Tongue Fu

This is gonna be lotsa fun!

Come along!

Tongue Fu at Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA London, United Kingdom on Thursday, June 30th 2011 is

featuring

Elvis McGonagall, Maria Slovakova & Anthony Anaxagorou

Three multi-syllable surnamed demigods of Spoken Word flex their freshest lyrical moves to jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks from the Tongue Fu Band (UNKLE, Massive Attack)

Elvis McGonagall – Firey stand up poet, armchair revolutionary and 2006 World Slam Champion. A regular on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Today Programme and Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash. “….funny, angry and tightly written…recalls John Cooper Clarke in his prime” The Scotsmanhttp://elvismcgonagall.co.uk/

Maria Slovakova makes poems, paintings, stickers, clothes, toys, iphone apps and album artwork, working in the UK, Europe and US with her Peace & Cookies company. Featured by Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6, she’s Bjork, making toy poems on acid, with a Buddhist heart. http://maria-slovakova.net/

Anthony Anaxagorou – former Slambassador, setting stages alight all over London, Anthony recently toured the UK with MOBO winning hip-hop head Akala. Bright, political, spirited poetry with sharp teeth.http://anthonyanaxagorou.com/
Plus special guests

Poet In Residence Shane Solanki
http://lastmangoinparis.net/

Hosted by
Chris Redmond - as heard on BBC Radio 4’s Pick Of The Week
http://myspace.com/ventriloquistmusic

www.richmix.org.uk or 020 7613 7498 for tickets
£9 / £7 concs
Doors 8pm / Show 8.30pm

"It's poetry, but not as you know it…amazing to listen to” The Guardian

“Top performance poetry night” The Independent

“the best poetry night in London” WriteOutLoud.net

http://youtube.com/tonguefutales

ARTFLAKES

Thanks to ARTFLAKES from Berlin there are some more nice prints and cards now available!

Click bellow to enter my page...keep checking back, there is more to come.

http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/maria-slovakova

Abe doing theTulip listening.

This one off to Australia very soon. Painted for my dear friend Chris who lives there now.

Kurt

Speaking of Words

So. After a year of work we're almost there. My first spoken word release is almost out of the oven. Titled Speaking of Words, it will be released on Peace&Cookies label and I think it's all so exciting! Here is one of the tracks for you this very fine Sunday.

http://soundcloud.com/mariaslovakova/incomprehensible/s-wUx27

You can follow the news on twitter if you wish!

http://twitter.com/SpeakingOfWords

Listening to Other Voices

I will be returning to AIM(Artist in Mind) on April 13th to do a spoken word reading...very much looking forward to it, it's been a long time since I was in Huddersfield and to AIM.

Stitching time

Viking the machine and I are making toys today.

Vzlet

I was asked to create a cover of February issue of Slovak language teenage magazine in Serbia. Thank You Jasmina for this!!!

FILL IN THE GROOVE

This is my submission on vinyl, titled 'And Richard loves you too'. The show will start at Hoodlums Records in Tempe, AZ on FEBRUARY 26th, 2011

Tongue Fu

It was so amazing to perform Beauty and the Beast.
What a night. Big thanks to all who were there!

...and 3 more...

3 for the start of the year

Happy New Year!

Festive Greetings

So, have a wonderful end of 2010. New Year Wish card shall follow soon.

Chris Garneau at Cafe de la Dance

chris garneau
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So beautiful. I am so happy that I finally got to see him play live.

Another painting give away...in Bratislava

Michal Kascak of Pohoda agency asked me if I would paint live during Swell Season/Longital gig in Divadlo Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia last Friday...so of course I did. Quite a large number of people put their name down to win the piece that I titled 'Friendship Angels'and then after all the musical action, Vetron won.Pictures above. Yay for making people happy.

Moments of Oslo

the soundtrack to this is a rough demo of First Encounter, one of my poems.
it somehow made sense to put these two together now...

CNN report on Pohoda festival

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2010/08/09/wv.pohonda.festival.bk.e.cnn.html


my Smile! wall being there too

Leftfield

They were my highlight of the festival. Such beautiful people producing amazing tunes. I knew their name but never heard the music before. Now I am hooked. YaY for Leftfield.

p.s. click on the photo to get the full scale picture...

Pohoda Festival 2010 pt 1

It all started by an orchestra and a choir playing the national anthems of all the countries performing at the festival...some arranged in a real funky way.






Bez Ladu a Skladu. The singer Michal Kascak is the organizer of the Pohoda Festival, it was a real treat to see them play again...





I only catched the end of the set by Jose Gonzalez, but it was such beautiful to listen to what I managed to hear.



Klaxons rocked it real well on Friday night.





These fares were all over the airport...all sorts

My work at Pohoda festival 2010

Publisher Koloman Kertesz Bagala with Eman Erdelyi reading from his upcoming book.Our collaborative painting with Milan Prekop that got done live during previous 2 readings to the left.


My mural next to main Bazant stage, painted to the sounds of Bez Ladu a Skladu, Futureheads and Scissors Sisters among others...



Branislav Jobus signing the book titled 'On the trip to universe' published by Pohoda agency as their first publication.



I did the pictures.

New Enjoy Enjoy packs!

Jont at The Borderline

My video screen grabs became Jont's poster for The Borderline gig, I am sooooo happy and feel really honored. So I filmed more of course, here are two snaps of Jont and one of Emit Bloch who's show was also awesome.

My work at Sean Worrall Solo Show

Edmund and Rita

the new couple of listeners...

Helen

Sean Worrall's solo show with me as a guest artist

Thanks to Sean,
I will have some paintings up and also perform my poetry at the opening night with Dean Firth on electronic soundscapes and Greg Hall on cello. Sometime around 9pm

Coming Up!

Website Here

This Saturday the 22nd, in Brighton

There are quite a few of my paintings around the hotel plus the room I painted for them and I am to face paint onto all willing, so worth a visit I reckon'...There will be music by The Moulettes at 4pm, Mel Sheppard and the guys from Custom Designs will also be here to do some illustrations and what not...the whole thing starts at 11am...so if you are in the area come and say hi!

Melvin the video star

Bertha the Bee

spotted in Munich, Germany by feef.

Meet the gnomes

New addition to my household. Love them!!! :)