-
AllActivities Age Concern Anytime Fitness Gym Art Beauty Beer Of The Week Blog Business C2C Care Care Home Chalkwell Beach Charity Children Christmas Cinema City Status Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Review Cocktail Recipes College Community Competition Competitions Construction Coronation Coronavirus Covid 19 Dannielle Emery Design Easter Education Emma Smith Employment Emsella Chair Environment Essex & Suffolk Water News Essex Police Essex Police News Events Family Fun Fashion Festival Film Finance Fitness Food Food & Drink Football Fresh Face Pillow Company Gardening Hair & Beauty Halloween Harp Havens Hopsice Havens Hospice Havens Hospice Havens Hospice Press Release Havens Hospices Havens Hospices Havens Hospices News Health & Beauty Health & Fitness Healthwatch Southend Historicaleigh History Holidays Housing Indian Indirock Indirock Jubilee Karen Harvey Conran Kids Kids Blogs Kids Competitions Kids Reviews Lady McAdden Legal Legal Eagle Leigh Folk Festival Leigh Library Leigh On Sea Leigh On Sea Finds Leigh Road Leigh Striders Leigh Town Council Leigh Town Council Press Release Leigh on Sea Leigh on Sea Sounds Leigh on sea Folk Festival Leigh on sea Town Council Leigh on sea man breaks marathon record Leigh on sea news Lifestyle Little Red Panto LoS Shop London London Southend Airport London Southend Airport Los Shop Marathon Melinda Giles Mortgage Angel blog Mortgages Motherofalloutings Mughal Dynasty Mughal Dynasty blog Music My Mortgage Angel MyLoS NHS News News Newsletter Offers Other Outfit Of The Week Palace Theatre Parenting Parking Picture Of The Week Pier Politics Press Release Professional Property Property Of The Week RSPCA Ray Morgan Re:loved Recipes Recycling Restaurant Restaurant Review Restaurants Review Roads Rotary Club Royal Hotel Royal Hotel Southend Royal Visit SAVS Schools Seafront Shopping Show & Music Reviews Show Review Show Reviews Show Up Productions Shows & Music Shows & Music Review Shows & Music Reviews Southend Southend Airport Southend Airport Press Release Southend Airport Press Release Southend Borough Council Press Release Southend City Bid News Southend City Council Southend City Council Southend City Council Blog Southend City Council News Southend City Council Press Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council blog Southend Community Safety Southend Council Press Release Southend Hospital Southend Hospital News Southend In Sight Southend In Sight Press Release Southend on Sea Southend on Sea City Council Press Release Southend on Sea City Council press release Southend on Sea city Council Press Release Southend on sea City Council Press Release Sport The Mortgage Mum Theatre Theatre Blog Theatre Review Theatre Review Theatre Reviews Transport Travel Village Green Volunteer Weddings What's On Whats On blog c2c news shopping
TRAWLER x SUNDOWN REVIEW
Last Friday, I had the joy of attending the launch of TRAWLER paper, guest edited by Ray Morgan.
The event proved to live up to it’s promise of “shenanigans for mind, body and soul”.
Upon arrival, the bar was awash with faces, a cultural who’s who of the Leigh art scene, and not a turtleneck sweater or pair of indoor sunglasses in sight.
The night kicked off with organisers Joe Overit and Ray Morgan beginning the plethora of poetry performances, which featured Gill West and her array of characters, each with their own immaculate accents. Next up was Ann Hilton and Rachel Dalton, whose hauntingly beautiful renditions left the room in silent awe, before that silence was broken by the explosive and enigmatic performance by Ryan Philpott, whose Dickens readings brought comedy and pathos in equal share.
After the intermission, it was the turn of the hilariously self-deprecating Simon Blackman, reading from his latest book of poems, Two Sexy Pigeons (which I immediately purchased after). Music was in the form of Cusack, whose twin guitar skills, soulful tunes and on-stage banter provided all the intimacy of a secret gig. Closing the night was MG Boulter, on the final night of their tour, the fingerpick stylings of Matthew Boulter, coupled with a fantastic rhythm section, brought delta bluegrass to the Leigh Community Centre, whilst Polyvinyl Craftsmen and Ship Full of Bombs brought the house down afterwards with their awesome afterparty DJ sets.
So if you want to mingle with local hepcats, hear some homegrown art performed live, and grab a great local paper while you’re at it, look out for the next issue launch of TRAWLER.
Huge thanks to SUNDOWN arts, who are a lovely bunch, check them out here.
To view photos from the event, click here.
ADD A COMMENT
Note: If comment section is not showing please log in to Facebook in another browser tab and refresh.