Special Correspondence

"What is important is that I heckle the fucking heckle right out of the hecklers"

- Hadley, rambling, Thursday 1am

A few posts ago, us orphans here wrote a review of Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! Upon its completion there were champagnes and pats on the back and much merry-making... until, that is, we were sent a proper review by BadSlam co-founder and prominent Canberra prancing fawn, Mr Adam Hadley (more widely known as 'Jacinta').

In the spirit of the Mafia and their inspired serial ransoming of a loved one's body parts, we shall only be releasing tasty little chunks of Hadley one post at a time! If you want more, you'll have to renounce that cool kid apathy and press the little comment button we've provided for your convenience...

'We begin, eating Burmese curry, drinking cider, half-arsed planning, but mostly worried -- are any poets going to turn up? are any features going to show up? are we going to have half an hours worth of banter and no show? We always have a show, but we always panic, and this is important. People will always turn up and even if we have to wait for them to get drunk they will always do something -- and this is the heart of slam -- we (I mean we the Royal we, but actually I) do not judge on content, poetry, performance, I judge on people having it inside them to stand naked (but clothed [except on some occasions]) in front of a microphone and say SOMETHING, to speak to their fellow barfly and express themselves in any way that they feel they want to, and that is all we set out to do -- provide a platform for people to do something.
We discuss chimpanzees skiing, because that is our Master of Conflict conflict tonight, it is important tht once people are pushed out of their comfort zones and perform publicly they are pushed even furthuer, to eat chilli, play live Dungeons & Dragons, draw dinosaurs or, tonight, tell us what the skiing chimp is thinking -- this extra competition is integral because we are not just about poetry we are about fun, and we are about stupidity. We may not always be supportive, we try, but sometimes we fail, but we always engage'