SHIVERS

Do you like stories that make the hairs stand up at the back of your neck?

My SHIVERS nights have been giving aficionados that sensation of spiders down the spine for more than five years now. I pick and adapt the finest frightening literature and find great performers to read it. The twist with SHIVERS is that these tales are then paired with live sounds from my uniquely uncanny instrument the theremin and… other sinister sonic contraptions. The result is a kind of cinema for the ears and imagination, with storytelling and sound combining to draw you irresistibly in, to reach cold fingers into your mind, to give you SHIVERS.

The current series of shows usually takes place at The All Good Bookshop. For the next, on Saturday 28th September, readers Laura Sampson and Minnie Wilkinson will join fellow sound artist Stephan Barrett and I for a celebration of the work of the one and only Ursula K. Le Guin. Book your tickets now.

Before this the most recent show was on Saturday 20th July when Peter Neill read Evelyn Waugh‘s subtly horrifying story THE MAN WHO LIKED DICKENS. A recording is available on Bandcamp now.

Locations for previous SHIVERS events include church towers and cemeteries, a fire-gutted mansion, a crypt, the hold of a galleon and (below) a collection of preserved biological specimens, namely of course the glorious Grant Museum of Zoology.

Recordings are available on Bandcamp, Vimeo and Soundcloud.