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STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL

TO STROUD, WITH COMPLETE AND UTTER, UNASHAMED LOVE.

BY SARAH PHAEDRE WATSON Image by: James Kriszyk Image by:

I LOVE BOOKS, PAPERBACK, HARDBACK, festival! But it’s the 40 or so other authors, about how excited they are to be performing world’s most important characters. I felt a bit Ross, U2, Kathryn Jenkins, Sir John Dankworth And standing back I see just how important this DIGITAL, MY HOUSE (AND HARD-DRIVE) ARE writers, storytellers and illustrators who provide at our book festival are entirely, ashamedly true. overwhelmed. and Sir Paul McCartney. He’s composing is; in an economic and political climate where a staggering depth of experience, background, something just for us. public arts funding and education budgets are FULL OF THEM, BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT WHEN style and subject matter. Those are the Sitting and working through task lists (I do love A couple of weeks ago you’ll be shocked to being slashed to non-existent levels we have a I HEARD THAT STROUD WOULD BE ADDING participants which have really captured our a good task list) in one of the millions of cafes hear that I was in one of Stroud’s many pubs Or what about when I walked into the George task as a community to keep arts alive, to ensure ANOTHER FESTIVAL TO THE ALREADY PRETTY imagination and have inspired people to bulk we have around town we are briefly joined by (so unlike me) when I bumped into Dave Ayre, Room and met the illustrators who are showing that our children have the well documented FULL CALENDAR OF FESTIVALS THAT WE buy tickets at a quite astounding rate. Dennis Gould. Dennis has been producing and he was carrying a stack of manuscripts and their work at the exhibition that will be taking benefits of being surrounded by a thriving distributing posters that he’s set and printed enthusiastically told me about the day he’d place in the Subscription Rooms for the duration ALREADY HAVE IN THIS CRAZY LITTLE TOWN, creative community. And Stroud has, yet again, In a world of marketing bravado, one which I am for the festival and stops to discuss one of spent with Dennis Gould preparing for his other of the book festival, to be told they are throwing succeeded in doing just that. EVEN I WASN’T SO SURE. BUT WHEN I HEARD of course right in the centre of blowing my hot his appearances; his reading of Lawrence event “The Revolutionary Shelley”. I knew Dave the rule book away. They want to show the JAMILA GAVIN’S VISION FOR THIS FESTIVAL, air for all to hear, I relished uttering the following Ferlinghetti. For those of you who don’t know Ayre would be appearing with Dennis (as he process that they go through, how they produce Thank you Jamila, Cindy and Rick, thank you WHICH IS BOTH CREATIVE AND AMBITIOUS words: “People are buying tickets because they Ferlinghetti (*cough* I might not have been too will for his Ferlinghetti performance) but I had their work, what it entails, they want to share to all of our authors and illustrators, and the (TWO OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS), ANY want to come, we don’t need to push this, we familiar myself prior to this if I’m honest) he is a no idea he was composing an original piece to and inspire. If I hadn’t been so impressed to be community that is so wholeheartedly embracing just need to make sure that everyone enjoys the , playwright, publisher, painter and activist accompany Dennis on the evening. That’s Dave in a room with such extraordinary talent, who and supporting this festival. I am so bloody RESERVATIONS THAT I MIGHT HAVE HAD WERE festival”. Jamila et al have put me out of a job. - he helped to spark the San Francisco literary Ayre, winner of the Colchester Institute String are revered as gods in our house, I might have Proud to be Stroud. IMMEDIATELY DISMISSED. renaissance of the 1950s and the subsequent Prize, and the Royal College of Music Geoffrey been able to tell them how impressed I was, how I’m so delighted to see the town so abuzz “Beat” movement. He “writes truly memorable Tankard Recital Prize. Dave Ayre who has been excited I am about their show. I think I just about Events at the Stroud Book Festival takes place at Jamila recognised that our creative five valleys with excitement, every time I walk into a shop, poetry, poems that lodge themselves in the Principal in the Thames Chamber Orchestra and managed to nod and smile and not say anything the Subscription Rooms, the Museum in the Park are crammed full of some of this country’s finest cafe or yes, more usually a pub, there is one consciousness of the reader and generate the Mid Wales Opera Company for many years too stupid. and Stroud Library from Friday 11th to Sunday authors. Prize-winning authors from every genre, or more of the authors there (I swear they’re awareness and change. And his writing sings, and is Guest Principal for the Festival 17th November. Visit stroudartsfestival.org and writers who command audiences of thousands multiplying), planning their talk, sharing with the sad and comic music of the streets.” Orchestra. Who works BBC National Orchestra Every single event has an equally engaging and pick up a free programme (available now!) for at other literature festivals, right here, on our exciting developments and spreading a deeply of Wales, Welsh National Opera, the Hallé and fascinating story; from Hassan Akkad a Syrian full line-up and ticket details. door-step - so why on earth wouldn’t we want contagious love of literature. Ferlinghetti and Dennis have been friends, Manchester Camerata. Who records for the film refugee whose storytelling has highlighted the to celebrate that? and have corresponded with one another for industry (he told me some of the films but by plight of so many and has been adopted as an I’m going to share some of those meetings and over 5 decades; every year on Ferlinghetti’s honorary Stroudie, to Alice Jolly whose raw and then I was a little tipsy so I can’t remember any, No one knows what Sarah Phaedre Watson really The programme that Jamila, along with Cindy conversations with you because it will show birthday Dennis sets and prints one of his honest memoir of still-births and miscarriages sorry) and has worked with a number of well- does, she spends time gallivanting off to Africa Jefferies and Rick Vick with the support of the just how extraordinary this festival is, but also poems and sends it to him. The same man who had me openly weeping on a recent flight. known artists including , Rufus to make films, writing for various publications, Stroud Festival committee, has meticulously because I’m remarkably indiscreet. Rumours that is so passionately and vocally supporting our Every single one has been perfectly curated Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, The Pet Shop Boys, or passionately supporting community arts and put together is one which any large town or I may have excitedly encouraged people to rush town, our festival, and printing our posters has and programmed; when asked recently what city would be proud of; heavy-weights such onto Twitter and eavesdrop on a conversation Jarvis Cocker, Grace Jones, Robbie Williams, events. She certainly gets about a bit this special relationship with one of the literary Sheena Easton, Lesley Garrett, Madonna, Diana talks I recommended I honestly answered “every as Ian McEwan and Jilly Cooper headline the that a few of our illustrious authors were having single one”. 6 LITERATURE SPECIAL - MICHAEL HOROVITZ #20 | NOV 2016 #20 | NOV 2016 LITERATURE SPECIAL - JAMILA GAVIN 7

MICHAEL JAMILA HOROVITZ GAVIN

BY AMY FLEMING BY ANNA BAILEY

NOT FAR FROM STROUD, A FEW MILES BEYOND I MISSED THE TURN OFF TO JAMILA GAVIN’S ROAD SLAD, IS A RELATIVELY REMOTE NOOK, KNOWN AND ENDED UP DRIVING ALL THE WAY INTO SLAD. AS THE SCRUBS. ONE GUY FAWKES’ NIGHT IN I FEEL THAT IS WORTH MENTIONING, BECAUSE ON THE LATE 1970S, THE GROUND THICK WITH MY WAY TO SEE ONE BRILLIANT STROUD WRITER, SODDEN LEAVES, FIVE BARDS STOOD HERE IN I ENDED UP IN LAURIE LEE COUNTRY, AND WAS THE DARK, HUDDLED AROUND THE BACK END REMINDED JUST WHAT A RICH AND TALENT-FILLED OF THEIR HIRED VAN. PLACE THE STROUD VALLEYS ARE.

