Wondermentalist

I’m excited by the new Wondermentalist logo. The BigO logo as it’s known. In my wondermentalist logo folder. Designed by my own fair father on his own fair Mac. The bigOlogo made its debut in the programme at the Feb 23rd cabaret, eclipsing even the triumphant performance of Elvis McGonagall. Well, not eclipsing. But no-one complained. Unfortunately my ability to upload and embed images is not as developed as it will be, I can only put a thumbnail version up. When I tried for a larger version it sprawled across the screen, muscling across the bits on the right like a vast texty elephant hogging the bed. You know what they’re like.

Tickets are now on sale for the 3rd

Wondermentalist Cabaret 

at the Royal Seven Stars, Totnes 

on Saturday 23rd February

doors 7.30 for 8.00pm start

tickets £7 on the door, £5 adv/concs from Harlequin Bookshop or the Seven Stars

Starring: Elvis McGonagall, a World Slam Champ, off of BBC radio 4, a real must-see,

South Devon’s own Lucy Lepchani, wonderful Honeytongue poet,

Dave Holland, musical prodigy with a dodgy attention span

and featuring the usual suspects: Jerri Hart, Nomad Shuffle, Dead Poets’ Slam (slightly shorter version!) and the continuing adventures of Empath Man

The evening will be hosted by Matt Harvey

The Wondermentalist Cabaret is proud to announce the following improvements… 

1 More seating!

2 A slightly shorter first half!

3 That’s about it

NB please buy tickets early to ensure entry

there are some tickets left to book over the web via e-mail: matt.harvey@copperstrings.com

Highlights of the last two sell-out evenings can be heard at www.traydio.com - it’s remarkably easy, just click and play…

Tell us what’s right and wrong with the cabaret, who/what you’d like to see there, who you’d like to represent at the Dead Poets’ Slam. Yes, we want you to put yourself forward as a future dead poet slammer…

…see you there!

Below is a poem I wrote for yesterday’s Saturday Live on Radio 4. It might look like shameless ‘crypto-advertising’ for the Wondermentalist Cabaret but really it’s an innocent and sincere savouring celebration of things quantum, small and beautiful. Really. Nitin Sawhney liked it, which is nice.

The wondermental things apply

as quirky quantum time goes by

it’s quirky and it’s quarky

and it’s kind of like a doorkey

to a world so charmed and murky

only physicists can visit it

and handle its vicissitudes

it is a most absorbing thing

to watch electrons orbiting

to sit there and imagine them

without a hope of catching them

the fundamental particles

like toilet rolls and smarticles

they’re smaller than bacteria

but in no way inferior

though they occupy less area

they’re infinitely eerier

and scarier

so much that even physicists

can hardly grasp that they exist

they have ‘non-local’ properties

exist as probabilities

as possibles and parallels

as parables and dizzy spells

a neo-nano-nothingness

attention-seeking emptiness

an absence with an aftertaste

a ripple in a state of grace

for some the sub-atomic’s

both a riddle and a tonic

east of reason, shy of rhyme

the quantum world confirms that time

is circular and cyclical

on top of that it speaks of why

the wondermental things apply

as quarky quantum time goes by…

Ask a simple question…and…well…five minutes later…

Matt Harvey doesn’t just spill the beans, he gives each one a name.

http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/audio/wonderful-2008-01-16-56310.mp3