Forthcoming Gigs
June 25th - Poet in Residence on Radio 4's Saturday LiveFriday 30th June - Kate is doing a 30 minute set as part of the Eden Sessions in Cornwall. The headliners are Fleet Foxes (ahem...no relation)
www.edenproject.com/sessions/blog/
Sunday 10th July. 7.30pm - Kate is headlining the World's first Poetry Prom at the Festival of Firsts in Hoylake at St Luke's Church
www.festivaloffirsts.co.uk/artists/poetry
Friday 15th - Sunday 17th July - Fox News Daily at Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival
Thursday 21st July. 7.30pm - Kate is performing her show of comic poetry 21st Century Fox as a fundraiser for the Lit and Phil on Tickets £5/£3, support from Alfie Crow
www.litandphil.org.uk/events.shtml
September 18th - Poet in Residence at the Great North Run
Great North Run
Tuesday November 1st - workshop and headline gig at "Word", "Y" Theatre, Leicester
http://wordpoetry.co.uk/default.aspx
September 24th - All Along the Wall gig, Bury Met
September 25th - All Along the Wall gig, Sage Gateshead
21st Century Fox
From small girlfriends to sexting, from hair straighteners to bent politicians, stand up poet Kate Fox is a Northern Pam Ayres for the Facebook age. 21st Century Fox sees this Radio 4 poet and satirist unleashing her funniest, sharpest material on anyone who likes words and laughing. Warning: There may be rhyming.
This show will be touring from spring 2011. Contact Mike Mccarthy mike@lakinmccarthy.com to book it.
A Portrait of the Autist As A Young Woman
Kate Fox recently previewed this show at the National Autistic Society professional conference in Manchester. She has had some development help from Annabel Turpin at ARC and will be creating an hour long version of this show, though it can also be adapted into shorter versions, talks and Q and As. It is a humorous look at life on the Autistic Spectrum and uses music, poetry and Kate’s inimitable comedic storytelling to look at the challenges of life growing up when you’re great at reading books, but rubbish at reading body language and good with words but less good with the ways of the world. It is interspersed with music from Simma (www.simma.co.uk). Kate has spoken to autism experts and researchers like Dr Judith Gould of the National Autistic Society’s Lorna Wing centre and Dr Vincent Read of Durham University to get an insight into some of the issues that impact on people on the Spectrum and look at how these might relate to someone who tackles them by writing, performing and being funny...
This show is available to tour and Kate Fox is available to give associated talks about her journey and research. For bookings contact Mike Mccarthy mike@lakinmccarthy.com
Feedback from a preview performance to autism professionals:
"I believe that your show has the skill and opportunity to enable people to relax, smile and learn"
"A great example of proving that people with A.S are not disabled but different -and difference should be celebrated. Oh and you are very funny"
"It is a fantastic show. Educational and funny at the same time"
"Recognised traits in youngsters I come into contact with. Loved the relationship between words and rhythm"
"The highlight of the entire conference"
All Along The Wall
At the end of January, eight performers and poets spent a week “on retreat” Big Brother style in a remote Northumbrian farmhouse and brainstorming ideas for this collaborative melting pot work which celebrates the past and present of one of England’s best known landmarks – and one of the Roman Empire’s greatest engineering feats – Hadrian’s Wall, situated just a few miles from Brampton. The Wall stretches coast to coast for some 70 miles of the most scenic areas of Northumbria and Cumbria and the artists have managed to reference many locations along the way. More on what the performers made of their experience can be seen at www.myspace.com/bramptonlive
The impromptu result was premiered at The Wave Centre, Maryport in January where it prompted a standing ovation from the audience – a performance recorded by Workington-based Fellside Recordings. The 23-track CD is now available and manages to be both funny and poignant in a wide cross section of material. It includes tracks such as Haltwhistle Women by Jez Lowe, Rock of Gelt by Julie Matthews and Ruth Notman and poems including Elvis McGonagall’s Hadrian and Kate Fox’s Opposite Side of the Wall.
Some reviews of the All Along the Wall performances and C.D