Hammer + Tongue Bristol presents: Chris Redmond and Ross Sutherland

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Hammer + Tongue Bristol just keeps churning out incredible line-up after incredible line-up.

This time around featuring April's Hammer + Tongue featured poet Chris Redmond.

Chris Redmond is a performance poet, musician and educator who weaves tall tales from a broad pallet of James Brown concerts, journey's via cow trough portals to the centre of the Earth and sometimes about getting poo in his eye. His work has been featured on BBC Radio 1, Radio 4 (Bespoken Word & Pick of The Week), XFM and SKY Arts.

Chris is the founder and host of Tongue Fu – a show, in which the UK’s best performance poets flex their lyrical ninja skills to an improvised soundtrack from the Tongue Fu band.

Supporting Chris will be one of the legends of the UK poetry scene, Ross Sutherland.

Ross Sutherland is a founding member of the hugely successful and influential Aisle 16. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008 and has co-written eight live literature productions, including the critically acclaimed Poetry Boyband (Time Out Critic’s Choice of the Year 2005). His debut solo collection, Things To Do Before You Leave Town , was published by Penned in the Margins in January 2009.

And, as if this wasn't enough, we also have a local support slot for the lovely Lydia Beardmore. She's charming, engaging, funny, bubbly, and really rather good with words, we love her and we know you will too.

As always, there will also be the famous Hammer + Tongue open slam for 8 performers to go head to head against the audience vote to be crowned April's slam champion and book themselves a slot in the regional final next year.

Hosted by the stunning Sally Jenkinson, the erudite and wonderful Jonny Fluffypunk, and that guy James Bunting who tags along making noise.