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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka is an influential American poet, dramatist and music critic. Known for his outspoken political activism, he may be best remembered for his controversial tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Important writings include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961) and Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963), which remains one of the most influential volumes of jazz criticism. Baraka's website is http://www.amiribaraka.com/.

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Stefan Zweig

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The Girobabies

The Last Fm page was made a while ago where we allowed everyone to download our `Broken Home sessions` E.P for free this included songs from the `Sack the Unemployed` C.D we gave out at a couple of gigs (June 2009) UPDATE FEBRUARY 2010************ we have now started recording in a real studio as part of our `Social NOTworking` album and have duly added the first two tracks called `Stalker Drama` and `Jeremy Kyle (Fucked My Wife)` these songs can be downloaded for free at www.thegirobabies.bandcamp.com as we start to promote an official release set for May 5th 2010

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Antony Hurley

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Nathan Penlington

Nathan Penlington (born in Rhyl, North Wales), is a poet, writer, live literature producer and magician. His work has appeared on stage, in print and on the radio. Nathan Penlington currently performs at venues and festivals across the UK, Europe and the USA, and has shared stages with performers such as John Cooper Clarke, Ricky Gervais and Phill Jupitus. His performances fuse comedy, storytelling and magic with writing that led Robert Newman to describe him as "a natural performer, witty, inventive...

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Les Barker

Les Barker, born in 1947, is an English poet and performer. He's known for writing comedic poetry and parody songs. He also performs with the Mrs Ackroyd Band, named after his late dog, Mrs. Ackroyd; the band has including members such as June Tabor and Martin Carthy.

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Codeen

Codeen have been around since around 2000, originally starting out as a 3-piece, and have had many changes in the line-up with Kris being the only original member from the starting line up. Kris Lang - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Sean Devenny - Synth/Keyboard, Backing Vocals
Martin John - Lead Guitar
David McAuley - Bass
Craig Mullen - Drums "Codeen has a solid rhythm section and holds down the soaring/hopeful/dark melodies of Kris, Martin and Sean"

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Luke Wright

Luke Wright is one of the UK’s leading stand-up poets. Having made his name as founder of live poetry collective Aisle16, Luke branched out on his own, coming runner-up in Slam Poets on BBC3, the UK’s first televised poetry slam. He is now a 4Talent Award winner and regular contributor to Radio 4’s Saturday Live. Since 2006 he has written and starred in three one-man shows, all of which have won five star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival and toured nationally.

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Franco Battiato

Franco Battiato (born 1945 in Sicily, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and painter.
He is considered one of the most original personalities in italian music from the 1970s to now. Battiato's songs are dreamy, controversial collages of images and sensations, very experimental and convoluted, rich of esoteric, philosophical and East Asian religious themes. His collaborations (from 1994 onward) with the nihilistic-cynical philosopher Manlio Sgalambro have added further depth to his apparently nonsensical lyrics...