Events

A new one-hour monologue from Justin Hopper and a book launch for David Bramwell.

Justin Hopper’s The Great Satanic Swindle:A bizarre true tale of tabloid England ​

Once, a mysterious stranger arrived in a small Sussex village and told a tale of witchcraft, trapped souls and a life-or-death struggle with Satan himself. A group of church-goers, millionaires and aristocrats stepped in to save him, and things got very weird.

A raunchy, true-crime folk-horror comedy of 1980s England, The Great Satanic Swindle is a story about two friends who challenged what it means to believe in something – and someone – no matter how irrational.

Old, Weird Albion and Chanctonbury Rings author and spoken-word artist Justin Hopper tells a story that is at once utterly unbelievable and entirely true.

David Bramwell’s Outlandish

Outlandish is the title of David Bramwell’s new collection of writings, stories and essays – beautifully designed by Erica Smith – that celebrate some of his favourite countercultural heroes and explore some rather unconventional journeys.
Tonight he’ll be sharing a few of his favourites tales. It might be the life of Paul Robeson or Sister Corita Kent, the PopArt nun who invented the Sixties Happening. It could be the bizarre eleven-year odyssey of Eva Peron’s mummified corpse or the Amazon-bound ethnobotanist Richard Evans-Schultes, who catalysed a psychedelic revolution. Rest assured he’ll definitely be sharing the story of how Andy Warhol’s penis ended up on the moon.

Books will be on sale. Bring your pennies!