As I am deep in polyfiller, paint and plaster, decorating the house, I present a Low Maintenance Edition of Homegrown. All of this weeks artists have featured in this years SXWS Festival in Austin Texas, which has been running from 9-18th March 2007

Music:
Matt And Kim - Yeah Yeah
Beruit - Elephant Gun
Bret Dennon - Ain't No Reason
The Mountain Goats - Onions
Tokyo Police Club - Shoulders And Arms

Spoken Word:
The Whitest Kid U Know perform the skit Russian Roulette

Music:
Andy Stone - What You Believe
Blabbermouth - Amnesia
BluestoneJones - Cosmic Thought
Lisa Redford - Universe
MEG - Kelly, You're The Teacher

Poetry:
Tony Morris - Health Warning, Slow Dancer, Road Rage
 

Homegrown may be a bit sporadic and Lo Maintenance over the next couple of weeks due to other commitments but will be putting out something, however small. Stay subscribed via ITUNES and keep sending your music and spoken word material.

This programme is a compilation of my audio blogs from 24th Feb till 5th March 2007 while I have been participating in the Slam Idol Open Writing Challenge. The premise of the competition is to get 6 poets to create an original poem over 10 days, while audio blogging their creative process and progress.

You can find out more about the competition by following the link below to the Slam Idol website and listening to the other competitors. I had a great deal of fun and a little frustration in creating my poem, which took up quite a bit of time. Hence no typical Homegrown this week. But I hope you enjoy this all poetry programme and insight into my own creative process.

There will soon be a voting process on Slam Idol to find listeners favourite poem.

Slam Idol Podcast, Association Of Poetry Podcasting