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Why not come up for a own preserves, Organic milk and more. thistledown.org.uk 01453 860420 thistledown, tinkley lane, nympsfield, GL10 3UH twitter.com/SubRoomsStroud facebook.com/Subrooms 4 LITERATURE - ELVIS MCGONAGALL #33 | DEC 2017 #33 | DEC 2017 LITERATURE - ELVIS MCGONAGALL 5 Elvis McGonagall Stand-up poet Elvis McGonagall, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere in the middle of nowhere where he scribbles verse whilst drinking malt whiskey and listening to Johnny Cash. By Lorna Davies 9.3 % SWING Richard Smith on the other hand, a sea of blue with this little splash started getting up and performing now is that things have taken such lovely satisfaction when you have a my politics, but you can’t pull your A red island in the sea of Cotswold blue lives in Stroud with his wife and two of red and I thought, ‘what’s that?’ it. It was quite organic, I wasn’t sat a surreal turn that, for instance eureka moment for a piece, that’s punches, you’ve just got to go with rescue cats, still scribbling verse ‘oh it’s us!’ It was just a kicking off there thinking, ‘right I want to be a someone like Trump is quite hard lovely, you have that lightbulb it.” A red outcrop in these blue remembered hills but probably with slightly more point to show why Stroud is different poet.’ At the time I was acting, which to satirise, because what you’re moment. There’s also a huge Next, he’s writing a piece about We’re not 25 grand smug shepherd’s huts palatable liquor. Today, it’s frothy from the rest of the Cotswolds,” says meant I wasn’t doing much, so it was doing with satire is trying to take a satisfaction when you’ve then done Morrissey for the BBC, as well as We’re red brick, spit and sawdust, woollen mills coffee at the Black Book Café, where Richard. nice to write your own material, take characteristic and exaggerate and it, and it all fits, you’ve got a piece commissions for birthdays, weddings Richard (aka Elvis) and I settle down “The main motivating factor [to back control.” distort it to make a point, but there’s written, it’s a pleasure of having and more. On December 2nd he’ll on the squashy sofa to talk all things move] was family, my in-laws live In 2004, he won a poetry slam nowhere really to go with him. It is created something from scratch. be at the SVA with Jonny Fluffypunk A red rose amidst the snarling thorns of May Stroud, stand-up and everything just down the road in Cheltenham. in Cheltenham and “just carried on strange times, really strange times.” Hopefully the stuff is entertaining for the local launch of Viva Loch A red flag sewn from Stroudwater Scarlet in-between. I’m really, really, pleased we landed doing it.” “I think the word career Richard has just released an so it’s lovely when you get a nice Lomond! which promises to be a We’re not the headmistress’s blue-rinse smile The stand-up poet, comedian on Stroud as it was a bit of a stab would be too grandiose to describe anthology of his poems, Viva Loch reaction from an audience, that’s a thoroughly entertaining evening. We’re the crimson kiss of a wanton harlot and broadcaster moved here during in the dark. But I love it, I feel quite what I’m doing,” he laughs. Lomond! Illustrated by Dorset artist buzz. But cathartic? No it probably “Jonny wants to do a launching Stroud Fringe festival in 2016. “I evangelical about it, it’s such a nice Richard’s poetry is written to be Tony Kerins, the book includes makes me more pissed off!” ceremony. There may be bagpipes,” thought, ‘this is a nice party you’ve place.” performed, Elvis’s thick Scottish 14 years’ of work. “It gives me Apart from performing all over Richard teases. We’re not Farrow & Ball “complacent blue-tit” laid on, cheers!’” he smiles, with Many of Richard’s works were accent and character lending itself something to flog at gigs, ‘cos it’s the country in no particular order – Warm, witty, satirical, and not We’re not weekend waxed-jacket and tweed knickers a blink-and-you’d-miss-it hint of inspired by his former home on the perfectly to verses full of anarchy, not a lucrative career choice, poetry. “I know, totally impractical. It’s not afraid to be plain daft, Stroud are just a Scottish accent. “It’s a cracking Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. “I did one satire and…whiskey. His piece ‘Carry Also it’s just a nice thing, a nice exactly a tour is it, if it was a tour as pleased to welcome Richard (and We’re not honey-dipped, chocolate-box bollocks event, and really impressive for the for The One Show, and another on up the Brexit’ includes the record of it. It’s nice to sell books you’d sack the tour manager,” he Elvis) to our ‘Little Metropolis’ as he We’re not mimsy-boo-boutique more tea vicars size of the town.” one about working in the pub there jokes – Richard has just formed a is to be here. This year, he performed, and which was a bit of a rant about band with Dorset group Dead Plants, We’re anarchist printers, poets and painters despite having read his poetry second home owners. The Isle of called Elvis and The Resurrectors. Viva Loch Lomond! Is out now We’re the ghosts of Huguenot weavers everywhere from Radio 4 and The Purbeck is absolutely beautiful and “I AM AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE WILL “It’s great doing it with other people via Burning Eye Books, visit We sing protest songs up a hornbeam tree One Show to Edinburgh Fringe and has always had a history of second BE AUDIENCES WHO DON’T AGREE WITH because you get so used to doing elvismcgonagall.co.uk for further Bristol Old Vic, Richard admits he homes.