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| ARTS
& STUFF IN MILTON KEYNES (and nearby) |
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| Arts Gateway MK | The place to start for all MK-based Arts Stuff (formerly MK Arts Association). They do a really good weekly email rounding up pretty much everything that's on. Sign up and tune in! ;-) | ||
| A Word In Edgeways | Ace MK-based dramatic storytelling group. Website not been updated for a while though... | ||
| Blomic | Not quite a blog and not quite a comic. Surely that's self-explanatory! Done by a guy now living in MK and allegedly called "Plums". | ||
| BlueGirl | The question... "Who Is BlueGirl?" - the only answer I can give is that she had a poem in Monkey Kettle #27 and she's now some kind of MK-based visual artist! | ||
| Company MK | Impressive local theatre, particularly of big musicals an t'ing. | ||
| Giles' MySpace | The Mighty G - he's one of our ace mates and he's a photographer. If you need one, you may be able to hire him... Enjoy! | ||
| Ludamus Theatre Co. | Unofficial (and pretty darn out of date!) home of ace Stantonbury-based Ludamus, bringing together current and ex-students alike to do exciting theatre since 1991AD. | ||
| MADCAP Performing Arts Centre | Simply the greatest arts venue in the Mirror City. Check out the What's On - it's often us! | ||
| Peppers Ghost Theatre Company |
Award-winning local theatre company. We
should know - it was us that gave
them the award! One of the best local groups in MK. |
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| Poetry Kapow! | We passed on the Poetry Slam baton to these groovy types - who did it much better than us anyway! | ||
| Radio MK | Live Internet radio from the Mirror City - our pal Chris usually broadcasts 2-4pm on a Friday afternoon! Though I'm usually at work and can't listen, it's still great! | ||
| Paul Rainey | MK-based cartoonist and illustrator, his recent Book Of Lists is a total gem. | ||
| Shaman Of The North | Star of many a local poetry night, this is the Northern Shaman's centre of online ritual. | ||
| Speakeasy | Long-established MK Writers' group who do workshops, events, etc. Recommended. | ||
| Tongue In Chic | New for 2009, a fresh MK-based "Open Mic and Spoken Word" night with impressive ambitions! Skills! | ||
| Whose Turn Is It Anyway? | MK-based improv team, based primarily at MADCAP. Any resemblance to a long-gone C4 impro comedy show is strictly intentional. Knob gags aplenty, so well worth a look. | ||
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| AMPjam | MK Music E-zine, reviewing the ever-growing wide-ranging MK Music scene. Well played! Now with added Forum for full inter-active local musicability. | ||
| Cosmic Marmalade | One of our mate Thomas' band, proper jazzy grooving from a bunch of superb musicians. | ||
| CRMK | Cable Radio Milton Keynes - still going strong, still encouraging local music. Rad! | ||
| Fifteen Minute Acoustic Club | All new acoustic & band night up at the LIving Room in the Hub. Every other Sunday night, a perfectly mellow way to close down the week. Especially if we're on! | ||
| The Further Adventures Of Vodka Boy | Um... yes, this might well feature the Editor of Monkey Kettle on Lead Vox. But a splendid evening out for all nonetheless! ;-) | ||
| Jokulhaups Records | Localish (Bedfordshire, really) record label, with examples of their various acts' wares here on their MySpace. An eclectic output! Trancey, dancey, Eurobeaty and more... | ||
| Old School Studios | New Bradwell-based rehearsal rooms, recording, music lessons etc. | ||
| OTL / Cellartapes | Our mate Jaymz is seemingly in a billion dancy/trancy/electroey outfits. Here's his site. | ||
| Dan Plews | Local boy made extremely good on the international Folk scene. | ||
| Project Wolverine | Describes himself as "the bargain bucket Billy Bragg", I reckon he's one of the most talented young singer-songwriters we've got in MK! | ||
| Raw Pride | Ace hip hop collective from the mean streets of MK. As seen at Lupus Aid etc, though I'm not sure what they've been up to recently. | ||
| Georgie Retro | Acoustic singer-lady, also you might have spotted above she also has a YouTube channel with her vidjo art! She's recently moved away from MK, but still worth listing I reckon! | ||
| The Road To Corm | Have you ever dreamed a golden city to believe in? Fabtastic concept rock side project fun! | ||
| Rock Hard Music | Hidden away a bit in Old Wolverton industrial estate, Rock Hard is an ace new musical instrument store which also does PA hire and runs a rehearsal studio into the bargain. | ||
| Phil Sky | Monkey Kettle Music Hero Phil is a lo-fi troubadour for hire. Here's his MySpace, dude! Awesome! | ||
| Speeding Mellow | Man alive, do I love cellos! And here's a great MK band with a cello right up top. Result! | ||
| Sunset Acoustic Lounge | Long-standing "ace open mic night" at the Cannon in Newport, hosted by the magnificent Jef. Every Thursday without fail. Be there - and you'll hopefully see us too! | ||
| The Zeroes | Flamenco punk-poppers with bags of experience (i.e. they're slightly older than me!) and plenty of toe-tappin' choons. Their "Club Zero" nights are ones to look out for too... | ||
| FURTHER AFIELD : WRITING
RESOURCES (including other Poetry Mags) |
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| Clod Magazine | Luton-based mag - you've got to stay on good terms with the neighbours innit. | ||
| Dee Rimbaud | Very
well-organised writer/artist, plenty for sale and to look at here. He
also has an online blog at http://deerimbaud.blogspot.com/ which
is well worth a read. |
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| Duotrope | Comprehensive guide to poetry magazines and writing resources, including an entry for us which makes grim reading if you look at our Response times! Ulp! Must do better! ;-) | ||
