{"id":1564,"date":"2015-03-25T00:37:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2015-03-25T00:37:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:37:47","slug":"reading-at-the-circle-session-at-the-international-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/reading-at-the-circle-session-at-the-international-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading at the Circle Session at the International Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I had the honour of reading at the current poetry night “The Circle Sessions” at The International Bar” I wasn’t up there since Stephen James Smith used to run “The Gl\u00f3r Sessions” back in the day, and it was nice to be on familiar turf again… <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Tomas<\/a>
Tomas at the Circle Session as a guest of David Hynes at his A-musing slot in the International Bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSimilar to the preceding events that are run at The International Bar, there is a mix of music and poetry, the standout acts for me was the young rappers, and the harmonic group “J\u00f8ey Gavin & Band”, and was MC’d by David Halpin…<\/p>\n

One girl I knew Id seen before was Cinzia Loi, and then I remembered seeing her at Accents a few months back.<\/p>\n

Shauna Byrne’s stand out poem was the Body Positive piece that protests against the size zero craze, a cause I fully espouse, while Kevin Dwane rocked the house with his tale of love, lust and murder!<\/p>\n

The night was capped off with a French girl doing a cover of “Non, je ne regrette rien”, which only sounds right coming from a French accented singer. I think the whole bar was in love with her after that!<\/p>\n

So, what did our Carty read? Well, it was a night of confusion with all the best plans of mice and men coming to naught, and Carty getting on stage not once, but twice!<\/p>\n

First up I done Angry Sea<\/a><\/b>, followed by “Never Mind the Heartache<\/a><\/b>” and “She Walks Not the Paths I Find Familiar<\/a><\/b>” telling of my latest trysts with the world of love, and as usual, unrequited!<\/p>\n

Next up I was up as the official slot as part of the A-musing section, with David Hynes as MC, which also featured John Sheehan a local Tullamore man who does comedy. I used to work with him in Tullamore Hospital, before a spat about the smoking ban saw Carty on tour!<\/p>\n

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Singing “Non, je ne regrette rien” this girl won all our hearts…<\/figcaption><\/figure>Delivered deadpan and accurate, John Sheehan is a unique and yet familiar style comedian, more like Kevin McAleer than Tommy Tiernan, and one to watch, he tells me he is at it a few years now, and more power to him.<\/p>\n

The Biffos had truly invaded, when I saw one of the minds behind the Banagher Fair page show in, who shall remain nameless. To cap it being a small world, one of the performers was one of his students, and he came on the gig by chance seeing it up on Facebook that Id be there.<\/p>\n

Him being there I had to open the second section with Long May Horses Shit the Streets<\/a>“, followed it up with “The Sleeping Beauty and the Sorry Prince” among other verses.
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\"Fantastic<\/a>
Fantastic harmonies of Joey Gavin and his band<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I had the honour of reading at the current poetry night “The Circle Sessions” at The International Bar” I wasn’t up there since Stephen James Smith used to run “The Gl\u00f3r Sessions” back in the day, and it was nice to be on familiar turf again… Similar to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,279],"tags":[1740,1743,1148,1744,1738,1739,1694,1287,1741,1742],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-poetry-events-and-readings","tag-a-musing","tag-biffo","tag-david-hynes","tag-glor-sessions","tag-joey-gavin","tag-john-sheehan","tag-poetry-reading","tag-stephen-james-smith","tag-the-circle-session","tag-the-international-bar","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-pe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1202,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/slam-in-kilkenny-the-all-ireland-poetry-slam-in-irelands-quirkiest-pub\/","url_meta":{"origin":1564,"position":0},"title":"SLAM in Kilkenny – The All Ireland Poetry Slam in Irelands Quirkiest Pub","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Hole in the Wall pub in Kilkenny has to be one of - if not the - quirkiest pub in Kilkenny. 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