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The Medway Poets performance group included punk musician Billy Childish and had an influence on Tracey Emin.
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Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson ( artist ) | Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre to record The Medway Poets LP, 11 December 1987.
In 1979, Thomson, Childish, Bill Lewis and Ming were members of The Medway Poets performance group, to which Absolon and Sanchia Lewis had also contributed.
The poetry group dispersed after two years, reconvening in 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP.
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson ( artist ) | Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and Russell Wilkins at the Rochester Adult Education Centre 11 December 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP album | LP
She studied fashion at Medway College of Design ( 1980 – 1982 ), where she met expelled student Billy Childish and was associated with The Medway Poets.
The Liverpool poets were a strong influence on the late 1970s Kent group The Medway Poets ( some of whom later founded the Stuckists art group ), and were also involved in reading with them.
In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets.
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre 11 December 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP
In 1979, Thomson was a founder member of The Medway Poets, a punk performance group, who read in pubs, as well as the Kent Literature Festival and the 1981 international Cambridge Poetry Festival.
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre December 11, 1987 to record the Medway Poets LP
The Medway Poets were founded in Medway, North Kent, in 1979.
The origin of The Medway Poets was a series of readings called " Outcrowd " staged by ( Bill ) Lewis and Earl from 1975 on the bank of the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent, in the Lamb Pub, later called Drake's Crab and Oyster House.
These led on to readings promoted by a Medway College tutor, Alan Denman, in the York Pub in Chatham, which brought The Medway Poets together, inspired by a fusion of the then-new punk movement and a historical reference to Berlin cabaret.
The Medway Poets ' appearances included pubs and colleges, sometimes with punk groups, as well as the Kent Literature Festival and the 1981 international Cambridge Poetry Festival.
There were, however, personality clashes within The Medway Poets, particularly between Childish and Thomson, who said, " There was friction between us, especially when he started heckling my poetry reading and I threatened to ban him from a forthcoming TV documentary.
There were two camps in the Medway Poets from day one-me & Sexton versus everyone else.
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An LP The Medway Poets was released on Hangman Records in 1988 with guest readers including Tracey Emin and Vic Templar.
In 1998, Lewis, Childish and Thomson discussed by phone a possible Medway Poets anthology.
The original group name still appeared occasionally, and in 2000, it was advertised on Ming's website that " Sexton and 3 other Medway Poets will be reading at the next Stuckism Show " on 20 May at the Metropole Arts Centre in Folkestone, Kent.
Medway and performance
In 1979, his interest in Berlin Cabaret, combined with the current punk culture, led him to joining up with Childish, Charles Thomson, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Miriam Carney to found the anarchic poetry performance group, The Medway Poets, which he named.
1977 – 79, he was at the Foundation Art course, Medway College of Art and Design, along with future Stuckist artists, Billy Childish and Bill Lewis, who in 1979 formed The Medway Poets performance group with Charles Thomson and three others.
Medway and group
* ME postcode area, a United Kingdom group of postal districts around Medway in Kent, ( South East ) England
The Medway megaliths or Medway tombs are names given to a group of Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megaliths located in the lower valley of the River Medway in the English county of Kent.
One group is concentrated between Maidstone and Rochester on the eastern side of the Medway and another between Snodland and Wrotham to the west of the river.
They are generally considered to be fragmentary examples of the Neolithic chamber tomb group known as the Medway megaliths.
It is one of a group of monuments known as the Medway megaliths.
It is one of a group of monuments known as the Medway megaliths.
The marshes are protected by the Kent and Medway Structure Plan, and a strong local environmental pressure group.
Withyham parish lies on the edge of Weald, in the valley of the River Medway, where a group of tributaries enter from the south, and to the north of Ashdown Forest.
It is the site of a spring and also the site of a now lost group of sarsen stones thought to possibly be the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow and one of the Medway megaliths.
He was a founder-member of The Medway Poets and of the Stuckists art group.
In 1979 he was one of the founder members of The Medway Poets group.
In 1999, Ming was one of the 13 original members of the Stuckists, a pro-figurative painting, anti-conceptual art, group, which was co-founded by fellow Medway Poets, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.
A photograph from 1987 shows some of the group members in an earlier form as The Medway Poets, at which time Tracey Emin was associated with them.
Medway and included
The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat of invasion grew, were begun in 1756 as a complex across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend in the River Medway, and included Fort Amherst.
At its founding, and for 170 years afterward, the town of Medway included the land that is now Millis.
In 1974, Rochester City Council was abolished and superseded by Medway Borough Council, which also included the parishes of Cuxton, Halling and Cliffe, and the Hoo Peninsula.
Films later seen as Remodernist included Youngblood ( 1995 ) by Harris Smith, Shooting at the Moon ( 1998 – 2003 ) by Jesse Richards and Nicholas Watson, and Medway Bus Ride ( 1999 ) by Wolf Howard.
Medway and musician
Sexton Ming ( born 1961 ) is a British artist, poet and musician who was a founding member of The Medway Poets ( 1979 ) and Stuckism art movement ( 1999 ).
Medway and Billy
* Billy Childish, foundation 1977 ( who was banned from the Rochester site at Fort Pitt in the Medway Towns in 1981 for publishing ' obscene ' poetry )
It was more a time, going to Maidstone College of Art, hanging around with Billy Childish, living by the River Medway.
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