Tom Pickard, and Peter Orlovsky of a purist,” whereas he was “very much a jazz on the part of political bleeders such as Bush, Sitting at last with Jamila in her cosy living “That reminds me,” she says, “Ian McEwan’s event obviously aren’t going to sell as widely, but they were due at a poetry reading in town, but had poet and performance poet. We were creative Clinton, Blair, Putin and Trump, sucking up to room––an absolute book-lovers paradise, her is called ‘The Bigg Read’ in tribute to Netlam Bigg will be used to great effect within the classroom, got stuck in the steep valley where their hosts - counterweights to each other.” She died of corporations and plutocrats, and telling everyone bookshelves crowded with lovely leather-bound and his wife, the more astute of you may have or areas where they’re really trying to make a fellow poets Frances and Michael Horovitz - lived. cancer in 1983. “We had so much joy and then so they’ve got to compete like mad to get to the editions of fairy tales and childhood classics––I spotted this already!” It’s clear that the festival is a difference.” Orlovsky was Ginsberg’s long-term partner, often much misery and despair, missing her,” he says. top of the pile – which ignores everybody except ask her what she thinks makes Stroud such a labour of love, and with all the local talent Stroud referred to as “Ginsberg’s wife, or husband,” recalls those at the top of the pyramid, which of course special place for writers: “I don’t know without has to offer, I’m certain it will represent Netlam And although her young life was largely Phase two, in the cottage, saw Horovitz, “trying Michael Horovitz. “A solid, heavyweight chap,” he crushes the majority.” A sad state of affairs, but going to other areas and seeing if they have Bigg’s vision for the community too. dominated by a love of music, that passion for continues, “which came in handy when we had to be a good dad and make up for Fran’s absence on the other hand, he says, “it seems to me that a similar build up. What I find is that people storytelling was present early on: “When I was trouble getting the van to go up the hill again”. and get Adam through GSCEs and A levels.” In , Diane Abbott and Caroline Lucas become very loyal to their areas. Of course, But I’m not just here to talk about the festival. in India, I must have been about 10, I wrote a spite of their loss, they managed to have quite and other such idealists keep the faith, and many someone like Laurie Lee was probably the most Jamila Gavin, perhaps most famous for her novel play. I can’t remember what it was called; I can Horovitz had started publishing works by Beat a good time, he recalls, discussing books, going poets and artists worldwide are concerned with influential voice that came out of the Stroud Coram Boy, which won the Whitbread Prize in only remember a line that was challenged by poets, also including Jack Kerouac, William for walks and “playing hand tennis across the dry continuing the resistance movement against Valleys, but whether his presence here made 2000, is a prolific children’s writer, and that love one of the children, because the wife says to Boroughs and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, after stone wall.” these monstrous extremes of homo rapiens.” other writers say ‘Oh I’m going to come to Stroud of story-telling always comes from somewhere the husband: ‘And don’t go losing your temper, launching the periodical New Departures in 1959 exciting. As a child in India, her mother read otherwise we may not be able to find it!’ And this Horovitz lives in London, now, but he will return as well’ I kind of doubt it. I’m not sure I would go - his final year as a literature student at Oxford. At his upcoming Stroud performance, Horovitz her Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo, but her child was completely perplexed. ‘What do you to perform in November at the Stroud Book outside where I feel belong, just because Laurie During the 1970s, he toured the US often, where will read from his 1986 poem, Midsummer favourite books, and the books that she feels mean by that?’ ‘Well you know, they’ve lost their Festival. “There were always a lot of artists and Lee was there. I would go because that area he and Ginsberg used to sing William Blake poems Morning Jog Log. “It’s ostensibly a memoir of most influenced her, were the children’s classics. temper, they’ve got to go look for it.’ But they poets around Stroud, as there still are,” he says. spoke to me.” together. Horovitz has also been a driving force jogging round the valley,” he says. All 679 lines of “Treasure Island,” she says. “I adored it, hugely didn’t understand. That’s all I remember about “We did a lot of gigs that drew big audiences behind for over 50 years, it were published in a hand-printed booklet, with The area obviously speaks to a lot of people, influential. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson that play!” around here, so I’m hoping this book festival from his role in helping to gather an audience of delicate nature drawings by Peter Blake and a which is, in part, what makes it possible to have a Burnett, and The Secret Garden. I loved Heidi will do the same.” He and Frances, he says, 8000 to the in 1965 (Ginsberg posthumous dedication at the front to Frances. Stroud Book Festival this year. Jamila talks about too, and What Heidi Did Next. Those were the As well as being such a funny and inspiring “pioneered literary festivals and particularly headlined), to over 35 years of Poetry Olympics how she wanted to approach the setting up of books I read over and over again, and scribbled woman, Jamila was also incredibly welcoming, sundry overlaps between different art media.” events, up and down the country. Notable Horovitz will perform, as he often does now, with the festival with respect for the local writers. in. And lost! And tried to replace. But when I talking to me like a fellow writer, and asking me However, he is distressed that most “so-called art Olympians include John Hegley, John Cooper his partner of the last four years, the singer- “Respect––and real pleasure to acknowledge started writing in the late seventies I found myself as many questions about myself as I asked her. and literature festivals” these days, seem mainly Clarke, Benjamin Zephaniah and Damon Albarn. -guitarist Vanessa Vie. “She grew up them all,” she says. “We wanted to keep the local part of a whole movement of people who had a It’s this support for writers, at whatever stage in to be concerned with booking best-selling stars, in Northern Spain,” he says, “but she’s been in voice. If we’ve got some international writers real desire to make children’s books relevant to their career that makes her such a brilliant choice Musical collaborations have been many, including and making money, rendering them “pretty the last 15 years. We are doing a lot like Ian McEwan that’s fine, but essentially we children today. There was the feminist movement, to head up the Stroud Book Festival. “It’s a big a recording in 2013 of his poem Ballade of the predictable and often downright boring.” together as a duo.” A CD is in the works. “We’ll did want to celebrate that it was a Stroud area there was the multicultural effect of migration learning process. I won’t call it a curve because Nocturnal Commune, accompanied by Albarn, be performing our settings of some Blake songs, for me it’s very much a trajectory. But there’s That’s not to say that some of the stars aren’t festival, and should there be further festivals in into this country after the Commonwealth, and and , which sold out including ones where we get audiences to join in. such friendliness and cooperation in Stroud, authentic, but the scene has become too the future we still want to keep to that brief.” I’m very much a part of that generation of people on Record Store Day that year. The ballade was a Blake’s Laughing Song, for instance, which has everyone’s so willing to help.” And perhaps that commercial. “My whole stance on society and art coming and being part of the multicultural Britain rural rhapsody he had written many years before, refrains where everyone chants Ha Ha Hee, to When talking about setting up the festival, answers my original question––perhaps this is very much with William Blake,” says Horovitz. that was growing up. So I was writing from at the family cottage in The Scrubs. lighten things up.” though, she says she can’t take all the credit sense of community, which so inspired Netlam “Ignore commerce and hype and corruption, and my point of view, but actually lots of children’s for it. “I was asked to join the Stroud Festival Bigg, is what makes Stroud such an extraordinary The Horovitzes moved to, what Michael describes instead stick to what we know matters, which is Michael will be appearing with Vanessa Vie at publishers were encouraging their writers to committee, which I was really pleased to do. At place for writers. as their “wild offshoot of the Slad valley,” when reflect multiculturalism and sexism. It was a really doing the best work we can and moving society the Subscription Rooms on 19th Nov my first meeting I learned that the Stroud Festival their son Adam (who still lives and writes in exciting movement that I found myself in, for the away from greed, bad behaviour, intolerance for an evening of music, songpoems and other was about to celebrate its 70th year. So I did Jamila is the director of this year’s Stroud Stroud, and whose exclusive new poem for next 20 years really.” and violence. As Blake put it, ‘where any view of wordsounds. Visit stroudartsfestival.org for some homework and found out about this man, Book Festival and will also be appearing at the Good On Paper appears on p13) was a baby. The money exists, art cannot be carried on.’ tickets and further info. Netlam Bigg, and his wife Margaret. Not only Now though, she says, the commercialisation Subscription Rooms at 6pm on Saturday 12th and cottage was an idyllic antidote to the congestion were they devoted to their community––like he of children’s fiction is changing the landscape. the Museum in the Park on Thursday 17th at 4pm. of London, with stunning views. “On a clear day,” 2007 saw the publication of a 500-page book was behind the scouting movement, the hospital, “Whereas before the publishers wouldn’t expect he says, “the postman used to say, ‘I can see by Horovitz, called A New Wasteland: Timeship Amy Fleming was a writer and editor at the things like that––they were both passionate to publish more than a few thousand, now them having breakfast in Slad today’.” The first Earth at Nillennium (the title, a reference to T Guardian for 12 years, and now writes from home lovers of the arts, and they set up this Netlam they’re expected to publish millions. Therefore, Anna Bailey studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa decade of living there, he says, was “Frances’ S Eliot’s The Waste Land), bemoaning, he says, in Stroud, also contributing to Intelligent Life, Bigg Trust.” they’re more responsive to market forces, rather University, and now works as a freelance journalist happiest, but more or less her last decade.” When “ruthless mega-marketing, the degradation Vogue, the FT and the Telegraph than the social forces saying we need more and illustrator. She lives in the Cotswolds with her it came to poetry, he says Frances was “kind of arms manufacture, trading and wielding books about disability, colour or gender. Which husband and their ludicrously spoilt cat. 8 LITERATURE SPECIAL - KATIE FFORDE #20 | NOV 2016 #20 | NOV 2016 LITERATURE SPECIAL - RACHEL JOYCE 9

KATIE RACHEL FFORDE JOYCE

BY NIKKI OWEN BY LEAH GRANT

I WAS NERVOUS ABOUT INTERVIEWING RACHEL JOYCE, THERE AREN’T MANY TIMES IN LIFE I WON’T LIE. THOUGH I JUMPED AT THE CHANCE WHEN YOU CAN SAY THAT YOU’VE MET INITIALLY (WHAT ASPIRING WRITER WOULDN’T?), WHEN I SOMEONE TRULY LOVELY. STEP FORWARD EVENTUALLY STARTED TO PLAN OUR INTERVIEW I FOUND AUTHOR KATIE FFORDE. MYSELF AGONISING OVER THE QUESTIONS I WOULD ASK, THE WAY I WOULD PRESENT MYSELF OVER THE PHONE. TO DISCUSS WRITING WITH A MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE, AN INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND AN AWARD-WINNING WRITER OF NUMEROUS RADIO PLAYS…IT ALL SUDDENLY SEEMED SO INTIMIDATING AND I COULDN’T HELP BUT FEEL HOPELESSLY ILL-EQUIPPED.

Fess up time: I know Katie. I am lucky, over the to snow, and I remember thinking quite clearly It’s a lesson for us all I think, Katie’s wonderful Luckily for me, Rachel is one of those people wasn’t really consciously writing it for my dad, Stroud, that it seems a very obvious place past year to have got to know this amazing that it was such a funny story to tell at a dinner take on life. As I sat and listened to her talk in who chats to you as if you’re an old friend and but I look back and it seems very right that at a to have a festival.” romantic novelist who has continuously topped party, but I didn’t know anyone to tell. And it’s her gentle yet engaging voice, I found myself selflessly imparts her writerly knowledge as if time when I was losing my dad I chose to write a the Sunday Times Bestseller list (last year’s that moment I sort of detached myself and imagining what the world would be like if we all somehow you’re her professional equal. In fact, story about a man trying to save someone…” Rachel is a modest writer, one who, despite novel, A Vintage Wedding – a novel with our thought, right there, how the whole scene would were a little more like Katie, all a little to hear Rachel share her writing advice, and to her success, is more than happy to admit how The Prince Albert pub as inspiration - topped the make a good story. And I think it’s that very more forgiving, more friendly, as well as more learn that even an award-winning author doesn’t Two years after the publication of Harold Fry, difficult the task at hand can be (“I don’t just sit bestsellers list instantly.) moment that was the start of me thinking I could patient and just that wee bit more motivated assume she’s got the job nailed, is a completely Rachel decided to explore the story from a there and it all comes, I have to really work it actually be a writer.” and where we had each other’s backs (Katie humbling (and anxiety-easing) experience: different angle, choosing instead to focus on out…there is a satisfaction for me in eventually So, any excuse for a natter, we meet one day in is a great supporter of fellow authors and “I still read a lot and jot down a sentence the perspective of Queenie Hennessy – Harold’s carving something that you believe in, but for me the Star Anise café for a spot of lunch and when I tried writing Mills and founded the Katie Fford Bursary Award if I think I’ve never thought of that structure former colleague. For Rachel, it was important it takes a very long time and a lot of mistakes…”), we get talking, Katie says that her take on life is, Boon stories, but it just to help aspiring romantic novelists.) before, or a word. Never think that you know that this new book was not considered a sequel and yet she is clearly passionate about writing “You get what you give.” Now, some may regard wasn’t working and it was how to do it.” to Harold’s story, but rather a standalone novel, and creativity not just as a career or a hobby, but Katie’s success as pretty lucky. But is it luck? when I got a rejection We finish our lunch and spend a good ten one that could be read independently or at the as a personal (and perhaps even, societal) need, Or is it something more, something we have to, letter that I got my head minutes catching up on family news (I live near Having initially carved a career for herself as same time as its counterpart: “For me, it would and it is this genuine concern and appreciation dare I say, work at? (answer: yes!) “I just think down and got on with it to Katie’s daughter) and author updates an actress, Rachel began writing plays for not be fair if you had to read both, but you could that is truly inspiring: “…one of the things that it’s important to be friendly,” Katie says to me as even more. (Katie’s next book is out in February 2017, plus radio when she became pregnant with her first read one and then not read the other…or even worries me is that we live in a society that seems I start to quiz her about being a writer and the she’s currently writing a novella set for Kindle daughter (“I think what’s great about having read them at the same time…” not to value creativity as much as it was valued effort required. “You have to be nice to everyone this Christmas). And of course, chat finds its acted first is that you have a very strong sense of when I was at school and I fear that if we’re not on the way up, because you never really know Indeed, it’s Katie’s sharp ability to observe as way to the Book Festival in Stroud this month, a kind of structure of storytelling…”) and it was I don’t just sit there and it all allowed to be creative then we’re putting a cork when you’ll find yourself on the way back down.” well as participate in life events that not only (Katie is headlining the ‘Love In The Afternoon’ through her playwriting that Harold Fry, comes, I have to really work in something that is quite dangerous whereas generates endless ideas, but helps create session at the Subscription Rooms on Thursday the eponymous protagonist of her debut novel, it out…there is a satisfaction if you’re allowed to express the darker things It’s this inclusive attitude that sums up this memorable characters, too. But, bottom line, 17th, 3-6pm.) was born. for me in eventually carving and the things that confuse you…that’s all really, remarkable lady - that the people you meet it’s a mixture of talent with sheer hard work that something that you believe in, really positive and for the good.” should be treated with respect. Publishing books makes success really happen. “I started writing We say our goodbyes and I am left with the Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as an but for me it takes a very long now for some twenty years, Katie’s first steps and someone said to me if you keep writing for warm feeling that not only do I have a friend afternoon play, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold time and a lot of mistakes… Rachel will be appearing at the Stroud into the novelist world weren’t quite so straight ten years you’ll make it to getting published.” in Katie, but it reminds me too that being Fry was long-listed for the prestigious Man Book Festival with Alice Jolly and Caroline forward, despite a family writing pedigree that And how long did Katie keep at it for before her friendly is not just a nice thing to do - it’s Booker Prize after it was first published as a Sanderson on Friday 18th November at the includes an author mother, sister and cousin to books went to print? “Eight,” she replies, a smile essential. Because, when the chips are down, novel back in 2012. The story, which follows the Now, with three novels under her belt (Perfect, Subscription Rooms, visit stroudfestival.org name a few. “Well, you see, I used to love Mills on her face, eyes sparkling, freckles sprinkled it’s not just novels that need good characters – journey of a retired brewery worker as he travels, her second book, was published in 2013), and subscriptionrooms.org.uk for further info. and Boon, was obsessed with them – it was on her summer sun complexion. “I tried writing we need them in real life, too. on foot, from his home in Devon to a hospice in and a fourth in the pipeline, Rachel has truly Her book of seven stories for Christmas, A a kind of antidote to stress,” Katie confesses. Mills and Boon stories, but it just wasn’t working Berwick-upon-Tweed, was one that was deeply established herself as a serious novelist, Snow Garden and Other Stories will be out on “Then we moved to Wales and I found myself and it was when I got a rejection letter that I got personal to Rachel, not just because Harold’s one whose opinion on the subject deserves November 3rd in paperback. there with a very young baby. My husband was journey seemed to aptly mirror her own (“I was recognition and respect. For those of us luckily my head down and got on with it even more.” Nikki Owen is an author and writer. away and in the middle of the night, I woke to writing about a man making an unlikely journey enough to live in and around Stroud, this year Some call it determination – Katie calls it pig Her second book in the Project Trilogy – feed the baby and heard rushing water. I went and I was also writing a book which seemed Rachel will join the magnificent array of writers headedness – but either way, what Katie shows is the Killing Files (Harper Collins), is out now. Leah Grant is a writer and photographer with down stairs and saw the kitchen was completely quite an unlikely journey, so I really fed in all my and poets who will be participating in the town’s that if you have enough determination, you can Visit her blog nikkiowen.wordpress.com a keen interest in art and literature. On her flooded. For some reason, I actually knew where emotions about writing into Harold’s walk…”), first ever book festival giving attendees the make things happen. or website nikkiowenauthor.com. Catch her blog, Bellyful of Art, you can find reviews of the stop cock was, and so wellies on, I went but also because, in 2005, Rachel’s father sadly opportunity to hear this bestselling novelist at the Stroud Book Festival on Monday 14th exhibitions, installations, dance performances outside, found it, sorted it – and then it started passed away from cancer: “I think often you find in discussion with Alice Jolly and Caroline and Wednesday 16th and literary events as well as her own lovingly yourself writing a story and it’s fulfilling some Sanderson at their event on Friday 18th created pieces of short fiction artbellyful. little gap or need or whatever it is in yourself. I November: “It has such a creative energy, wordpress.com 10 LITERATURE SPECIAL - HANNAH SHAW #20 | NOV 2016 #20 | NOV 2016 LITTERATURE SPECIAL - HANNAH SHAW 11

