Cafe Create September 2013

We had a poetry challenge last night. A poem about central heating to include the words:

Hippopotamus
Cheese
Melon
Gromet
Scarlet

Pleased with this:

If you're bored with Bristol tasks
Finished drinking all your casks
Tracked down every wayward gromet
To the point they make you vomit

Late September turning cold
Chilly, or I'm getting old
Get a jumper (or a harlot?)
When morning colour's blue not scarlet

Your house has now become a fridge
An outpost on a frozen ridge
When the night time starts to freeze
No need to put away the cheese

And even if a rodent felon
Should perchance nibble your melon
You can know it will stay fresher
If you do resist the pressure

To press the switch and warm the meeting
Fire up the central heating
And maybe next year's job for us
Wallace and Hippopotamus

Fresh Expressions in and around Nailsea

Here is my news to the local churches:







Can I report to you and give you some dates of things coming up under this heading of my job. I would love a bit of publicity around the Local Ministry group for this stuff.






Jono Peatman performing at Cafe Create






Cafe Create is this Friday at Holy Trinity and then November 15th in the Tithe Barn 7.30 - 11.00. It consists of a fair-trade cafe bar with live entertainment. It runs on the third Friday every other month and will be carrying on through 2014. Although the best venues are in the Holy Trinity complex this is not a Holy Trinity event but a Local Ministry Group one.








On October 18th, again at Holy Trinity at 7.30 will be our second experiment at Cafe Congregate. The atmosphere and ethos will be exactly as Cafe Create but the live performance slot will include some presentation with overtly Christian content, some video presentations to get people thinking about God and some opportunity to engage with prayer.





After this event we will review and see if it is to become a regular part of the fixture list. Contributions to this discussion welcome.





Quiet Days at 29 Vynes Way are an opportunity for those who need some space to have a day in silence to read, pray, think, or even work on something. They run on the last Thursday of every month from 10.00 - 4.00. Each time there is some input from the Bible to ponder, a meal provided for a donation, and a chance to share prayer needs if required. Up to 12 people are welcome each time. They have been running, successfully, for the last six years.





Dates for the rest of this year are:





26/9






Quiet Day lunch



31/10




21/11 (a week early because of the clergy gathering at Swanwick the following week)





Helen Wills is now duplicating this work from her house in Backwell, if that is more convenient or my dates don't work. Ask me for details or the email.



Preachers Support Group is not strictly a fresh expression but a response to a felt need for those who preach to have a chance for input and to share. It is available to the whole LMG. We meet on a Monday evening twice a term at my house from 7.45 - 9.15. Next two dates are:



21/10


16/12





If any church would like to have a discussion with me about other ways that we could work together on any new way of being church please let me know. I love facilitating group discussions on this subject or offering time to any fledgling proposal and plan.





Having been away on the Pioneer Breakout gathering last week I am filled with new enthusiasm for this part of my work and want to develop it.





Thanks for reading and in anticipation of your support,

Cafe Create

Cafe Create is on at the Trinity Centre, Nailsea tomorrow night with live music, poetry and comedy. 7.30 - 11.00 p.m. with cool lounge vibe and fair-trade cafe bar.

Previous headline act Atlum Schema has the third EP of his four part set available. Download or buy CD version of Summer here. It's very cheap.

Cafe Create

Can't wait for Friday evening when Cafe Create is part of Nailsea's Arts and Music Festival Week. We welcome back Rachel Coulson, Nicky Tiddy, Richard Calverley and Pete Wood and top-of-the-bill Atlum Schema. Fine musical treats.

Come if you can. Atlum Schema will probably play from about 9.15-10.15 but drop in for a drink and a chat at any time. Cool lounge music, projected old movies and a free fair-trade bar (donations welcome) will feature as ever and the compere will be Vaguely Amusing (my stage name).

For any of the home team it would be nice if a few people could do a stint behind the bar as we have lost a lot of our regular helpers to a church weekend.

