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Transcript of Bath Burp Issue 15
The
Bath BurpAugust 2012 MUSIC * POETRY * ART Issue 15
Magazine contributions: [email protected]
CD contributions: [email protected]
Special thanks to Bloomfield Computing & Studios Ltd for
burning this month’s CD. Front cover image by the wonderful
Bob Shaw: mattbobshaw.deviantart.com/gallery. Visit him, he’d
visit you.
www.thebathburp.co.ukwww.bathburpdirect.co.uk
I’m getting old, and have only just realised that what i thought
was ‘grabbing life by the balls’ was infact ‘repeatedly kicking
the balls until life had become a dead eyed eunich’.
It’s too late now, you guys go on without me. I shall walk into a
small copse or crouch under a hedgerow, so as not to blight the
serene view with my rotting and no doubt comically prostrate naked
body. Why naked? i took my clothes off of course, and gave them to
a charity shop. They were very grateful, but did request that i
remove my nude self from the building. Fair play, i look horrible
naked. May the beasts make a feast of me, and so enter me into the
circle of animals eating dead stuff.
Actually, that sounds rubbish. i’ll get packing and come along
with you.
Lots of Love
Mr David Selby
EDITORIAL
Jessika Short
I Have Absorbed Your Sleep
I have absorbed your sleep
And now, It weighs me down
Laden, Like a cloud I walk
I press my weight against your face
My eyes pushing through you
As I wash by, in a heated wind
Thin and reaching
Thick with thought
You close yours
As my heat envelopes your face
We come eye to eye
Gliding, then gone
In passing, something old reaches out
A bridge is built, between your gut and my mouth
People walk down from my height and fill your stomach
Your skin stretching with their weight.
Then we move.
Our bridge begins to crack
The painted iron starts to flake
And the weight of all those people push it further
A gaping hole opens beneath their feet
And they fall
Into space
Lost
Somewhere between us
But our feet get stuck in their dead
And this note that rings
Can we hold it
As it holds us
Blind
You reach out, but the distance is not a reachable
one
I try to speak, but the distance is not a speakable
one
Time starts to fly.
The slow history we had been building suddenly rushes
past
We are left, in a vast, empty space
Alone
Face
To face
No paint to cover our naked bones
Our iron nuts and bolts are the bare flat colour of
steel
I reach out and feel the cold surface of you
You try to speak
Your mouth opens like a vast cavern and swallows me
And I am inside you now
Heavy on your heart
Whispering
Secrets
To your organs
By Poppy Pitt
NINA BRAISBY
The images are drawn using pencil, makeup brushes,
eyeshadow and mascara. Nina used to be a make up
artist. www.facebook.com/nina.marie.754
COLOURS
Why is the world trying to persuade me that
race-hate is race-fate?
Like if every creed carved out their own chess piece the
board
would still be black and white and there’d be no peace?
Am I really supposed to believe for a second that every
second man, feeling second hand doesn’t have one damn
second, man, to think about the next guy?
Why do I feel that the whites hating the blacks and
the blacks hating the browns is just a revolving wheel,
if it spins fast enough the colours all blur…seriously.
Instead everyone seems to want to stick the brakes on,
let it all keep on breaking up
like waves on the cliffs of stubborn ignorance….
funny the great one’s in Dover are white… see my point?
Put it into context, don’t try to con the text or the
writer
for that matter and especially not the speaker!
Tower Blocks – Building Blocks
Poor and Excluded – Poor Excuses
Role Models – Media Brothels
You call it one thing, I’ll make it another – for better or
worse.
But I’ll never be the hater.
That’s gotta be something close to bravery, right?
Stuart Waddicor
Queen Organiser - Heidi holds it all together, makes sure
we all do our jobs on time, and collects all the creative
content together. She basically makes it all happen and is a
star.
The Illustrator - Bob does all the front cover drawings
and, this month aside, he draws all the comic strips for the
middle pages of The Burp. One seriously talented artist.
This month we’re very honoured to be able to show, in glorious
black and white, the portraits Malcolm Ashman painted of four
members of The Bath Burp Team, as part of the faces{Bath}
project.
www.facebook.com/pages/FacesBath
Co-founder / Printer - Ben lays out The Burp each month and
chaperones through the CD content. He also writes things
like this block of text, and regularly misses meetings.
There are a whole bunch of other volunteers who also make The
Bath Burp happen, including our very own webman and raffle
sorcerers, our folding and stapling team, the shops that sell
The Burps, the people that buy them, and of course the artists,
writers and musicians who contribute to it. Thanks folks!
Co-founder / Editor - Dave provides the voice of The Burp
with his editorials each month. The Burp was founded by these
two after a drunken chat at The Royal Oak, to show that lots
of creative and talented people live and work here. Prove us
right, send in your contributions for the next issue.
The Bath Burp Editors are on show at Faces{Bath} first pop-up
exhibition at the Guildhall, High Street Bath until the 5th
August. If you missed that then visit the Royal United Hospital
(main entrance, through the Atrium and turn right), Combe
Park, Bath from the 3rd October until 30th November.
The Burp’s Creative Busy Bee Heidi Lee-Sperring has
decorated a Swan for Wells which is on display in Heri-
tage Courtyard behind the Cathedral. Remember the
Pigs and Lions of Bath? There are 60 swans on display
around the city and they will be auctioned to raise
money for charity in October. For more information
please visit www.swansofwells.com
Dave Selby - Man
What’s on this month’s CD, ft. Bath Folk Festival
1. Safe with me, by Stevie Jo Dooley. www.steviejodooley.com,
www.facebook.com/steviejodooleymusic
2. Skyfall, by Catmandu, ft Ruby Brown. Written as an
alternative theme tune for the next James Bond movie.
www.catmandumusic.co.uk
3. TARANTULA, by Muddy Miles, Bristol based and played The
Royal Oak in June. www.muddymilesband.co.uk
BATH FOLK FESTIVAL SECTION - www.bathfolkfestival.org
4. Cuckoo, performed by Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith.
Winners of the 2nd heat in the New Shoots competition for the
Bath Folk Festival 2012. jimmyaldridgeandsidgoldsmith1.
bandcamp.com
5. Big John Macneill, Malibu Abu, by Jon Hicks, playing on
Sunday 19th August at Widcombe Social club with Spiers and
Boden and Bob and Gill Berry 4pm-7pm
6. Snow, by Effra, a folk trio playing original traditional-
sounding tunes with a bold contemporary twist. They are
playing at Green Park Tavern with Jez Hellard and the Djukella
orchestra on Wednesday 15th August
7. The Sunset, by Inu, who are playing Friday 17th August with
Spiro and Cliff Stapleton 9-12pm
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8. Delightedly Slow, by Leonie Evans, who has just released her
solo EP which you can stream at leonieevans.bandcamp.com.
9. If…, by Budada, recently returned to the UK from playing
shows in Hong Kong where they also released their debut EP
‘City of Workers’ www.facebook.com/budada.band
10. One More Reason, by Southern Drop. These fine folks are
playing The Bath Burp Launch. www.myspace.com/southerndrop
11. Redemption, by Southern Drop
12. Red Hooded Girl (piano version), by JOE LOUVAINE ft. Ella
Squirrell, They are also playing.
13. Daniel ISAKONGO / EXPLOSIVE Nzakomba, playing at the Taste
of Africa event at Bath City Farm on the 1st September. www.
myspace.com/explosivenzakomba
Send your tracks / poems to [email protected]