Between Stations Live Cabaret of the Spoken Word: Andy Willoughby

Join UK poet Andy Willoughby for a wild trip of live poetry, music and film as he presents his beat travelogue based on his book Between Stations. Film by Dan Perry and backing music by Anton
Flint and Finnish rock legend Masi Hukari (Amoral / Sonata Artica).

Andy will also introduce special guests from Finland and Estonia and performances by Tallinn poets who have attended his
pre-show workshop “Escape from Page to Stage - physical theatre techniques for spoken word and slam performers” There will also be a limited open mic for original poems and songs on the
theme of journeys - turn up early to book a space.

Doors 20:00
Show 20:30
Tickets: presale 4 € / door 6 €
(Free to attendees of Andy’s workshop)

★ About Between Stations Live:
Poet Andy Willoughby finds himself transported on a mock epic, high-octane locomotive beat journey from his native post-industrial Teesside to deepest Siberia and back again. With an improvised soundtrack of half-forgotten Irish Catholic hymns, Fenno-Ugrian magic chants, Russian folk tales and a battered old Bob Dylan cassette, Between Stations ricochets between present and past with a raggle-taggle bunch of Finnish fellow-travelling poets and the
hallucinatory shades of Blake, Mayakovsky, Eisenstein and Mandelstam on a ramshackle quest for the Golden Woman of Khanty Mansisk and a razor sharp examination of the hidden causes of Brexit Britain.

‘Andy Willoughby is an urban shaman, calling on the small gods to kid us through a journey of transformation that takes us from beginnings to endings and back again. It is a mapping of the
liminal space, by one of the masters of the working-class biro in a blue ink tattoo on the inside of his arm.’
— Joelle Taylor