Mr Crazy Elf’s set from April 2009 has now been posted – look only to the title of this post if you want to know what to expect. Breathe deep and go in bravely. Jellyfish! Click April 2009 in the Podcasts column on the right.
Wordplay
Spoken word, hip-hop, poetry, comedy, packed houses, vocal crowds. Wordplay shows had the lot. Click the Podcasts tab for audio recordings, or the Writers tab to learn more about our participants. Video will be coming soon, and new audio recordings are uploaded weekly. Wordplay will be back in the flesh soon enough, in some form or another. Till then, enjoy this electronic slice of verbal goodness.
April 2009 hits the web
The first set from our April 2009 gig is now available to listen and download. We’re talking Mr Alex Scott, one of the funnier gentlemen to grace Wordplay with his presence over the years. It also includes a contender for the greatest poem title ever: namely, ‘If It Can Be Fucked with Lasers, It Can Be Fixed with Lasers.’ The next three weeks will us upload sets from Meg Dunn (Aug 21), Crazy Elf (Aug 28), and Chicago slamstress Nikki Patin (Sep 7). Find the goodness by clicking April 2009.
Doyle is live
Briohny Doyle’s set from May 2009 is newly-posted, so click on the May 2009 tab in the right-hand column to look that up. Over the next four weeks will come the four sets from the April 2009 gig, with Alex Scott, Meg Dunn, Crazy Elf and Chicago’s slam queen Nikki Patin to do things to your ears in a highly unusual way. Stay tuned.
One-Sixth of the way there
Today’s new posting is an acapella set from Melbourne rapper 1/6, who fronts Illzilla along with the erstwhile Mantra. Funny times ahead. Listen to it by clicking here.
New audio
The first recording from May 2009 went online today, with Ben Pobjie’s set now available. Ilzilla rapper 1/6 and the spoken word of Briohny Doyle will follow on the 28th of July and 7th of August respectively. Click the May 2009 tab to your right to listen.
Ready to roll!
Ladies and Gentlebergs, It has been some months, but finally, at last, the new-look, fully-functional, non-broken Wordplay site is ready to roll. Here it is at your disposal. To your right you will find all the gig recordings that have been uploaded to date. More are to come, and we aim to bring you one set on a weekly basis. Video recordings are in the hands of our editor and will also with luck be available soon. Poems, photos, and life stories of our performers can be found in the Writers section. More writer profiles are in the works as well. Thus we hope that this site will be a constantly updated and expanding resource for your listening and reading …
Go for it
Ok, every Podcast tab and mp3 link on this page is now functional. New mp3s will be being uploaded very soon, and we’ll resume weekly uploads. The site is for all intents and purposes ready to use. I just have another few tweaks to make before we officially relaunch it. But if you’re here early, well, fill your boots. It’s all ready to go.
Oh so close…
Hey peoples, We’ve been working away like crazy little moles, myself and the erstwhile Frenchman M. Clemenceau, the two of us hunched over laptops on either side of a dining table trying to get this website up and ready. And it’s so close I can taste it. Just another couple of slabs of hours of repetitive mind-numbing work before it will be ready for you once more. And hell, even now at least three-quarters of the mp3s are functional, and some of the Writers pages are back up. So go to Podcasts, find some tracks to listen to or download, or have a read in the Writers section. I’ll holler like a stuck pig when the proper, final layers of …
Some more sounds
We’ve been having a few issues getting the look and layout of the site updated, so I haven’t officially relaunched the site yet. But for the faithful who keep checking back, or the newcomers who keep stumbling across us, I’ve posted one more full gig, that of March 2009. This features Lee Kofman, Julez, Ben Ezra and Anita George, and I really loved this line-up. Just listened to some of Anita’s songs and they made me all sniffly. Anyway. You can listen to it by clicking here, and can find our other podcasts over on the right-hand side of the page. We’ll keep you posted about the relaunch. In the meantime there are some new poems and such on my …
Winter, wine, thoughts of somewhere warmer
Former National Young Writers Festival Director and all-round good guy Nic Low is organising an interesting-looking event in Melbourne soon which I thought I’d let you know about. Terry Jaensch is a former Wordplay performer, as chance would have it. Looks like the right vibe for winter. Read on below. Asialink Winter Writing Series – Six Poets Speak Softly Hey kids, Asialink is kicking off a new event series over the winter months exploring writing, travel, life and politics in Asia. It’s a kind of rolling, mini-festival covering Anti-travel-writing, Asian-Australian piss-take pop culture, extreme endurance protest from Japan, a Mumbai mutiny from early 19th century child performers … among many other things. First up is Six Poets Speak Softly: a …