“(DON’T) EAT THE MIC (ROPHONE)”
at Stavka from toadinmud.co.uk

WORDY PERFORMANCES AND OPEN MIC (green pastures),
poetry, prose, drama, music etc…

As we have been going on about for the past few “Don’t Eat the Microphone”s at the Queen Margaret Union, we are becoming vaguely nomadic. Probably once a month we shall be moving to the fantastic “STAVKA” on Sauchiehall Street. Stavka was the centre of the Soviet Military Command, pravda.

This coming Wednesday sees the first of such events. The format of the night is the same as always, relaxed and comfortable, though we will be having guaranteed performances from the wonderful Liz Lochhead, the Indie/Pop/Electro musician H-Bomb (http://www.myspace.com/harrybomb) and drama from ‘Stag’ and ‘Other Playwrights’. Of course we want to pack as much in as possible, so if you wish to perform either drop me an email at toad@toadinmud.co.uk or come along on the night with something to perform. All styles/formats/sentiments are wanted and nothing is inappropriate (though wearing a freshly skinned brown bear may turn some heads). I will do my best to be a little less rude than I usually am. After this performance there will be no more “DONT EAT THE MIC” until April the 4th. This is because my girlfriend is threatening to rend me into glue if I don’t come visit her some time, and my family are almost ready to have me declared legally dead and spread the ashes of an effigy across the North Sea in my place. If a subsitute makes themselves known, I will pass along the information via secure channels.

I hope you can all make it on Wednesday, it will be a lovely night and a bit of a bash. I know there are lots of essays due around now (dont I know it), but the beer will be cheap and we will definitely commisar-ate your woes. As always, we aim for more of a sociable gathering than a intelligencia meeting (though I’m sure someone will try and claim that language is inherently meaningless or some such tosh at some point), so you might find your less literary friends enjoying themselves as well. Spread it about like MRSA.
The Details
[...] “EAT THE MIC” [...]
8:30pm til late
Wednesday 14th March 2007
at STAVKA
in The Cocktail Bar (Top Room)
www.stavka.co.uk
373-377 Sauchiehall St,
Glasgow.
Google Maps

Thank you all,

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE PERFORMANCES

at the QMU from toadinmud.co.uk

We invite you to come and be entertained:

POETRY, PROSE, DRAMA, MUSIC and etc.

LIVE WRITING PERFORMANCES and OPEN MIC,
The Lacuna Cafe
Queen Margaret Union (the QMU)
Wednesday 07th Feburary 2007
8pm prompt(ish).

You may have heard about it already. If you haven’t, now you know and come along. And if you have, where are you?

Our “Writer’s Wednesday” is an event aiming to provide a venue for new and current writers to perform their works and for others to be entertained by new talent. In the past few months we have featured guests; Liz Lochhead, Alan Bisset and Alan Riach and hope to invite them back and others in the near future.

As informal and unpretentious as we are capable of being, anyone of any discipline and perceived talent is encouraged to come along and perform. Either by prior arrangement or on an open mic basis. If you are not a writer yourself then we invite you to come along and enjoy the performances. We begin at 8pm and usually perform for around an hour and a half, there is coffee (discounted), snacks and of course, beer and stronger beverages available for purchase. You should expect some form of “audience participation”, with the chance of prizes for creative effort. This is not compulsorary of course. Afterwards we retire downstairs to discuss the performances, or play pool.

If you do wish to perform on Wednesday night, contact us at this address (toad@toadinmud.co.uk) giving as little or as much detail as you like. (Number of works, number of lines in works, estimate length of performance etc.) If you prefer, contact me, Tom Coles, on 0792 635 0161. If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

We also run a website, www.toadinmud.co.uk featuring works from Wednesday Nights and else where, check the site for performance times and upcoming events, as well as seeing what the writers are producing. On the site you can also hear Podcasts (audio downloads) of previous performances.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Coles

toad@toadinmud.co.uk

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE PERFORMANCES

at the QMU from toadinmud.co.uk

Well, well, well, we’re getting into our stride again, up and staggering. So we invite you to come and be entertained:

POETRY, PROSE, DRAMA, MUSIC and etc.

LIVE WRITING PERFORMANCES and OPEN MIC,
The Lacuna Cafe
Queen Margaret Union (the QMU)
Wednesday 31st January 2007
8pm prompt(ish).

You may have heard about it already. If you haven’t, now you know and come along. And if you have, where are you?

Our “Writer’s Wednesday” is an event aiming to provide a venue for new and current writers to perform their works and for others to be entertained by new talent. In the past few months we have featured guests; Liz Lochhead, Alan Bisset and Alan Riach and hope to invite them back and others in the near future.

As informal and unpretentious as we are capable of being, anyone of any discipline and perceived talent is encouraged to come along and perform. Either by prior arrangement or on an open mic basis. If you are not a writer yourself then we invite you to come along and enjoy the performances. We begin at 8pm and usually perform for around an hour and a half, there is coffee (discounted), snacks and of course, beer and stronger beverages available to purchase. Also expect some form of “audience participation”, with the chance of prizes for creative effort. Afterwards we retire downstairs to discuss the performances, or play pool. Its a laugh.

