Thick Richard & Dominic Berry – Friday 13th

Thick Richard has been pedaling his potty-mouthed poems at
festivals and clubs up and down the land since 1999. His cynical, lyrical,
jet-black humour, intelligent wordplay,
well-crafted verse, and occasionally acerbic, well-targeted comic attacks have
earned him much respect from artists and audiences from Edinburgh to
Glastonbury.

He has
supported acts including; Kate Tempest, The Fall, The Lovely Eggs, The
Courteeners, Jerry Sadowitz, John Hegley, Arthur Smith and Frank Sidebottom. Thick
Richard has been heard a number of times on BBC radio, including presenting and
writing BBC 6 Music’s Beat of the Day and performed live on the channel for National
Poetry Day.

A
regular headliner of Hammer and Tongue nationwide poetry tours and is usually
to be found performing a wide variety of live music and cabaret venues. He has
also had a sell out tour of his solo show “Swear School”. He came second in the national limerick of the year 2022.

He has
released 2 collections of his work with Flapjack Press, “Vaudavillain” 2017,
“Read em and Weep” 2020 and was
included in “NeurodiVERSE” a Flapjack Press anthology of neurodiverse writers.

Dominic Berry is an award-winning poet. He was 2017 Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence, winner of the 2020 and 2017 Saboteur ‘Best Spoken Word Artist’ award, and has toured his verse across USA, Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia, South America and Europe.

His other awards include winning New York’s Nuyorican Poetry Cafe Slam, UK Superheroes of Slam and, as of 2022, ten Arts Council England Grants for the Arts awards.