Plectrum - The Cultural Pick Live Edition: Mustered No.2 - Hallowe'en Spook-tacula

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Plectrum-The Cultural Pick presents
A series of up close and personal P-TCP Live Editions in the intimate elegance of the acoustic room of The Betsey Trotwood, featuring eclectic sets, specially tailored for P-TCP, of live music, author readings and talks, poetry and spoken word, and ‘in conversations’.

P-TCP Live Edition: Mustered No.2 - Hallowe'en Spook-tacula

The Cesarians’ Charlie Finke and Justine Armatage
playing a special acoustic set
“glitteringly gloomy...thrillingly seedy...deliciously creepy” - Time Out
“dramatic, eye-catching performance steeped in an aura of seedy, bohemian decadence” – The Times

Cathi Unsworth
reading from her latest novel, Weirdo (Serpent’s Tail), which delves into notions of cults and clans, families and outsiders, superstition and pure psychopathy, creating an unforgettable work of Eastern Gothic.
“The First Lady of Noir Fiction” – David Peace
“She has brilliantly and vividly captured the desperate sense of teenage boredom, isolation, danger and mayhem… an unusually gifted writer of heartfelt noir” ***** - Henry Sutton - Daily Mirror
“Unsworth's best yet, as sharp as vinegar on chips”
- Christopher Fowler, Financial Times

Syd Moore
reading from her second novel, Witch Hunt (Avon), a chilling, haunting ghost story that delves into the dark past of the 16th century Essex witch trials.
Praise for her first novel, The Drowning Pool (Avon, 2011):
“A stunning reinvention of the ghost story” - The Guardian
“A goose-pimply old-fashioned ghost story”
- Christopher Fowler (author of the Bryant and May series)

Delisia Howard and Chris Price
Utterly inimitable writers, actors, musicians, and P-TCP’s regular columnists,
with a song, a tale, a twisted smile...
which may very well feature the ghosts of the shopping channel, the trivial end of the ectoplasm set, Twitterings from the underground aviary, eerie sounds from the shadows, and Toe tappings from the crypt!

Benedict Newbery
Poet, filmmaker and journalist
Telling dark tales of ghosts, fear and the journey to the other side…

DJ for the evening:
Travis Elborough
author, broadcaster, and photographer
playing records from his Haunted Jukebox
"an English nostalgist in the mode of John Betjeman"
– The Sunday Times
"like a P.G. Wodehouse guide to pop history"
- Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne)

Hosted by Guy Sangster Adams
Gothic-booted and hair-raising broomstick flights of fancy and absurdist cultural observations in verse and spoken word from the editor of Plectrum-The Cultural Pick.

Wednesday 31st October 2012
in the upstairs acoustic room at The Betsey Trotwood,
56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 3BL
(Farringdon Station: Underground Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan lines and National Rail) www.thebetsey.com

Tickets
Advance: £6 from WeGotTickets.com
On the door: £7.50 (cash only no credit cards)

More details from Plectrum-The Cultural Pick
www.theculturalpick.com/events