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Richard Tyrone Jones

‘Wonderful compere and poet!’ – Daljit Nagra

About Me


Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet, comic, raconteur, writer and host-for-hire living in London whose material relies on pseudo-science, sophistry, urban myth, random cruelty, equal-opportunities misanthropy and sometimes the odd relentless barrage of filth. Richard is Organiser of the Arts-Council funded and regularly Time Out recommended 'Utter!', with its raucous mix of comedy, poetry, storytelling, music and Ajar mic contest. 'Utter!' erupts on the last Wednesday of the month at the historic Salisbury Pub on Green Lanes, N4 1JX in between Manor House and Turnpike Lane tube stations, London.

Richard also performs as his alter-egos, 55-year-old alcoholic anarchist Punk Poet 'RITCHIE SCURVEY', foul-mouthed Pam Ayres tribute act 'PAM SWEARS' and was once a member of FAT FAT POPE, an avant-garde comedy group described by the Observer as 'god's gift to comedy' and as 'wanky, self-important brats' by The Independent.

Richard regularly runs writing workshops for the 'Utter!' writing group, which takes place most Saturdays from 11am-1pm in Wood Green library's Community Room. He is happy to run these in any setting and with any kind of group.

For more info, bookings or to get a slot at Utter!s ajar mic contest, phone Richard on 07912*539*098 or email him on [email protected] (But without the BRITISHNAVY, which was put there to stop pirates from stealing valuables such as his email address.)

"manic and offbeat poems that contain more layers than are immediately apparent, and poems that are just plain manic and offbeat. Can take the piss out of himself as well as he can take it out of everything else, including you. Ha!" - Niall O' Sullivan, host of The Cellar and Poetry Unplugged at the Poetry Cafe, London

"five star performance" - Ham & High on Ritchie Scurvey

"Richard Tyrone Jones bridges the page-stage divide - and dumps on both" – Tim Wells

"Excellent ginger jokes...if such a thing can be said to exist" - Plan B magazine

"Top concept wonderfully carried out" - Paul Lyalls, host of Express Excess

"Wicked, fucking mental" - Phil Cornwell on Ritchie Scurvey. He might have been on the bugle though

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/5/2006
Band Members:

Richard has done literally hundreds of gigs around London and the UK including The Hackney Empire, Express Excess, Shortfuse, Utter!, Laughing Horse comedy, Ik:Toms, Hammer & Tongue, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Clerkenwell Literary Festival, performing alongside and programming the likes of John Hegley, Mark Watson, Iain Sinclair, Stewart Home, David J, Kat Francois and Dan Antopolski.

Richard is co-host of the regular Antifolk fesivals at the 12 Bar club, Denmark Street, London - see http://www.antifolk.co.uk/ for details

Richard unveils new material on the first Monday of the month at Spoonful of Poison at the Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, Free (Tube: Aldgate East)

Richard’s poems, stories and articles have appeared in The Fix, Rising, Brittle Star and Trespass magazines, The Delinquent issues 1, 2 and 3, art magazine in a bag Irk, Utter! Writing group’s anthology ‘Stop me & Buy One’, 2005, on the-errorist.com, metaroar.com, Tales of the Decongested’s website decongested.com and in ‘Poems for a Better Future’, 2004. His first book, ‘Germline’ is forthcoming in late 2008.


Influences:

Contemporary poetry: Jeremy Quinn, Hugo Williams, Roddy Lumsden, Matthew Sweeney, Anthony Howell, Tims Wells and Turnbull. Others I like but find difficult to nick all their ideas so am not that 'influenced' by them. That Shakespeare's not bad too, you know. You should check him out.

Literature: Stewart Home, Edward Lear, Jorgie Borges, Umberto Eco, William Burroughs, Angela Carter, Will Self, Graham Greene, Iain Sinclair.

Comedy: Fat Fat Pope, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Cowards, Noble & Silver, Spinal Tap, Simon Munnery, Sean Lock, Larry David, League of Gentlemen, Henry Rollins, Tim Vine

Music: Tech Itch, Current Value, The Panacea, Limewax, Freak, Position Chrome, Barcode, Renegade Hardware, DSCI4, G2. John Peel, The General and DJ E on Rude FM are my heroes. Also Digital Hardcore, Breakcore, Warp, Rephlex, Planet Mu, Wrong, but not to mix. Who doesn't like all that? Oh, and gabba. I like incredibly dated mindless nosebleed Dutch gabba.


Sounds Like: Wrestler Stephen Regal, apparently.... I've just been listening to my voice and I'm worried it does sound a bit self-conciously RP.
Record Label: EMI are always hassling me...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Conundrums of the Man of the Mountain

After a long and difficult ascent, at the end of a long and difficult quest in search of the secret of eternal life, I reached the top of the faraway mountain and there met the aged sage who, if I wer...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:13:00 PST

My first villanelle is about Paddington fucking bear.

Paddington grows upApologies to Michael Bond and Doris Lessing Via Heathrow Express, from Darkest PeruCame that lone snuffling son you found scared, just-arrived,labelled: 'Please look after this bear...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:24:00 PST

Autistic son access arrangements senryu

Weekends I get TimFinding Nemo sixteen timesFishcakes every meal
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:15:00 PST

Edinburgh 2008 review blog part 2

Alex Horne packed them in for 'Wordwatching', his attempt to 'seed' new words into the English language and OED. Though the whole exercise was of course contrived, and the show format inevitably owed ...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:14:00 PST

Edinburgh 2008 review blog part 1

Edinburgh 2008 Blog After some umfiddleum kerfuffle about whether I was going to have anywhere to stay and the competing attraction of instead getting off at Berwick-upon-Tweed and pacing depressed u...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:10:00 PST

Raw Shark Texts: Mini-review

Starting off promisingly with the quotidien life-rebuilding of a man who has lost his memory and the ocd-like routines he must build to protect himself from the depredations of a memory-eating informa...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:15:00 PST

NEW FACEBOOK GROUP FOR ME + EDINBURGH SHOW 2009

Hello you sprats,   I've just started a new group about me and my prime hobby, which is Hubris, on facebook. It's called Don't tell the DSS! Richard Tyrone Jones's gigs list list and is at http:/...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:35:00 PST

Pafos Byzantine Art Museum, Cyprus, and two jokes.

My sketchesReview: Byzantine Art Museum, Andrea Ioannou 5, Ktima, Pafos, Cyprus.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=964466&id=63946 8707Now most people will agree with me when I say medieval religiou...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:13:00 PST

Enter the Hackney Empire Spice Festival SLAM!, win £100 and perform on the MAIN STAGE!

Come on all you budding poets, rappers and rhymers, join the SPICE FESTIVAL SLAM! @ the Hackney Empire....In July, THIRTY plucky poets are WANTED to compete for: the chance to grace the Hackney Empire...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:39:00 PST

Richard Tyrone Jones - Poetry - Live @ IKTOMS Wired

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6UWZUIz2-w Hello again. Here's more footage, this time of me half-reading poetry including 'Verucca', judging by the hand movements (this computer's got no so...
Posted by Richard Tyrone Jones on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:09:00 PST