Last night saw the introduction of the new Golden Gun Award. Every winner of the Tequila Shot Open Mic will receive a beautifully crafted Golden Gun. So delicious is the new award that I almost stole it myself. L.A SALAMI was the proud winner of the first Golden Gun and you can see him perform next week along side LIZ BENTLEY + ShortMAN. More Info Here
The Golden Gun Award – win yours at next weeks open mic.
Thanks Nathan for last Thursday’s brilliant, mind bending set about Uri Geller . Strange that a man should want to bend spoons with his mind in the first place. Seems like a poor use of a brain to me, unless you think bent spoons are useful. Come to think of it, I had a prostate examination recently,I’m sure they used a bent spoon for that. Anyway, Nathan, when I got home from the gig, I discovered that my clock had stopped. Spooky but true. My credit card had also disappeared and I woke up in the airing cupboard, but I put that down to the amount of lager I seemed to have put away. Come back soon Nathan Penlington, Bang Said The Gun loves you.
Can you sing or dance or pull rabbits out of your pants?
are you funny?
Can you sing arias with your head in a bucket of water?
Can you make an animation or short film?
Can you play the guitar or ukulele ora watering can?
Can you stand on a stage without falling off?
Are you RAW?
if so, then Bang Said The Gun needs you for it’s new RAW MEAT STEW shows starting in April.
Contact Dan at info@bangsaidthegun.com and tell us why the world needs to see your act.
BE FRESH. BE RAW>
The audience left last Thursdays BANG SAID THE GUN knowing they had seen something special. We knew it was good when people started ripping the posters from the wall as a “I Was There” memento! Like all good” I Was There” moments – No Pictures. Everyone was far too engrossed in what was going on.
This guy was definitely there.
Attila The Hun? NO!
Attila The Watch Maker? NO!
Attila The Knee Breaker? NO!
Attila The Shop Keeper? NO!
Attila The Rock Climber? NO!
Attila The Cake Baker? NO!
Attila The Bee Keeper? NO!
Attila The Cheese Grater? NO!
Attila The Cab Driver? NO!
Attila The Witch Doctor? NO!
Attila The School Teacher? NO!
Who Then?
ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER – Oh YES!!!
The Pope has urged Catholic bishops in England and Wales to fight BANG SAID THE GUN with “missionary zeal”.
Pope Benedict XVI said BANG SAID THE GUN “violates natural law” and could end the right of poetry evenings to be really boring!
The Pope has confirmed he will come to “Mud Wrestling With Words” this year.
The government said that, “BANG SAID THE GUN would make the UK a fairer place and poetry events more interesting.”
The Pope told poetry lovers: “Your country is well-known for its po-faced poetry events. Yet, as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of BANG SAID THE GUN has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of poetry communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.”
“In some respects it actually violates the natural law upon which poetry is grounded and by which it is guaranteed to be really really boring.”
Bang’s Top Gunslinger, Martin Galton, condemned the Pope’s comments, saying “Poetry had to apply to everyone.”
“Audiences should not be denied access to poetry readings just because they are exciting, entertaining, relevant and fun!”
Religious leaders have voiced concern that exciting and fun poetry events might make poetry relevant again.
No official itinerary has yet been drawn up for the Pope’s visit to BANG SAID THE GUN but officials at the Vatican and in the UK told POPSHOT MAGAZINE it was likely to take place in September. BANG SAID THE GUN said, “we can’t wait – we know the Pope will have a brilliant time… everyone else does and he’s no different from everyone else!”
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the Pope’s comments were a “coded attack on poetry and the poetry community.”
But Catholic MP Ann Widdecombe said: “This isn’t a debate about poetry, this is a debate about making poetry too interesting.”
She told BBC Radio 5 live: “Society teaches us that poetry is boring, so quite clearly you cannot have BANG SAID THE GUN showing us that it is actually interesting. It is a very dangerous precedent.”
She added: “Nobody is saying that the teachings of boring poetry should influence this exciting event – this is about allowing boring people to stay boring.”
Robert Mickens, Rome correspondent at the Catholic newspaper The Tablet, said the Pope’s position was “nothing really new – this is part of the classic teaching on poetry.”
“What the Pope is doing is trying to encourage poets to keep their resolve through very fluctuating morals in cultures and societies today.”
He added: “It’s not that the Pope is wading so much into the particulars of British poetry – I think this is very much a piece of his longstanding teaching. Poetry must be boring.”
Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, who sits on the Joint Committee on Human Rights, said “The Pope can be reassured that there is nothing at BANG SAID THE GUN which stops other events from being dull.”
A spokesman for the Government Equalities Office said:
“We believe everyone should have a chance to experience a Bang Said The Gun event and not be discriminated against. This is why they offer a £3 concession on the door. BANG SAID THE GUN will make Britain a fairer and more equal place.”
PRAISE THE LORD!
Global warming, terrorism, financial meltdown, swine flu, gun crime, David Branch, Conservative MP for Southwark, but it’s not all doom and gloom in the Borough. Certainly not at the Roebuck anyway. Bang Said The Gun are back with another potential raucous evening, best described as Mud Wrestling With Words. Our headliner this week is Jacob Sam La Rose, nice name, nice man and BBC London’s poet in residence. Well, it’s cheaper than renting a flat. Zena Edwards will also be performing, as well as the usual BSTG mob. So come along, everybody will be there, except John Terry that is. It’s unlikely that he will ever be let out of the house again. BSTG, The Roebuck, Thursday 4th Feb, 8pm kick off.
The recession is over, our wallets are bulging with cash and it’s time to learn how to laugh again. Why not try a refresher course this Wednesday. Bob Mills and a line up of copper bottomed comedians will be on hand with laughing gas and just out right funny stuff to bring the joy of laughing back into our lives. Raw Meat Comedy at the Roebuck, Wednesday at 8.30. Please bring a sense of humour – or a friend!