HANNAH SHAW

IT’S A VERY BUSY TIME FOR STROUD, AND A WONDERFUL TIME TO BE A STROUD RESIDENT. THIS MONTH SEES THE LAUNCH OF STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL, A NEW VENTURE WHICH WILL SHOWCASE THE PLETHORA OF LITERARY TALENT THE TOWN HAS TO OFFER. ONE OF THOSE WHO WILL BE SHOWCASED IS LOCAL ILLUSTRATOR AND WRITER HANNAH SHAW.

BY KATE MONTGOMERY

I meet Hannah at her home near Stroud just child I would read anything illustrated by winning writer and illustrator she is today. a week after she and her family moved in. Quentin Blake”, Hannah tells me, “so Roald Looking over Hannah’s work, it’s clear that she While she apologises profusely for the mess Dahl was always a favourite of mine. But I loved doesn’t need to worry about competition. From (of which there was none at all, not even a crumb anything featuring animals!” Drawing animals the lovable, quirky characters she creates to the of breakfast toast on the table), I look over the has long been a staple of Hannah’s work. distinctive style they embody Hannah’s books last five years or so of her work. And what a “I think I prefer drawing animals as it allows are a joy to read for both parents and children catalogue of work. Hannah has drawn for some so much more freedom!” Hannah confides, alike. I, for one, cannot wait to see The Scruffs of the best known (and best loved) children’s “They can misbehave in ways small children when they arrive in Stroud Book Shop, I’m sure writers of our time, from Dick King-Smith to the can’t. When I illustrated Dick King-Smith’s it’ll become another bedtime favourite for my Children’s Laureate (2011-2013) Julia Donaldson collection about Sophie it was a little more children (and, yes, also for me). it seems that Hannah really is at the top of her of a challenge because Sophie ages from around game. A phrase she laughs at when I say it. 4 years old to around 9, so I had to ensure “No, I don’t think so, but I’ve been very lucky continuity as she aged through the series. to have been asked to draw for some of my You don’t get that so much with the animals favourite writers.” Not that Hannah is a one-trick I create as they’re largely age-less.” pony by any means. Her written work includes some of the best loved literary characters around Her latest project involves a collection of lovable today. If you haven’t caught up with Stan Stinky misfit animals aptly called ‘The Scruffs’, a project on his wondrous adventures, you really should. Hannah is really beginning to get her teeth in to when we meet. “Writing and illustrating The key to Hannah’s work is fun. Simple can be a bit of a lonely process, I’m writing exuberance with childhood delights. Who and illustrating by myself at the moment but remembers mud-pies? Nose picking? Believing I really enjoy all my collaborative projects. I try that you could magically communicate with to balance everything with being a mum and your dog (or cat) if you shared enough food/ doing lots of school visits.” Hannah explains. saliva? (Or perhaps it was just me on that one). “I really enjoy working in different mediums and It’s these deliciously gross childhood rites of it’s always such a pleasure to work alongside passage that Hannah is best at depicting for children, be it my own or others. It’s really children today. Delightful anthropormophised inspiring. I get so many letters from children all Hannah’s work will be exhibited from 11th characters which disgust and delight in equal over the world who love my books. It’s really November in the Subscription Rooms along measure. When Hannah shows me some of humbling and wonderful. I reply to all of them.” with Martha Lightfoot, Tom Percival and her graduate work from her degree portfolio Hannah’s style, albeit distinctive, is a mix of pen Rebecca Ashdown. Hannah is also hosting it’s clear to see she has always had a sense of and ink, watercolour, scribbles and doodles two events at The Museum in the Park on 19th playful horror. A piece which documents the which are all over and under laid and finally November and 20th November. See the Stroud humorous dismemberment of rival gangsters digitised. “It’s a rather long process,” Hannah Book Festival website for more information at sticks in my mind as particularly gruesome and explains, “it takes around six months if I work stroudartsfestival.org yet undeniably funny. on it solidly, longer if I have lots of projects. Picture books have changed a lot over the past Hannah’s style is inevitably influenced by some few years, it’s much more competitive now than Kate Montgomery is a writer, artist and blogger. of her literary and illustrative heroes. The Oxford ever before.” based artist Mini Grey and David Roberts who She lives in Stroud with her husband and two illustrated the fabulous ‘Rosie Revere Engineer’ It’s lovely to see Hannah’s work as it’s progressed daughters. She hosts creative writing groups and top the list of artistic favourites that have over time, from the early years at Brighton wastes far too much time instagramming her inspired Hannah’s quirky and rich style. “As a University to the accomplished and award food @clevermonty 12 LITERATURE SPECIAL - GUIDE TO PUBLISHERS AND BOOK SHOPS #20 | NOV 2016 #20 | NOV 2016 LITERATURE SPECIAL - ADAM HOROVITZ 13

Late September, A GUIDE TO STROUD’S Bisley Road INDEPENDENT The sun’s a midweek work-wound, hung on varicose networks of contrails PUBLISHERS AND and stiffened, bloody swabs of cloud. Cars hiss out of town, lose late commuters in the green solitudes of common land. BOOK SHOPS A river wind scoops up remnants of the day, hustles eastward, a trace of rain marbled like seeds on its tidal tongue. Inprint Black Book Café The street’s brick face is briefly iridescent, BY HANNAH TURNER curved like the shell of a basking dragonfly.

All’s still for a moment. Doors, stuttered shut, lose their numbering to the scissor-cut tarmac-swallowed shadows of trees. WITH STROUD FRINGE AND THE STROUD As well as fiction and poetry, Stroud is also home been commissioned to accompany their George THEATRE FESTIVAL STILL FRESH IN OUR MINDS, to a number of history publishers. Who knew Fullard exhibition with a monograph on him, Below the road, a woman sings that this little town actually contains the UK’s produced by acclaimed author and art historian IT IS EASY TO REMEMBER THE MUSICAL in her garden, picks pears for the freezer. largest dedicated history publisher? Michael Bird. AND THEATRICAL TALENT THIS LITTLE TOWN The History Press (thehistorypress.co.uk) has Further away, a window slips open, BOASTS. HOWEVER, SUCH APTITUDE IS NOT four main areas of interest; military, transport, And where would such publishing houses spits out wasp-stung , its precision be without good bookshops to store their ONLY RESTRICTED TO THE PERFORMING ARTS, local and general history, which range from the lost to the valley’s echo chamber. literature? Be it old or new, Stroud is not shy AS STROUD IS ALSO HOME TO A NUMBER OF Tudors to the Cold War. In an attempt to abolish the stigma of history as just facts and time-lines, of providing a few of them too. Nothing quite The town trades ambers with a Rothko painting, SUCCESSFUL AND IMAGINATIVE PUBLISHING their books provide a fresh way of enjoying beats the crispness of new pages, of which you slips into attentive hunger as the pub HOUSES. WITH LITERARY PREDECESSORS history. Excitingly, one of their historical novels, can find plenty inStroud Bookshop and the SUCH AS LAURIE LEE, THESE INDEPENDENT ‘Victoria and Abdel’, is even going to be made Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (yellow- calls at every third door like a friendly beggar, ESTABLISHMENTS CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE into a film starring Dame Judi Dench next year. lightedbookshop.co.uk) in Nailsworth. From its laughter brisk as the rattle of change the latest Man Booker nominees to colourful in work-stained trouser pockets. TOWN WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF INTERESTING Amberley Publishing (amberley-books.com) also aims to broaden the appeal of history and children’s books, and enticing travel guides to POETRY AND PROSE. Where are you headed? someone calls. have an impressive catalogue of over 2,000 titles mouth-watering cook books, these bookshop’s R&R Books Into the small mouth of the town, erratic ranging from general history to niche specialist neatly stacked shelves are packed with fresh Following in Lee’s footsteps, Yew Tree Press interests. They are home to the popular ‘Through pages aching to be turned. Often you can (yewtreepress.co.uk) specialises in local poetry. through the cooling lanes, to the places Time’ series; a collection of books that each find in-store appearances from local authors Initially set up to publish his own work, Philip where women gather, where it is easier to believe focus on the local history of individual towns and signing their latest releases. Stroud also offers Rush now produces pamphlets and anthologies in the warm contingencies of spring. villages throughout the UK. hundreds of well-thumbed titles in R & R Books exhibiting home-grown poetical talent. Seeing (randrusedbooks.co.uk), who also have a regular his pamphlets sell best at readings, he also In addition to history, there are also a number of stall at the Shambles Market, for those hunting promotes evenings of poetry at the Star publishers that produce many different works for a bargain. Additionally, Inprint’s (inprint. Adam Horovitz Anise Arts Café and the Museum in the Park. of non-fiction.Hawthorn Press (hawthornpress. co.uk) stylish bookshop provides a mecca for Similarly, Little Island Press (littleislandpress. com) focus on holistic parenting, crafts, out-of-print literature, specialising mainly in facebook.com/littlemetropolisalbum co.uk) pride themselves on producing high- storytelling and early education, to name but a cinema. The shop’s small interior is full to the @LittleMetro brow poetry and fiction by discovering new few. Both local and international authors work brim of interesting out-of-print books and authors, as well as reviving the forgotten. towards the company’s ethos of using literature magazines, giving it its film-like atmosphere. Currently their best-selling collection is written to support a creative and sustainable world. After visiting one of these shops, the perfect by the fascinating William Plomer; poet, black Excitingly, as part of Stroud Book Festival Jamila place to start your new literary adventure is rights activist and editor for many of the Bond Gavin will be running Storytellling Schools for Black Book Café (blackbookcafe.com). Its novels. Although small, this establishment has children to learn how to tell stories to help prove smooth coffee, delicious bagels and book-lined already gained the respect of critics and authors their memory, vocabulary and confidence. In the walls provides an idyllic and peaceful reading alike, as Don DeLillo deemed their upcoming interest of staying local, Darien-Jones Publishing spot. If you happen to find a book that you collection of fictions by Gordon Lish ‘some of (darien-jones.co.uk) is a specialist publishing simply cannot put down, swap it for an old the most fascinating American fictions of the company that has produced a number of favourite and let the novel’s journey continue… last ten years’. What’s more, Awen Publications highly acclaimed illustrated books and maps. (awenpublications.co.uk) also strives to produce Their recent publication, ‘The Cotswolds Area imaginative and boundary-pushing fictions, of Outstanding Natural Beauty’, provides a Hannah has recently graduated from Cardiff as even their namesake is the Welsh word for unique insight to the Cotswolds through its University studying English. Whilst hoping to ‘inspiration’. Injected with spiritual and ecological captivating photography, writing and design. pursue a career in publishing, she is involved in values, their fiction provides a platform for Gallery Pangolin (gallery-pangolin.com) also all aspects of literature and also works at the environmental change. focus on enchanting visuals, as their publications newly opened The Vault in Nailsworth. show-case sculptors that have featured in their James Kriszyk Images by: Chalford-based gallery. They have recently Stroud Bookshop 14 LITERATURE SPECIAL - AUTHORS, POETS AND SHORT STORY WRITERS #20 | NOV 2016 #20 | NOV 2016 LITERATURE SPECIAL - AUTHORS, POETS AND SHORT STORY WRITERS 15

