Myself and the rest of Aisle16 have just dragged ourselves back from Glastonbury Festival. Probably one of our best yet, both as performers and as drunken nobs. On the Cabaret stage, we rolled out almost all-new material, including John Osborne’s World Cup poems and extracts from Luke’s new Cynical Ballads show. WE EVEN FOUND TIME TO HAVE OUR PHOTO TAKEN TOGETHER. A momentous occasion that has only happened once before in the basement of Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club (except that time the flash didn’t go off.) So at last, we can prove that we exist, although a night drinking rum in a field does blur the edges a bit.
On Sunday night I got to go onto Jarvis Cocker’s show on 6music for a poem and chat about my Edinburgh show. You can listen to us mumbling nicely to each other here: