{"id":289,"date":"2015-10-21T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=289"},"modified":"2015-12-10T08:46:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:46:32","slug":"attila-the-stockbroker-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/attila-the-stockbroker-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Attila the Stockbroker in-conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Errin Hussey, BSUCA Digitisation Assistant, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday 19th<\/sup> October brought a different kind of event to those already held by the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive, when punk poet legend Attila the Stockbroker returned to his former place of study to speak and perform to an enthusiastic audience.<\/p>\n

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Attila the Stockbroker in conversation with Oliver Double. Photo Elspeth Millar<\/p><\/div>\n

The first half of the show was an \u2018In Conversation with\u2026\u2019 style discussion with Dr Oliver Double. Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) began the conversation by speaking fondly of his choice to attend the University of Kent, which was prompted by its left-wing activist reputation that was criticised in national right-wing press at the time. Attila continued on to describe his activities while at the University; his involvement with Rock Against Racism, organising gigs and running for Student Union President<\/a>. The conversation soon turned to Attila\u2019s first experiences of writing in his first punk band and how this led to becoming a solo poetry performer. In keeping with previous British Stand-Up Comedy Archive in-conversation events Oliver Double showed Attila images from the Archive of various shows he had played throughout his career. The discussion continued to explore Attila\u2019s involvement in the \u2018alternative cabaret\u2019 scene, his contemporary poets and his current work before questions from the audience and a short interval.<\/p>\n

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Attila the Stockbroker performing at the Gulbenkian Cafe. Photo Elspeth Millar<\/p><\/div>\n

The audience soon returned for a second half live set from Attila the Stockbroker which featured\u00a0a combination of poems, songs\u00a0and readings from his recently released autobiography \u2018Arguments Yard\u2019. He began with a poem called \u2019My Poetic Licence\u2019 and continued with performances of \u2018Asylum Seeking Daleks\u2019, \u2018Poppies Poem\u2019 written about his late father, Never Too Late\u2019 written about his stepfather and \u2018Corbyn Supporters From Hell\u2019. In addition Attila played\u00a0a number of\u00a0Mandola-accompanied songs \u2018Comandante Joe\u2019, a tribute to Joe Strummer, and \u2018Prince Harry\u2019s Knob\u2019, inspired by his favourite novel \u2018The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists\u2019. It was a pleasure to have Attila the Stockbroker for this event and to have a collection of his materials in the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (reference BSUCA\/AS). The event was audio recorded and has been added to the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive event collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Errin Hussey, BSUCA Digitisation Assistant, writes: Monday 19th October brought a different kind of event to those already held by the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive, when punk poet legend Attila the Stockbroker returned to his former place of study to speak and perform to an enthusiastic audience. The first half of the show was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140837,112,140832],"tags":[17906,140855,140849,140863,140862,140870],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}