight Chris Wood drummer Matthew Jones (Zun Zun Orphic Egui, The Brackish) and bassist Pete harmonising on a wonderful array of For the third concert in their series, Gibbs (Bloom Collective, Count Bobo) razorsharp original cabaret songs, Leveret presents Chris Wood. In a New acoustic jazz quartet based in to Stroud for a first visit. . Expect alongside music by Queen, Louis world of soundbites and distractions Bristol, UK. Includes members of energy, angularity, and shards of Prima, Ennio Morricone and The Wood is a truth seeker. His writing Sefrial, Get The Blessing, Dakhla Brass, genius. 8:30pm Free Proclaimers. 7:30pm is permeated with love and wry Modulus III, We Are Leif. Playing tunes intelligence, uplifting and challenging as by the likes of Johnny Dyani, Joshua airing.co.uk FRI 27TH he celebrates the sheer one-thing-after- Redman, Thelonious Monk and the Art anotherness of life. Tom Robinson and Ensemble of Chicago. 9pm Free Marmalade THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE Chris Difford are fans while Stick in The Fabulous new funk soul disco band FRI 13TH Wheel and The Unthanks look to him from Norwich. That’s all we can say for THURS 5TH as an influence. Winner of 6 BBC Folk The Magpies now but they are playing their first gigs Open Mic Night Awards, he’s played with The Royal The Magpies formed in their hometown around the country and stopping at the Hosted by Stroud’s own Americana Shakespeare Company and was a key of York, initially a duo project between Albert for a night…Hurrah! 9pm Free troubadour the Rev. Stretch. All member of The Imagined Village along Bella Gaffney and Polly Bolton, until the SAT 28TH welcome! 8pm Free with Billy Bragg and Martin Carthy. line-up expanded to a quartet joining 7:30pm £16.50/£12 under 30 from forces with acclaimed cellist Sarah Alcuna Wilds THURS 12TH eventbrite.co.uk Smout and fiddle ace Holly Brandon. British/Dutch band based in the BYO Vinyl They each draw on their transatlantic Netherlands. The band creates lansdownhall.org influences to create a unique blend of Bring your own vinyl! LP’s and singles atmospheric trip-rock music, combining Celtic and bluegrass folk, transporting and the Sceptre will play them… ambient soundscapes, driving beats LITTLE VIC audiences to distant lands and 8:30pm Free and strong melodic riffs, with rich, capturing imaginations with their melancholic vocals and observant, FRI 13TH SUN 8TH enthralling live show. 9pm Free reflective lyrics. Formed of members from both sides of the North Sea, their Howlin Mat Barny’s Live Music: Alden Patterson Dashwood SAT 14TH diverse influences contribute to their Flaming hot blues guitar…8:30pm Free Monthly music night, special guest Biscuit Head and the Biscuit Badgers distinctive sound. 8:30pm Free Alden Patterson Dashwood with MC Faster than a speeding puffin, more TUES 17TH SUN 29TH Kieran Archer. Floor spots available! chocolatey than a chocolate labrador, St Patricks Day 7:15pm £4(suggested donation) descending from apes (if they are tall Dave Ayre’s Baroque Night Live music from the pubs own Hairy enough) Biscuithead and the Biscuit The music of Bach, Vivaldi, Handel Craic plus cheap Guinness and SUN 22ND Badgers release your ears to play and other brilliant composers played Whiskey…Open from 3pm Free Barny’s Live Music: Concert Evening backgammon undisturbed. Tuba, beautifully by a wonderful ensemble 12 MUSIC LISTINGS #60 | Mar 2020

of professional musicians and 400 FRI 27TH Stroud Refugee Aid Choir is an open puppetry. Amidst a musical score that year old rounds sung superbly by an Overproof DJ’s access community choir of 100 singers. shifts between sensationally boisterous enthusiastic audience are just two This year they are giving to Save the Eastern European folk and sparse reasons why Dave Ayre's Baroque Stroud Brewery’s monthly instalment Children’s Yemen and Syria appeal and reflective piano works, RAT tells the Night is so highly regarded by music of the Overproof DJ’s spinning the very Gloucestershire Action for Refugees tale of a curious man who offers to rid lovers from all backgrounds. And best of, raregroove and Latin to reggae and Asylum Seekers (GARAS). 7:30pm a corrupt town in crisis by driving its it's in Stroud's pub of the year! 8pm and hip hop. Always a great way to £12.50 vermin infestation away. It questions £13.50adv start your weekend!! 6pm Free the very nature of theatre by removing SAT 28TH SAT 28TH speech from the narrative, choosing theprincealbertstroud.co.uk SubTrax Presents: Father Funk and instead to adopt the use of exquisite Lewis Clark WBBL puppetry and projection to present a STAR ANISE Talented songwriter playing a range of Father Funks bass driven funk tracks powerful spectacle of light and sound. originals and covers taking inspiration and eclectic, tongue in cheek DJ Suitable for audiences 10+ 7:30pm SUN 29TH from folk to blues. 8pm Free sets are world renowned – landing £7adv from SVA/£8.40(plus booking Sunday Selections fee) online (Goods Shed) stroudbrewery.co.uk him sets at the likes of Glastonbury Festival, Shambhala Music Festival, Music lovers unite, come down to the FRI 6TH/13TH/20TH/27TH new monthly reggae and dub night Boomtown Fair, Rainbow Serpent THE SUB ROOMS John St Social in cozy Star Anise. Selectas spinning Festival and clubs all over the world. WBBL specialises in beats bigger than Come and watch Izzy Martini turn those vinyl all evening, accompanied by live FRI 13TH instruments and singers. Powered Ben Nevis and basslines chunkier than beans into creamy espresso martinis by two 15 inch bass bins. Come and Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi that milk you forgot to throw out last at the John Street Social. Happy hour have a dance on your Sunday evening, World Snooker Champion Steve Davis week…9pm £13.50 specials from 6pm. Plus an eclectic nice vibes all round. Licenced bar. comes to Stroud for a 2.5 hour DJ set! vinyl and visual mix by