New myspace music and jazz poetry update

Having wrestled with myspace in the first place even to get a site up and running (it must be one of the most unwieldy formats ever) I have discovered that I can't add sound to the site without having a 'music' myspace site. Doh. So, very shortly I will be opening my 'music' myspace and asking friends to join me there instead of, well, there, if you see what I mean. Thankfully (sad person that I must be), I don't have many friends. (You may shed a tear on my behalf.)

The idea behind this is so that I can upload some of my jazz poems which will shortly be recorded with the band.... and so, to the gig. Sometime in the new year writer Jack Stanley and I will be doing a gig to combine our jazz poetry with some fabulous jazz played by a great little band called Special Edition. The members of this band have been around for years in one guise or another and further information on them will become available when I've got the other myspace site up and running properly.

Jack Stanley, my literary collaborator, is an American who has seen a thing or two in his time, has a passion for jazz, and writes a mean tale, and together we will be crafting a show that will enlighten, amuse and entertain. In the the first instance we hope that the gig will take place at the Hornsey Library, a long time venue for the prestigious writing group Word for Word (whose accolades have come from the likes of Fay Weldon and Romesh Gunesekera), as a Word for Word special, but plans are afoot to take it to other venues such as the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden and (hopefully) The Vortex. Of course if anyone knows any other venues where it might appropriately air, please let us know, bearing in mind that Jack is getting on in years and neither of us can travel to Outer Mongolia!