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It’s the 13th newbreweryarts.org.uk while stitching, knitting, making notes short story evening – back home at the or ironing…7pm £3 SVA after their birthday celebration ANTHOLOGIES, RIFFRAFF POETS STROUD FOOTBALL POETS atelierstroud.co.uk at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. COLLECTIVES, GROUPS, As ever, please book early as they Legendary anarcho-pacifist poetry troupe Formed in a local pub by Dennis Gould and always sell out. Expect the beautiful, GLOUCESTERSHIRE ORGANISATIONS AND featuring Dennis Gould, Jeff Cloves and Stuart Butler the Football Poets have cut a the funky, the funny and, of course, the REGULAR EVENTS: the late PVT West. The Riffraff Poets first formidable presence here in Stroud. From poetry PRINTMAKING COOPERATIVE unexpected! 7:30pm £7adv from sva. performed together in St Ives in 1970 and performances at major festivals to stunning plays org.uk (John Street) SAT 29TH – SUN 20TH NOV for the next 37 years read their poetry at including No Pasaran, & WH Davies and the Stroud Celebrates Letterpress FRI 25TH FIRE SPRINGS marches, demos, nuclear weapons factories, hosting of its acclaimed football poetry website. The site is the largest of its kind with 16,500 Jonny Fluffypunk hosts John peace camps and festivals. Gould and Cloves An exhibition to coincide with the poems contributed to date and archived by the Street Social A company of six performance storytellers and still produce numerous poetry pamphlets and Stroud Book Festival and also to start British Library, it’s been run from 2000 to this The (late; he’s been too busy) ‘official’ musicians who have worked together since regularly perform together in Stroud. We highly Dennis Gould’s 25 years of letterpress day by local poet Crispin Thomas launch of Jonny Fluffypunk’s new(ish) 2000 featuring Kevan Manwaring, Anthony recommend visiting Dennis Gould’s stall at the printing jubilee celebrations. Nanson and Kirsty Hartsiotis. The collective Letterpress work from Stroud area and book, Poundland Rimbaud, in time for Shambles on the weekend and if you are lucky footballpoets.org have staged ecobardic storytelling epics and further afield. Mon, Tues and Thurs the Christmas rush! Jonny’s much- he might still have a few copies left of Poets awaited ‘difficult second volume’: pioneering compilations of history, myth and 9:30am-12:30pm/Sat 10am-4pm Riff: 30 Years 30 Poems and RiffRaffRocks lying poetry, flash fiction and threadbare intercultural encounter. They also run workshops STROUD OUT LOUD around somewhere… gpchq.co.uk philosophy fused together into in storytelling and creative writing for individuals A monthly spoken word open-mic showcase something that is part memoir, part and groups. SHORT STORIES FOR GROWN UPS featuring poetry, storytelling and monologues. THE LITTLE VIC suburban escapism and part lavishly- firesprings.org.uk Whatever your party piece - a new poem, a illustrated cry for help. Includes the A semi-regular short stories event held at No comedy routine, a folk tale, a song, a dramatic SUN 27TH transcript of the author’s acclaimed 23 Bar and Bistro on Nelson Street hosted and monologue, your latest artwork - come and Stroud Out Loud! solo show Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk, POETRY ARCHIVE introduced by local writer-performer and winner share it at their new venue the Little Vic fully annotated to enable the reader Come and join in at the lovely new of the 2015 Gloucestershire Writers Network to recreate the experience in the A not-for-profit organisation founded by poet venue for Stroud’s monthly spoken short story competition Philip Douch. comfort of their own home.’ 7-11pm £1 laureate Andrew Motion and recording producer STROUD RADICAL READING GROUP word showcase. Celebrate creative membership otd (John Street) Richard Carrington that makes and acquires free speech with this entertaining philipdouch.org.uk Meeting on the third Wednesday of each month recordings of poets from around the English- bardic circle for all. Whatever your sva.org.uk at the Golden Fleece, the group aims to read a speaking world and makes substantial excerpts party piece – a new poem, comedy STROUD ARTISTS BOOKS variety of articles and books on radical issues, routine, folk tale, song, dramatic from them freely available online. NEW BREWERY ARTS feminism, environmentalism, trade unionism, monologue, interpretative dance ... A group of practising artists and other creative poetryarchive.org politics, and current affairs. come and share it! Arrive early for a CENTRE CIRENCESTER Get 20% off the RRP when you buy the individuals with an interest in Artist Books slot (10 mins or less). Celebrate the art involved in Open Studio Events, Artist Book Fairs of memory and learn your piece by SAT 5TH book from Star Anise Arts Cafe. READATHON STROUD SHORT STORIES and Workshops. An inclusive group, one which heart. 7pm Free Creative Writing: Science Fiction embraces all abilities and interests! A night of short stories promoting local authors with Eugene Lambert Nailsworth based charity inspiring children to and their work organised by author John Holland. In this workshop on science fiction, read for fun through their sponsored read in STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL facebook.com/groups/stroudartistsbooks The Anthology is available now and includes participants will explore the particular schools. The money raised provides children’s www.staraniseartscafe.com eighty stories by fifty seven authors – nearly challenges in writing for the genre hospitals with regular storyteller visits, plus a FRI 11TH-SUN 20TH facebook.com/staranise1gloucesterstreet every story read at the nine Stroud Short Stories See p4-5! Stroud Festival presents the (such as building, populating and @StaraniseCafe mobile bookcase jam-packed full of brand-new events from the first in June 2011 to April 2015… first Stroud Book Festival featuring dramatizing a credible, inviting world) 01453 840021 books, which are replenished every six weeks. Ian McEwan, Katie Fforde, Nikki Owen, through examples, discussion, writing Open House, Gloucester Street, Stroud, GL5 1QG stroudshortstories.blogspot.co.uk exercises and review. 10am-4pm £75 readathon.org Hannah Shaw, Michael Horovitz, Dennis Gould, Rachel Joyce, Sue Limb, 18 MUSIC - LISTINGS #20 | NOV 2016 #20 | NOV 2016 MUSIC - LISTINGS 19

