AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. ISSUE 29 | AUG 2017 | WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO GOOD 2017 ON PAPER SPECIAL ISSUE #29 INSIDE: STROUD STROUD GOOD FRINGE BLOCK ON PAPER PREVIEW PARTY STAGE + Joe Magee: The Process | Stroud Fringe Choir | Index Projects: Corridor Burning House Books | Comedy At The Fringe Cover image: Ardyn by Adam Hinks (Original image by Tammy Lynn Photography) Lynn Tammy image by Hinks (Original Adam by image: Ardyn Cover #29 | AUG 2017 EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: EDITOR’S Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGNER Artwork and Design NOTE Adam Hinks [email protected] ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ WELCOME TO THE TWENTY NINTH ISSUE OF GOOD ON PAPER – YOUR FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC CONCERTS, ART EXHIBITIONS, THEATRE PRINTED BY: PRODUCTIONS, COMEDY SHOWS, FILM SCREENINGS AND LITERATURE Tewkesbury Printing Company EVENTS IN STROUD... The fringe returns! And with it our annual Stroud Fringe Special providing a defi nitive guide to the 21st edition of the festival. SPONSORED BY: The team behind the fringe have worked tirelessly throughout the year to bring you another packed programme of events featuring live music, comedy, art, literature, street entertainment and much much more over the course of the last weekend in August. CO-WORKING STUDIO As well as the Bank Gardens, Canal and Cornhill stages the hugely popular Stroud Block Party also returns with a brand new venue, Good On Paper will be taking stroudbrewery.co.uk stroudcluster.com over St Laurence Church for three days of live music and artist fi lms, Colourscape is back at Stratford Park and there are plenty of brand new additions to this year’s festivities all featured in this issue… Visit stroudfringe.co.uk for further information and updates and look out for the Chartered Tax Advisers free Stroud Fringe programme available soon with the full line-up! www.chrismattostax.co.uk elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk Alex and Adam P.S – Happy to announce another Good On Paper event after our fringe shenanigans (see P11 and goodonpaper.info/events) due to take place on Saturday 23rd September at a brand new venue which will open its doors very soon…More on that in next month’s issue! 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Acclaimed Australian-born, Stroud- highlights include hard-touring troubadour based singer-songwriter Emily Barker Tom Dibb (tomdibb.com), the banjo-fuelled FRINGE (emilybarker.com) is bringing her lyrical stomp of Curtis Eller’s American Circus take on folk and Americana to open the (curtiseller.com) and Bristol’s inimitable Bert festival on Friday, alongside atmospheric Miller and the Animal Folk (bertmiller.uk), Lancastrians Lowes (lowes-music.com) creator of recent ramshackle folk-oddity and local alt-folk quartet Low Chimes The Vegan Album. (lowchimes.com), who were recently tipped for great things by Guy Garvey on 6Music. There’ll also be a strong 2017 focus on new music, including London production duo WOWH (facebook.com/ WOWHSQUAD), Welsh singer Bryde (brydemusic.com) and rising London- based alternative outfi t, Fours (musicglue. com/fours). And in a blast from Stroud’s past, Ted Milton’s infamous post-punk “Hello everyone, we’re delighted to say: it’s Fringe time again! originals, Blurt (tedmilton.net), will provide a shot of electrifying post punk energy FRINGE With this year’s festival set to be bigger and more diverse than ever, we’ve put together a preview which offers a quick taster of that once heard is never forgotten… what’s on offer for our 2017 edition. As in previous years, there will be fantastic events happening across Stroud, covering music LATES and comedy, food and drink, street performance and visual art. But there’s also a new programme of late night “extras”, a glamping fi eld in Stratford Park for out-of-town visitors – and The Late Night at the Fringe series is new even a fund-raising raft race along the canal… for 2017 and features three very different Friends of the Fringe fundraisers at the For more information on the full line-up and stage times, watch Johnny Quiz Lansdown Hall. On the Friday, Johnny out for our offi cial Fringe programme which will be available in a Byford, of the now infamous Johnny Quiz few weeks’ time, follows us on facebook.com/StroudFringe and nights at the SVA, stages another of his twitter.com/Stroud_Fringe plus download the Stroud Fringe app! WOWH wild, interactive