guest DJs. 6pm SUN 29TH Under 16s to be accompanied by an Steve will be playing an eclectic blend adult.6pm of psychedelia and techno assisted by ThumbSucker Presents: Marika THURS 12TH his DJ partner Kavus Torabi from Gong. Hackman Stroud Jazz Sessions: Dom Franks staranisecafe.co.uk “One of the joys of the last few years Marika Hackman had a sensational This month Stroud Jazz Sessions in the music industry has been the rise 2019 with the release of her latest presents Dom Franks as their STROUD BREWERY and rise of Steve Davis as one of the album Any Human Friend. An jazz-smoking special guest!! With most well-loved and respected DJs and unashamedly sensual, sexual and saccharine bebop licks edging into TUES 3RD/10TH/17TH/24TH/31ST radio hosts in the country.” Drowned in sweary new record, don’t miss Marika funky dives and samba sways, Dom Open Mic Night Sound 9pm £11.50-£13.50 perform live as she returns to her raw, is a jazz-fine sugar-fine saxophone evocative best. Intrigue is at the heart Stroud Brewery’s weekly open mic hero from Cheltenham. With his 3rd SAT 14TH of Marika Hackman’s music but there’s night. Poets, comedians, jugglers, album being pressed, come hear him Trading Post Presents: Don Letts something gloriously attainable about ventriloquists, mimes, magicians and effortlessly channel Strayhorn, Coltrane her as an artist – her commitment to (statistically) musicians are welcome Don Letts’ reputation has been firmly and Shorter. 8pm £5otd/£3musicians touring and meeting with a receptive to take the stage! 15 - 20 minute sets established in both the film and music (John Street) audience who are searching for the depending on time. If you're not a world by a substantial body of work very same antidotes to the challenges SAT 14TH performer then clap loudly, sing along, from the late 70’s through the 80’s, 90’s of modern life. 8pm £16.50 laugh at the jokes and have a blooming and well into the millennium. In 2003 Round up #4: Yama Warashi he won a Grammy for his documentary good time. Family friendly(ish). 7:30pm THURS 31ST A new monthly event at The Goods Free ‘Westway To The World’. He came Shed Round Up sees Bristol group to notoriety in the late 70’s as the DJ The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers Ishmael Ensemble team up with d&b FRI 6TH that single handedly turned a whole Having temporarily put down their pens audiotechnik for a unique 360 degree Thee Ones generation of punks onto reggae. It and picked up guitars, this crime- soundscape experience. Formed by was whilst as a DJ at the first punk club writing super-group – Mark Billingham, Legendary Stroud favourites Thee Ones Bristol-based Japanese artist Yoshino ‘The Roxy’ in 1977, that Don adopted Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Luca play in Stroud Brewery’s balcony bar, Shigihara, Yama Warashi create a the punk D.I.Y ethic and began to make Veste, Doug Johnstone and Stuart playing original soul, jazz, R&B and 60s dreamy evocative sound, inspired his first film ‘The Punk Rock Movie’. Neville – happily murder much-loved hammond beats. This energetic live by Japanese folk, dance music, free Shot on Super-8mm, it is the only songs by The Clash, Elvis Costello, band has been known to whip crowds jazz and African music with a slice of documentary on the U.K punk scene Hank Williams, The Beatles, Talking into a serious party with their Latin electric psychedelia. With a sound that with Sex Pistols, The Clash and many Heads, The Jam, Johnny Cash rhythms and incredible dance moves... is rooted in jazz Ishmael Ensemble others. 8pm £15.50 and many others who are currently Not to be missed! 7:30pm Free combine brass, beats and a “swirling considering legal action. Between blizzard of electronics” (Clash) to THURS 19TH SAT 7TH them, they have sold over 20 million create mesmerizing soundscapes. Keith James Concert for A Changing books worldwide and won every major The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Bob Porter Project World crime-writing award, but now they’re & producer Pete Cunningham a.k.a. Stroud based Americana group - a fine Unique and timeless songs of vision, rocking out on the stage instead of the Ishmael, the band have quickly caught blend of mellow Alt Country and gritty question and change. Words that page and performing killer tunes in a the attention of influential tastemakers Roots Rock…Often described as music reverberate with the tenacity of human series of roof-removing shows at major such as Gilles Peterson, Tom Robinson with a ‘growl and twang’ the Project spirit in these current times of brooding festivals and rock venues. Murder on and just about everyone else.8pm £10- offer up a mix of originals and covers. disquiet, fractured societies and civil the dancefloor is guaranteed…8pm £21 £20 (Goods Shed) 8pm Free unrest. Songs that have changed thesubrooms.co.uk history and moved millions of people to FRI 20TH THURS 12TH do things they never thought possible. We!Rd Sh!T Bagelites SVA Included in this concert are songs Shhhhhhhh.... An evening of lowercase Local folk talent playing traditional written by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul low key sonic explorations - with live WEDS 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH English folk and gypsy tunes…All Simon, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Nina performances by Ivy Nostrum (Paul acoustic, the traditional way! 8pm Free Simone, Leonard Cohen and Keith. For Funk-In Sessions Margree): Amateur tape sludge/low- this concert, the original living writers Best live Funk Jam in town ...FUNK grade noise/entry-level concrete music SAT 14TH of each song have been asked to Only...Nothing but the Funk! All are and Gout: Collaboration between The Whiteshillbillies compose powerful brand new verses welcome to listen or perform! Every Detritus Plates and David Sheppard The Whiteshillbilles return to the that stand proud in the 21st century Wednesday night. 