Cafe Create November

Great night at the Nailsea cafe last Friday with a bill topped by some astonishing guitar picking by Mark Fuller and the best 'audience question' we have ever had. Fascinating to discover that after our 'Films reworked to cope with cutbacks' item the twitterverse was awash with the trend #boring prequels. Cafe Create is utterly in tune with the times and if you weren't there you missed an absolute treat of an evening. Until January 21st then. Call me for a performance slot.

So here is our list of films:

The Little Train Robbery
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cubic Zircona Skull
Unemployed Girl
Moderate Expectations
The Bourne Disappointment
One Jumped Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One walked Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Disagreement
Star Tiffs
The Empire Strikes Backwards
Insufficient Postage on the Jedi or Return of the Jedi to sender
A Fist Full of Rupees
The Magnificent Six
The Magificent Three and a Half
Bearded Dragon Dundee
Harry Potter and the Quarter Blood Prince
Amble
The Medium Lebowski
99 Dalmations
One Dalmation
The 38 Steps
A Clockwork Segment
A Clockwork Tangerine
Lawrence of Weston-super-Mare
Gala Bingo Royale
Ocean's 10
Ocean's Still Recruiting
The Nine Commandments
Thousand Dollar Baby
Gone with the Breeze
Brokeback Molehill
Mission Quite Probable
Wind in the Bush
Reasonably Good Man
The Green Kilometer
The Green Metre
The Green Yard
Dead Poet
Eleven Monkeys
Sense
The Bridge of Madison County
Planes, Trains and Bicycle Clips
Toy Short Story
A Tale of One City
A tale of Two Small Villages
Where Sparrows Dare
Last Tango in Portishead
Last Tango in West Bromwich
The Six Million Zimbabwean Dollar Man
The Italian Part-time Job
Half a Thruppence
Around the World in 80 Years
Immigrant Cain
Asylum Seeker Cain
The English Still on the Waiting List
4 Cheap Weddings and an Eco-Funeral
4 Civil Partnerships and a Burial
Bronzefinger
Goldleaffinger
Jobless in Seattle
The Boy in Striped Boxers
Breakfast at Little Chef
Breakfast at MacDonalds
Texas Hacksaw Massacre
West Side Sentence
Bonny
The French Disconnection
A Bridge Not Far Enough
The Shortest Day
Extremely Brief Encounter
Homeless Alone
Raiders of the Basement Bin
The Failed Escape
Slumdog
Bedsit Rwanda
There Will Be Ketchup
Pirates of the Bristol Channel
When Harry Waved at Sally
Die Quickly
Snakes on a Hang-glider
One or Two Things I Hate About You
Girl with the Clip-on Ear-ring

Cafe Create November

Cafe Create is on at Nailsea Trinity Centre tonight. Live music from Rachel Coulson and Mark Fuller. Poetry from Judy Edwards with a new book to sell and all held together by me as dodgy compere and DJ. Come and chill.

Cafe Create Poetry Challenge

The challenge last night - a poem about chewing gum, incorporating:

The Pope
Sausages
Tortoise
Mothers-in-law
Dandelions
Trades Union Congress

The only thing I added this morning is the title.

When Gum Goes Wrong 

I work in a modernised factory
Confectionery songs we all hum
For we make boiled sweets and dark chocolate,
Mints, candies and great chewing gum.

But it isn't all sweetness I tell you
We down tools if we find a mess
And we strike without warning especially
In the week of Trades Union Congress.

For the rest of the plant is a factory
Where other foodstuffs are the biz;
What gum possibly aids concentration
If the flavour is of sausages?

So we strike if the contamination
Changes the raw stuff they've brought us.
For a mouse or a rat, a spider or bat,
A hedgehog a snail or a tortoise

Will spoil any chance of a profit
And make reputations turn poor.
We will have to crawl back to our families;
Go live with our mothers-in-law.

Perhaps there's a culprit insider
Committing a series of sly cons?
Putting weeds in the chocolate hopper;
'Stead of cocoa we get dandelions.