performances. From his humble beginnings as a lowly cross- But for a brief overview of what to expect on the Bank Gardens, dressing pub quizmaster Johnny has Canal and Cornhill stages, plus a run-down highlighting the developed the form into an extravaganza many additions to this year’s Fringe, read on!” of bombastic irrelevance. Saturday sees Stroud’s premier club night Disco Sucks party until the early hours with a night of underground sounds from around Lotte Lyster and Julie Howe Time to roll away the cheeses as Stroud Farmers’ Market makes way the cosmos - disco, funk, house and Stroud Fringe 2017 for another great cornucopia of entertainment. Friday night is again beyond...music from the sweatboxes of comedy night, curated by Chris Head (see page 23 for further info!) New York via the second hand shops with the remainder of the weekend given over to live music. BandIt! and car boot sales of the West Country, CORNHILL who provides three day rock and pop workshops giving local young while on Sunday Stroud Film Festival students from all backgrounds the opportunity to gain experience (stroudfi lmfestival.org ) present their in musicianship, creative song writing, recording techniques and Fringe-style take on secret cinema with a performance skills will be putting a range of young and emerging music-themed, immersive fi lm night prior talent into the limelight on Saturday while a day of reggae and world to their return for the next instalment of STAGE music adds a new fl avour to bank holiday Sunday. the fi lm festival in March 2018. 6 MUSIC - STROUD FRINGE #29 | AUG 2017 #29 | AUG 2017 MUSIC - STROUD FRINGE 7 FRINGE ACROSS THREE STAGES, STROUD BENEFITS FRINGE 2017 IS SET TO DELIVER ANOTHER WEEKEND OF GREAT MUSIC. Over the past two years, Stroud Fringe has grown massively in scale and scope, SING ALONG SOCIAL Sing Along Social is a zero- an expansion which is set to continue for commitment choir hosted by the 2017 edition. As a three-day event, we Aoife McElwain and Anna Jacob, can make room for all kinds of exciting FROM ROCK TO POP, FOLK TO WORLD, BLURT designed for people who can’t fringe activities – and now even have Led by the inimitable Ted Milton, really sing. In other words, it’s for accommodation for out-of-towners who poet, saxophonist and sometime anyone who might be asked to want to experience everything that’s on puppeteer, back in the late-1970s mime in other choirs – or has been offer. The new ‘glamping’ fi eld in Stratford Blurt were an early signing to kicked out of a karaoke bar for Park will offer quality camping in sturdy bell WE’VE GOT IT COVERED. HERE ARE Manchester’s Factory Records. being off-key. No need to practice, tents and a range of extras including a family Since then, they’ve evolved into no need to even know the words. tent, craft activities and bedtime stories one of the UK alternative scene’s It’s all about caterwauling along for little ones, and free access to facilities most enduringly entertaining to great songs in the company of at Stroud’s leisure centre and lido. Visit live acts, colliding jazz, punk and friends and strangers! zoobells.co.uk/events-page/stroud-fringe- SOME OF OUR PICKS FOR ACTS TO LOOK deviant wordplay in a style once festival for further info and to book a space! dubbed by the NME “all-purpose facebook.com/singalongsocial chaos”. Across the town, over the whole weekend, there will be entertainments, events and tedmilton.net/blurt eating opportunities for all ages, including OUT FOR AROUND THE FESTIVAL… kids’ workshops in Bank Gardens (where youngsters can make fl ags for the Fringe parade on Sunday afternoon) and zine making workshops at pop-up bookstore Burning House Books (fi nd out more on page 24); a varied cast of street entertainers performing daring feats, spinning hoops and climbing inside giant balloons; and the Fringe’s dedicated Food Street which this year will not only feature even more culinary delights but ‘banquet’-style outdoor tables for alfresco dining! Stuart Butler of Radical Stroud (radicalstroud.co.uk) will again be leading a performative walk, through time as well as space, along the edge lands and footpaths SWEET BABOO of Stroud, and the Stroud Raft And Duck Sweet Baboo is Stephen Black, Race will be held on Sunday as part of the THE MAGIC LANTERN a native of the North Wales The Magic Lantern is the musical Fringe, raising funds and no doubt a few countryside and idiosyncratic alias of Australian-born musician laughs, in support of the Cotswold Canal singer with an ear for a sparkling Jamie Doe.