The Stars are out Tonight
The Pixievic Pixiekisses book launch at the ORT Cafe
by Hamilton High,
first published: February, 2017
first published: February, 2017
There was Cake
Pixiekisses Book Launch
Ort Cafe
The launch event for Pixievic's Pixiekisses at the Ort Cafe featured impressive array of stars from the folk/poetry/spoken word scene, marking a great night with joy of witnessing such amazing support for a relatively new poet.
Pixievic launches Pxiekisses the event of the book
Pixievic was the great charismatic glue at the centre of it all, performing poems from her book Pixiekisses in an intermittent arc throughout the evening.
Pixievic began the evening with Lovelonging and from the first moment everything worked like a well oiled machine. Quite amazing and never a dull moment. Guitarist and singer Mike Bethel sat and played his quite uniquely challenging art-rock agit-pop songs. And while I don't want to turn this into a list, there were other great performances from Marianne Burgess, sullied romance from Daz Dolcek and Anne Jones, The Burdocks did a hurdy gurdy driven VU set. MIke Gates showed himself as a superlative singer/songwriter and gave away copies of his Sideways Life CD to all who purchased Pixievic's book. Jack Arkle mentioned Paul McKenna in a poem and deserves credit for that alone. Carys Hannah was simply fucking hilarious with the ukelele and without it. Steve Pottinger made poetry look easy. He was excellent. Dik Guru played cool out as they can be versions of Iain Duncan Smith and The Cobra. Towards the end Big Bren enchanted and Glyn Philips was riotous in character as Armitage Spode... It was all over too soon.
Mike Bethel
Ann & Daz
Burdocks: Hurdy Gurdy Men and Women
Dik Guru
Armitage Spode
Jack Arkell
Carys Hannah
Mike Gates
Steve Pottinger
Marianne Burgess
Big Bren
An amazing and great way to support Pixevic's book.
And there was cake.
Essential Info
Buy Pixievic's Pixiekisses online from her Facebook page
Images by Jason Lewis - kindly created a flickr album here
Hamilton High
Hamilton High was born on Doheny Ave in the gutter, is a poet, writer and observer of popular culture. Likes fashion and cares less for style. He's on the move, he's an alter ego and we hardly ever hear from him.
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