The

Bath BurpMarch 2012 MUSIC * POETRY * ART Issue 10

BIRTHDAY ISSUE

WE’re ONE YEAR OLD !!

- EXTRA LONG CD -

Editorial

Happy Birthday we cry. Welcome to this expensively

gift-wrapped edition of the Burp, now one whole year

old, teething, vomiting and screaming all night long

to interrupt your ugly, prosaic nightmares. I wish

to use this here word space to do nothing more than

thank Ben, Heidi, Bob and Lewis for their dedication

towards what is essentially a twenty-page hard copy

of a drunken idea. To all the contributors over the

last year, a fond fondle, and to all future entries I

would like to send a folded A4 love letter I hope the

teacher won’t make me read out at the front of the

class.

Whittle your quills my artisan friends, I’ll be

needing another year of printed ink.

David Selby

Chisel

Magazine contributions: contact@thebathburp.co.uk

CD contributions: music@thebathburp.co.uk

Special thanks to Bloomfield Computing & Studios Ltd

for burning this month’s CD.

Front cover image by the wonderful Bob Shaw:

mattbobshaw.deviantart.com/gallery. Visit him,

he’d visit you.

www.thebathburp.co.uk

What’s on the massive Issue 10 Burpday CD

1. First Light, by Jools Scott. Recorded in the Pump Rooms,

Bath, ‘Josephine’ will be the first solo piano album of Jool’s

original compositions. It will be released in April 2012. www.

joolsscott.co.uk

2. Wake and howl, by Nuala Honan. This Australian goddess

has been singing on these shores for a few years now. We were

spellbound at The Love Lounge in Bath at the end of Feb when

she played there. Visit nualahonan.tumblr.com and her CDs are

available from nuala.bandcamp.com

3. Due dues, by Port Erin. (Recorded live @ Schtumm, Queens

Head, Box, 24th Feb 2012). Currently finishing their 2nd album

at Realworld with Marco Migliari. Playing in Bath June 2nd at

Chapel Arts. Go see them. www.porterinmusic.co.uk

4. Bedlam boys (traditional), performed by Hodmadoddery. The

legendary Steve Henwood and Tony Carter. Recorded live at The

Walcot Palais. www.hodmadoddery.co.uk

5. Polka Dots, by Bite the Buffalo. Brothers, Stos (Guitar/

Vocals) and Miti Goneos (Drums/Vocals) play fuzz riddled

rock’n roll. You can see them on the 22nd March at Moles. www.

bitethebuffalo.com

6. Hold Fast, by Calico Jack. The folk gypsy pirates of the

Kennet & Avon board our CD, and we’re pretty happy about it.

www.soundcloud.com/calico-jack-1 & find them on Facebook too.

7. Giggleupz, by Jilk. We’re really excited about their

upcoming album, released on www.bitphalanx.com

www.facebook.com/jilkmusic

8. The Colour of Amber, by John Wilson. Specially recorded for

this Burp CD during a Twonk Industries Session at Riverside

Studios. Engineered by Flash.

9. Stealing kisses, by Grace. Four great musicians combine

into a great new SW rock band. www.graceband.co.uk

10. Running Shoes, by The Fragile Bones

4 piece guitar-driven pop outfit from The University Of Bath.

www.soundcloud.com/the-fragile-bones

11. Soak, by The Edsel Furys. Good ol’ rock and roll by the Bath

boys from the Lower East Side.

www.facebook.com/EdselFurys

Harry Simmonds. Head of Mike 4 (left), Head of Mike 3

(above). Acrylic on paper. www.hspaintings.com

Five Haiku

salt storm-

we toast the galaxy

with margaritas

Van Gogh’s wheatfield

the width of a hand fills

with crows

Monet’s pain–

the shadows of haybales

lengthening the sunset

the heartbreak of others

a plane’s contrail catches up

with a flight of rooks

fractus clouds

the last of the single malt

smoothes out the edges

By Alan Summers

area17.blogspot.com / www.withwords.org.uk

Alan will be running a course in haiku at the Quest

Gallery, 7 Margaret Buildings, in April. Check his

websites for details.

Pelican Pant, by Jason Kemp

www.paintingsilove.com/artist/kemp

Jem Hobbs Detail of Grotesques (above), Framing Up

(right), Bishop (below right), Pinecone (below left).

www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/jem-hobbs

Face Off

Underneath your hat,

Inside the soft fur lining of your coat

There has to be some other bloke

The one I fell in love with

Maybe he’s been eaten

Or lying in some far off prison

Bleeding, beaten…

Waiting for me to come and rescue him

Or perhaps he’s got amnesia

Propped up on some Russian bar

Or locked in the boot

Of a mockney mafia mobster’s car

Breathing out of bullet holes.

Poor bastard, hoping against hope

That I’ll see through his obvious disguise

And realise that the man I love

Is no longer staring out

Of those dark brown eyes

But the victim of a body swap.

And all this time I have been searching

For this guy who’s wise and charming

But all I find is Mr. Passive Aggressive

Depressive, strange and mildly alarming

And not the man I love.

Who (as I speak) may be washed up

On some sand smug island

Or swinging naked from an electric pylon

While this impostor sticks his smile on

And makes it thin and weak.

And I am gonna have to face

That the ‘you’ behind your name

Has been covertly replaced

By some secret government agency

Who have jettisoned your body like flotsam into space

After they skilfully removed your face

And stuck it on a WANKER.

Ceiling

When I look up at my bedroom ceiling

I will often smile and think of you

Not just because of the great sex

But because you had ostentatious coving too

Birmingham

Clipped my pigeon’s wings today

Set him free over Birmingham

Watched him fall like a dart from the sky

Must have clipped too far;

Standing here with his wings

In my hands.

Poems by Liv Torc. www.livtorc.com

Liv co-runs The Hip Yak Poetry Shack, a great poetry

night in Bath - next one is Wed 21st March at The Por-

ter Cellar Bar.

Justin Warman - www.myspace.com/collage_frome

Mel Pozniakow - melpozniakow.blogspot.com

And here’s some stuff we think is worth

seeing in the next month...

Hodmadoddery @ The Bell (lunchtime), Sun 11th March

Ruby Brown + Catherine Hurley @ Chapel Arts, Sun 11th March

The Hip Yak Poetry Shack @ Porter Cellar Bar, Weds 21st March

Bite the Buffalo @ Moles, Thurs 22nd March

Children of the Oak @ The Royal Oak, Friday 23rd March

The Bookshop Band @ Mr B’s Emporium, 27th & 29th March (tbc)

Gren Bartley & Matt Woosey @ Chapel Arts, Thurs 29th March

Bath Society of Artists Exhibition @ Victoria Gallery, 31st

March till the 19th May,

Calico Jack @ boaters gig, Devizes, 14th April (details tbc)

A folk song every sunday asundaysong.blogspot.com

Dexter’s poem blog dexterselboy.blogspot.com

mattbobshaw.deviantart.com/gallery

A sunrise