Below is the Home Page of the Co-operative RoosterKateSpake
A Night Of Black Country Cant & Cag
(the sound of the region in spake & song)
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
WELCOME to the website of
RoosterKateSpake
Who Are We:-
RoosterKateSpake was founded in October 2005. It is a co-operative dedicated to
promoting creativity in the Black Country region of England across the genres of
storytelling and literature, poetry, music and song. The co-op originally
comprised Laurence Hipkiss who runs Roosters Studio in the Rowley hills ( www.roostersstudio.com
) from which he put out a weekly podcast show on www.blackcountrypodcasting.com;
Greg Stokes who writes, performs and publishes via The Kates Hill Press in
Dudley (www.kateshillpress.co.uk);
and Brain Dakin (aka Billy Spakemon, www.billyspakemon.co.uk
) who works tirelessly across the region writing and performing dialect poetry.
The name RoosterKateSpake is an amalgum of their business names. Greg Stokes
left the co-operative in January 2007. It was renamed RoosterSpake shortly
afterwards.
What We Do:-
RoosterKateSpake put on the Black Country Cant & Cag Nights at the Lamp
Tavern in Dudley. Ever since the Creative Co-operative put on the first
Alternative Black Country Night Out in February 2005, the Lamp Tavern has become
established as the premier venue of spoken word performance in the Black
Country. Greg Stokes and Brian Dakin were founder members of that co-operative
and were keen to continue and expand the spoken word performance tradition in
Dudley.
THIS WEBSITE APPEARS
BY COURTESY OF
THE KATES HILL PRESS