8pm £1otd (John - a hundred something years, almost Brewery for another night of high- against this current wave of crises. 8pm Street) ghosts. "It's barely music." Hosts energy bluegrass, country and rock'n £15.50 Neil Walker and Sean Roe will spin a roll. This six piece enjoy their music WEDS 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH few records and screen a few videos SUN 22ND and as we know from the last time they Flamenco Workshop before, between and after…7:30pm played here, the audience certainly Stroud Refugee Aid Choir: Handel’s £5otd/£1members (John Street) Messiah Open it to anyone interested to learn does too. 8pm Free about flamenco in general so anyone Stroud Refugee Aid Choir returns with SAT 21ST can join either clapping, playing cajon SAT 21ST a performance of Messiah. The Choir or singing. Contributions welcome. LOSS<<>>GAIN Presents: will be joined by Capriol Chamber Ne’er Cast A Clout Every Weds (term time only) 7:30pm Playback#3 – Jónsi and Alex Somers Orchestra and four excellent local Play their own songs straight from (John Street) Jónsi and Alex Somers – Riceboy the heart. Music that weaves through soloists. The conducting will be a Sleeps – Live at Sydney Opera strands of folk, roots and blues, double act, shared between Hugh WEDS 4TH House. A world-first surround-sound Barton and Jon Trim. Capriol will start reflecting on the ups and downs of The Rat Affair Presents: RAT presentation of the landmark ambient the concert with Handel’s overture: album with full orchestra and choir. life and our interconnectedness with The Pied Piper of Hamelin reimagined The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. The Sydney Opera House performance nature. 8pm Free through live music and shadow March EVENTS TAPROOM

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in July 2019 was the world premiere, Country, Blues, pop, anything goes. deceptively gentle lyrics around UNDER THE EDGE ARTS WOTTON featuring brand new arrangements Regular spotlights, guests and theme subtle and sophisticated melodies UNDER EDGE rom David Handler (Le Poisson Rouge, nights. Check website for up-to-date and song structures. Madeleine NYC) and Robert Ames (London listings. 8pm £2 (donation) Harwood impresses audiences with SAT 7TH Contemporary Orchestra) to celebrate her beautiful and expressive voice RSVP Bhangra the 10th anniversary of the classic minchfolkclub.org and emotive song writing...7:30pm 2009 album. Performed by Sydney £12/£9concs/£10friends/ RSVP is spearheading the renaissance Opera House Orchestra and Choir. The RUSKIN MILL NAILSWORTH £8concs/£16otd of live Bhangra in the UK. From third in a series of immersive listening massive stages at Glastonbury (12 experiences presented by sound SAT 21ST prema.org.uk years) and Womad (4 years), to concert venues across the UK and designer David Sheppard and music Salt House industry veteran John Best. Presented CARPENTERS ARMS MISERDEN Europe, they're always guaranteed Salt House is Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan using d&b audiotechnik Soundscape. to get everyone dancing. 8pm MacPherson and Lauren MacColl. A 8pm £4-£6 (Goods Shed) WEDS 4TH £10.50/£9.50concs sense of place captured in sound, their Bill Taylor and Martin Vogwell SAT 28TH album Undersong has been praised by FRI 13TH fRoots for bringing startling freshness Bill Taylor will be joined by Folklaw's Sound Records Presents: Flamingods SCJC Jazz Jam to the British tradition with songs that Martin Vogwell performing traditional Sound records present a psychedelic murmur of Scandinavia and Scotland. and contemporary songs and ballads. Bringing the benefit of jazz as an art spectacular to mark their second 8pm £12/£7concs Rich vocals and harmonies with guitar form to the local community and to birthday in partnership with SVA. and mandolin accompaniments. 8pm multiple levels of ability. All instruments/ Headlining this very special event rmt.org Free vocalists will be made welcome. If you are international psych explorers can play the blues and want to have Flamingods who released their ST MARY’S CHURCH NORTH WEDS 11TH a crack at jazz – this is for you! If you want to come and just listen that is fine celebratory fourth album ‘Levitation’ WOODCHESTER Wildwood Jack in 2019. Inspired largely by the disco, too. 8pm Free Wildwood Jack are a totally unique funk and psychedelic sounds coming SAT 28TH acoustic guitar and ukulele duo from out of the Middle East and South SAT 14TH Kent. Having sold their home in 2013 Asia in the 70s, the album channels The Cappella Singers: Music for The Charlton Blues Kings Passiontide to hit the road and tour the world they these influences through a vision bring a heart-warming and adventurous A 5 piece rhythm 'n' blues band from soaked in mysticism, positivity and Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Victoria, spirit to their music and to audiences Gloucestershire, the Blues Kings serve sun-drenched imagery. In support Sheppard, Sweelinck and Schütz, wherever they play. Enjoy wonderful up an energetic mix of Jump & Swing is Graham Dunning’s Mechanical plus a setting of the Lord’s Prayer by interplay between guitar Blues that will soon have you out of Techno, an extraordinarily eccentric Rimsky-Korsakov, choral pieces by your seats and dancing the night away. and wonderful musical contraption. 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I’m Sorry, Live Wrestling Steve Davis and Trading Post The Fun Lovin’ I’ll Read That Sun 8th Mar | 5.30pm Kavus Torabi Presents: Don Crime Writers Again…Again! £16.50 - £21.50 Fri 13th Mar | 9pm Letts Tues 31st Mar | 8pm Fri 6th Mar | 8pm £11.50 - £13.50 Sat 14th Mar | 8pm £21 £17.50 £15.50 16 ART #60 | Mar 2020 THETHE WAYZGOOSEWAYZGOOSE PRINTERSPRINTERS FAIRFAIR By Lorna Jenkins A Wayzgoose was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew’s Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.

