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Last Call Poets

About Me

We’re not your typical poets. Last Call Poets, a new spoken word collective from Toronto, can best be described as beer-soaked brash poignant troubadours. Coming from all corners of the city, Last Call Poets bring myriad perspectives and styles into one group, making their poetic performance unlike anything Canada has seen before.Last Call Poets are: Valentino Assenza, Kevin Fortnum, Amanda Hiebert, Krystle Mullin, Dave Silverberg and That Brown Bastard.

Special Thanks go out to Cynthia Gould from ihaveasecret.com for filming and posting the footage. She also designed our CD Insert. Amazing!

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Member Since: 28/08/2006
Band Website: http://kevinfortnum.coffeehouse.ca
Band Members: Valentino Assenza, a man with fire in his belly and a powerful presence you can't help but notice; Krystle Mullin, full of piss, fire and impressive metaphor dropkicks; Dave Silverberg, known for odes to egg nog, journalistic war cries, and kick-ass haikus that'll spin your cerebrals; Kevin Fortnum, the "Lou Reed of the Toronto poetry scene," said someone sometime; Amanda Hiebert, a talented writer and actor who's a veteran of the Toronto slam scene; and That Brown Bastard, a poet who doesn't play by your rules, yeah, what you gonna do about it?
Influences: Leonard Cohen, Mos Def, Mitch Hedberg, Taylor Mali, Shane Koyczan, Jack Johnson, Janis Joplin, Charles Bukowski, Rives, the Toronto spoken word scene, Canada, Middle-Earth, YOU
Record Label: Pebble Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New video of Last Call Poets!

In case none of you have seen us rock our shit (which sounds like crazy talk, cuz why wouldn't you somehow check out our gigs?!), then we have a treat for you. In our VIDEOS section, enjoy a clip from...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:10:00 GMT

Last Call A Series Of Happy Hours At CD Release Party!

Well, surely in your life you still have yet to go through many last call's but last night's Last Call Poets CD Release party for Hearing Voices, was FANtastic...notice the emphasis on FAN, because th...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:28:00 GMT

CD Release Party!!!

The subject does not lie...Last Call Poets will be debuting our spankin' new CD on FEBRUARY 24, 2007, at Cervejaria (842 College). It all goes down 8pm, $5 cover ($12 gets you in + a CD), and the even...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:39:00 GMT

This is just the beginning

Welcome to Last Call Poets, a mind-expanding orgy of words and performance art. We got some exciting news for 2007 but we're going to make you wait, yeah, we're mean like that. Very soon we'll be perf...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:47:00 GMT