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Fri, Mar 24th, 8-10pm, Concert – C.R. Avery - brilliant poet/spoken-word/blues artist
" ...riveting & rewarding." - Lonesome Highway Magazine (Ireland)
" ...a cultural magpie who's impossible to pidgin whole." - Net Rhythm Magazine (Scotland)
" ...imagine if Neil Young was inspired by hip-hop." - Vancouver Sun (CAN)
" ...their mix of high art & low brow amounted to the ultimate rock show. " - Exclaim! Magazine (CAN)
" ...audacious & astounding " - London Time out Magazine (Uk)
" ...like a collaboration between Beck & The Beastie Boys at their most experimental cross roads" - Music Guide (US)
" ...first there was The Beats, then Hunter S. Thompson, now there's C.R. Avery. " - Kruger Magazine (UK)
Advance $15 (Showdate $20 / Kids $15) now
@Char’s from 4pm daily,
charge by phone (778) 421-2427,
online http://bpt.me/2889425
FMI http://alberni.ca/events/20177 Char’s 19+ Lounge open 5:30-12midnight 365+ days a year www.charslanding.com Char’s Landing, 4815 Argyle @5th. Port Alberni V9Y 1V9
what men do with their mouths
Bio for c.r avery
By P. Smith
cue the frenzied combo of molar and spit.
his tongue touches every chroma on its way to blue.
he’s been rinsing with gravel, flossing with wire
and chewing brick again, he’s been a bad, bad boy.
but he is crackerjack conjurer of washboards and
rubber, even suburb girls welcome the twinging. i
want to nibble yesterday’s corona from his chin, rub
my index finger along the surface of his laugh, pull
the maw open to check the slick road of his throat.
there’s something illegal going on down there, the
sweet keening of ancient instruments. the orchestra
is fidgety, click-hipped, steaming inside that skin.
the boy opens the beauteous and, in gut rendering,
words become both otherwise and everything.
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