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Neither Am I: Live at the 2010 Peckham Literary festival

Thursday 18th November @ Review Bookshop, Bellenden Road, Peckham

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Peckham…

The greasepaint-drenched, four-humped, lame literary pantomime horse Neither Am I lumbers back into the dazzling limelight of the Peckham Literary Festival 2010 this month, with a mystery cast of anonymous verb-spouters to speak words directly into your lugholes.

Following their exemption from arts and culture cuts due to a loophole in the regulatory mechanism, Neither Am I will be celebrating a subsequent funding windfall from unclaimed Arts Council assets by drafting in a stellar line-up of minor novelists and major assholes, regaling a frankly drunk audience with tales of Booker glory, unconscious lust, fake murderers, fear of people and, of course, sausages.

Featuring very special guest appearances from Howard Jacobson, Howard Jacobson, Howard Jacobson, Howard Jacobson and Howard Jacobson.

Arrive early for a complimentary glass of wine to soothe the pain.

More or less info: neitherami@neitherami.com

www.neitherami.com / @neitherami

8pm, FREE ENTRY

Review Bookshop, 31 Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 4QY

Tel: 0207 639 7400

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The Cavendish Arms set list and directions

The Cavendish Arms Set List, Friday 26th March, 2010, 9.30pm

Embargoed Until the Event (a brief statement)

Mother (a plea to the women who carried us)

Chalky's Curse (an extract)

Balls (hard-hitting political satire)

Food for Thought (a fragment of expelled material)

Hand of God (an atomic coming of age story)

Self-diagnosis (a plea to a physician)

Joke (knock knock)

Sticky Bits (a love story)

Ferret (fluffy animals)

Jihaddaway and shite (humanizing the demon)

Acknowledgement (verses introducing Neither Am I, vol.2)

The Cavendish Arms is here.


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And there'll be music from the worryingly hip Feeding Time DJs till kicking out time at one.

Peckham 2009

The Peckham 2009 Manifesto

In protest at the broadly upheld superstition that the world will end in 2012, in accordance with occultist misreadings of the Mayan long-cycle calendar, the revolutionary literary school Neither Am I announces its intention to jumpstart the apocalypse.

Neither Am I views this absurd belief as symbolic of the popular tendency to privilege mythology and mysticism over empirical science. Neither Am I asserts the primacy of a form of fiction that holds the two in equal standing, giving neither any more weight than any other manmade narrative.

We are appalled that such outmoded views of fictionality not only persist but are institutionalized. This kind of thinking lags scientific and philosophical thought by over a century. As long as these conditions are permitted to continue, there is no hope that our culture will overcome a fundamental and crippling philosophical impasse.

By collapsing consensus reality into patently absurd and obscene fictions, we anticipate that we will be able to render this reality untenable by June 2010 at the latest, and we urge all our comrades throughout the supposedly civilized West to aid us in our eschatonic short-circuit.

Set up.

The new book.

Performance.

Neither Am I: Live In Peckham

Descend into the depths of the Peckham book scene for an anonymous ménage-a-quatre with literary outcasts Neither Am I.

Tonight, the masked mongoloids will ride their verbal combine harvester over the barricades of suburban ennui, book lust and rectal discomfort, taking in an early nineties house party and the secret nocturnal habits of Jim Davidson along the way.

Making their second appearance at the Peckham Literary Festival, this performance includes works from their brand new paperback anthology, which will be exclusively available on the night for the first time.

Plus, fresh from the video shop destruction of the Apollo, performance artist Harriet Poole will be at large in the shop’s cellar for a very special tete-a-tete with curious customers.

Entry free. Doors and drinks at 7.30pm. On-‘stage’ 9pm (doors will be shut before performance so please arrive in good time).

Thursday 19^th November @ Review Bookshop, 131 Bellenden Rd Peckham London SE15 4QY/ Tel: 020 7639 7400

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