Nowadays, it refers to any kind of the Shambles market. University of the West of England, and is a new generation. A lot of young celebration, exhibition or event in the He started letterpress printing in is a member of the Gloucestershire women who are letterpress printers, you printing world, and more specifically 1991 after meeting John Grice, who Printmaking Cooperative (GPC) in can see they can be independent by for us, it’s a letterpress exhibition, sale established Evergreen Press in the Thrupp. printing, making cards and posters and and party at Stroud Brewery on March 1980s in Stonehouse. “Before Tesco There are more than 16 letterpress doing what we call ‘jobbing printing’ – 7-8, showcasing the area’s crème de la was built by Stratford Park there was printers in the Stroud Brewery every day printing – and that’s a whole crème of the inky world of letterpress. a tree sit in and I wrote a poem called event, and almost all live in or have new wave. I’ve been to several art Organised by renowned letterpress Stroud Eye Views about the trees a connection to Stroud. This seems schools talking about letterpress where poet and writer Dennis Gould with and John printed it. Two weeks later I rather a lot of people for what was a they’ve put it back in. Most art schools book designer and graphic artist bought a letterpress,” Dennis explains. little-known discipline? “In Stroud I think have got letterpress that they kept, Lucy Guenot, plus others, this year’s it’s because there’s such a good artistic and now they’re using as a contrast to The world of letterpress has computer design.” Wayzgoose will include artists and “completely changed” since Dennis community, so there are things like the craftspeople such as John Furnival, began.“In 1991-92 there were mostly Stroud Artists Book Group and quite a It can’t be a coincidence that the craft is Andrew Morrison, Otto Gobley, Nick the old private presses, you know they few of those members use letterpress. enjoying a resurgence as our lives have Pride, Imi Maufe and of course Dennis had their letterpress machines and I am part of the GPC and we’ve got become more engulfed by screens and and Lucy themselves who met through type and it reminded me of how the letterpress there. All of these places digital products. Dennis agrees: “There Kitty Crossley, a fellow printmaker who old booksellers used to be. All the old they end up linking up and people keep is a resurgence of craft because of the will also feature in the fair. booksellers used to hate paperback, in touch. Of course, Dennis himself is computer, the screen, which are virtual, Dennis is a famous face in Stroud, his paperback books were seen as cheap a bit of a club figure himself and so crafts give self-confidence, but also of workshop tucked away next to Star and would bring ordinary people into people know him, because he is so course you are using your body as well Anise Café. His story is such that an the bookshop and they hated it, so it’s generous with his time, space and gives as your mind. I think there is a great entire issue of Good on Paper could be similar with the old printers, they were gifts so much,” Lucy tells me. need. Everyone needs to do something devoted to him, and indeed his personal slightly sniffy about things like post “There is an international network of physical, and sadly now in society most story has been featured on these pages guards. I mean I am generalizing. The letterpress printers, and there are many people don’t get the chance, unless you previously. Born in Burton-On-Trent and man at the Whittington Press – John more than one would imagine,” Dennis do take up an art or a craft of passion.” raised in Derbyshire it includes a stint Randale – is the opposite, he includes adds. “A lot of them aren’t members of “Touch is very important in printing isn’t in the army, campaigning for nuclear and encourages everyone else. He is any group. There is an Oxford Guild of it, the feel of the paper, all of the senses disarmament, a brief spell in prison, the letterpress man in the country who Letterpress printers, which many belong really – when you’re rolling out the and poetry. He came to Stroud in 1989 just happens to be in Cheltenham.” to. Perhaps every other town has a paper the hiss of the ink has to be right, to visit his friend, fellow peace activist Lucy completed a masters in Multi- letter press printer, if not more than one. you’ve got to get the right sound so John Marjoram. Nowadays you can find Disciplinary Printmaking at the Most of them print private press books, you know you’ve got the right amount him on Saturdays selling his works at that are more limited edition, but there of ink, the smell, it’s just very sensual in #60 | Mar 2020 ART 17

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a way and is an antidote to the screen is that we come to it from an artist or “What distinguishes it from which can be so isolating,” Lucy adds. craftsman side,” Dennis says. “I was “What distinguishes it from computer a writer so technically I knew nothing, computer design, even with design, even with distressed letters and I wasn’t interested originally in the on the computer, is that the inks are technical side, although I am now, I just distressed letters on the denser, so the black is blacker than wanted to produce the work. Ironically, you could ever get on a computer, and it is what people like, but it is what fine computer, is that the inks are the red is redder and so on. It used to printers hate! John recognized what I denser, so the black is blacker be called the black art, letterpress, not was doing and what other craft artists because it was devilish, but because of were doing, even though our printing, the ink,” Dennis says. in their eyes, is appalling, you know. I than you could ever get on a am pleased when it comes out clear, “Setting type is very meditative isn’t but I am not concentrating on that, computer, and the red is redder it,” Lucy gestures to Dennis’ piles of whereas the fine printers do. But there’s and so on. It used to be called printed work in front of us. “You can’t this whole network now of printers rush it, you have to concentrate. With who are primarily artists and printers the black art, letterpress, not printmaking the process is as much the who are doing their own designs and pleasure of it as the final product. The their own art and posters. It has grown wooden letters are so beautiful they are considerably.” because it was devilish, but lovely objects in themselves, they are very pleasing to work with.” The Wayzgoose Printers Fair takes because of the ink,” place at Stroud Brewery on March 7-8, Is it also that we are excited by the 12-4pm and includes cards, posters, imperfect? In an Instagram-perfected Dennis Gould books, printing equipment and a world Dennis and Lucy’s work is a letterpress exhibition. beautiful antidote, the occasional smudge making it all the more charming. “Yes, but if you say that to Lorna Jenkins is an editor and the fine printers they would be horrified freelance journalist from Stroud. you see, by my work!” laughs Dennis. She also paints and sells her work “Badly printed wooden type that’s the during Stroud Open Studios and absolutely horror. There’s a divide,” in Made in Stroud. Instragram: @ Lucy explains, “I think the difference lornapaintsandwrites 18 ART LISTINGS #60 | Mar 2020

