City Chameleon

We're delighted to welcome our special guests Hazel Hammond and Suzy Condrad (pictured) to Word of Mouth on Wednesday 28th July at The Thunderbolt, Bath Road, Bristol.
 

Hazel will be reading from her latest book Needlepoint published by City Chameleon. Needlepoint is a collection of poems about people and their tattoos. Hazel set about finding out those stories, interviewing people from Bristol, Brighton and Amsterdam where she travelled to meet Hans Schiffendorfer, the author the Encyclopaedia of Tattoos. Over 50 are enshrined in poetry styles from the villanelle to the haiku to the sestina, as well as Hazel’s own free form style.


Suzy, Bristolian Burmese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, will be playing a solo set.
 

Suzy began her musical career on a Fisher Price xylophone at the age of 3 and from that time on she has never been able to stop herself from composing little tunes.
Suzy has opened for Patrick Duff (Strangelove) and Caroline Weeks (Bat for Lashes) among others. Flights of Fancy (her band) have recently embarked on the London circuit with more shows to come, and continue to be featured on local radio in their native Bristol.

“Suzy Condrad - sitting with poise and about to be unavoidably tagged 'a dusky beauty' - begins a song with spider web-fine, finger-picked guitar, and implores that someone stop the carousel from turning. Decorous second guitar and softly chorusing backing vocals add their weight to the plea. Later, houses fall down and rivers rise. Voiced with depth and the precise, just-so phrasing of 60s folk-pop, it's melodrama of the most gently seductive kind.”
Julian Owen, Venue, March 2008


Entry is Free