Scott Tyrrell the national and internationally acclaimed stand-up comedian poet will be headlining Scribal Gathering, the long-established monthly music and spoken word open mic night, on Tuesday (Feb 14) on the event’s seventh anniversary.
Tyneside based stand-up poet Scott Tyrrell can lay claim to an (un)enviable title – as the best and the worst spoken word poet in the country!
The 41-year-old graphic designer was the winner of the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Slam, in which he beat off stiff competition from more established artists.
Earlier in the year he also won the Anti-Slam Championship at The Roundhouse in London.
The AntiSlam is a tongue-in-cheek national competition in which established spoken word artists battle it out to be the worst poet in the UK. So Scott is now technically one of the best and worst performance poets in Britain.
The BBC Slam is now the most diverse and coveted Poetry Slam in the UK, with the widest national and regional representation of UK Poetry.
Add to that his winning the Great Northern Slam at Northern Stage earlier in the year, and it’s clear to see why he is one of the most talked about acts of his kind the country.
Scott himself is a multiple poetry slam winner, award-winning comedian and graphic designer. He has been writing and performing poetry for 15 years and was a founding member of the Tyneside poetry troupe, the Poetry Vandals. He has represented Newcastle/Gateshead in three major national Poetry Slams and won.
He has performed his work around the UK and Europe and at many festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Prague Fringe, WOMAD, Larmer Tree and Glastonbury, where he was poetry blogger in residence in 2015.
He is author of two collections of poetry, most recently, the warmly received Grown Up published by Red Squirrel Press.
Support at the bash, which is being hosted at The Crown in Stony Stratford, comes from Stony-based singer songwriter Lois Barrett.
Lois and is a wonderful folky bluesy singer songwriter. She loves all sorts of music and picks up little pieces of everything along the way. The syncopated rhythms of her songs are informed by a sense of urgent noir.
Densely intimate, starkly intense, and subtly percussive in that they blend Joni Michell, Portishead, Joanna Newsom and Gemma Hayes to create an atmosphere of undeniable cool.
Doors open at 7.30pm.
