Utter! Lutonia September 26
UTTER! LUTONIA – THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd 2026
As the Autumn approaches and this year of challenge and change reaches its maturity UTTER! Lutonia yet sustains the kindness, extends the commitment, spreads it’s metaphors ever more widely and vitally, keeps it peculiar and stands firm in the (re)storm – nil carborundum etc...
This month’s mellow fruitfulness and chances for reflection, rumination and renewal come from:
Van Gogh Fast
Kate Noakes
Uncle Strepsils
Tega Oke
Darren Tarplee-Williams
As ever, hosting and vibe-wrangling comes from Lee Nelson, sounds and grooves originate in Steve Whiting and, under the calm, professional bookseller that is Andy Kingston, we will also have the almost legendary Clod Magazine Bookstall upon which (amongst other things) you may be fortunate enough to seek to purchase works by the above listed artists . . .
Image Credit: Lillith May
About The Artists
VAN GOGH FAST
VAN GOGH FAST IS HIGH CONCEPT ROCK AND ROLL.
Van Gogh Fast specialise in high concept rock n roll. I mean, they call it rock’n’roll, but they must've grown up listening to some pretty weird rock’n’roll if they think that's what this is.
Come along and you’ll find yourself singing along to catchy songs about haircuts, showers, and of course, Luton (Bedfordshire).
You can check out their debut single The Good Life for a little advance taste: https://open.spotify.com/track/7Cc3IwdDiqgOeVfFno2GZx?si=EcjuXpRkRLyLSGNdwlvNtw&utm_source=copy-link
KATE NOAKES
Kate Noakes lives in Bristol and has a PhD in contemporary British and American poetry. Her new book arising from this work is Sublime Lungs, published by Two Rivers Press in 2026. Bog Queens, a pamphlet from Green Bottle Press has also been published this summer.
She was elected to the Welsh Academy in 2011. Her content rich website,
www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com, is archived by the National Library of Wales.
Kate has read all over the country including at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and the Poetry and Words stage at Glastonbury Festival. She is one third of Bristol poetry performance group, Braid (www.braidpoetry.com).
During six years in Paris, she was founding president of Paris Lit Up. Kate has taught creative writing for Paris Lit Up, Oxford University, the Poetry School, the Globe Hay-on-Wye and Malika’s Poetry Kitchen.
Website archived by the National Library of Wales
braid poetry.com
UNCLE STREPSILS
Please ask your waiter if you require a meat-free version
DARREN TARPLEE-WILLIAMS
Darren says “I was born in hope and own my own slippers.”
TEGA OKE
Oghenetega Oke, musically known as 'TnJ', is a rapper, singer & songwriter with a refreshing Afro-hip hop sound predominantly defined by his Christian worldview.