Or maybe a demon is present
With mischief, confusion and blame?
If the problem has spiritual backing,
We'll never get rid of the same.

So how do we exorcise flavour?
Who can give us industrial hope?
Shall I call in the Priest or the Bishop?
No. I'll go to the top. Get the Pope.

Cafe Create Set List

One or two people occasionally show an interest in the tunes at Cafe Create so here is last Friday's playlist:

Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It
Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash
Raphael Saadiq - Keep Marchin'
Raphael Saadiq - Big Easy
Faithless - Flyin Hi
Faithless - Love is My Condition
Faithless - Feelin Good
Faithless - North Star
Faithless - Sun To Me
Faithless - Scandalous
Delphic - Doubt
Delphic - This Momentary
Delphic - Red Lights
Everything but the Girl - Wrong (Todd Terry remix)
Black Kids - Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo)
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down
Four Tet - Slow Jam
Tower of Power - Don't Change Horses (in the Middle of a Stream)
Radiodread - Karma Police
Geezers of Nazareth - Day In Day Out
Foals - Miami
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug of the Nation
Dr John - Feel Good Music

Cafe Create

Great night last night at Cafe Create, Nailsea with over sixty people in to hear Judy's poems, Ruth's story, the Richard Calverley trio, Rachel Coulson's extraordinary voice and Atlum Schema's indie post-pop 'Sorry, I don't do happy songs.' Thanks to the audience for some excellent ten word stories (send me them and I'll publish).

Plus DJ Clarkey and a fantastic crew setting up and breaking down. Thanks everyone. July 16th is next.

This post also on Nailsea Fresh Expressions web-site.

Cafe Create

Cafe Create, Nailsea welcomes back Atlum Schema, Rachel Coulson and Richard Calverley for a great night of music in Nailsea Art and Music Festival week. Friday 14th May, 7.30 - 10.00 p.m. at The Trinity Centre. Fair trade, donations basis, cafe bar and a great vibe. Buzz on.

Follow Atlum's link to hear in advance.

Cafe Create Tonight

Cafe Create is a pre-evangelism event for those who might engage with life through the arts and performance more than science and lecture. Given the nature of the arty community it requires a huge amount of trust, faith and patience to see if any local live acts want to give it a go. We tend to be a last minute bunch. No make that last ten seconds. The danger is of putting on a performance event at which no-one performs and my solo career as a comic/poet/story-teller/musician gets more attention, frankly, than it deserves.

Tonight seems to be a bit of a breakthrough night in Nailsea. I think I have four music acts including some solo fiddle jigs and reels and three guitar-based turns including local musicians some of whom have played together before but not all. This is what it is meant to be like. Plus a guest DJ, a poet and whatever I do to fill the gaps. Bound to be beyond compere.

In my dreams this bi-monthly event has a team who have particular responsibilities and who never meet but simply exchange emails. We have met once but next time we may become virtual in preparation.

Snowball down a hill is a good, and timely, metaphor for this. It needs a momentum. I think, just gently mind, that it is getting it. Do come along and support it if you can.

Poetry Challenge

Last night's challenge. A poem about playing the didgeridoo to include the words:

Artichoke
Jelly baby
Golden Ring
Lake
Beth Wilkinson
Duck Billed Platypus
Hovercraft
Kangaroo

Anyone sense a southern-hemisphere theme coming on.

Ode to Beth
Once a jolly swagman
Sat by a billabong
Wishing he had something useful to do
He'd consumed jelly babies
And fancied that maybe
He'd missed out for supper on roast kangaroo.

Down by the lake
Was a male duck (a drake)
And although it appeared his decision was daft
He decided to hunt
Not with dinghy or punt
But chased after his food on his mate's hovercraft

This man had a Sheila
Well you should have seen her
A fine looking woman; a wonderful Mum
His kids were devoted
(He thought as he boated)
He dreamed of his lover, dear Beth Wilkinson

This story is sad
I know that is bad
But Wilkinson's hunting developed a fuss
He gave a hearty choke
Coughed up an artichoke,
Carrots, peas, fries and duck-billed platypus.

