Chloe Poems
first appeared in "The Beige Experience" - a Liverpool based cabaret double act in the late eighties. Born again, a fully rounded impassioned visionary in gingham in 1993, Chloe has sinced followed her emotional mission to make the world a better place.
Chloe has toured nationally over the last 7 years with her full length theatre shows, Knockers, Chloe Poems Healing Roadshow, Uinversal Rentboy, Kinky and Me. Frequently hits at the Edinburgh festival, these shows toured up and down the country, from Aberdeen to Portsmouth.
In 2000 Chloe finished a year as resident Artist at the Green Room, Manchester's centre for performing arts, she has become the champion of the Manchester poetry scene. Slam Bam Thank you Ma'am, her regular poetry slam helped establish her as the queen of performance poetry in the city, and enabled her to encourage other poets to give it ago. 2000 also saw the collaboration with performer The Divind David in The Ugli Sisters, selling out at both the Royal Exchange, Manchester and the ICA.
The poetry of Chloe Poems is coated in audacity. It is rare that a collection can be described as groundbreaking with any real sense of authority or truth. For a poet to capture the empathy of others is sadly rare, but to achieve this feat whilst ensnaring those thoughts most entertain but seldom express, is almost unique. In defiantly unshockable times, Ms Poems manages to make jaws drop with remarkable ease. One would expect little less from Britain's first gay socialist transvestite poet and radical agenda bender.
Described by The Times as "so filthy it verges on the educational"; by The Independent as "all the pugnaciousness of a prize fighter"; and by Gay Times as "a massive rising star of enormous talent", - outrage has rarely been so perfectly crafted and delivered by such a deliciously gingham-clad glove.
During all of this Chloe was hosting the leftfield 'Club Brenda' with Manchester DJ Jayne Compton, a night of performance poetry and music. Guest included The Divine David, Tracey Elizabeth, Valerie, Rosie Lugosi, Veba and Fiona Bowker. From these nights Switchflicker was borned.
Releases
CHLOE
POEMS: London Is ParanoidROSIE LUGOSI: Death and Destruction
Swalf 5
7" // £ 3.0008/03/04
Limited edition white coloured 7" vinyl featuring Rosie Lugosi on the flip side, Featuring The Lord Mongo backing band. Britain,s first gay socialist transvestite poet, Chloe Poems and 'the hell-raising basqued avenger' Rosie Lugosi, return with local producer, Fall collaborator and Skam alumni Mild Man Jan at the console. Channeling the rock and roll ethos next to a winning fusion of playful lyrics, Chloe delivers gingham outrage, Rosie turns up in six foot of spotless pvc, ready for some aftershow antics. Not since John Cooper Clarke lost it at the hands of the merciless Honey Monster, have we been privileged to such a well constructed display of bile and disdainful misanthropy. Outrageous, and positively unmissable.
| London is Paranoid
| Death and Destruction
Review
Latest from ultra collectable Mancunian label Switchflicker. After her jubilee celebration a couple years back on Britain,s first gay socialist transvestite poet, Chloe Poems and 'the hell-raising basqued avenger' Rosie Lugosi, return with local producer, Fall collaborator and Skam alumni Mild Man Jan at the console. Channeling the rock and roll ethos next to a winning fusion of playful lyrics, Chloe delivers gingham outrage, Rosie turns up in six foot of spotless pvc, ready for some aftershow antics. Not since John Cooper Clarke lost it at the hands of the merciless Honey Monster, have we been privileged to such a well constructed display of bile and disdainful misanthropy. Outrageous, and positively unmissable.
CHLOE
POEMS : QSNCFIONA BOWKERr: Bionic Woman
Swalf 2
12/01/01The track has become somewhat of an underground classic and has appeared in many dj's top 10. The flip features Fiona Bowker Manchester's renowed voice from the sweaty back rooms and after hours parties of the city's club scene.
Limited edition white coloured 7" vinyl has now sold out
Review
The track was a jubilee favourite of Andrew Weatherall " Looking
for something to play to spoil the Jubilee celebrations being enjoyed
by your Daily Mail reading neighbours or as last tune of the night shortly
before being sacked from your DJ job at the Young Conservatibe's Disco?
Then this is for you. Good work Miss peoms, if you performed this on television
a whole new generation of fat truck drivers would kick their TV screens
in."
Andrew Weatheral
Website July 2002
Links
Chloe Poems.org.uk
Designer Magazine Interview
MySpace