FRI 4TH Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. SAT 5TH THURS 3RD/10TH/24TH FRI 18TH life and Bert Jansch an evening Washington and Jethro Tull. They are Aranka’s Cackle Expect music by Edith Piaf, Charlie Lewis Clark Open Mic Professor No Hair and the entertainment of stories, songs and also part of the progressive rock band Parker, Duke Ellington and more - Wiglifters mischief awaits.8:30pm free Solistice. 8pm £11adv/£10concs/£12otd MUSIC The Cackle do not care for formalities Lewis Clark and double bassist Max The Albert’s regular open mic night - stylish gypsy jazz and vintage swing, /£11concsotd/£5children and their only intention is to make you Mees will be playing music based all welcome and help is at hand if it’s Simon Palmer and Andre are the solid with violin, guitars and double bass. WEDS 30TH dance and feel irie. Up beat reggae, on a shared love of rhythm and your first performance! Come and give core of this outrageous jazz and boogie LISTINGS 8:30pm Free Yama Warashi WEDS 9TH toasting & ska. 8:30pm Free blues, influenced by British folk and it a go...8:30pm Free woogie trio. All the favourites played raucously on piano, double bass and that Japanese dream freak-out tribe. Yama Becky Dellow & Jeff Gillett SAT 12TH American roots music. They have a FRI 11TH dynamic and distinctive sound that FRI 4TH drum kit while reading the bible from the Warashi is the solo project of Bristol Local duo featuring Becky Dellow ALE HOUSE Jai W Jones & the Golden Fleece University of Soul. 8:30pm Free musician Yoshino Shigihari who has on fiddle and Jeff Gillett on guitar, The Narco Lounge Combo make for a fantastic Saturday evening. Buffo’s Wake House Band mandola, mandolin and English 7:30pm Free previously played at the Albert with THURS 3RD Bristol’s most handsome band, Jazz drummer and band leader brings Brighton based (although a couple of SAT 19TH Rozi Plain and solo. Her music has concertina. 7.30pm Free constructing a Lynchian sound scape of Stroudies) gypsy punk band with a Bob Bowles an eclectic blend of jazz, blues and FRI 11TH William the Conqueror a dreamy evocative sound with a noirish jazz, uneasy listening and space- taste for the macabre and theatrical. shadow of a moon cake and inspired THURS 24TH soul with an ever changing line-up Three passionate musicians (Ruarri Superb and versatile blues guitarist. age exotica. Brushed drums, tremolo Steve Ferbrache Armed with accordions, violins and a by Japanese dance music, free jazz and of some of the South West finest Joseph, Harry Harding and Naomi Andy Nowak Trio 8:30pm Free guitars and voodoo marimbas create Well known to Stroud, this is bucket of gusto they will have you all African music with a slice of electric professional players. 8:30pm Free Holmes) all hellbent on staying in love The combination of truly original spiked cocktails in a nightclub where it Steve’s debut at the Malthouse. An dancing into the night and all the way psychedelia. 8:30pm free FRI 4TH with what they love doing. “Stomping compositions and striking reworkings is forever after hours.8:30pm Free accomplished and established singer home…8:30pm Free SAT 19TH county rock almost verging into a of well-known material is fast becoming The Charlton Blues kings and guitarist, Steve will be playing a vast theprincealbertstroud.co.uk Lewis Clark Duo stoner grunge reminiscent of Built to a hallmark of this highly empathic SAT 12TH SUN 6TH Six piece blues band from variety of music from blues to country, Spill.” Americana Music Association UK. and musically adventurous trio. 8pm Combining diverse and shared Gloucestershire with a reputation Crooked Stylus at the Hat & Stick to folk and rock covers. A lovely chap Ma Polaines Great Decline 8:30pm Free ST LAURENCE CHURCH £10/£8concs for fun, energetic performances of interests in blues, folk and soul to and a brilliant performer. 7pm Free Grooves of many flavours: punk-dub, create a dynamic and distinctive “Like a young Billie Holiday authentic , West Coast and deviant disco, psyche-funk, deep gate crashing Tom Waits SUN 20TH SUN 20TH FRI 25TH live sound. Their musical style draws SAT 19TH Jump Blues. 8:30pm Free MARINE shed and joyful noise! All curated and on their love of rhythm and blues Swordfishtrombones recording Applewood Road Jive Dance carefully selected by resident stylus- Whiteshillbillies Blue Grass session…”Blues and roots duo Ma THURS 10TH/24TH and explores an eclectic range of Ruby, Cara, Kaja and Beth are back. Applewood Road is Emily Barker, A great atmosphere and great dance Something a bit different this evening! placer, Darius Akashic. 8pm Free (space influences including traditional British Polaines continue to build a massive Riding high on a well-deserved wave Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace. floor. Dance the night away to top The Human Jukebox This folky roots band do things with a is limited so get there early if you can!) folk, American roots music and wider reputation as an intriguing and hard to this fantastic foursome have released The trio met in 2014 in a café in East swing and jive music. 8pm £8 country twist and will be bringing their Eclectic covers from guitarists Aron European traditions. 8:30pm Free pigeon-hole act. 8:30pm Free a video to ‘Rapunzel’ check it out on Nashville and by the next morning they usual Western charm to the Malthouse Attwood and the Velvet Duke - at your THURS 17TH Youtube then get a taste of their Fable had written ‘Applewood Road’. Six SAT 26TH for their second performance bringing TUES 8TH Electric genre. ‘The seven roots of all request! 8:30pm Free Open-mic Night with SAT 26TH months later was the next time these Flamenco with Adrian Brenes a wide range of instruments including stories, fables, graphic novels, dance ladies met and they wrote recorded The Reverend Stretch Zero Day Jazz Trio The Magic Lantern and Alabaster SAT 12TH a banjo, double bass and mandolin. illustration, Alexander Calder and the and produced the rest of the album Enjoy an evening of passion and Let your talent do the talking. Don’t De Plume Prominent jazz violinist Alex Taylor, 7:30pm Free sea’. TREMENDOUS. 8:30pm Free singing around a single microphone charisma with one of flamenco’s rising Dustmines leave it in the bedroom. Beginners Stretching the word folk around a double bassist Ron Phelan and pianist and their guitars, with just Telisha stars and some of the best young welcome! 7:30pm Free moving, living spirit, this concert is Live and loud - discerning, alternative Jim Blomfield perform a swinging and FRI 25TH WEDS 23RD Williams joining them on double bass talent from Cadiz. 8pm £15 (show & here to smash illusions and cradle rock covers from Stroud four-piece. Appleby Kinsey as accompaniment. The result was upbeat mix of jazz tunes. 8:30pm Free creativity around a bold and dancing Jez Hellard and Scott Cook flamenco workshop £22) 8:30pm Free FRI 18TH spectacular. Tonight they perform The jazz quartet return bringing flame. Jamie Doe is The Magic Lantern Jez sings potent songs and is a Big Joe Bone facebook.com/goldenfleecebar in perfect harmony in the beautiful subscriptionrooms.org.uk timeless jazz standards mixed with their – an artist dedicated to remedying fine guitarist and a pretty shit hot THURS 17TH surroundings of St.Laurence Church. A mix of delta blues, bluegrass, old-time, own original songs. They’re a winning the anxiety and fear present in harmonica player too. Normally found Dave Ayre Jazz Trio 8pm £15adv from seetickets.com gospel and hillbilly music utilizing his HOLY TRINITY CHURCH combination of voices, guitar, flute and everyone. Gus Fairbairn performs touring with the Djukella Orchestra. SVA raspy vocals, hard driving harmonica tonight as Alabaster De Plume – a Tonight we enjoy him solo but with a Ever popular world class jazz session. saxophone - listen out for some modern applewoodroadmusic.com 8:30pm Free rhythms, sublime bottleneck slide guitar SAT 26TH pop and Latin-flavoured tunes in their performer, writer, musician…Bizarrely friend he meet while touring in Taiwan, WEDS 2ND/9TH/16TH/23RD/30TH playing (on steel bodied resonator and beautifully in limbo somewhere the award winning Canadian Prairie Stroud Symphony Orchestra set list as well! 7:30pm Free Funk-In Sessions FRI 18TH guitars) and lightning finger-picking between Ethiopia and Ivor Cutler. With Balladeer Scott who has spent many STROUD BREWERY his saxophone. 8:30pm £8 moons travelling and touring to gain Southside skills on 5 string banjos.....all held Heart of the Five Valleys composed stroudmalthouse.com Live Funk Jam with Will Vick and Alf together by a very heavy stomping by Jonathan Trim (conductor of the a reputation as a most inspiring and SAT 5TH Tramontin...FUNK Only...Nothing but Country, Americana and southern boot! 8:30pm Free Stroud Symphony Orchestra). This FRI 11TH imaginative story teller. Prepare to the Funk!!! All are welcome to listen or NO 23 Bob Porter Project rock. 8:30pm Free symphonic poem for orchestra was Mr Tea and the Minions quiver at his deep caramel voice and perform! 8pm Free (John Street) commissioned by Stroud Town Council laconic wit. 8:30pm Free An Americana guitar band from Stroud. SAT 19TH Bringing the festival vibe inside with a FRI 25TH for the Stroud 700 celebrations in SAT 5TH – SUN 6TH Alt country & roots rock (originals & FRI 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH The Forgetting Curve + Shoun Shoun cheeky mix of Balkan party music and Memphis 2004. The programme also includes No 23 hosts Tubby Toms for Guy FRI 25TH covers) from Bob Porter and the fabulous gypsy flava ska, when you see their John Street Social Club The Forgetting Curve: surf/stoner/ Brahms Piano Concerto no 2 featuring Forks with Stroud Calling. The Feelgood Experiment Pete Griffin on lead guitar. Bassist Steve Blues, country & Americana. 8:30pm post-rock power trio! Think Shellac soloist Poom Prommachart (currently name you know you are going to have Cooper underpins this classy trio of A series of weekly Friday night club Free playing the Shadows with a dose artist in residence of Concorno This Bonfire Day and Night No 23 a GREAT time. A highlight of so many One of Bristol’s most exciting new ‘growl and twang’! 8pm Free socials hosted by different artists is very lucky to be teaming up with of Kyuss for good measure! Angrily Kulturmanagement in Berlin) and peoples summer. 8:30pm Free musical exports the six piece soul-hop each week with visuals and audio the brilliant Tubby Tom’s - a local Angular tunes with surreal lyrics Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no 4. 7:30pm collective create innovative sounds SAT 12TH to share. The format: decks, laptop, BLACK BOOK CAFÉ independent saucier now booming, intertwined with quirkily timed £12/£10concs/under 14’s free available SUN 13TH inspired by the sounds of Fela Kuti, John and a limited number of selected increasingly stocked by a variety of Whiteshillbillies instrumentals. Shoun Shoun: from Subscription Rooms Heg and the Wolf Chorus Coltrane, Hiatus Kaiyote , D’Angelo , YouTube clips of archive footage SAT 26TH Channelling the spirit of Marlene specialist outlets from Made in Stroud A folky, roots band with a soft spot Miles Davis and Takuya Kuroda. Fronted and informative curiosities...7pm £1 Open Mic Night Dietrich and Siouxie Sioux, Shoun stroudsymphony.org.uk to Harvey Nichols. A hot & sparkly Heg & the Wolf Chorus are an exciting for pop classics ranging from Johnny by vocalist Holly Wellington and membership on the door Shoun brings her quirky dissonance feast with music provided by popular blend of folk and dramatic pop, using Cash, The Kinks, The Cure and even Black Book’s popular open mic night! trumpeter Alfie Grieve and featuring and drones mixed with interchanging vinyl DJ duo Stroud Calling. Sat 11am- violin and ghostly drums all overlaid Disney. Expect some blue grass tunes You know the drill…7:30pm Free and the best of the young music scene they SAT 5TH sweet and strong, in-your-face vocals LANSDOWN HALL 1pm/Sun 11am-11pm Free with Heg’s flamboyant piano and a through Rockabilly and sing along you can bring your own booze! (small concoct bewitching tunes with complex to Stroud. A truly unique one woman rich wash of vocal harmonies to tell modern music. 8pm Free Thee Ones - Album Launch corkage fee applies) rhythmic interplay and irresistibly groovy band. 8:30pm Free SAT 19TH their dark stories. 8:30pm Free Raised on a diet of Dr John, The OXJAM harmonic lines. 8:30pm Free SAT 19TH blackbookcafe.com All You Need Is The Beatles: Meters and Captain Beefheart they’re THURS 24TH Revolver 50th Anniversary Show WEDS 16TH Ghost Trail FRI 11TH – SAT 12TH SUN 27TH all about the groove. The evening will Rodda’s Hairy Craic Acclaimed tribute band All You Need A two night event in aid of Oxfam for Andy White An acoustic duo from Bristol made showcase their new album ‘Backyard BAR GREYHOUND Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip Irish acoustic session with Tim Potts. Is The Beatles celebrate fifty years of a night of cocktails, live soul, funk and Andy returns for a free entry gig (!!!) up of vocalist Nicola Jayne and Ed, an Boogaloo’ and features a hoard of Stars of Glastonbury, surprise guests accomplished guitar player. Playing a 8:30pm Free The Beatles’ ground-breaking album, disco at Socialight on the Friday and to promote his ten CD boxset which is local live guests including Low Chimes SAT 5TH at Stroud Fringe, heroes of Port Eliot range of covers from the 1930’s to the ‘Revolver’, with a special celebration over to the Star Anise on Saturday for being released next year. Now living in (formerly Hot Feet!), Oogoo, Weston and adored by loveys, families and present day, as well as some original Notorious FRI 25TH concert at Lansdown Hall. 7:30pm reggae, dub and jungle. Fri 7pm-12am/ Australia Andy will be playing with his & Dellow, Ben Parker, Andy Dunn, Sat 8pm-2am £5 a night/£8 for both Leeds. Three men, all very different material. 8pm Free The Lensmen, Saskia, Maya & Eddie Expect to hear hiphop & rnb from Will Killeen £12.50/£10concs available from son Sebastian on drums and fantastic available at Trading Post, Star Anise and individuals; Mik: artist, poet, comedian Ru & Cher, Mike Adcock and The the 90’s and all the way up to the Trading Post bass player Kat Ades. His shows are Highly acclaimed Irish acoustic blues Socialight and musician. Jonny Flockton: the SAT 26TH always a stand out night with his Alchemist’s Wardrobe…7:30pm £6adv latest releases at this hugely popular guitarist, singer and songwriter. He sonic dabbler, looks like Brian Cox lansdownhall.org extensive repertoire incorporating Madi Stimpson Trio from SVA/£8otd (Goods Shed) monthly night by DJ’s Dubbu and Will has a totally unique style; celtic roots oxfam.org.uk/oxjam (allegedly) and plays guitar like a Mendoza! 8pm Free startling love observation to downright A mix of gypsy, jazz, bluegrass and mixed with American blues. You wet dream. A man of haircuts and THURS 10TH rage. Rave on! 8:30pm Free folk roots, but with a definite emphasis can expect songs from early blues THE MALTHOUSE Bluegrass. And then there is Mr facebook.com/BarGreyhound THE PRINCE ALBERT on the manouche sound pioneered Stroud Jazz Sessions standards through to Dylan classics Benson Walker, the beaming giant. THURS 17TH and made famous by the great Django delivered with inimitable percussive FRI 4TH Plays bass with one sticky middle Monthly jazz jam every 2nd Thurs of WEDS 2ND Reinhardt. 8pm Free THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE guitar and whirling vocals.8:30pm free Watson & Broomers The Langan Band finger and sings loud. 8:30pm £10adv the month, the jazz hub, featuring a special guest set with Fraser Adam Beattie and the Consultants Exciting three piece outfit offering a stroudbrewery.co.uk Playing at the Malthouse on the first Allibone on saxophone followed by a THURS 3RD crownandsceptrestroud.com Adam Beattie plays with his fine band unique sound emerging from Celtic, TUES 29TH Friday of every month, these two stonkingly energetic jazz jam for all Wildwood Jack brilliant musicians play an eclectic mix of musicians on their ‘Road not Taken ‘ Eastern European and progressive Jaz Delorean and Tim Fulker tour, with support tonight from Dominie SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS players and singers, aficionados and THE GOLDEN FLEECE of jazz standards with a modern twist. music. They present an extravagant, Escaping from the confides of Tankus Melodic songs blend the acoustic Hooper who often performs with improvers, to participate in. All are With elements of gospel and funk electric package that although the Henge singer and frontman Jaz guitar and ukulele with outstanding Brooke Sharkey. Blues and folk vibes! SAT 5TH welcome, to listen or perform. 8:30pm SAT 5TH thrown into the mix, they’re not a duo contemporary has a traditional, marries up with the beautiful guitar fingerstyle playing drawing influences to be missed. They like to play well 8:30pm Free Stroud Ceilidh: 3 Sticks £3musicians/£5otd (John Street) acoustic aesthetic and a remarkably playing that lead guitarist Tim doesn’t from folk, country and world music. Swing from Paris into the evening and set the perfect BIG sound. 8:30pm Free often show when playing in the big Fantastic musicians who have played 8:30pm Free Bringing the sounds of a chic Parisian atmosphere for a relaxed Friday night band. With influences of the travelling with the likes of Robert Plant, Geno café and the French jazz of Django dinner. 7pm Free 20 MUSIC - LISTINGS #20 | NOV 2016

