Valentine’s Day Pick-Me-Up

8th Feb 10

Just in time for an early celebration of Valentine’s Day, Terry Saunders has let his third ‘Six and a Half Loves video drop. It is prime Saunders material, witty, acerbic and touchingly poignant. Terry will be showing the complete series of videos along with additional material in at The Art of Storytelling on Wed 31 March.

Full details and tickets here.

Get The Blessing get our blessing, join Led Bib on musical bill for Avant! Noir

2nd Feb 10

We’re really pleased to announce  Bristol’s jazz-rock heroes Get The Blessing as the next addition to the already criminally generous bill for  Avant! Noir on Fri 12th March.

Here’s a taste of their super-stylish sounds in a Quality-Street-wrapper-on-head themed vid:

GTB will be sharing the stage and illicit jazz duties with Walthamstow’s loveliest Mercury Music nominated band Led Bib.

A generous line-up of authors providing the crime fiction will be Toby Litt, Cathi Unsworth, Courttia Newland, and Ray Banks. Visuals from the terrific, high-concept Huzzah! Noir online comic.

Full details and tickets here.

Don’t just take our word for it

1st Feb 10

A little mention in dispatches that came through on Saturday:

Obey the Guide. Get your tickets here.

Elsewhere in the news, ‘Praise be the London Word Festival‘ was the proclamation on Friday from Amelia’s Magazine, who picked their favourite bits and gave us a smashing write-up here.

Thanks, Media.

*update 2nd Feb:

Reports are coming in that correspondents from London’s best blog The Londonist remain ‘frickin excited’ by the London Word Festival. Also heard proclaiming us ‘brilliantly eclectic’ which is nice. See their full preview here.