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A literary salon exploring the connections between music and literature. We invited band members to Wax Bar (Leeds) to read their creative writing aloud. The evening was opened by cult classic author David Keenan (This Is Memorial Device, England's Hidden Reverse) in conversation with Lee Brackstone of White Rabbit Books. Artists read poetry and prose that has not made that journey from scribblings to lyrics, writing that occupies a different space entirely. Some of it was lovely, some of it was sickening. We recorded it all. You can hear it here. Volume 1 featuring: David Keenan in ...

The TWITS series follows the adventures of Cyril Chippington-Smythe (Michael Urie), the world's richest man, and his mechanical manservant Bentley (Dakin Matthews) as they navigate a dystopian world in search of love and meaning. This is a world in which the great minds that should have discovered electricity went into the restaurant business instead, or decided to chuck the science game because their true passion was stand-up comedy. It is a world of hydrogen, steam-powered servants and factory-made food- in which the privileged few, like Cyril Chippington-Smythe, whose every wish is ...

A podcast about unlived dreams, unrealised ambitions and the not-so-gentle art of procrastination.Hosts Richard Brind and Paul Thomas look at this phenomena in a creative context (Music and Film respectively) but this show is likely to appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of learning an instrument, attempted to learn another language, or indeed travel to far off places. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.