THURS 17TH CHRIST CHURCH NAILSWORTH decade. A quintet with a well-stocked WEDS 30TH Situations Sessions armoury of stringed instruments – Kasim Sulton SUN 13TH banjo, fiddle, double bass etc – and a H Live funk slamming session from bagful of joint-jumping tunes, these A regular in Todd Rundgren’s touring Situation Sounds live band. 8pm Free The Bristol Ensemble boys sure know how to get a party band Sulton has also performed with (John Street) Bristol Ensemble’s popular series of started. 8pm £15 Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Cheap Trick, tea-time concerts at Christ Church Richie Sambora, Mick Jagger, Celine PRINCE ALBERT FRI 18TH continues with a programme featuring SUN 13TH Dion, Bon Jovi, Patti Smith, Blue Oyster treasures of the Baroque period in Cult, and Meat Loaf over his nearly 40- STROUD Martha Tilston Brooke Sharkey some virtuosic concertos as well as year career. 9pm £10 With a voice like spider-webbed Telemann’s descriptive suite portraying An introspective sound adorned www.theprincealbertstroud.co.uk hollows and lyrics that inspire and Don Quixote’s various adventures… with emotional vocals and sliding theconvent.net captivate former Stroud resident 3pm £10otd string sections that create a tense air Martha Tilston has developed a of melancholy that few others can successful musical career with a large PREMA ARTS CENTRE bristolensemble.com master so simply and so elegantly, and loyal worldwide following. Her new Brooke Sharkey oozes a creativity that tour, with her long time collaborators FR 11TH radiates emotion. She is a woman who and musicians Matt Tweed and Matt THE CONVENT Tankus the Henge Kelly, among others they entwine raw bleeds artistry…8pm £10 A powerhouse of a band; drawing vocals, sparkling melodies and thought- WEDS 2ND provoking lyrics with filmic movements WEDS 16TH visual and musical influences from old Basco and earthy basslines.8pm £10adv from Lady Maisery time fairgrounds to modern day circus; Basco’s material is nearly all original, The Beatles to Tom Waits and Gogol SVA/£12otd (Goods Shed) Skilful explorers of the power, beauty stealing shamelessly and frivolously Bordello to Radiohead - they embody and vitality of folk song. 8pm SAT 26TH from Scandinavian, English, Celtic and a look and sound that lies somewhere American idioms to create a kind of between their South East London Leonie Evans THURS 17TH organic, soupy stew – full of vitamins home and the carnival town of New Whimsical vocals, ethereal folk and anti-oxidants. 8pm £15 Martyn Joseph Orleans.8pm £12/£9concs/Friends MIK ARTISTIK’S soloist. This year sees the of £10/£8concs/£15otd With a career spanning 30 years, ‘Collaborations Volume 1’ via Smugglers THURS 3RD 32 albums, over a half a million Records where she recorded with 9 prema.org.uk The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc record sales and thousands of live bands from around the country. She’s EGO TRIP been involved with collectives such The ‘Nordic Fiddlers Bloc’ comprise performances, the versatility of his RUSKIN MILL as Dawn Chorus Recording Company, Olav Luksengård Mjelva (Norway), music touches genres of folk, rock, Nest Collective, Jamboree Collective, Anders Hall (Sweden) and Kevin soul, folk funk and Americana, yet Tickets £10 Smugglers Records, Opus Acoustics, Henderson (Shetland).Individually they somehow all these labels cannot SAT 15TH 8:00pm Debt Records, Beatabet, Live & are regarded as three of the finest define the spirit of his music. 8pm £20 The Rheingans Sisters in advance Unamplified and many others in the young fiddle players currently working th The sisters partnership - bold, SUN 27 NOV FROM SEETICKETS.COM past few years. 8pm £7adv/£8otd in the international folk music scene, FRI 18TH original and bright - has resulted in Come find out what the fuss is (John Street) while collectively they are now finding Fotheringay themselves increasingly in demand truly innovative music, which pulls about and why Vogue magazine sva.org.uk across the world due to this unique Their musical achievements and influences from both northern and love Mik’s attire. collaboration.8pm £15 professional experiences of the band southern European fiddle traditions combined is too long to list and spans into their own compositions and facebook.com/ThePrinceAlbertStroud TWISTED FIX FRI 4TH 40+ years, you couldn’t find folk who arrangements..8pm £8/£6(under 25’s) Blue Rose Code know more about folk! 8pm £25 FRI 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH rmt.org ‘Imagine John Martyn meeting a young Twisted Fridays SAT 19TH Van Morrison and being shipwrecked Cam Penner and John Wood D&B, rnb, house, reggae, dub, jungle with a crate of Chet Baker records.’ THE VAULT hip-hop and hard dance with Twisted Time Out London 9pm £20 Penner has that rare quality – a well- residents DJ Dopamine and DJ Dayoo. grounded human spirit. In another SUN 6TH Free before 23:30pm/£5 after 18+ SAT 5TH life he might have been a Shaman. Jai W Jones Jazz & Blues bristol With constant playing companion Jon Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles Jazz drummer and band leader brings ensemble SAT 5TH Wood (a highly respected producer an eclectic blend of jazz, blues and Twisted Frequency Launch Event Walks the line between old-school in Canada) by his side, percussive folk and modern Americana, creating soul with an ever changing line-up Twisted Fix will be showcasing some of elements and layered guitar techniques a sound that nods to her influences of some of the South West finest the scenes biggest players, alongside have added rich texture. 8pm £10 while pushing ahead toward professional players.1:30pm Free some of the most avin’ it up n coming something new. 8pm £10 SUN 20TH DJs & producers, this is set to be one SUN 13TH hell of a show! Jungletek, raggatek, Dave Pegg and Anthony John SUN 6TH clowncore, breakcore,drum and bass Clarke The Achievers (Acoustic) Tea-time ft Ed Cox (Life4Land), Mandidextrous Luke Jackson Trio Dave Pegg (,Jethro Stripped back Blues and Gospel (Amen4Tekno) + guests. 10pm-4am Young Roots Singer/Songwriter from Tull, Dylan Project ) and Anthony from two of Stroud’s Achievers. £6early bid/£8standard tickets/£10otd Canterbury, Kent, who in 2013 was John Clarke (Irish songwriter/stand-up Steve Ferbrache (guitar & vocals) concerts nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk supremo) join forces and clink glasses and Rufus Fry (harmonica) re-work Join the professional musicians of SAT 26TH Awards for both the Horizon Award for yet again to celebrate and display their swinging blues, and American spiritual Bristol Ensemble for a series of chamber The ASBO Disco 10th Anniversary Best Emerging Talent and the Young unique and vibrant mix of rapid-fire wit songs.1:30pm Free Tour Folk Category. With a bold, distinctive and musical virtuosity.8pm £15 music concerts at Christ Church, voice and a sweet, percussive guitar This special 10th Anniversary event SUN 20TH Nailsworth this Autumn and Winter for Stroud features a bespoke line-up style 8pm £10 FRI 25TH Weston & Dellow which is heavy on the Jungle! Ft Red Dirt Skinners Stroud’s finest finger-style guitarist Sundays at 3pm • 13 November Aries (Born On Road), Gardna (Live THURS 10TH The first band in history to succeed Matthias Weston and virtuoso violinist PA) + guests. 10pm-4am £4super Chris Wood 4 December • 15 January at both the British Blues Awards and early bird/£6 early bird/£8 standard Becky Dellow combine to perform a An uncompromising writer whose the British Country Music Awards. tickets/£10otd set of equally rousing and relaxing music reveals his love for the un- Drawing on influences as diverse as traditional British music. 1:30pm Free official history of the English speaking Acker Bilk and ACDC, this unique duo Sunday 13 November at 3pm UNIT 2 people. With gentle intelligence he are breaking all the rules and creating SUN 27TH Bach Concerto for Oboe and Violin BVW 1060 weaves the tradition with his own a whole new sound. 8pm £10 Tristan Watson Jazz duo SAT 12TH contemporary parables. 8pm £15 Albinoni Oboe Concerto No.2 in D minor SAT 26TH Afternoon jazz session - swinging be Telemann Don Quixote Suite Stroud Calling FRI 11TH pop and standards, expertly led by Martin Harley ‘WE ARE STILL HERE! VOL.2’ PARTY Fresh of the back of Stroud Block Ian Siegal Band guitarist Watson. Accompanied by A concert featuring treasures of the Baroque Party’s success DJ’s Will Mendoza Supremely talented acoustic roots the ever-ready Broomers on Piano. period in some virtuosic concertos as well The most successful and awarded FT. LIVE MUSIC, COMEDY, POETRY, and Tom Monobrow return to their and blues guitarist, singer and 1:30pm Free as Telemann’s descriptive suite portraying ‘Stroud Calling’ guise with an autumnal contemporary blues artiste to come songwriter with a burgeoning global THEATRE AND MORE! party at Unit 2. Throwing down a vinyl out of Britain since the icons of the reputation.8pm £15 thevaultnailsworth.co.uk Don Quixote’s various adventures. sixties, Ian Siegal celebrates 25 years selection of funk, soul, disco, hip-hop, ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON reggae, breaks and beats with special of touring! 8pm £25 SUN 27TH guest DJ Nige Deane (Disco Sucks). SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY 2017 Merry Hell TICKETS £10 on the door THE PRINCE ALBERT All powered by the almighty Black Box SAT 12TH For programme details visit www.bristolensemble.com Soundsystem. 11pm-3am £5 ltd early Sheelanagig A joyous folk-rock explosion of bird from Trading Post/£7 after! melody, commitment, energy and They have become something of a above all, songs that will stay with you West Country institution for the past unit2studio.com long after listening. 8pm £10 22 ART - LISTINGS #20 | NOV 2016

