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 next show will be at Copped Hall in Epping Forest, a wonderfully atmospheric location where Laura Sampson and I will be honoured to perform for another of Andy Popperwell‘s epic evenings of Dark Tales and Strange Sounds. Book your tickets here.

The shows usually take place at The All Good Bookshop. For the most recent, on Saturday 28th September, readers Laura Sampson and Minnie Wilkinson joined fellow sound artist Stephan Barrett and I for a celebration of the work of the one and only Ursula K. Le Guin. A recording is on Bandcamp now.

The previous 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.