| Ink Provoking | A site which generates regular writing challenges to get you going if you're stuck. Which is fair enough. | ||
| Lit Mag Central | Very comprehensive site with links and articles about Lit in the UK. | ||
| Litmags.org | Almost mathematically comprehensive US-based mag site, but I've just added us. Kerchingo! | ||
| Mat Lloyd | A performance poet from the area between and including MK and London. I must have met him at some stage, I've got his business card! Check him out! | ||
| Luton Haiku | "A Haiku every weekday. When I remember. About Luton." | ||
| Moontown Cafe | Online poetry forums, competition details etc. | ||
| Parameter Magazine | They first came to our attention with their hand-made "Philosophers Sticker Album" idea a few years back, and I knew immediately we were kindred spirits. Still going strong in 2009. | ||
| The Poetry Kit | Useful set of links and resources for all kindsa poetry. You'll spot us listed in the magazines section. Um... with our PO Box Address we closed years ago still listed. D'oh! | ||
| Sixties Press |
Publishers
of great and underrated poetry. Get involved. |
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| Wrote Under Pressure | Birmingham-based literary and spoken word group. I've even bin in their mag a coupla times. | ||
| JUST OTHER THINGS WE LIKE |
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| Cats That Look Like Hitler | Pretty much what you'd imagine. | ||
| Pokey The Penguin | Excellently bizarre online cartoon, with no graphical expense spared. Some of this actually reaches genius. Though I have no idea why... | ||
| Rabbit With Things On Head Site | One of my favourite web pages ever. Japanese chap fills the web with photos of his rabbits with things on their head. And that's it. Enjoy! | ||
| Tea | How to make tea. Something I think we can ALL learn from. | ||
| TV Go Home | This kept us going through those frustrating early years. Now of course Charlie Brooker's ON TV and everything. But it's still very very funny. | ||
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We've had over three hundred writers in Monkey Kettle over the years. Luckily not all of them have asked me to advertise their websites. But here's the ones that have. And some of the ones that haven't. Those of particularly good pals of ours are marked with a weeny asterisk! ;-) Apologies if any of these are dead. I can't be bothered to check them very often, and I'm certainly not going to have time to chase them up. If you spot one that's dead, tell us and I'll delete it. Shazam! LAST UPDATED - DECEMBER 2009 |
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| Linda Appleby (in #31) | Cambridge-based poet with a notably well-presented website. |
| Vincent Berquez (in #28 and #29) |
In his own words, Vincent's web site "takes a little while to get going" (i.e. you need to install a better version of Shockwave Player than I had!) but once you're in it's ace - artworks and all! |
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* Kit Bowman * (in #20 - #27 inclusive) |
The Russelling was our resident in-mag cartoon for some years - but check it out online to see how it should have looked! |
| Anne Brooke (in #27) | Surrey-based novelist and writer of "fairly dark poetry". |
| Dudley Burrow (in #26) | Poet from the north-west, featured in Monkey Kettle in 2006. |
| K M Dersley (in #17) | Runs the Ragged Edge website, which this is. Known as The Derz! |
| Tom Harding (in #27) | Poet based in Northampton. |
| Gregory Heath (in #31) | Poet, short story writer and novelist, Gregory's based in Derbyshire. |
| * Faith Hope * (in #15, #19, #22, #25, #26, #28 and #31) | Faith and Monkey go back a long way. She was/is also an integral part of the ace MK-based Poetry Kapow! team, though now based outside the city walls. |
| Andy Humphrey (in #21, #25-28, #30) |
Long-term friend of the Kettle and ex-Speakeasyer now in York. |
| Nigel Humphreys (in #23 / #27) | Welsh & Borders poet whose site has plenty of his work on it too. |
| A.J Kirby (in #31) | We used an extract from a novel-in-progress in MK#31, here's a link to all his stuff. |
| * Danni Kushner * (in #25 and at many events!) |
Boney fidey Kettle pal and Joint Chief of the MK Poetry Kapow army. |
| Aoife Mannix (in #10) | Also in the Monkey Kettle book - from a little way back, but she's done pretty well for herself since, so well worth checking her out. |
| Meechy (in #25) | Local artist / writer type who's won awards and everything. |
| Paul Murphy (in #26, #28, #29 and #30) |
Paul's got a blog, on which he mainly looks at some pretty hard-sounding movies. |
| Peter Schwartz (back cover #28) | His artwork can be seen all over the internet, but specifically here on his site. |
| Kenji Siratori (in #26) | Japanese Cyberpunk writer! |
| Steve Urwin (in #33) | Steve's from up in Co.Durham and edits the very good (and cleverly presented) poetry mag Moodswing. Well worth checking out if you check out poetry mags! |
| * Rogan Whitenails * (in #15 - #20, #24, #27 and #30) |
Prolific and extremely good, Rogan has been in Ver Kettle tons of times. This is his Blog with lots of his work, not updated for a bit but links to his several other sites. |
| Natalie Williams (in #29 and #31) | Newish to the world of McKettle, Natalie's based in the NW. |
| Noel Williams (in #31) | Sheffield-based writer. |
| Roddy Williams (in #31) | Describes himself as a "gay Welsh Atheist", this is a link to his Blog which I like! |
| Tony Wright (in #18) | Writer based in East London, this is he Blog. |
| Richard Zola (in #4 - #11) | The late great Richard Z. An icon of our early issues, sadly missed. |