here are some pictures from JO BELL’s point of view… nice work Jo!
Martin Galton discusses love and hate…
John Osborne shows a touch of class..
Dan Cockrill starts to shake…
Dan Simpson explains the poetry of science…
Fatima blows us away in the Golden Gun open mic…
The Gunslingers go wild…
Jo Bell is top class!!!
John Osborne was brilliant.
Jo Bell was brilliant.
Dan Simpson was brilliant.
Sophie Cameron was brilliant.
Rob Auton was brilliant.
Martin Galton was brilliant.
Dan Cockrill was brilliant.
Raw Meat Stew was brilliant.
The audience was brilliant.
Naomi Woolnough was brilliant.
So brilliant she won the golden gun.
BANG was brilliant!!!
See Naomi perform next week with Mark Grist and Harry Baker.
BANG SAID THE GUN urges Florida pastor to drop plan to burn “An Anthology of the Nation’s Favourite Poems” on the lead up to National Poetry Day.
The members of BANG SAID THE GUN believe the protest would be a ‘recruitment bonanza for bad poetry lovers.’ BANG has looked at ways to stop the burning, and the Poetry Society has warned lovers of spoken word to be careful.
Reporting from the ROEBUCK — BANG SAID THE GUN will be joined on Thursday 16th September by the growing chorus of top Poets calling on a Florida pastor to abandon his plans to stage a BAD POETRY BURNING on the lead up to National POETRY day.
“This is a recruitment bonanza for BAD POETRY,” Cockrill said in an interview broadcast on BBC Breakfast.”
“You could have serious violence in places like the Poetry Cafe or Poetry Library. This could increase the recruitment of individuals who would be willing to read themselves to death in European Universities,” said Cockrill who called the protest a stunt.
Cockrill added his voice to other top poets including Attila The Stockbroker, Martin Galton, Rob Auton and Pete The Temp, all of whom have derided the proposed burning organized by Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center, a church with about 50 members.
In numerous appearances, Jones has said he is praying on whether to go through with the protest, which has already sparked counter-demonstrations in the Poetry World.
“I hope he listens to those better angels and understands that this is a destructive act that he’s engaging in,” Cockrill said on BBC Breakfast.
BANG has stepped up its campaign to prevent the burning and they are clear on what needs to be done. Come along to BANG SAID THE GUN this Thursday where we will blow the roof off rather than burn bad poetry books.
PASTOR TERRY JONES
Hates Bad Poetry – Loves Harley Davidsons
BRIAN MAY = HAIR
MARTIN GALTON = NO HAIR
MARTIN WINS ON POINTS…
I think we all agree…
Martin starts by wiggling his pen the way only Martin can…
And as if by magic a beautiful piece of art is revealed! How marvellous!!!
Go see the Lab being destroyed at the ATLAS GALLERY.
The Bang Said The Gun boys got together for a spot of lunch the other day, and let’s face it, it was very lovely. This is what people have come to expect from the delicious world of BANG. It is more of a lifestyle than a poetry event, in fact we might publish a Bang Said The Gun self help book so that others can be as frivolous, care free and pretentious as us… we work very hard at it thank you very much!
The Bang Boys discuss the finer points of poetry.
I think it might be love… proper manly love!
Oh, now i get it, the one that looks like a potato was laughing at the one who looks like an oven chip!!!
BANG SAID THE GUN hit Milton keynes last night to rock TONGUE IN CHIC. Here are a few pics from our visit.
We arrived in Milton Keynes at 7pm and didn’t leave until at least 10.30pm. ROB was worried that he’d out stayed his welcome!
Martin was upset that he couldn’t return to Milton Keynes for at least another hour. I explained to him that it was Sunday so it didn’t count! Then he explained that was why he was so upset, he thought he had a good excuse to leave!
Here is me sitting outside the Wolverton /MK Library Carpark. Some little toe-rag has stolen the “E” from the sign!
Luckily the night was a brilliant success and we all had a fantastic time. Thanks Milton Keynes + TONGUE IN CHIC. BANG SAID THE GUN salute you!!!
COULD this be the small but very brilliant Martin Galton… on MARS?
Some space buffs reckon it is after seeing this picture sent back by a robot vehicle probing the rocky Red Planet for signs of life.
Enthusiast Nigel Cooper – who has studied thousands of photos taken by Nasa and posted online – said: “It’s definitely a small poet of some sort.”
Mr Cooper, 43, of Grimsby, Lincs, added: “I’m convinced there are other poets out there.”
If you are not convinced, here are a couple more pictures of Martin so that you can make up your own mind.
Here he is hiding from nasty soldiers.
And here he is demonstrating a steady hand …
Photo by Jacob Sam La Rose
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!