primarily acrylic on canvas, are a one day after which it will be dissolved THE OLD TOWN HALL testament to her experimentation with in a closing performance piece during mixed media, technique and colour. which members of the public will be FRI 11TH – SUN 13TH ART Mon-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm/Meet the given an element from the exhibition. Stroud Book Festival: Echo George Fullard artist Sat 12th 10am-12pm 11am-4pm/Private view Fri 18th 6-9pm Chamber - Voices of Conscience LISTINGS kendrickstgallery.co.uk WEDS 23RD – TUES 29TH A sound and photography exhibition Sculpture & Survival marking 100 years of conscientious Sean Heather objection. Quakers have a long LANSDOWN GALLERY Seans practice aims to question the history of opposing war and when ART OF CLAY norms, conventions, values and morals conscription was introduced in Britain MON 31ST OCT – SUN 6TH NOV of life in the world we live in. He during World War I many chose to TUES 1ST – WEDS 30TH Nemophilist – Memories generates work that mirrors behaviors conscientiously object to joining the Clay Sinclair of Emerald Hollow seen in popular culture and comments armed forces. For some this meant 7th November - 16th December on the stripped away reality of our rejecting any form of participation Provocative post-pop paintings on An art exhibition by Karen Green, lives. Seans art process uses mixed and they were imprisoned and Perspex by local/international artist featuring sculptures by Denius media collage, installation, constructed sentenced to death for their refusal Clay Sinclair situated at 48 High Street. Parson. *Nemophilist – one who paintings and sculpture. He juxtaposes (later commuted). Others took up Plus prints for those on a budget and loves the woods. A collection of oil familiar found objects and materials alternative forms of service, providing People’s Republic of Stroud tat for and watercolour paintings by Karen together together with human forms, relief from suffering at the front. those joining the revolution. Open Green, alongside sculptures by Denius to comment on identity, subcultures, There were over 16,000 registered Mon – Sat Parson inspired by their life when they gender roles and sexuality through conscientious objectors (COs) during were living in a cabin in the woods. humour. He is influenced by reality World War I. People objected on claysinclair.com A nostalgic feeling of past times and TV shows, erotic magazines and the different grounds. This exhibition is a connection to nature. 11am-5pm/ instant culture we live in. 11am-4pm/ inspired by their stories. Fri 2-7:30pm/ Preview Mon 31st 7-9pm THE BLUE ROOMS GALLERY Private view Fri 25th 6-9pm Sat 10am-6pm/Sun 10am-5pm £1 (all TUES 8TH - SUN 13TH profits to Stroud Refugee Aid) SAT 5TH/12TH/19TH/26TH linegallery.co.uk Jackie Storey: Oliver Vivian stroudfestival.org Pinhole Photography Oliver continues his exploration of THE MALTHOUSE BAR AND An exhibition of pinhole photography composition and process, in a new by local photographer Jackie Storey. KITCHEN SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS exhibition of works using his unique Uncanny views of Stroud, including palette of fresh colours. 10am – 3pm or Nailsworth, Woodchester, Wotton- MON 10TH OCT – MON 28TH FRI 11TH – SUN 20TH by appointment 07532071457 under-Edge, Dursley, Purton, Avebury NOV Stroud Book Festival: and Cape Cornwall. Tues-Sat 10am- Illustration Exhibition facebook.com/The-Blue-Rooms- SIT select Presents: Botanicals 4:30pm/Sun 11am-4pm/Preview Mon Gallery-Stroud Three talented textile graduates from An exhibition of work by children’s 7th 6-8 pm Near and Far Bath Spa University Textile Design book illustrators as part of the Stroud GALLERY PANGOLIN will exhibit hand painted and printed Book Festival, running as a backdrop MON 28TH NOV – SUN 4TH DEC CHALFORD - GLOS - GL6 8NT 01453 889765 GALLERY PANGOLIN cloth and wallpapers. All three have to the talks and events in the George Angie Spencer: Passacaglia [email protected] www.gallery-pangolin.com set up their own interior businesses Room. Illustrators: Martha Lightfoot, MON 7TH NOV - FRI 16TH DEC An exhibition of oil paintings by after leaving University and SIT select Rebecca Ashdown, Hannah Shaw, Tom George Fullard: Angie Spencer including her recent celebrates their talent and innovation. Percival and Wendy Meddour. Open Sculpture and Survival responses to Schubert’s ‘Death and Exhibiting are Rhian Beynon, Chloe event Fri 11th 6pm the Maiden’ quartet to Shostakovich’s Gregory and Annie James exhibiting Following his early death in 1974, subscriptionrooms.org.uk George Fullard’s work slipped into 11th string quartet as well as work from hand painted and printed cloth and relative obscurity but the recent her recent residency in Scarborough, wallpapers. Presented by SIT select surge of interest in Post-War British North Yorkshire. 10am-4:30pm/ (visit sitselect.org and sitblog.co.uk) SVA sculpture has seen a growing regard Preview Monday 28th 7 – 9pm for his work. Bringing together stroudmalthouse.com TUES 1ST – WEDS 30TH Stained lansdownhall.org bronzes, assemblages and drawings, Sally Hampson: The Weaving Shed select ed the exhibition is a timely opportunity MUSEUM IN THE PARK Sally Hampson, an artist and weaver, is Glass to re-assess this intriguing and THE LINE GALLERY november underrated artist and is accompanied back in SVA’S project space at 29 High SAT 5TH NOV – SUN 4TH DEC Street bringing weaving workshops Weekend by a fully-illustrated catalogue as THURS 27TH OCT – TUES 1ST NOV well as the launch of a specially- Andy Lovell: Shifting Shapes and events. Also features guest Gemma Waggett commissioned monograph on Fullard Andy Lovell was born in Dagenham, weaver Tim Parry Williams. Email to by author and art historian Michael A navy surprise! 11am-4pm Private East London in 1964, and moved to SVA: [email protected] drop in or by Bird. Mon-Fri 10am – 6pm/Sat 10am View Friday 28th 6-9pm the Stroud area with his young family appointment Fri 2nd Dec 7-9pm – 1pm in 2007. He has has enjoyed a diverse rd THURS 3RD – TUES 8TH SAT 5TH/12TH/19TH/26TH Sat 3 Dec 10am-6pm career as Artist and Illustrator, but th gallery-pangolin.com Water and Wood his chief love remains printmaking, Fungusloci Sun 4 Dec 10am-4pm SVA textile designers Liz Lippiatt, in particular the immediacy of Artist and permaculture practitioner the screenprint and monotype Dominic Thomas has designed and KENDRICK STREET GALLERY Kathryn Clarke and Sarah Jenner are £180 exhibiting a collection of collaborative processes. This exhibition centres on built a sustainable urban micro-farm his silkscreen prints and monotypes in which oyster mushrooms are With tea breaks and half hour lunch SAT 12TH – SAT 26TH work that combines their individual skills – screen printed fabrics, garment and showcases new work covering cultivated on spent coffee grounds (bring your own sandwiches!) Anna S King Sharon White: making, and bound resist cloth. 11am- landscape, cityscape, circus and from local cafes. Fungusloci is a Exhibition of Recent Paintings 4pm/Private view Fri 4th 6-pm abstraction. project of Sustainable Creativity Contact: Johannes Steuck Wetpaint Gallery As a self-taught artist, she began her CIC with the help of Stroud District 01453 756858 or 07806482626 career by combining pet portraiture THURS 10TH – TUES 15TH SAT 5TH – SUN 6TH Food Grants taking place at Unit 23, Chalford GL6 8NR with motherhood, opting to use Holly English Longfield’s Big Heart Secret Merrywalks. Open for sales Saturdays Email: [email protected] pastels to eliminate the worry of wet Art Exhibition 10:30am -1.30pm or by appointment Social reflection, mixed media. 11am- paint and small children! Since then The Big Heart secret art auction [email protected] Location: 4pm/Private view Fri 11th 6-9pm Textiles + Wallpaper: her style has developed, through aims to raise vital funds to support Nailsworth Community Workshop playful experimentation, in both FRI 5TH – SAT 26TH THURS 18TH – TUES 22ND Longfield’s art for health community Nailsworth Subscription Rooms medium and colour. programme. Last year more than 100 UP This Way 3 designers Emily Joy: Absurd Labour Bath Road specially-commissioned pictures were Today she is most renowned for her UP This Way is an outlet within the Malthouse Kitchen Bar A three day piece, Absurd Labour sent to Longfield and sold on eBay in Nailsworth quirky cows, which can be found Merrywalks highlighting the work of presents the making, exhibiting and a secret auction. This year even more GL6 0HH in a variety of galleries and homes furniture and accessory makers within Salmon Springs GL6 6NU dissolution of a body of work. artists and celebrities are taking part! across the region. The beauty of the broader Stroud area. Open Fri-Sat This is your chance to see the artworks Sharon’s style is that she never lets it 9am-6pm or by appointment 01453 Participatory pieces connected to in Stroud before the online auction stagnate; constantly pushing her own 297260 ideas of excess and lack will be made opens on the 22nd Nov. 11am-4pm johannesart.co.uk boundaries of technique and colour, in the gallery with public assistance practialintelligence.org.uk her beautiful flower paintings, though sva.org.uk and will be viewed in static form for museuminthepark.org.uk www.sitselect.org