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In this exhibition you Perspex by local/international artist O’Connell’s inspirations are drawn on show are endangered or extinct and will encounter geological specimens, Clay Sinclair situated at 48 High Street. from a wide range of sources why species are disappearing from tropical butterflies and a selection of Plus prints for those on a budget and natural or man-made, including our planet at such an alarming rate. objects that have been collected by, People's Republic of Stroud tat for archaeology, architecture, plants and Admission free, many works available or donated to, the Museum over the those joining the revolution. Weds – Sat things she collects while travelling to purchase. Tues - Fri 10am-4:30pm/ last century. The objects, and Theo’s 10am-5pm or hill walking by the sea near her Sat – Sun 11am-4:30pm images, range from the beautiful, to the home. ‘lightly touching the earth slightly unsavoury, to the frankly bizarre. claysinclair.com back’ showcases O’Connell’s beautiful SAT 25TH JAN – SUN 8TH MAR Sat 14th 2-4pm Meet the Photographer maquettes and her poetic use of Art Made for Cotswold’s Rare + opening drinks. Tues - Fri 10am- CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART materials, including bronze, stainless Grasslands 4:30pm/Sat – Sun 11am-4:30pm steel, silver, resin and found objects. This exhibition shows artworks made SUN 15TH Mon-Fri 10am-6pm/Sat 10am-1pm museuminthepark.org.uk by members of the public in celebration Drop-in Art History Talk: Rodin gallery-pangolin.com of the beautiful and increasingly Keith Symonds will be presenting a fully rare limestone grasslands of the NELSON TRUST HUB ACADEMY illustrated talk on the fascinating life LANSDOWN HALL Cotswolds. Each piece of work has and works of Auguste Rodin, whose been created on paper handmade SAT 14TH sculptures of the human figure are TUES 10TH – SAT 14TH by artist Joanna Callaghan using Creative Courses Open Day firmly rooted in the western tradition wildflowers and grasses typical of local The Nelson Trust are delighted to invite but also belong to the modern era. Wild Art: ReConnect Befriending chalk grasslands. Children and adults you to their free Creative Courses Open 2-4pm £10/£8concs (incl tea and An exhibition of nature-based art by took a piece of the handmade paper Day to celebrate the launch of their biscuits during the break) Wild Lives Art Group – enabling people and using natural art materials made upcoming courses. From textiles and affected by stroke and other long term an image showing what this wonderful upcycling, to yoga and acupuncture, stroudlifedrawing.com health conditions. The Wild Lives group natural habitat meant to them. The you’ll be sure to find something that meet weekly in Stroud and support beautiful and varied pieces of art were captures your creativity…With copious DUFFLE VINTAGE each other, under the guidance of an all made as part of the Limestone Living amounts of cake on offer too, what’s artist, to create art inspired by nature. Legacies Project run by Bank from the not to love? 10am-4pm As well as stocking vintage furniture 10am - 5pm Brink. Tues - Fri 10am-4:30pm/Sat – and clothing Patrick’s shop acts as Sun 11am-4:30pm recoveryhub.co.uk/hub-academy a revolving gallery for local artists TUES 24TH – SAT 28TH creating a unique and unconventional Observations: Stroud Life Drawing SAT 25TH JAN – SUN 5TH APR SOUND RECORDS exhibition space. Currently showing ‘Observations’ is a group art exhibition Mike Hawkes: Pictorial Artist works by Melvyn Warren-Smith, Dan which showcases the very varied SAT 14TH – SAT 28TH Rawlings, Steven Hubbard, Zoe Heath, The first display in The Space (a new creative work undertaken by artists Susan Kester, Haruko Boot, Nick display area available for use by the Graham Dunning: Modified Records who attend Stroud Life Drawing’s community), tells the story of Mike Purcell, Jo Caslin and Emily Seffar plus Modifying, retexturing and repurposing twice-weekly sessions at the Centre Hawkes who worked as a sign artist Lazy Dog Box guitars and Revelray records has been part of Graham for Science and Art. It will be their ninth for nearly 40 years. During the 28 custom guitars by Gordon Simpson. Dunning’s practice since he began group exhibition and the most varied years he was employed by Whitbread Mon –Sat 10am-6:30pm/Sun 10am- working with records in 2008. In the and interesting so far. In addition to he worked on about a 1000 signs for 6pm run up to his Mechanical Techno figure studies, there will be plenty of public houses and inns. He continued performance at SVA Goods Shed on landscapes, still-life, portraits, ceramics as a freelancer for a further 10 years facebook.com/dufflevintage 28the March - we will exhibit some and other works in a wide variety of from his studio in Whiteway. The examples of the “repurposed” vinyl media. The walls of the gallery will display includes images and articles ELVERS STUDIO he uses in his performances. 10am- be covered with approximately one demonstrating his work. Tues - Fri 5:30pm (closed Tues and Sun) Coming up soon an exhibition of hundred pictures, making the show well 10am-4:30pm/Sat – Sun 11am-4:30pm eclectic mirrors and frames, unusual worth a visit. 10am-4:30pm facebook.com/soundrecordsstroud SAT 25TH JAN – SUN 5TH APR designs you'll see nowhere else plus TUES 31ST MAR – SUN 5TH APR mounted originals in Elvers Studio 'Art Recent Acquisitions: SCAR STROUD BREWERY Journey Sale' during February and March… Stroud Campaign Against the Ring As always unique handmade jewellery Journey is an exhibition by local artists Road were a group of local people who SAT 7TH – SUN 8TH and other objects of interest all on the theme of travel, in its widest fought against plans to build a road, The Wayzgoose Printers Fair created and designed by Tristana, plus sense. The artists will showcase their that would have divided Stroud and commissions are always welcome. work through examples of photography, demolished listed buildings. On display Cards, posters, books, printing Tues-Fri 10am-3pm/Sat 11am-4pm painting, print and sculpture. Each will are highlights from an archive of over equipment and letterpress exhibition. be unique and personal to the artist. 