In anguish he cried
And fell over the side
His dinner had killed him; of this we now sing
With Wilkinson dead
Now on the lake's bed
One day we will find his ornate golden ring

We now sing this love song
It doesn't last long
But dear Beth requires another to woo
She has only one question
'Mate, how's your digestion?'
I lost one through chokin' please don't make it two

And so she did hitch
To a musically rich
Native Australian bushman called Boo
He plays her to sleep
And allows her to weep
To the mournful refrain of his didgeridoo.

St
Nailsea
18/9/09

Cafe Create Set List September 2009

Norman Jay - Journeys by DJ (tracks 1-10)
Raphael Saadiq - Oh Girl (featuring Jay Z)
Ian Brown - Longsight M13
Florence and the Machine - Howl
The Invisible - Monster's Waltz
Q Tip - Gettin' Up
Suede - Trash
Johnny Boy - You are the Generation that Bought More Shoes and you get what you Deserve
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
The Meters - Running Fast (single version)
Keith Christmas - Forest and the Shore
Toad the Wet Sprockett - Fall Down
Robert Randolph - Going in the Right Direction
Reverend and the Makers - Heavyweight Champion of the World
Jurassic 5 - In the Flesh
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
Roots Manuva - A Haunting
Everything but the Girl - Ten Years of Remixes (tracks 1-10)
Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Running Wild
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone

Cafe Create

Cafe Create returns to Nailsea this Friday 16th January with a quiz, music from the Piano Man, fair-trade free bar (donations welcome), chilled music, old movies and, hopefully, you. Slightly different feel to usual as an experiment. Love to know what you think.

Cafe Create Set List

Here is the definitive playlist from last night's mixed bag of old pop, country, lounge-hop, jazz, beats and chilled.

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon

Tracks 1-7 from Faithless' Renaissance set. Disc 3. Home.
1. LSK - The Takeover
2. Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.
3. Scritti Politti - Pray Like Aretha Franklin
4. Grace Jones - Private Life
5. Ward 21 - Petrol
6. Horace Andy - Money (Root of All Evil)
7. Frankie Paul - Worries in the Dance

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Bruce Cockburn - Slow Down Fast

Crazy Town - Butterfly

Nitin Sawney - Dead Man

Tracks 1-7 from Dusted's When We Were Young album
1. Childhood
2. Time Takes Time
3. Want U
4. Hurt U
5. If You Go Down to the Woods
6. Always Remember To Respect and Honour Your Mother part 1
7. The Biggest Fool in the World
8. Oh, How Sweet

BR5 49 - Even if it's Wrong

The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket

Tracey Thorn - Get Round To It

Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Running Wild

Gill Battison - If You

Atlum Schema - Mould Will Slowly Burn

Gill Battison - Time After Time

Atlum Schema - Codes

Joe Tex - I Gotcha

Andy Williams - Music To Watch Girls By

John Martyn - The Easy Blues

India.Arie - Video

Yeasayer - Wait for the Summer

Steely Dan - Do It Again

Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Everything But the Girl - Temperamental

Atlum Schema will guest in November. Hopefully Gill Battison will come to a Cafe Create Presents evening in December.

Porridge

Dusted off the poetry challenge act last night. The task was a poem about porridge to include the words:

laryngitis
tractor
salt
aardvark
gargle
plumptious
ethical

Not sure I knew what plumptious meant so I had a guess. Turns out it doesn't mean anything so I was OK there.

I woke up this morning feeling quite blue.
I woke up this morning didn't know what to do.
I tried hard to shout
But nothing came out.
My nose was all stuffed up. My voice had gone too.

My mother was shouting, she called my name, 'Titus.'
Your breakfast is ready. Please don't try to fight us.
Her attitude's bumptious
But breakfast is plumptious.
I wonder if porridge will cure laryngitis?

With what shall I flavour my porridge and malt?
I tend to hate sugar - it's nobody's fault
But my throat has a death tickle,
Hope that it's ethical
If on this occasion I pass on the salt.

