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Aisle16’s Services to Poetry

Saturday 11 October 2008, 8.00 pm
The Wharf, Cardiff Bay
(Under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult) 
Tickets: £8.00 / £6.00

Aisle16 is Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland, Joel Stickley and Chris Hicks. From their humble beginnings in 2000, running a poetry club above a communist theme pub, Aisle16 have risen to become one of the most sought after poetry acts in the UK. Familiar headliners at the UK’s major spoken-word events (Apples & Snakes, Cheltenham Festival, Manchester Poetry Festival), Aisle16 are equally renowned for their appearances in top comedy clubs, and for captivating crowds at the Glastonbury Festival.

On Saturday 11 October 2008 and for one night only, as part of Academi’s BayLit Festival, the boys will be bringing their show Services to Poetry to Cardiff.

Services to Poetry details the five days Aisle16 spent under the neon lights of Britain’s service stations. Featuring ten original poems, each one a desperate post card home from nowhere, backed by grainy camera visuals and the dullest holiday slide show ever.

Aisle16’s Services to Poetry features their trademark digital slideshow, their patented ‘multi-vox’ delivery style, and includes pieces such as It’s Mimm’s O’Clock, Luke Wright’s riotous clobbering of South Mimms services; The Nakedness of the Long Distance Driver, Stickley’s paranoid tale of his time in a trucker’s shower; Hicks’ woozy roadside dumping, At Ferrybridge; and Sutherland’s ode to arcades and the blue light gun, Time Crisis. Each poem is preceded by an extended introduction that slowly unravels the story.

Is Britain alive under all that tarmac? Can poetry be created on the M25? Is it really better to travel than to arrive?

BayLit: Shock of the New runs from Wednesday 8 October – Tuesday 14 October 2008
at various venues in Cardiff Bay.

For a full list of events and to download a brochure visit:
www.academi.org/baylit/

Or for more information and tickets contact Academi:
029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org