Hammer & Tongue Cambridge featuring Dizraeli

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Time for the next round of the Cambridge Hammer & Tongue 2011-2012 season...

This is your chance to become part of the spoken word slam brilliance that has graced this here fair city for over two years, in the warm and wonderful surroundings of fabulous venue The Fountain Inn. Sign up as one of the eight to compete for a place in the Regional Final, or just dive in and soak up the atmosphere and talent on display. And some great beer.

Doors open at 7:30pm; advance tickets are a paltry £5 full price, an even more paltry £3.50 for concessions, and a ludicrous £2 for slammers. Tickets on the door are £6.50 full price, £5 for concessions, and £3 for slammers, which is quite the bargain! Find us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/events/327917270564933/), and buy your tickets in advance from We Got Tickets, or get in touch (cambridge@hammerandtongue.com or 07904 488009) if you’d prefer to get them in person.

Dizraeli is a rapper, singer, poet, and person: the half-daft missionary who forced folk to marry hiphop.

His elastic, unhinged flows run through the supermarkets, love, tenements and rain of Engurland with a sidelong smile and a twist of phrase. He has won the BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam and the Farrago UK Slam Championships. He’s written several hiphop plays, including the award-winning The Rebel Cell with Canadian spoken word visionary Baba Brinkman.

Dizraeli has performed solo spoken word shows all over the world, from Inverness to Zimbabwe. He is also the chatty part of hiphop-folk partnership Dizraeli and the Small Gods. Find out more at http://www.dizraeli.com

“Refreshingly shameless… unusual and addictive… in both style and quality, Engurland is way ahead of the rest.” Sound On Sound magazine on Engurland (City Shanties).

“Dizraeli is a true folk hero, capturing the truth of our times with groundlevel honesty … a wealth of music, wit and wisdom. Five stars.” Venue Magazine on Engurland (City Shanties).

And he’ll be supported immaculately by local boy Inja, an artist with residencies at Drum and Bass, Hip Hop and Dubstep nights all over the UK; he is the official DMC World host and has toured with legends such as Taskforce, Logistics and Foreign Beggars. His work spans a huge variety of genres including dubstep, hiphop, grime, drum and bass and freestyle poetry. As well as performing, Inja co-runs Page to Performance, a UK-based education organisation with the central aim of bringing words and poetry to life. Find out more at http://www.injamusic.com


Hosted by Fay Roberts.

“The best live poetry is to be found at The Hammer & Tongue slams”
(The Sunday Times)

A poetry slam is a live democratic poetry competition where random members of the audience are made judges giving scores to a series of 3 minute spoken word performances with an Olympic-style score system.

“Hammer & Tongue have reinvented the medium for the hip hop generation”
(The Guardian)

cambridge@hammerandtongue.com

07904 488009

http://www.hammerandtongue.co.uk/