Hugh Metcalfe + Jackie Montague + Paola Lesina + Lepke B
Doors 7pm | performances 8pm | £10 cash
Greasy Codpiece
Episode 1: The Egg Is Laid
Poetical Duet, 8mm film Throbbing Jesus, Solo noise, Night Soil For The Soul
Starring:
Hugh Metcalfe: “Never Knowingly Underrated Since 1972”
In February 2024, Who Writes This Rubbish? A long overdue retrospective exhibition at 142 Gallery, finally gave an unsuspecting public a taste of the unique world vision and 40 odd year career of the musician; filmmaker; artist; poet; Klinker Club organiser; anarchist; disruptor that is Hugh Metcalfe.
Surreal, honest, silly and deeply philosophical, Hugh’s poetry, films and music (some say) sit somewhere between genius and unfathomable. Co-conspirators along the way have included legendary sound poet Bob Cobbing, Penny Rimbaud (Crass),Tony Oxley and Lulu (possibly.) His own experimental improv bands Bugger All Stars and Fuck Off Batman are still together, despite having to endure occasional personnel changes whilst members go off to play with the likes of Peter Gabriel, The Pogues and PiL. This year he achieved a long-held ambition of creating Poo Poo Band, an ever-changing improvised collective, last heard primal screaming in Felixstowe before the watershed.
A night at Klinker Club, founded by Hugh in 1982, is still a place to expect the marginalised and mental. Arts Council England have never been involved.
Klinker operations are directed via Metcalfe Towers in Suffolk and Klinker Club returns to London on 28 January 2025 at Café Oto, Dalston.
Jackie Montague: “A lovely voice but concerning and controversial lyrics”
Described recently in Outline Magazine as “bawdy, humorous -ding dong-and uncompromising,” Jackie is a spoken word poet, writer and performer based in Suffolk .
After making her debut with Poo Poo Band performing Night Soil For The Soul, Jackie’s association with Hugh Metcalfe was tested with a 7 hour car trip for a Klinker Club in Frome, Somerset. Both survived unscathed and enthusiastic.
Recent performances for Klinker Club have included Harwich Arts Festival and Asylum Studios Bentwaters. Her work has been selected for Ruthin International Arts Festival; Instant Vortex Live Art Happening Colchester Arts Centre and Spill Live Art Festival as a performer and writer. Jackie has been published this year by Earth Island Books in the 10 Poets Anthology.
Follow on Instagram @BrainwavesAreBetterThanPerms
Paola Lesina
Paola Lesina blends sounds, poetry, objects and images.
Her work explores the relationship between silence and noise, through an intuitive process that rejects any univocal interpretation of reality.
Her is ‘raw’ and unprocessed documentation ranging from tape recorder to mobile phone.
www.paolalesina.com
Lepke B
Lepke B is hard to find.
Lepke B is an idea derived from science-fiction.
Lepke B is the missing dimension in the world of matter and anti-matter.
His brain is a neuronic web spreading out over melodies and words that have been transmitted since the beginning of times…
