Artists
Stephanie Gerra
Wendy Shutler
Steve Dagleish
Ivor Game
Ben Richardson
David Jacobs
Born of Italian and French-Spanish parents, Stephanie Gerra was born, bred and continues to live in the heart of Bloomsbury, an area that she loves and which informs much of her poetry. Stephanie’s background is in theatre performance and writing, primarily with a theatre company she co-founded, called Doris Karloff. With this company she toured across the UK, including Edinburgh, and throughout Europe with satirical comedy revues and Performance Art installation-pieces in the 90s. Other theatre work has taken her to Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, the National Theatre, and the Canal Café Theatre in Maida Vale. More recently, Stephanie’s work has been within television and radio, centering on announcing, presenting and radio comedy, with appearances on Heart FM, Radio Five Live, and Viva Radio. She also has a passionate interest in philosophy and self-development, and teaches in this field at Birkbeck College in central London. Stephanie has been writing poetry since she can remember, but more seriously since 2003. Her work has been published in The London Miscellany magazine, and her first book “Bloomsbury Poems” was published in December 2006, by Handmade Productions. Stephanie is the founder of Bloomsbury Voices and has been running poetry and music events in central London venues including The Poetry Café, Covent Garden, The Art Workers Guild, Queen Square and the Bourne & Hollingsworth Bar in Charlotte Street, among other, since 2003.
Wendy Shutler
Actress Wendy Shutler was born in Bristol
but has lived in Bloomsbury since the 1960s. She has worked
in the theatre for many years, in rep, on tour and in London. West End appearances
include Evelyn in Absent Friends and Vera in Breezeblock
Park, films The
Beauty Jungle and The Night Stalker, TV credits Within
These Walls, Dempsey and Makepeace, Marilyn Monroe in Whatever
Happened to the Heroes? and Patrick’s Planet. Wendy is particularly interested in writing
science poems, and was recently published in the New Scientist. After
her book Here We Go Round the Multiverse was published in 2002, she read
some of her poems on BBC Radio Bristol’s The Morning
Show. Here
We Go Round the Multiverse is published by Hamilton Brown & Skelding
and is on sale in hardback at Bloomsbury Voices events for the special price
of £10.
about SHORE PATH WALK
“A lovely poem, deceptively simple but beautiful”
(Alan
Bennett)
about QUANTA
“It really is a remarkable piece….I’ve never seen
the paradoxes arising from modern physics treated in this way before, or
put so succinctly and suggestively”
(Michael Frayn)
Wendy Shutler is represented by Vincent Shaw Associates Ltd.
info@vincentshaw.com
Steve Dagleish
As a teenager, Steve Dagleish was captivated by the craftsmanship of songwriters
like Dylan and Drake. With his first guitar, Steve performed his early
songs around the acoustic circuit during his days as a London university student.
After a career trading in the financial markets, taking him to the far-flung corners of the globe, Steve arrived home with pipes from Peru, guittaras from Portugal, an Oud from Dubai. His story, full of earthly and unearthly memories, needed to be told, in song!
From the Kilburn Times, London ... 'The folk/blues riffs echo Dylan and Neil Young, the Jansch/Davey Graham stylings are finger-picking good, elegiac strings evoke Nick Drake or George Martin. Measured against his mentors he's young enough to find a home alongside nu-folk and eschew the old folk variety for a while yet'
Ivor Game
Singer/songwriter Ivor Game from London has been playing since he was 10
and through his teens, appeared in a variety of bands.
It was in his twenties that he came into his own and started to develop as a singer and songwriter, taking his music to the audience in its' simplest form... voice and guitar. Influenced by The Beatles and anything else that has stood the test of time, not just music.
In recent years he has been a regular on the London acoustic scene and has also toured Los Angeles, Nashville, parts of Europe and Ireland.
"Ireland is a fantastic place to play. The radio and press get behind you and you really feel you're somewhere special. Other than that it always rains and the roads seem to go on forever! But it all adds up to a great event and there's something quite romantic about playing your best songs to a small audience in the middle of nowhere."
Ben Richardson
Classically-trained in music theory and composition, Ben Richardson is
an accomplished guitarist and songwriter, counting Lou Reed's Velvet
Underground and Stevie Wonder among his many influences. Ben met Steve
Dagleish at a songwriting workshop (facilitated by the Kinks' Ray
Davies) in 2004 and has helped Steve to develop and arrange his songs ever since.
He has become a regular contributor to Bloomsbury Voices' evenings,
recently introducing his own songs into the mix. Ben's musicality and
focus are invaluable factors in shaping sound of Bloomsbury Voices.
'Mandolin' Dave
From Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' (first record aged 12)
followed by the Beach Boys, the Beatles and Zappa, David Jacobs' musical
influences evolved through Fairport Convention, Hendrix and Jefferson
Airplane. He began playing guitar at his school's folk club and fell in
love with a mandolin in London during the late 80's, discovering
(coincidentally) that it was easier to travel with than a guitar. David
met Steve Dagleish in Goa during Christmas 2006 and was excited by his
melodic and lyrically intense songs. He plays regularly with Bloomsbury
Voices, adding colour with mandolin, flute and occassional harmonica.