Stick Man Army - "Music should be fun but also have meaning and if you haven’t already experienced them live, Stick Man Army have bucket loads of the old fun juice to help wash away some of the woes of the modern age..."

Jakal - "a feral mash-up of punk, ska, reggae and dub. Conscious lyrics, skanking beats and dirty riffs usually keep things pretty sweaty. And flabby."

The Sterilizers - "London based ska operators playing punk mixed with oi and two"

To Arms Etc. + Darkwood + JD Smith

Gorgeous skewed alt-pop from To Arms ETC, cool country 'n' Americana from Darkwood and one man bluesabilly explosion JD Smith! DJ Grae J will be spinning a selection of floorfilling country, blues, trash 'n' roll !! + saucy visuals

Artefacts For Spave Travel : a futuristic dystopia of panic stricken pop (art rocker)
Magic Aids : West coast grunge dirges. Loud guitar. Racketous drums. Sweet melodies.
Inbetweendays : Melody infused grunge-heralding guitar heavy songs played loud ta very much
Parking Offence : Angular,infectious,experimental Blockhead tinged pop gem purveyors (with-woodwind!)

BLOODY AWFUL POETRY DJs + Residents: J. (O). L. S (eARMusic "DJS")

...Next bOiNk!... 09/04/10 featuring DJ Jeff Leech and LIVE Chaz The Coolness wiv more tbc...yes, really...

Come early for the workshop and learn a tune and something about klezmer style. We have lunch from 1.15, and playing recommences around 2pm.

Bring an instrument and a tune, or just come to shmooze & booze. The pub does great food, coffee and soft drinks as well as alcohol, and has comfy sofas, too. Children welcome. Download some sheet music !

A fun-packed and recouperating Sunday evening in the company of a broad selection of not-too-noisy musicians, raconteurs and wandering minstrels.
Not just for performers, this is a perfect way for you all to wind-down gradually from the excesses of the weekend... and it's infinitely better than the telly :)

All welcome, performers just turn up and sign-up to play - or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...

Francesca Lewis – Voice / Huw White – Keys / Callum Gourlay – Bass / Josh Blackmore – Drums / Billy Adamson – Guitar

Pure Imagination play @ 8.30 ; Jam Session from 10pm

This March 'Utter!' Spoken Word welcomes Joe Dunthorne and Stewart Home, two very different giants of literary fiction, plus one dead visionary, and lets you vote for the stars of the future in the Paid Gig contest, with a workshop on Saturday March 6th to decide the last contestant...!

JOE DUNTHORNE : His first novel has been translated into many languages and is being developed for the cinema. Always witty and thought-provoking, Joe is also a widely published poet with a book forthcoming with Faber and has performed at many festivals.

STEWART HOME : Master of the occult, arch wind-up merchant, artist, philosopher, and scholar of sedition. Best known as the author of "sperm and blood" skinhead 'anti-novels', Red London, Pure Mania and Blow Job, which he delivers live through the use of advanced mnemonic techniques and puppetry.
Home has written for The Big Issue, The Independent and Artists Newsletter, edited anthologies of fiction and propaganda, and published a number of theoretical works on art, music, and radical politics. His books have been translated into German, Finnish and Italian.

CLEM FATALE, founder of FATALISM, tragically died in 1992, but CHARLOTTE YOUNG curated a presentation of key proposals, literature and documentary material relating the short life of this extraordinary artist. The bookwas dropped due to the economic crisis & subsequent loss of interest in art. Charlotte will read from the book, and a small number of these proofs will be available to purchase at Utter! Fiction. www.l-13.org

PAID GIG CONTEST: YOU vote to decide who returns next month for a full-paid slot, from:

ABI PALMER, presenting poetic precises of great novels including 1984, set to a cheeky backing beat.
MEGAN BRADBURY creative writing tutor and UEA creative writing graduate who wowed us with extracts from her dark novel at 'Utter!' in Edinburgh 2009.
NIKESH SHUKLA, compere of 'Wham, Bam, Story Slam!' (soon to be re-named), poet-in-residence on the BBC Asian Network and Glastonbury veteran reading from his soon-to-be-published 'Coconut Unlimited' (Quartet Books)

All hosted by Richard Tyrone Jones, 'ringmaster of spoken word' - Three Weeks

TWISTED FUDGE returns with more sketches and dirt and this time they've bought some stand ups too.