150 newspaper clippings, documents Ft. John Furnival, Lucy Guenot, Dennis facebook.com/elversstudio 10am-5pm/Private View Tues 31st and plans which tell this story. Tues - Fri Gould, Andrew Morrison, Otto Gobey, 6-8pm 10am-4:30pm/Sat – Sun 11am-4:30pm Pat Randle, Tom Mayo, Kitty Crossley, FENCE GALLERY Nick Pride, Rod Shaw, Christine Felce, lansdownhall.org SAT 14TH MAR – SUN 26TH APR Fran Christen, Angie Butler, Imi Maufe, John Grice, Stan Lane and more…12- Alyssa Dabbs Art Theo Deproost: Lost In Time MUSEUM IN THE PARK 4pm Fence Gallery is run by Alyssa Dabbs An exhibition of photography exploring and showcases her work. Alyssa is a the secrets of the Museum’s stores. stroudbrewery.co.uk SAT 25TH JAN - SUN 8TH MAR Fine Artist from Cheltenham who has Theo Deproost is a still-life and Val Hunt: Endangered and Extinct sold work worldwide and has been landscape photographer based in STUDIO 18 represented by a gallery internationally An exhibition of work by creative London. He grew up in Stroud and and more recently in central London. recycling artist Val Hunt. With has fond memories of visiting the SAT 28TH Alyssa works on a large scale creating inspiration, ingenuity, humour and skill, Museum when it was still in Lansdown. Stroud Film Festival Closing Event: abstract paintings that have been artist Val Hunt has created a fascinating Since 2017, he has been exploring Bring Your Own Beamer shown in British Vogue. 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FRI 13TH – SUN 15TH rmt.org Artist in Residence: Ann-Margreth Bohl - Sonido RED DOT GALLERY PAINSWICK Ann-Margreth Bohl sculptor/installation FOR ARTS artist has recorded animal and human WEDS 19TH FEB – TUES 3RD MAR sounds during a recent residency to La Paintings by Pete Collins Palma/ Canaries. This weekend she is Pete creates intriguing and visually very AND CRAFTS drawing to these sounds and editing sound data into a piece that will be pleasing abstracts in oils allowing the performed as a sound-installation later paint to give incredible texture as well as fabulous colour coordination and WORKSHOPS AND this year. contrast. 10am -4pm FRI 20TH – SUN 22ND WEDS 4TH – TUES 17TH COURSES VISIT: Jo Casling Artist in Residence: Jo Casling – Perimeters Ann Bate Williams New work exploring boundaries. Ann's style is extravagant, free and Recycled paintings using bitumen , oil abstract with moments of exquisite Atelier The Sculpture Studio paint, and ink. detail. Her images entice and delight. 10am-4pm atelierstroud.co.uk thesculpturestudio.co.uk 28TH MARCH – 4TH APRIL WEDS 18TH MAR – TUES 28TH APR Olivia Bouzyk and Tomasz A The Clay Loft Sit Select Kowalski: The Garden Melvyn Warren-Smith theclayloft.co.uk sitselect.org Come and enjoy The Garden! A A highly sought after illustrator for

collection of work new and old, books by Catherine Cookson, Maeve Craft at the Centre Stroud College craftatthecentre.com sgscol.ac.uk gathered together by young artists Binchy, Edwina Curry and many more, Olivia Bouzyk and Tomasz A Kowalski. his works are romantic with an etherial A new show inviting you to come and realism; rich and utterly enthralling. Gloucestershire Printmaking Stroud Valley Artspace rest in the sun of a beautiful spring 10am-4pm reddotpainswick.co.uk Cooperative sva.org.uk garden brimming with prints. Let old gpchq.co.uk inklings fade away whilst you come and WET PAINT GALLERY Studio3stroud enjoy a place without preconceptions. Hawkwood College facebook.com/studio3stroud Enter our conceptual garden and THURS 13TH FEB – SAT 14TH MAR hawkwoodcollege.co.uk contemplate our works as if you were Spring Art Sale Victoria Works Studio in the real garden; exciting your senses victoriaworksstudios.co.uk Wetpaint Gallery, Chalford is holding Imagine Therapeutic Arts with the colours, shapes, and textures. imagine-therapeutic-arts.co.uk a major Art Sale of original artwork, Opening night Sat 28th March 6-9pm. New Brewery Arts Exhibition open Thurs 2nd – Sat 4th limited edition prints, giclee prints, Make It Studios newbreweryarts.org.uk April 10am-3pm photographs and much more with up to 70% off selected artworks and many makeitstudios.com sva.org.uk more works greatly discounted. Don’t Prema Arts Centre miss out on this fantastic opportunity Pegasus Art prema.org.uk and visit the gallery to view and buy. pegasusart.co.uk Weds-Sat 10:30am – 4:30pm #60 | Mar 2020 LITERATURE 21

HANNAH PERSAUD By Caroline Sanderson

Hard evidence that Stroud is now the short story capital of the world comes from local novelist Hannah Persaud. I discover that she once came runner-up in a national short story competition to a guy called John Holland, famous in these parts for being the doyen of Stroud Short Stories. “It was amazing: there were around 800-900 entries, all judged Ironically Hannah rejected publishing Codes of Love” is an accomplished anonymously; and John won, and I as a career, believing it to be too debut about the complexities of human competitive and cut-throat; but relationships. It’s also a shining example came second”, Hannah tells me over now finds herself in the even more of the catalyst that short stories – while competitive business of being a a worthy genre in their own right - can morning coffee. published author (she also works provide for aspiring novelists in need part-time as a fund-raiser in the charity of both practice and resilience. “I think sector). She moved to Stroud with her short story writing is a really good way Not to be outdone, Hannah went on to overhear, but for me it always starts husband and two now teenage children to practise the craft of writing”, reflects win several short story competitions with a place and only then do I insert in 2009, having come know the area Hannah. “And the process of entering in her own right. Now her debut novel, the characters”. Hannah is currently because her formerly restless parents competitions is also a good grounding, “The Codes of Love” is being published at work on her second novel, inspired decided to retire here. both because of the feedback you get, by classy independent, Muswell Press. by the atmospheric location of The and because of the rejections. When Set both in London and rural Wales, Convent in Woodchester. The second essential component of a I started writing and I wasn’t getting it’s a portrait of the ‘seem-to-have- Hannah Persaud novel is her preference The genesis for this location, location, anywhere in competitions, I used to it-all’ marriage of Ryan and Emily. for playing with point of view and time take it really badly, doubting myself Behind the happy headlines however, location approach lies perhaps frame. “The Codes of Love” alternates in Hannah’s unusually peripatetic and thinking: I’m never going to write trouble is brewing in the shape of the in the telling between Emily and Ryan, anything again”. But reader, she did. free-spirited Ada who represents the upbringing. Born in Yorkshire the eldest and also plays fast and loose with freedom Emily has been striving for, of three siblings, she lived in Devon the sequence of events. The effect “The Codes of Love” by Hannah and the escape from convention that until her “restless” teacher parents is to keep the reader planted up on Persaud is published on 5th March by Ryan didn’t know he wanted. The novel announced they were moving to their toes, a quality I personally find Muswell Press (muswell-press.co.uk) is hugely impressive: I’ve rarely read a Nepal. “I was 11 and had never been invigorating in any novel. “I wanted to Hannah will be more charged account of contemporary on a plane before. And then suddenly tell Emily and Ryan’s story from both appearing at human relationships. we were moving to Kathmandu. I their perspectives but I didn’t want