If you do wish to perform on Wednesday night, contact us at this address (toad@toadinmud.co.uk) giving as little or as much detail as you like. (Number of works, number of lines in works, estimate length of performance etc.) If you prefer, contact me, Tom Coles, on 0792 635 0161. If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

We also run a website, www.toadinmud.co.uk featuring works from Wednesday Nights and else where, check the site for performance times and upcoming events, as well as seeing what the writers are producing. On the site you can also hear Podcasts (audio downloads) of previous performances.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Coles

toad@toadinmud.co.uk

Normal Service Really HAS been resumed!

The next LIVE Performances at the QMU will be held:

The Queen Margaret Union
Lacuna Cafe
Wednesday 17th January 2007
8pm Promptish

We are looking to achieve a slight branching out.

If any of you are musically, and more important, lyrically (lyrics being the illegitimate son of verse, to be purposefully controversial) minded then we would love to have people give us some sort of interlude, to regale us with tales accompanied by some sort of instrument. This instrument may be your voice, it may be a pair of coconut halves, it may be some tin cans, a guitar. Go crazy.

Also, we are soliciting actors. Poetry is drama, drama is poetry.

If you wish to perform, don’t hesitate to drop a email off to toad@toadinmud.co.uk, or simply arrive on the night with something to give and we shall accomodate.

Thank you,

toadinmud.

Normal service has been resumed.

The next LIVE Performances at the QMU will be held:

The Queen Margaret Union
Lacuna Cafe
Wednesday 17th January 2007
8pm Promptish

Email toad@toadinmud.co.uk, contact Tom on 0792 635 0161 or comment on this page to request a spot in advance. Of course you can still turn up on the day and we will find you a place, but to avoid disappointment please get in contact.

Sincerely,

The Management.

Welcome, Join Us!

Lament!

It is the final QMU Travelling Circus de Poyets 2006 event! We have managed a total of 7 in as many weeks, the horse is well and truely whipped through the firm stiff eggwhite stage and into some collapsed sort of sour cream.

LIVE Performances
The Queen Margaret Union
Lacuna Cafe
Wednesday 13th December 2006
8pm Prompt

But do not fear!
We shall return in 2007, freash-baked, our first meet being on
the second Wednesday of term.
Reply to toad@toadinmud.co.uk requesting inclusion on the mailing list, if you have not already done so, and we shall remind you in good time of our return.

As a final gasp of extravaganza we have not one, but two special guests:
The lovely

Liz Lochead

our newest contributer, returns to read at the QM. A fantastic reader and Glasgow University’s very own resident writer she would be reason enough to attend.
However we also have

Alan Riach

a fine poet, and a major Edwin Morgan biographer.And of course we will be hearing new work from amoung the population of Glasgow University, including many seen before and hopefully, many who have never performed for us. We will be keeping the format that has run for the last few weeks, with a small interval and competition at the half-way point. The compere has promised us he will attempt to be more genial than previously.

If you wish to contribute this week, the system is as always. Contact toad@toadinmud.co.uk or Tom on 0792 635 0161 and request a spot. You may give as little or as much information concerning the number, length and flavour of performance. Of course you can still arrive on the night with something to give, and we will accommodate
you.

- God Speed

Dearest Patron, Clientele, Creator, Contributor or Derider of the Arts,

For the benefit of Mr Kite, there shall be a show Wednesday night,
from the ‘literary scene’.

You are warmly invited to attend the Sixth Weekly LIVE Poetry, Prose,
Drama, Musical Event-Evening,

8PM

In The Lacuna Café,

On 06th December 2006

at the QMU,

Sponsored by Toad In Mud .co.uk.

As you most likely know, we are purveyors of a medley of pursuits
presented in a profound and hilarious manner! We shall regale you with
sordid stories of inter-class affairs, debauchery, sexual liaisons,
rotting carcasses and the pathetic woes of tear-sodden bards. There
will also be ‘games’ of a rather raucous nature.

If you wish to contribute this week, the system is as always. Contact
toad@toadinmud.co.uk or Tom on 0792 635 0161 and request a spot. You
may give as little or as much information concerning the form of
number, length and flavour of performance. Of course you can still
arrive on the night with something to give, and we will accommodate
you.

Once again, gluttons for such things, we have:

8pm Wednesday 22th November 2006 at the Lacuna Café, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow, Scotland

Last week we had some great audience contributions, well done to all those who stood up and read without any preparation. Most gratifying.
As the nights encroach further into our daylight hours, we will remain a bastion of light and warming words. Come along on Wednesday and have your soul soothed by lilting stories of cheating boyfriends, filthy cows, sirens eating live sea-creatures, pornography quotations, soaking wet Glasgow and abandonment. We also talk about love, friendship etc, but that’s so passé!

Hope you can make it, we may have some party games. Keep you poet-ed.
- Tom