Join us for the first Twisted Fudge residency at The Cross Kings. For your entertainment we have award-winning worthy stand up from:

CIARAN MURPHY + KEVIN HAMPSON + RUPI JOHAL + BILLY HILL and many, many sketches from TWISTED FUDGE.

“There were no fucking canapés” – Vanessa Feltz
“There were too many canapés” – Karen Carpenter
“Comedians?...I thought they were cunts” – The Archbishop of Canterbury

Producing high energy assaults of dense percussion and lush tropical pop melody from guitars, horns and harmony Monkfish are a London 8 piece who formed in 2006 from a shared love of African and Caribbean pop music - anything from driving Congolese rumba to Cuban son - with an urban South London twist. The group is dedicated to using African popular musical canons to create modern musical expressions that are at home in 21st Century. Supported by the worldwide dancefloor sounds of the Flying Chillis who have played around the globe including WOMAD, The Big Chill,Musicport, Movimientos + Glastonbury

Celebrate the coming of Spring by spending an evening with the troublesome sibling of the Dan Spanner Big Band.

For one night, the Jester Bar will be transformed into the world of Spanner Jazz Punks, and play host to their stories and fantasies. Upon entering this little slice of heaven in a disaster zone, you can expect to find nymphs… the psychedelic nurse… a trombone player up a tree… past-life regression… Willie the Pimp… flamenco… all sorts of projected filmic wonder, and of course the music of Spanner Jazz Punks: exploring the seedy side of..... free... experimental... psychedelic... comic... funk... subversive... folk... punk-jazz... big band swing... balkan... tango... medieval... rock... circus... ska... klezmer... goatherd... silk road... space-rock... ambient…

This evening will take you on a journey through all the above and below, the heaven and the hell, and like Persephone emerging from the Underworld, herald the arrival of Spring in style.

A fun-packed and recouperating Sunday evening in the company of a broad selection of not-too-noisy musicians, raconteurs and wandering minstrels.
Not just for performers, this is a perfect way for you all to wind-down gradually from the excesses of the weekend... and it's infinitely better than the telly :)

All welcome, performers just turn up and sign-up to play - or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...

Giving the best performers on the new act circuit the space and time they deserve to show an audience just what they can do. Every show features a boutique selection of six excellent comedians, served up to you on a leafy bed of stage.

The Really Lovely Comedy Company (RLC) have established a reputation as quality comedy promoters with their other nights The Really Lovely Comedy Show and The Really Lovely Comedy Tea Party. Previous acts include Josie Long, Will Andrews & Idiots of Ants.

Ashnode (rock) + Shambala (indie rock) + Easy and The Cali Five (rock /Blues / funky)
The Invisible Lead Soup (five discerning London gents with a love of fuzzy 60s garage nuggets and a bagful of sparkling beat pop gems).

tickets on pre-sale - advance prices: £3 + fees, £4 + fees

A fun-packed and recouperating Sunday evening in the company of a broad selection of not-too-noisy musicians, raconteurs and wandering minstrels.
Not just for performers, this is a perfect way for you all to wind-down gradually from the excesses of the weekend... and it's infinitely better than the telly :)

All welcome, performers just turn up and sign-up to play - or for more info and possible pre-booking contact James

Please note we have no in-house amps or instruments ! we can however DI guitar/bass/keys into the PA :) Bring your own guitar, drum, backing track etc...

Musicians and singers... if you're interested in joining a group exploring improvisation within Klezmer music, come along, sing/play & experience the passion & creativity of this evocative music !

For more info contact : William 0208 969 7019