(Updated 17th July with line up changes) Spotlight Club is back next week (Friday 15th July) at the Storey Auditorium in Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, offering a night of poetry, horror, comedy and very good music.
Compered by virtual-lancaster’s very own John Freeman, the event kicks off with an Open Mic session, open to brave souls drawn to perform and offering them five minutes of fame; and the following acts…
Poet Norman Hadley, whose works hop from tragic to comic to sentimental weird in the flick of a metaphor aspiring to the pigeonhole marked ‘un-pigeon-hole-able’.
Author and World Fantasy Award nominee Simon Unsworth, whose collection ‘Quiet Houses’ was published by Dark Continents last year.
Comedian Christopher Kay – a tiny man spouting rambling nonsense as he leads you through his exceptionally eccentric thoughts about life.
Poet Mihkel Hassan offers a powerhouse of hard-hitting real-life experiences.
Plus there’s music from The Low Countries – Nigel Parrington and Els D’hooge, whose third album, A brown cafe at 3am, was nominated for a ‘best contemporary folk’ Grammy – and the ever wonderful Mollie Baxter makes a welcome return to the Club with a set of some of her more recent songs.
• Doors will be open from 8.00 pm; Open Mic 8.30 – 9pm. Admission £4 / £2 (conc.). More info: www.spotlightlancaster.co.uk
• Lancaster Spotlight is funded by Arts Council England and works in close association with litfest.