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About Me

Compere, poet, MC, promoter, loud-mouth. Onetime Stylish Riot MC (til the infamous 80s Matchbox barrage of beercans incident), all the time Let Them Eat Gak, Bored Youth on Prozac & Spoonful of Poison MC, started life as Snakebite City MC. Three years in the service of Wormworld @ the Foundry . 18 months hosting the "Pleasure Island" open-mic band nights at The Boston Arms. Co-founder of Bring Your Own Poison. Half of Gusset . Frontman of Electricity Comes From Other Planets , now sadly deceased (ECFOP, not Vis). In his time Vis has also appeared in The Bill, been resident poet on 2 series of ITV's now defunct magazine programme SHIFT, and roadied for George Clinton and, bizarrely, Belle & Sebastian.FESTY TALK pt 1 Recently released video footage, circa 2002...
FESTY TALK pt 2 I thought I was gonna be the first crusty TV star... Vis the Spoon currently hosts/MCs the following WEEKLY events:
EVERY Monday : SPOONFUL OF POISON open-mic - FREE !
EVERY Tuesday : LET THEM EAT GAK - 5 new alternative bands for Â£3
plus very occasional WEDNESDAYS :
PUNK SANDWICH - 5 bands from right across the punk spectrum
and approximately monthly THURSDAYS and monthly Saturdays :
BORED YOUTH ON PROZAC - upfront alterno !
all @ The Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, London. E1 1EW

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/21/2005
Influences: John Cooper Clarke, Spike Milligan, Pam Ayres, Robyn Hitchcock, Gary Numan, TV Smith, punk rock, intoxification, Carter USM, Vic Lambrusco, Richard Allen, Phil Doran, The Cot Death Kid, Atilla the Stockbroker, Porky the Poet.
Sounds Like: a shouty bloke talking bollocks mainly, sometimes a shouty bloke not shouting but making music, and then shouting over it.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

THE OFFICIAL FAREWELL GIG - Weds 1st Nov

I wrote it all in a bulletin, can't be arsed to write it again. Pls come and see VIS THE SPOON'S JAZZER QUEERS at Club Chicken Royale @ Push, Dean St., Soho.www.myspace.com/chickenroyale next Wednes...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:37:00 PST

NEW MP3s

The music for VIT-A-BOB was stolen from Who Moved The Ground, cut up, re-glued together, and slightly augmented by me, and the music for MISSING PERSON was supplied by JC Regulator, chopped up and add...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:42:00 PST

POETS NEEDED ! URGENT !

It's about time I did something about this. A Spoonful of Poison needs poets urgently, the poet presence has dwindled to virtual non-existance. I'm not a happy man. sort it out folks, drag the bastard...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Fri, 19 May 2006 06:16:00 PST

More poems - in the pics bit...

that's it really, Glow Stix, Arm and Tits are all available for your perusal, just click on "View more pics" init... more on the way...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:47:00 PST

Tony Rudd : Machadaynu

Check him out.. That tune is sick, it gets in your head on the first play and it NEVER FUCKING LEAVES ! AAARRGHHH. but a well executed piece of linguistic misbehaviour nonetheless, to an intriguing 30...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:47:00 PST

Download these tunes / poems ?

If you'd like me to make these downloadable, you're gonna have to ask politely. And I don't want a message, I want a comment, a naked picture of your girlfriend (or you, if you are already a girl) and...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:44:00 PST

Musical backing supplied by...

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE: Brian Eno's Nose Knows" uses a Dreyfuss tune, called "Kitty.." (or something), completely re-worked, scrambled, re-arranged, treated and re-produced by me, as it's backing. The ...
Posted by Vis the Spoon on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:33:00 PST