to remember driving out of the airport just repeat the same scenes which is Tetbury Book Appropriately given Hannah’s short along a road lined with cows and dogs, why the novel is structured as it is. I Festival on story pedigree, the origins of “The and thinking: where IS this place? It was really love books and TV dramas that Sunday 3rd Codes of Love” lie a prize-winning such a culture shock”. Hannah lived play with time sequence; and which try May, and at story she wrote entitled “Cyfannedd in Nepal until she was 16, attending a and give you a more rounded picture of Chalfest on Fach”. This then became the name of Christian missionary school (“that was how the plot evolves from the point of Saturday 18th the Welsh cottage where Ryan and Ada an interesting experience as I’m not view of different characters”. July. For further hole up to conduct their affair, and is religious at all”) and then went to an news and based on a real location. “It’s a place I American Christian boarding school in And finally, a Hannah Persaud novel updates visit went to with my family in the middle of Uttar Pradesh in India to study for her A will always include an element of noir: the Welsh mountains. It’s totally remote levels. “It was so remote: an 8 hour bus I confess that there were times when hannahpersaud.com and I completely love it. I started writing ride from Delhi up into the mountains. I got quite spooked by “The Codes of the story there and finished it when I My mum dropped me off and left me Love”, particularly when reading the Caroline Sanderson is the Associate got home”. standing on the side of a mountain”. chapters set in Wales. “I really love Editor of the Bookseller, the editor of After five months however, the school darkness”, confirms its author. “The A strong sense of place is one of the the Authors Licensing and Collecting stopped teaching the courses Hannah Codes of Love could easily have been essential components of a Hannah Society’s monthly magazine the ALCS wanted to study and she eventually darker still: I would really love to write a Persaud novel. Setting, she says, is News and the Programme Director of completed her 6th form education at a super dark novel one day”. hugely important to everything she the Stroud Book Festival. She is also state school in Oxfordshire before going writes. “Other writers get inspiration Those who prefer an uplifting read the author of five published non-fiction to Oxford Brookes University to study from a character or something they shouldn’t let this put them off. “The books. @CaroSanderson English and Publishing. 22 LITERATURE/SPOKEN WORD/COMEDY LISTINGS #60 | Mar 2020

and focuses on the chosen subject details) from all over the world ...Some LITERATURE/ which can be a single character or old, some new and all enthralling SPOKEN WORD series of characters to create the facebook.com/silverroomscafe tales, fabulous fables or elaborate finished work. Andre Christie brings lies..10:30am £4/£5/£12family LISTINGS together this form of brushwork ST LAURENCE CHURCH HALL drawn from his experience in China- rmt.org ALE HOUSE Japan and the UK. 10am-12:30pm THURS 19TH £20 (incl. materials) PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY Stroud Local History Society Talk: MON 9TH The Ricardos of Minchinhampton by lansdownhall.org TUES 24TH Piranha Poetry: Sharon Larkin, Di Wall No Rhyme No Reason Jonathan Robert Muirhead THE MUSEUM IN THE PARK Ricardo Road in Minchinhampton Sharon Larkin: Sharon organizes was named for the Ricardo family Join words together in jaunty who lived at Gatcombe Park and Poetry Café Refreshed in THURS 5TH ways, find humour in the most Cheltenham, is Gloucestershire’s bought the Manor Lordship. The surprising of syntactical locations Thursday Afternoon Talk: Joanna Stanza Representative and runs first Ricardo owner was David, an in this wonderful energetic wordy Callaghan and Jennifer Gilbert Eithon Bridge Publications. Jonathan influential economist and politician workshop of poetry like never Robert Muirhead: A Scottish Poet Joanna Callaghan and Jennifer whose son David was elected as before! Sarah Erskine will show you Stroud's MP in 1832. They owned SECRET ARTIST 2020 who lives in Swindon. His style can Gilbert: Conservation and Creativity how to loosen up, silence the inner veer from scary to sad, from furious in the Cotswolds. 2-3:30pm £5 Minchinhampton Common and the critic and create playful poetry. 7pm to funny and from scathing to sweet. Market House, founded churches £18/£17concs/£16friends/£15concs Hosted by Gary Death. 7:30pm Free THURS 12TH and schools and three brothers went Thursday Afternoon Talk: Juliet to war. Doors open and introductory prema.org.uk As part of Stroud School of Art’s Shipman slide-show from 7pm, talk 7:30pm THE EXCHANGE Non-members always welcome - Juliet Shipman introduces a COMEDY £3.50 on the door 160th year celebration, we would WEDS 18TH screening of ‘Working for Victory’, LISTINGS living memories of Stroud District stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk Stroud Radical Reading Group: Fat during WW2. 2- 3:30pm £5 Activism THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE like to engage local and national What’s Fat Activism? By Charlotte THURS 19TH STAR ANISE Cooper as part of the SRRG 2020 Thursday Afternoon Talk: Steve THURS 19TH series on “Praxis: Activism, Social FRI 13TH creatives to contribute towards our Marshfield Probably the Best Comedy Night in Movements and Revolution”. SRRG Coffee House Meeting: Regenerative the World! will explore what we can learn from Steve Marshfield: Caught on Camera…Stroud Buildings Before Agriculture with Kees Frederiks of the history of fat activism, as well as Stroud Micro Dairy The Crown and Sceptre’s monthly ‘Secret Artist’ charity opportunity. Renovation. 2-3:30pm £5 showcase of up and coming comedy touching on how we can unpick the The Climate and Ecological ways we’ve been shaped by harmful, talent with Nigel Lovell headlining THURS 26TH Emergency requires radical moralising discourses around food and the inimitable Gavin Pond as We need you! Thursday Afternoon Talk: Dr. Stephen ideas and change, perhaps most MC…8pm Free and weight that surround us. 7:30pm importantly in the way we farm Free L’Normand for both food production and land crownandsceptrestroud.com The work you create will be exhibited Dr. Stephen L’Normand BA MA management. "We believe that we stroudradicalreading.wordpress. Th.D: A Brief History of the Guild of com farm better when we work with STROUD BREWERY Stonemasons and Their Presence in nature. We take a regenerative the South West. 2-3:30pm £5 alongside others at the Museum in approach to farming, which means THURS 26TH HAWKWOOD COLLEGE we promote plant and soil health THURS 26TH through biodiversity and the balance CrazyBird Comedy Club: Scott the Park, Stroud and then bought TUES 3RD – SAT 28TH Poetry at the Museum: Mark Huband, of natural systems." Come along Bennett, Matt Bragg, Kevin Daniel Kickstart Your Novel: From Idea to Duana Humphrey and Jacqui Stearn and join the discussion. 