‘a day without olives is like a day’, Jack Piers Scott / Saturday 16 February, 2013, 12.30 – 9pm

Saturday 16 February, 2013, 12.30 – 9pm
Audio book installation during the day with evening launch
‘a day without olives is like a day’, Jack Piers Scott
Published by Corporeal

‘a day without olives is like a day’ is the second book of poetry and prose from Jack Piers Scott and an audio version of the same work with the author in collaboration with the composer Lucy Claire Thornton.

Written and compiled over the past few years, the texts range from descriptions of voyeuristic well-dressed gentlemen, to royalty in the throws of an existential crisis. This mixture of fact and fiction, of overheard conversations and character studies, brings together a vast array of truths, imaginings and absurdities, highlighting the shear multiplicity found within life.

The audio version narrated by Bill Milner (Son of Rambo, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll), the author and Paul McCleary, continues this broad stylistic approach by combining manipulated audio, field recordings and electro acoustic composition, to produce a wild and meditative world of sound in which the spoken word exist.

Jack Piers Scott graduated from Leeds Metropolitan in 2010 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art , he continues to write, design and make work.

Lucy Claire Thornton recently completed an MA in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music. She is in the middle of composing several arrangements combing string quartets with elements of electronic music.

Installation at Good Press Gallery, 2013

Listen here: http://adaywithoutolivesislikeaday.bandcamp.com/

‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book / Thursday 14 February, 2013, 7pm

Thursday 14 February, 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club
Reading: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
http://iveneverreadher.wordpress.com

Jonny on a Chorizo by Paul Haworth. Published by TRUE TRUE TRUE / Friday 15 February, 2013

Friday 15 February, 2013
Book Launch
Jonny on a Chorizo by Paul Haworth
Published February 2013 by TRUE TRUE TRUE
Finale to the Silk Handkerchiefs trilogy
www.truetruetrue.org

Reading by Paul Haworth at 7.30pm, hip-hop by Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot at 8pm

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Jonny on a Chorizo by Paul Haworth

THE YEAR IS 2009. Gangs of children, some as young as ten, are slowly roasting puppies over bonfires. To be alive is unrelenting and grim.

ENOUGH. Because Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back – and this is his last goodbye.

Picking up straight after Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere, he returns exhausted, rebarbative, defeated. And impotent. A pact is made: if life remains so desperately miserable, Abs will get off this melancholy-go-round once and for all. But his luck and his London are about to change, following a chance meeting with Ga—

No to spoilers: Jonny on a Chorizo is a book of surprise and adventure. Carrying the reader on a joyous ride through London – its pearly queens, crushed dreams, bashment, blue jeans, scenes of romance in Crowlands – towards a heartfelt climax. Une fin véritable to a trilogy which began with the publication of Silk Handkerchiefs in 2009.

So let’s bump uglies, dance about the Maypole and have one last night at the St Moritz, because this is it: Jonny on a Chorizo is the end for Abs.

Vivat Regina!

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SILK HANDKERCHIEFS trilogy

Silk Handkerchiefs (2009), Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere (2011) and Jonny on a Chorizo (2013). Our narrator is Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley: seven feet of cherry-sweet loving. With each book taking place over one year, events from 2007 to 2009 energise the narrative as we follow Abs on a life-affirming adventure throughout London. There is Monarchy, dogging, Kahlúa, gangs, galleries, grime and LOVE. Tall, sinewy, statuesque and virile, she is sensualabsational. Her name is Trevoreesia.

Paul Haworth is a writer and rapper. He has participated in events at the Barbican Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Motto Berlin and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. The books are designed and published by Sam de Groot, who works as a freelance graphic designer in Amsterdam and teaches typography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Together, Paul Haworth and Sam de Groot wrote Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross (2009) and released the hip-hop EP Good at Goodbyes (2012).

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