It is nearly time to say goodbye to the Broadcast Bar!
The whole building is set to be torn down and this Sunday, August 25th, will be the last Spoke N Slurred in its current home (featuring Avalanche, 66A Grote Street from 5.30pm).
But fear not Paroxysm people, Bryan has had many a venue over the years and there will be another soon enough. And with it a new home for our monthly event. But please do come along and see this legendary dive bar off in style!
Sunday 25th August 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide SA 5000
FREE ENTRY
Spoken word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Guest performer AVALANCHE
“Why Avalanche? Because it’s a force of nature and does whatever it wants to, including reshaping stuff, the ultimate landscaper. Depending on the day of the week, it could also be a Leonard Cohen reference. Gotta love the Leonard! It’s a name I came up with for myself a few hundred years ago, kinda like them Apache chiefs of old – see, they’d get given a name when they were kids, and then change it as they grew up. I was kind of a molehill when I was little, apparently… Now I’m a mountain getting its rocks off!!!!”
Sunday 28 July 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
FREE ENTRY
Spoken word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Guest Tegan Sabine: When Tegan took their first wobbly steps at eleven-months-old, they had no idea they’d be stepping on so many stages. When they wrote their name backwards and barely legible in kindergarten, they had no clue they’d dedicate decades to words. Today, they’re still tripping on their toes, and scrawly in their scribings. Tegan has been writing poetry since thirteen, and performing since nineteen. They’ve shared their work at open mics and slams all over Adelaide in the seven years since.
Sunday 30th June 2024
from 5.30pm.
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Koraly Dimitriadis will be joining us as part of her national tour of Australia + New Zealand, launching her new poetry book, She’s Not Normal. Koraly is a bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet of the poetry books Love and Fk Poems (also translated into Greek) and Just Give Me The Pills. Her debut short story collection The Mother Must Die, is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in 2024. She also makes films and theatre with her poems, and her latest film Yiayia mou (my grandmother) is currently streaming on SBS. In 2019 she was the recipient of the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow for her debut fiction manuscript. Koraly’s opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Aljazeera.
See more about Koraly and her work at: https://koralydimitriadis.com/
Alison Paradoxx (Bennett) has parted ways with this world, from Paroxysm Press, from all of us. It’s been so hard to find the words or to bring myself to say them. She fought the good fight for so very long it seems somehow impossible that she isn’t still with us.
Paroxysm Press first felt her impact on the microphone. Her passionate and fiery words that moved us, inspired us and filled us to overflowing with emotion. Alison very quickly became a Paroxysm regular. We were honoured to take the next step and publish her in print, as one of the four authors in the book Spitting Teeth.
Alison was an amazingly talented writer, performer and artist. She was one of nicest, purest and most awe inspiring people I’ve ever known. She was our friend.
The world is now less of a place. May her words live forever.
With absolute love,
Daniel Watson and all at Paroxysm Press.
Sunday 26 May 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Matilda is an old Teutonic name meaning ‘mighty battle maid’, it also refers to a swag and she’s coming out waltzing. Unpublished and unapologetic, Matilda brings a poetic license to her works. A spirit of life imitating art, or is the other way around? Performing pieces on her feet and hands, come witness the spoken word stylings of Matilda.
Sunday 28 April 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher from Tarndanya (Adelaide). Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems 2023. She has performed at festivals, held residencies locally and interstate and is currently completing a Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia, experimenting with found poetry and ecopoetics. She writes about embodiment, the Gothic, queer experience, mental and physical health and the environment.
Sunday 24 March 2024
from 5.30pm
[ one week early due to Easter ]
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze
Liam Wooley is an emerging musician and poet currently living in Tarntarnya (Adelaide), South Australia. He writes and speaks to anyone who’ll read and listen about a range of different topics, including but not limited to love in all its forms, the process of writing, human rights, and living despite, at times, the best efforts of your body. He’s currently taking time off regular work for health reasons and hasn’t updated his resume in a while, but when he does it’ll include things like “former reader of books during English class that weren’t on the syllabus”, “maker of new friends on public transport”, and “hopeless romantic”, and he will forever defend putting that last one in the “strengths” paragraph. He had one poem published in a journal at 16 and nothing since, but is looking to publish a collection of his work some time in the near future.
HUGE news Paroxysm people in Melbourne. Kerryn Tredrea is touring your sweet city and bringing with her your first chance to grab a copy of her latest book ‘this is no ordinary rapture…‘ (Paroxysm Press).
There are two great chances to see her perform live: First cab off the ranks is Cherry Poets at The Cherry Tree Hotel on Saturday 17 February 2024 from 1.30pm.
www.facebook.com/events/1420934578824419
This is followed soon after by Poetryspective on Tuesday 20 February 2024 from 7.30pm.
www.facebook.com/events/1313013462696175
Sunday 25 February 2024
from 5.30pm
Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide
OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
For anyone looking to make a bigger day of it then come to the venue early for the Sunday Service where you can spin your own vinyl.
My name is Marty and I got into poetry when I was very young due to my father being a poet. As I grew I discovered my own passions and developed into a rapper. In 2021 I got back into poetry when I was invited to a poetry open mic by some friends. Since then I’ve been non-stop. I’m fascinated by poetry, art and all types of expression. I hope that my poems can entertain, shock, soothe, discomfort, comfort, give clarity too and confuse the audience all at the same time.