7:30pm Free and MC Geoff Whiting Page in Eight Weeks with Tessa Harris The March reading will focus on (donations welcome) The CrazyBird Comedy Club returns anonymously by members of the the work of three Stroud poets. to the Stroud Brewery ft. headliner Aimed at eager beginners, this staranisecafe.co.uk What would you need to do? evening course will cover all the Mark Huband’s new pamphlet is a Scott Bennet -"a Yorkshire live wire basic aspects of novel writing, series of short, polished reflections with an undeniable no nonsense public, for a set fee to raise money. including researching, creating great on his experience as the Labour WYCLIFFE COLLEGE logic" and support from Matt Bragg, • Simply fill the front side of a postcard with characters and editing, to possibly Party candidate in the 2019 General Kevin Daniel, Julia Stenton and MC seeing your work in print. Classes Election. The poems were written THURS 12TH Geoff Whiting. 7pm £12.50 from something creative. No brief, just do you! Trading Post or crazybirdcomedy@ will meet on Tuesday evenings for as the campaign progressed and Simon Armitage were polished and revised following gmail.com (This is a regular sell out Proceeds raised will support our eight weeks. Tessa Harris is the Simon Armitage will be at Wycliffe’s • Sign the back of the card in the spot author of nine published historical the result. They are honest, angry event so please get your tickets early and personal, and they offer a Sibly Hall for an evening of to make sure you don't miss out!) crime novels, covering the 18th and poetry, reading for an hour from underprivileged students, to enable them to 19th centuries. She holds and MA in true insight to the experience and provided to the workings of democracy his extensive body of poetry and stroudbrewery.co.uk History from Oxford University and conduct a Q&A with the audience. travel with us on our future study trips, under a qualification in teaching creative in practice. Diana Humphrey’s • Return the postcard to us using the return poetry is a little lighter, dealing with Yellow Light Bookshop will be SVA writing to adults. She delivers talks present should you wish to purchase to libraries, literary festivals and good humour and insight with the the name of ‘The Colwell Fund’. experience of life in Stroud. Jacqui a book and obtain a personal SAT 7TH envelope provided. historical venues. She is also a dedication. Armitage is the UK Poet journalist, a former magazine editor, Stearn’s poetry explores the spiritual Mr Fluffypunk's Penny Gaff With Rob dimension to our engagement with Laureate and was elected Oxford • Deadline May 5th. a playwright and a screenwriter. Professor of Poetry (2015-2019). Auton 7:30pm £100 the countryside, with landscape and with the wild. All the new pamphlets His numerous accolades include The Penny Gaff is back! After too This fund is in memory of our ex-student, long off, they are getting back on THURS 12TH will be available for sale. Everyone the 2018 Queen’s Gold Medal for is welcome, especially those who Poetry and an Ivor Novello Award for their feet. And what better way to The Poetics of Architecture Alex Colwell, who we sadly lost in 2019. We would like to discuss their inclusion song-writing in the BAFTA-winning move from dormancy back into the Below is the email address with which to This one-day workshop will in forthcoming Stroud Poets film, Feltham Sings. His poetry glorious vortex that is being, than encourage you to deepen your pamphlets. 7:30pm Free has been part of GCSE and A level with the annual visit of their old want to commemorate his time spent with us awareness of the poetic aspects of studies in this country for nearly two friend Rob Auton, with The Time register your interest and to organise the spatial design, allowing you to begin museuminthepark.org.uk decades now. Armitage also writes Show. ‘The Time Show’ is a comedy/ and his appreciation of travel, freedom and to see your surroundings in a new extensively for theatre, television and theatre/spoken word show about sending of the postcard through the mail. light and introduce you to a critical SILVER ROOMS CAFÉ radio, and is the author of two novels time. It is suitable for people who understanding of the way we inhabit and the non-fiction bestsellers All know of time. Following on from exploration. By being a part of this, you will be Points North, Walking Home and his shows about the colour yellow, architectural space. 9:30am-5pm SUN 1ST £95 Walking Away. He was appointed the sky, faces, water, sleep, hair making a difference to young people’s lives. An Afternoon of Rick Vick’s Poetry Professor of Poetry at Leeds and talking, award winning writer We look forward to hearing from you. hawkwoodcollege.co.uk A celebration in Rick’s words. Come University in 2017. 7:30pm £5 and performer Rob Auton turns along to the Silver Rooms Cafe his attention to time. The second- LANSDOWN HALL (nee Black Book) Nelson St, for an wycliffe.co.uk/armitage best-reviewed show in the whole afternoon reading of the works of of the Edinburgh Festival 2019!! Email: [email protected] SUN 22ND Rick Vick. If you loved him, liked RUSKIN MILL NAILSWORTH Bristol- based Malaika Kegode, poet, promoter, spoken word artist Zen Brush Work with Andre Christie him, didn’t know the bloke, now’s Phone: 01453 761117 the chance to hear his voice. Listen, SAT 21ST and ukelele - wielder will also be Zen Brush work is a combination of performing. 7:30pm £8.50-£12 read, drink tea and eat cake. This Stories for All with Fiona Eadie meditation light tia chi type exercise is what friendship and Sunday’s (Goods Shed) Insta: @stroud_school_of_art and calligraphy. The brushwork itself are for. 2-4pm Free (contact Eley Come and join Fiona round the is practised on the floor in large scale on [email protected] for further fire and enjoy listening to stories sva.org.uk FB: facebook.com/160StroudSchoolofArt SECRET ARTIST 2020 As part of Stroud School of Art’s 160th year celebration, we would like to engage local and national creatives to contribute towards our ‘Secret Artist’ charity opportunity. We need you! The work you create will be exhibited alongside others at the Museum in the Park, Stroud and then bought anonymously by members of the What would you need to do? public, for a set fee to raise money. • Simply fill the front side of a postcard with something creative. No brief, just do you! Proceeds raised will support our • Sign the back of the card in the spot underprivileged students, to enable them to provided travel with us on our future study trips, under • Return the postcard to us using the return the name of ‘The Colwell Fund’. envelope provided. • Deadline May 5th. This fund is in memory of our ex-student, Alex Colwell, who we sadly lost in 2019. We Below is the email address with which to want to commemorate his time spent with us register your interest and to organise the and his appreciation of travel, freedom and sending of the postcard through the mail. exploration. By being a part of this, you will be making a difference to young people’s lives. We look forward to hearing from you.

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