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Rachel Weston

About Me

..I am....a Performance Poet, Classical-Jazz-Cabaret singer and and mental health-social care support worker from the fair shores of Brighton......And creator-promoter of Wordplay...a sizzling smoking hot performance poetry and live music cabaret night featuring the scene's most vibrant national and international artists...next one MONDAY 20TH OCTOBER 8pm Sanctuary Cafe (Bruwnswick St East)

My Interests

Live music, poetry,, slamming, festivals, fire, clutter, traditional instruments, being in the water...and All the extraordinary performance poets who wake me up: Excentral Tempest, HKB FiNN, Ebele, Derrick Brown, Zena Edwards, Bernadette Cremin, Rosy Carrick, Dizraeli, Mahogany Browne, Nathan Filer, Queen Sheba, Simon Welsh, Tim Gibbard, Yap, Jasmine Cooray, Strangel, Poetree-man, Dean Atta, Lemn Sissay, Dreadlock Alien, Simon Kossoff, Angry Sam ...and the rest...

I'd like to meet:

Myself

Music:

Klezmer (Eastern European Jewish folk), acoustic folk, rocknroll, psy-ambient, electronica,trance, Pentangle, Martha Tilston, Steve Tilston, PinknRuby, HKB FiNN, Tunde Jegede, Itzhak Perlman, The Hat, The Levellers, Janis Joplin, The Klezmatics, Golem, The Shout, Emunah, JJ Cale, Rage Against the Machine, Nick Cave, Orbital, Boards of Canada, Plaid, the Prodigy, Nicky Mitchell, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Maya Angelou, Carrie Tree, Cate Ferris, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, PJ Harvey, Sugardrum, Sharon Lewis...Chopin, Mozart, Debussy, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov - too many more...

Movies:

Stonewall, Adaptation, Mysterious Skin, Lolita, My Neighbour Totoro (beautiful Japanese animation - the Cat bus!),Quadrophenia, The Princess Bride, Velvet Goldmine, Pie, Leon, Cabaret, Some like it Hot, Requiem for a Dream, Guys and Dolls, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (flying bed!), , Dead Poets Society, Labyrinth, The Little Mermaid, Annie, The sound of music, Mary Poppins, The Railway Children

Television:

Nope

Books:

Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coehlo Unbearable likeness of being by Milan Kundera Singing & Swinging and gettin' merry like christmas / All god's children need travelling shoes and most things by Maya Angelou - Kelly&Victor by Niall Griffiths - Brass by Helen Walsh

Heroes:

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