“The most brilliant music and poetry band I’ve seen in decades.”
Carol Ann Duffy
“Little Machine’s sophisticated way with poetry made me fall in love with old favourites and new ones all over again. They sing, strum, beat, get you tapping your feet, make you laugh and break your heart, every word sung clear as a bell. I swear the Bard himself has joined this band.”
Gillian Clarke
Nicholas Moody reviewed our show at York Lit Fest for The Yorker Sabotage Reviews, Saboteur Awards 2013 – May 29 – London Furzedown Festival – June 11 – London Kent and Sussex Poetry Society – June 18 Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival – June 30 Beyond Words – July 2 – London Ways With Words Festival – July 9 – Devon Ledbury Poetry Festival – July 10 – Herefordshire Sabotage publish reviews of “those ephemeral works that are often created on a small budget and distributed to a limited amount of people”. Every year they have a birthday party / awards night and we are very proud to have been invited to play at this year’s event on Wednesday May 29, 7pm at The Book Club 100-106 Leonard St, London EC2A 4RH . More details and tickets. An evening of poetry and music with LiTTLe MACHiNe in the garden of 16 Brookview Road, SW16 6UA, Tues 11 June, 8:00pm. Tickets £10/£8. Only 30 tickets available on first come, first served basis. Soft drinks, snacks, strawberries and cream provided. Bring your own drink. Book by emailing Caroline. NB this show will be cancelled in the event of rain. Poetry event hosted by the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society. This will be the 60th Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival. We’re playing Sunday June 30th, 7.30pm at the Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, CV376QW. We’re with Carol Ann Duffy for this one so get your tickets early. Details and booking. Beyond Words Poetry at the Gypsy Hill Tavern presents LiTTLe MACHiNe – rhyme and rhythm with poetry ancient and modern and a blast of brilliant music while PETER ELLIOT will be sharing from his just published first collection. 79, Gypsy Hill Road, London, SE19 1QH. 7.30pm. 020 8761 6533. £5/ £6. Beyond Words have a Facebook page too. We are delighted to have been invited to play at the Telegraph Ways With Words Festival We’ll be in the Great Hall, Dartington Hall, Devon. 8pm on Tuesday 9th of July. The full programme and booking info be available in early May..April 23 – Shakespeare’s Birthday
Also the day he died… listen to this
The Yorker review of Carol Ann Duffy / LiTTLe MACHiNe show
“GCSE English Literature has a lot to answer for. It should introduce you to a wide range of poetry, theatre and books. However for some people, a year of dealing with the same anthology of poems ends up making them hate it. That said if you manage not to get scarred, Carol Ann Duffy performing her live poetry is well worth the time….”
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LiTTLe MACHiNe live dates
Dates for 2013
Past performances
Sabotage, Saboteur Awards 2013 – May 29
Furzedown Festival – June 11
Download the festival brochure.
Kent & Sussex Poetry Society – June 18
The Camden Centre, Tunbridge Wells. 8pm.
Visitors welcome. Admission to non-members :£3 (students £2)
The Camden Centre is situated in Market Square at the rear of The Royal Victoria Centre, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2SW.
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival – June 30
Beyond Words – July 2
Ways With Words – July 9