This is a great lineup... i won't be slamming at it but yeah heaps of greats performing:
A 3-day celebration of rhythm and verse
The best verse hurling, poetry spitting, renegade lyric masters from
all over Oz are brought together for 3 days' of spoken-word events. The
Night Words Festival takes you on a literary thrill ride with
special guests Kev Carmody, Steve Kilbey (The Church), Linda Jaivin,
Edwina Blush and Ozi Batla (The Herd) – plus the winners of The
Australian Poetry Slam 07
March 6: Night Words House Party
The music pauses. The lights go out. One spotlight hits a lone poet who
stands and delivers. Poetry is delivered on trays, in back rooms, on
screens, from balconies and more. All set to a live soundtrack by the
Night Words House Band- Entropic
March 7: Legends of the Word
Meet the stars of the Sydney's spoken-word underground. Samples, beats,
images, poets live and dead and take us from rhyming beginnings to
slamming present, with music by Trevor Brown.
March 8: Slamarama
You be the judge as 12 of Australia's word heavies create 3 super-slam
teams and battle it out using hip-hop, theatre, spoken-word and
whatever comes up. Accompanied by the wild rhythms of Waiting for
Guinness
Warning: contains coarse language and adult themes
Duration: 2.5 hours including one 20 minute interval
For more info see-
www.myspace.com/thenightwordsfestival
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