 Aisle16 run a monthly literary cabaret night in London called Homework, which serves as a proving ground for new material and a venue for invited guests (recently Jon Ronson & Tim Key) to perform to a knowledgable and appreciative audience. It takes place at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB. The group are also regular fixtures on the festival circuit and have performed at Glastonbury, Port Eliot Lit Fest, the Latitude festival, Leeds & Reading, the Edinburgh Fringe and the Athens Book Fair, to name just a few. You are likely to stumble across various members of Aisle16 in all sorts of places – Luke Wright is poet-in-residence for BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live; John Osborne is the author of the hit books Radio Head and The Newsagent’s Window; Ross Sutherland recently premiered his solo show The Three Stigmata of Pacman to rave reviews; Chris Hicks is a regular contributor to McSweeney’s; Joe Dunthorne is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Submarine; Tim Clare won the East Anglian Book Award for his memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts; Joel Stickley is the author of How To Write Badly Well and the Lincolnshire Poet Laureate. “Highlights of the spoken word scene.” Sunday Times “I had forgotten how much I like poetry and how wonderful it is to hear.” Sandi Toksvig, Sunday Telegraph “It has a purity and power you never expect until it is there in front of you.” Johann Hari, The Evening Standard TIME OUT CRITICS’ CHOICE OF THE YEAR, 2005. |