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UPPER LOCK CAFÉ one of the leading British abstract SAT 5TH NOV – SAT 24TH DEC MON 31ST OCT – SUN 11TH DEC artists, but by the end of the decade Crafted For Christmas Simon Tozer TUES 1ST – WEDS 30TH he had become disillusioned with Christmas takes over the New Brewery Simon’s creative life is divided non-representational art and reverted Gill Cathles Arts Centre galleries and shop with between making prints from a shared to naturalism. He concentrated on work for sale by over 200 makers from studio near Bristol harbour, teaching, Gill’s drawings are mainly of trees landscape and architectural views THEATRE & DANCE throughout the UK. and illustration work. Screen print and unoccupied buildings and mostly in an emotionally charged style that is essentially a stencil process - those in the wilder places and in the continued the English Romantic MON 14TH – SUN 27TH producing thin layers of translucent north, including Shetland and the tradition. Some of his finest works LISTINGS colour. Simon’s prints are made using Welsh uplands. They increasingly were done as an Official War Artist Pop-Up Gallery: a mixture of traditional and digital reflect her sense of loss, disturbance when he made pictures of bomb- Little Shop Of Wonders mark making processes, to create the and disconnection in the political damaged buildings. Four Gloucestershire artists (Tara separate colour layers that are overlaid chaos and threat of destruction Davidson, Kerry Jane, Yvette Green from climate change. The trees in the finished print. The layers THURS 3RD – SAT 26TH and Jane Vernon) come together to COTSWOLD PLAYHOUSE looking to overcome creative blocks £10adv/£7concs/friends £8/£6concs/ feet firmly on the ground. The highly have survived in harsh conditions are transferred to a screen using a SIT select Presents: Anna S King bring you a magical mix of textiles, or develop confidence with public family£25/otd£15 respected children’s theatre company and against numerous threats. The chemical process and printed by hand, paintings, mosaics, ceramics, prints, TUES 22ND – SAT 26TH buildings represent loss and change Anna S King makes exquisite objects. using a squeegee to push ink through speaking. 11am – 5pm £30 Tutti Frutti and York Theatre Royal jewellery and more. prema.org.uk and the ability of things to leave often She has become best known for the screen mesh onto paper. The Cotswold Players: team up with leading playwright Mike intimate objects, her woven containers The Birthday Party To book call: 07811 427462 or email: surprisingly substantial traces long newbreweryarts.org.uk Kenny to re-imagine the enchanting sometimes like baskets, sometimes MON 31ST OCT – SUN 11TH DEC [email protected] after they are gone. Gill likes the Stanley Webber, an out-of-work SHEEPSCOMBE VILLAGE HALL story of Peter Pan as told by Wendy. like nests, sometimes like both. There feeling of some things just standing in Max Naylor concert pianist, is the sole lodger in 4pm £6 is a close connection to the natural PREMA ARTS CENTRE lansdownhall.org the landscape, appearing to be simply Max Naylor’s recent works warp the THURS 10TH world and an unerring eye for colour a shabby, seaside guest house. He watching and waiting for it all to pass… conventions of landscape painting, at Tutti Frutti and York Theatre Royal: sheepscombe.org/village-hall and design. Anna will be showing with MON 31ST OCT – SUN 11TH DEC is ‘mothered’ by Meg, his landlady, Mon-Sat 9am-4pm/Sun 10am-3pm times playing within the confines of SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Underneath A Magical Moon works by John Piper whose husband Petey works as a Flora Jamieson perspective and scale and at others upperlockcafe.co.uk deckchair attendant. Stanley is lazy, Through her open window Wendy Flora Jamieson has been designing rejecting these notions completely. SAT 26TH wetpaintgalleryonline.com lacking in direction and personal Darling gazes out at the night sky and making stained glass for nearly Somewhere between drawing and Flamenco With Adrian Brenes hygiene, and cruel to simple-minded dreaming of blue lagoons, magical WETPAINT GALLERY twenty years. She works from a studio painting, his distinctive mark making Enjoy an evening of passion and moons and the stories that she can NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE at her home in Bridport, Dorset where approach combines the figurative Meg. His security is shattered when charisma with one of flamenco’s rising THURS 3RD – SAT 26TH she creates contemporary decorative with the abstract evoking a sense of two men Goldberg and McCann tell. But tonight, like no other, has MON 31ST OCT – MON 14TH NOV mystery. arrive and book in as lodgers. Who stars and some of the best young magic in the air... John Piper stained glass objects and panels in Pop-Up Gallery: vivid colours with an illustrative style. are they, why are they here and talent from Cadiz. Adrian Brenes Famous for his romantic landscapes, The Curiosity Emporium Her designs are characterized by their prema.org.uk what do they want? Pinter keeps us and company sizzle with Andalusian Wendy Darling is the owner of stories, views of ruined churches, stately lead lines, which are purposeful and mother to the lost boys, a believer An exhibition of automata, guessing throughout; identities are audacity in this joyful explosion of wild homes and castles, John Piper (1903 meticulous. Her colour palette is bold in fairies, and a young girl with her embellished paintings, embroideries, indeterminate and changeable. The air souls, guaranteeing some ‘alegria’ in – 1992) is considered to be one of yet simple and the hand-painted, printed textiles, jewellery and other of menace for which the writer is so your heart and a spring in your step! the most significant British artists repetitive patterns are formed from curiosities by Erica Daniel-Lowe and well known is palpable from the start. Tapas served throughout the evening of the 20th Century. English painter, geometric or cursive shapes which are Caroline McCatty, both Gloucestershire in the cafe. 8pm £15 (flamenco printmaker, draughtsman, designer, given life by the fluidity and texture of 7:30pm £12 based artists. and writer. By the mid-1930s he was the brush stroke. workshop 4 -5.30pm) Special offer: cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk buy tickets to the show and workshop for only £22 FRANCE LYNCH CHURCH subscriptionrooms.org.uk FOR ARTS AND CRAFTS ROOMS SAT 19TH PAINSWICK CENTRE WORKSHOPS AND Jenny Wren Productions: FRI 18TH Remember, Remember COURSES VISIT: Spaniel In The Works Theatre We all remember Guy Fawkes, Company: Grim Tales Of The the man with the big hat, dodgy Brothers Grimm moustache and explosive personality. Forget about happy endings as But is he really the one whose effigy Spaniel in the Works tell the original should be burnt every November stories collected by the Jakob and ATELIER THE SCULPTURE STUDIO 5th? Caught in the act, was he the Wilhelm Grimm, using rhyme, puppets, ATELIERSTROUD.CO.UK THESCULPTURESTUDIO.CO.UK real revolutionary, or the ringleader’s music and dance! Hear the horrible puppet? Fast forward 400 years and happenings of Hansel and Gretel, CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART SIT SELECT Jenny Wren Productions investigate ROOMHIRESTROUD.CO.UK SITSELECT.ORG discover the sinister side of Cinderella what it means to be the ‘Guy’ and the terrible tales of Tom Thumb in everyone remember, remembers. 7pm CREATIVE NETWORK SOUTH WEST ART WORKSHOPS this lively funny family show. 7:30pm £10adults/£8children CREATIVENETWORK.ORG.UK SWARTWORKSHOPS.CO.UK £10/£7concs jennywrenproductions.co.uk Living Spit Presents: GLOUCESTERSHIRE PRINTMAKING STROUD COLLEGE painswickcentre.com COOPERATIVE SGSCOL.AC.UK LANSDOWN HALL GPCHQ.CO.UK PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY A Christmas Carol STROUD VALLEY ARTSPACE SAT 12TH (£12.00 concs) HAWKWOOD COLLEGE SVA.ORG.UK SAT 19TH £14.00 Long Form Improvisation HAWKWOODCOLLEGE.CO.UK Flabbergast Theatre: Workshop with Rebecca MacMillan SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Astonishing Freakatorium Sun 11th Dec 7:30pm During the workshop you will be KENDRICK STREET GALLERY SUBSCRIPTIONROOMS.ORG.UK Hold on to your hats as Boris & Sergey Silly songs, pitiful puppetry and more Dickensian introduced to the basic techniques KENDRICKSTGALLERY.CO.UK take you on a titillating journey into of long form improvisation. It will be daftness than you can shake a selection box at - VICTORIA WORKS STUDIO the world of the macabre. Watch them a playful and enjoyable day where LET’S TRY ARTS VICTORIAWORKSSTUDIOS.CO.UK recreate traditional scenes of geeking, a feast of festive foolery! theatre is created with no script and LETSTRYARTS.COM reach feats of incredible fortitude and where anything can happen. “The whole performance is hilarious. It’s proper fun for all the family, NEW BREWERY ARTS endeavour in acts of unimaginable which is exactlywww.subsc what you wantriptionro at Christmas.”oms.org.uk Bristol 247 PEGASUS ART NEWBREWERYARTS.ORG.UK physical endurance and formidable PEGASUSART.CO.UK This workshop is suitable for performers, comics and actors, both artistry, whilst beguiling you with their PREMA ARTS CENTRE roguish wit and erudite jocularity.8pm RUSKIN MILL PREMA.ORG.UK amateur and professional, or anyone twitter.com/SubRoomsStroud facebook.com/Subrooms RMT.ORG 26 COMEDY #20 | NOV 2016

COMEDY here potential is realised

BY CHRIS HEAD

THE MIGRATING* CRAZY BIRD COMEDY As usual the Crazy Bird night is compered by the mic exploring delivery, timing and rhythm. From CLUB THIS MONTH ALIGHTS AT NAILSWORTH superb Geoff Whiting. Regular readers of this there we build to telling stories, finding jokes and column (if such people exist) will have read me dealing with the crowd. FOLLOWING SHOWS AT STROUD BREWERY bigging up Geoff’s compering skills so I won’t AND LANSDOWN HALL. AND WHAT A SHOW repeat myself. And if you’re a regular punter at By the end of the day you will feel much more NICK BIRD HAS ASSEMBLED FOR HIS DEBUT Crazy Bird nights (and I’m sure those people able to take on stand-up and it will also equip NAILSWORTH NIGHT. NICK SAYS, “WE HAVE exist) you may have seen Faye Treacy a few you with loads of transferable skills for speaking with improved delivery, better timing and NONE OTHER THAN EX NEVER MIND THE months ago at the Stroud Brewery. Well worth a repeat viewing, this Musical Comedy Awards more confidence in any context. And there is BUZZCOCK CAPTAIN SEAN HUGHES DOING AN Best Newcomer*** has an extraordinary double a delicious lunch included in the price. I can’t EXTENDED HEADLINE SET. YES, SEAN HUGHES IS act with a trombone. Somewhat reminiscent, as emphasise that last point enough. The lunch is COMING TO NAILSWORTH FOLKS!” it happens, of Sean Hughes contemporary Jim fantastic. Tavare with his double bass. * Avian wordplay More recently known on TV for Buzzcocks, I first Nick Bird also offers an open-spot (an unpaid came across Irishman Sean Hughes in the rather ** I kept reading James Kettle in 10 mins) to a local act at all his nights. This is wonderful Sean’s Show in the early nineties. (It Guide writing about ‘comedy chops’. I swore I’d how they all start including Sean Hughes. If you can be streamed on Channel 4 on demand if never use the phrase but here we are. you want to check it out.) In the show Sean was want to prepare yourself for a future gig with aware he was living in a sitcom; a meta comedy the Crazy Bird club, other local and national *** She also went to the Brit School of conceit doubtless inspired by the ground- and comedy nights or indeed just have fun and Performing Arts with Adele and Jessie J who breaking It’s Gary Shandling’s Show. improve your speaking, then you’d be a fool to I feel both took the wrong career path in miss my one-day introductory session in stand- eschewing the comedy trombone route. As a stand-up Sean was the youngest ever up at Hawkwood College.**** winner of the then Perrier Award (now **** Smooth link. Edinburgh Comedy Award) but more recently I traipse across the fields from Bisley Road ***** I’ll probably be angling for a lift back. had a lengthy break from stand-up, returning to carrying a microphone, mic stand and speaker the stage aged 50. His material now reflects his ***** ready to go at the ungodly hour of 9.30am age and he is comfortable with the more mature on the Sunday morning. Come to think of it, you demographic his shows attract but still has the may find it a struggle getting up if you went Chris Head has established himself as one of the comedy chops** to get the whole room laughing to the Sean Hughes gig the night before. A UK’s leading comedy coaches and has nearly from young to old. strange time to be doing stand-up too, so I take twenty years’ experience as a director of live the group gently into the process with simple comedy. Visit chrishead.com for further info games and exercises to get everyone on the

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