Roll Up Roll Up — the literary cavalcade known as The Golden Hour is storming the South. We’re going to Sheffield, Newcastle, Bristol, Brighton and London! Dates are below — It is physical and mental. It is a reading. It is a gig. It is a party.

When? 20th – 25th May, 2010!

Featuring:

Readers / Writers:
Ryan Van Winkle – poems & stories from the Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Ericka Duffy – Southern (Ontario) Gothic fiction & Poetry.
Jason Morton – Shouts from the barroom floor.
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Jane Flett – winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award and seamstress of many fetching stories.

Music / Song Writers:
Hailey Beavis – an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings.
Jed Milroy – bouncin’ bluegrass from the banjo balladeer.
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Taperecorder – weaves a shoegaze-crunk house hybrid as suited to cocooned winter days as to sweaty late-night adventuring.

PLUS a variety of SPECIAL GUESTS each night – no two shows alike!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

20 May – The Rude Shipyard, 89 Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield 8 – 11pm, £3 [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Matt Clegg – beautiful poems, wonderfully restrained. Matt Black – serious, sharp, surreal, irritated and funny. + Pete David (of The Payroll Union) – The local hero shares some rustic country of his own making.
21 May – The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol 8 – 11, £3 [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Rachael Boast – poetry with the confident ease of a tall glass of iced-tea. David Briggs – idiosyncratic poems where clowns and teacups are lit at the edges with a gunsmoke-blue glow. New book due out from SALT! + Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
22 May – Redroaster Coffee House, 1d St James Street, Brighton BN2 1RE 8 – 11pm, £3 [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose. The Half Sisters – Ukulele, flute and drums combined with three point harmonies create a lush and mesmerising chorus of catchy pop hooks and adorable honesty. + Possible special amazing comedic guest who we can’t quite pin down but will pop like a snake in can!
23 May – SECRET VENUE, London – Free —- Shhhh, Secret Special BBQ gig… 4pm – midnight, FREE! SPECIAL GUESTS: The Itinerant Poetry Library – ‘Reaching the parts other Libraries have yet to reach!’ INDEED! + Paper Cinema & many surprise friends!!!	Contact us for the magic venue!!!
24 May – Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden, London 7 – 11pm, £5 [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Mario Petrucci – Imaginative, sophisticated and effortlessly masterful poet. AMAZING! Kirsten Irving – The editor of FuseLit brings poems of effortless and funky finery. Sam Taradash – stories from the hard shoulder. The Itinerant Poetry Library – ‘Reaching the parts other Libraries have yet to reach!’ + Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
25 May — Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne 7.30 – 11pm, £3 [Facebook event link] SPECIAL GUESTS: Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle – local heroes bring their brand of bluesy country/folk hillbilly mix of utter eccentricity