Did you miss the Tears for Fear Poetry Remix in July? If so, bummer! But not to worry - we have a recap for you right here.
Poets Neal Arbic, Valentino Assenza, Ronnie Blake, Spencer Gordon, and Sarah Pinder turned this event into an awesome night.
Check out Sarah's remix here on video.
Thought Spencer admitted he wasn't a huge Tears for Fears fan, he came up with some amazing work, including "The Year of Knife":
Something on your mind became a point of view, saying
get in line with the things you know: A for a heart, B for
get in line with the things you know: A for a heart, B for
a brain. You’d better love loving and you’d better behave.
The headlines said we’re free to choose, so belief was our
relief, compassion the fashion, fear such a vicious thing.
And man, I slept so hard. I dreamt I could be happy; I never
dreamt so well. Only me and my shadow, dreaming I was
safe in life, happy as a mussel in a shell. But we could be
quite naïve, love: nothing ever changes unless there’s some
pain. A horrific dream to know that we were broken, that yeah—
we were wrapped in chains. A for a heart, B for a brain: we’d better
love loving and we’d better behave. Now, let’s get some honesty.
This is the ‘Year of the Knife.’ My features form with a change
in the weather; the face we wear is cool. You give me pale
shelter: asylum from the bounds of family, shelter from the
boy from school. Before, you were my enemy. Now life
is lust and liberty, our love the knife. Help me make
the most of freedom and pleasure, my life in the suicide ranks.
And Henry Martinuk captured Ronnie Blake doing a live remix with music and words.
(video credit: Henry Martinuk / ChernozymVideo, 2014)