How did this breakfast arrive at my door,
This wondrous cereal - a feast for the poor?
The oats have been packed a
Long way from the tractor
But Quaker is perfect of that I'm quite sure.

So as I sup my porridge the dog he does bark.
At least he can talk, 'Take me now, to the park.'
So voiceless and fluey
And eyelids quite gluey
It must be through illness I see an aardvark.

I'm feeling like death and it's clear that this saga'll
End in the pub and a few pints of lager'll
Soon hit the spot
And then like it or not,
In beer I will take a medicinal gargle.

So thanks for the challenge please don't get your coats.
I've come to the end and I've burned all my boats.
It started with food
And the poem was crude
But at least I don't joke about getting my oats.

Cafe Create

It's cafe night at the Trinity Centre, Nailsea and I return from the clergy conference to the news that the booked DJ has had to pull out due to getting the chance to produce a live sports show on local radio. Since he's my son I don't blame him.

Thing is, all the other acts who were 'considering' having a go have pulled out leaving me with one, although it is the excellent Richard Calverley, so tonight's set looks like this:

Me, playing chilled lounge tunes

Me, trying to be funny and compering
Me, issuing a poetry challenge
Me, reading a story

Library comic sketches on CD

Richard Calverley

The audience question
Poetry challenge result

So, unless you want to add to the mayhem on stage, come on down and support your local priest/comedian/poet/story teller/musician/host/set builder. 7.30 - 11.00 with donation-based bar cafe.

Cafe Create Nailsea 2

A fine night in excellent company with good entertainment. If you want to hear more of headliner Tash (Natasha McCoy) go here.

The set list, for those who may have heard a tune they liked:

DJ Lazy Dog Lazy Dog Volume 2, Part 2
Zero 7 Likufanele
Seth Lakeman Garden of Grace
Beta Band I Know
Minus 8 Starlight
Basement Jacks Oh My Gosh
Different Gear v The Police When the World is Running Down
Minus 8 feat. Billie Runaway
Elvis Presley Burning Love
Black Science Orchestra New Jersey Deep
James Taylor Quartet Theme from ‘Dirty Harry’
Feist I Feel It All
Voom Voom Baby3
Los Lobos That Train Don’t Stop Here
Iron and Wine Wolves
Dusty Springfield Son of a Preacher Man
United Future Organisation Off Road
Elbow One Day Like This

Cafe Create Images

The images from Friday night's Cafe Create, Nailsea are now published on the Fresh Expressions blog. Ali Jones took them. Holy Trinity members note the glory of the Trinity Centre once decluttered.

Cafe Create Set List

For those who heard a tune they either like and want to obtain or couldn't identify from the past last night, here is the set list:

Tyler Bates: Theme from Get Carter
Zero 7 : End Theme
Amparanoia: Ella Baila Bembe
London Electricity: Main Ingredient
Alabama 3: Reachin’
London Electricity: Syncopated City
Fried: When You Get Out of Jail
The Dead 60s: Ghostfaced Killer
James Taylor Quartet: Mission Impossible
St Germain: Pont Des Arts
Earl Zinger: Only the Ridiculous Survive
Jill Scott: Brotha
Reverend and the Makers: Heavyweight Champion of the World
Bentley Rhythm Ace: Bentley’s Gonna Sort You Out
Groove Armada: At the river (Q Edit)
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: Nowhere to Run
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Superstition (Live)
Martha Reeves: Dancing in the Street
Spearhead: Hole in the Bucket
Brian Protheroe: Fly Now
Dizzee Rascal: Stand Up Tall
Michael Franti & Spearhead: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy
Sub Sub: Past
PFM: One and Only
Air: La Femme D’Argent
Massive Attack: Teardrop
Bell: RIST llA4
Toad the Wet Sprocket: Fall Down
Phil King: Leaves
Happy Mondays: Step On
Fun Lovin’ Criminals: The Fun Lovin’ Criminal
Zero 7: I Have Seen
Quincy Jones: On Days Like These