News
8.10.08 – After a break of more than 20 years, Dave is once again playing with a re-formed Jean Vincent & The NiteCapz. An anarchic post-punk musichall of thrash-country and rockin’ acoustic schlockabilly boogie, the band’s recorded output was described by Kerrang! as “The ‘Oklahoma’ cast after a night out in a mescal factory … Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.” See Calendar for details.
29.7.08 – The final issue of Raw Edge Magazine has been now been published and distributed. To keep abreast of developments and new projects please visit www.rawedgemagazine.co.uk
29.5.08 – The Calendar has now been updated with details of some forthcoming live appearances.
14.4.08 – Dave’s satirical poem inspired by the 2007 Heathrow Climate Camp, On Smuggling Smart Clothes (into Heathrow): a flight of fancy, can now be read by visiting the official climate camp website climatecamp.org.uk, and clicking on the word ‘articles’ in the left hand column or by going direct via this link
The latest published works by Dave Reeves are Firing Lines in True To Life: memoirs from Ruskin College, Oxford, published by Heaventree Press; and Bastard No More published in the February ‘08 edition of NthPosition, the online magazine of literature, culture and politics. You have also recently been able to hear Herod’s Hoochie Coochie and the track Carnival written and performed by Dave with music from Tom Cook (it comes from the cd Ballads for Bomere Heath) playing in The Loop on Radio Wildfire
After more than 12 years and 25 issues, Raw Edge Magazine has been notified that it will receive no more funding from Arts Council England as a Regularly Funded Organisation. This means that there is currently no finance to produce any further issues. To keep abreast of developments please visit www.rawedgemagazine.co.uk
An interview with Dave about the Ballads for Bomere Heath was conducted by the French academic Eric Doumerc in January 2007. It can be read at Allinfoaboutpoetry.com
The Ballads for Bomere Heath are now live at www.bomereheathballads.co.uk
The cd/cd-rom can be purchased from The Moving Finger at the address below, or get in touch through the Contact page of this site.
Edited by Dave Reeves, the e-pamphlet Raw Eds: the download, a collection of work by writers who have been involved in the editing of Raw Edge Magazine over the last 10 years can now be downloaded from www.birminghamwords.co.uk/publications
The pamphlet Concrete Spaghetti with poems by Dave Reeves, Roz Goddard, David Hart, Julie Boden, Sibyl Ruth and Matt Nunn is now available free. This was originally a commission from BBC Radio3. Send an A5 s.a.e with first class postage to the address on this page. Mark envelope Concrete Spaghetti.
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For further details or to discuss bookings please contact
Dave Reeves, POBox 4867, Birmingham, B3 3HD, England
Or use the contact page on this site.
Photograph of Dave (centre) with poet Todd Swift (right)
and Nick Dawes at the Purple Patch
small press conference.