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About Me

Evil Flower Girl, sarcastic muse and one slice of the bitter-sweet tart that is Vintage Poison. Variably charming and capricious. Writer, performance poet and host of the notorious ''Issues & Innuendos' variety nights. 'Vintage Poison' collection available on www.vintagepoison.co.uk and on amazon.

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My Interests

Observing human follies in cafes, gossip, writing, art, photography, music, cities, and all things darkly & absurd.

I'd like to meet:

ISSUES AND INNUENDOS - THE HAPPENINGS.
Open mic and featured performers.
First instalment on Tuesday 22 April 2008.
A Night of Unbridled Passion presented by Vintage Poison and hosted by Lucy Leagrave.
Starts 8.00 PM on the dot.
Turn up 7.30 PM if you want a seat and a floor spot.
Upstairs at the Old Crown, 33 New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury.
Featured artists this month: Richard Tyrone Jones and Joe Campbell.
Fun, fables and fairy cakes.
Everyone welcome (oh the flood gates...).
FREE ADMISSION.

Music:

The Kinks, The Small Faces, Queen, The Stones, Thin Lizzy, The Byrds, ELO, The Animals, Love, The Pretenders, Cream, Mountain, The Pretty Things, Roy Orbison, T-Rex, Scissor Sisters, Motorhead, The Troggs...

Movies:

Vertigo, Don't Look Now, Tony Takitani, The Philadelphia Story, Charade, Friends & Crocodiles, Abigail's Party, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Television:

Excuse me?

Books:

My diary, Richard Brautigan, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Truman capote, David Lodge, Roald Dahl, Joanne Harris, Hermann Hesse, Tony Buzan, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, E. A. Poe, Paul Auster, the Ustinov Oracle

Heroes:

Over-rated

My Blog

STOP! WANTED for variety night 21. August

Under the banner of Cat Scratch Fever, ringmistress Lucy Leagrave is looking for trapeze artists, poets, story tellers, nutters, fortune tellers, rodeo clowns, comics (funny ones!!), artful dodgers, k...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST

Performers! Win £33 and/or a feature set

Yes, that's right, you can win yourself enough money for a nice cab ride back home (I'm assuming you all live in Muswell Hill or thereabouts). Just turn up at the Old Crown pub on Wednesday 23 M...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:13:00 PST

Pandemonium in the Portacabin

Thanks to everyone who turned up at Pandemonium in the Portacabin last Tuesday, spread the panic and turned the night into a paranoid-critical event. Everyone who decided to stay in and play...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:25:00 PST

Pictures of Uncle Butterfly evening

You'll find them in my Picture section.
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:50:00 PST

Uncle Butterfly

Thanks to all and everyone who turned up to and/or performed at Uncle Butterfly and helped to create a night of psychedelic overtures. Special thanks to John Clarke, James O'Nuanain and...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:53:00 PST

Delinquents Upstairs

Headboy Kevin in his dashing dufflecoat and I headed down to Dandy Land The Strand to witness the launch of entrepeneurs terrible Jel & Jason's magazine, The Delinquent. There was a lot of poets' ...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:39:00 PST

The Human Zoo You never walk alone on Noahs Arc

Dear oh dear, they're still looking for the new poetry messiah, are they? The next big thing to hit the shops, stages and, most importantly, the screen? Oh please& Are those the same people who think ...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST

New pictures

Of lovely dolls and egg heads. Check out the picture section.
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:36:00 PST

People under the stars

PEOPLE UNDER THE STARS Monologues with mortal machines trail through nights of fractured dreams, walls sob with lonesome words in the knotted hours of dawn, the clock b...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:03:00 PST

Uncle Frank - Charming Curtain Suit

CHARMING CURTAIN SUIT Murmurs under the bramble bush of brothels in Surbiton, shared ownership and forced abortions in swingers' Sixties still sour most of our family bre...
Posted by Lucy Leagrave on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:58:00 PST