Dirty Gerund Poetry Show ft BASEDONAFEELING

Come on down to read your work, tell your jokes, bear your soul, all while accompanied by the coolest backing band since the invention of Ray-Bans. Open mic list is up at 8pm, show to kick off ~9 ; slots for first and second half, alongside a waiting list. Don't see room on the list? Talk to Nark and they'll see what they can do. Slots are 1-2 poems, 1 song, or approximately 6 minutes. Let the houseband know if you need their support ✨️

BASEDONAFEELING is a poet, cultural strategist, and digital rebel—wielding words like weapons and metaphors like mirrors. With every line, he exposes what’s hidden, reclaims what’s stolen, and softens what’s been hardened by survival. His work explores the emotional architecture of power, identity, and perception. Blending poetry, philosophy, and cultural critique, he maps the invisible systems that shape our lives—from capitalism to conditioning—and exposes the mythologies we mistake for truth.  Born in England, raised in Dorchester, and educated in elite boarding schools, he’s lived his life between split societies—caught in the quiet crossfire of class warfare. Armed with a pen and inspired by the likes of Fred Hampton, Ram Dass, Lupe Fiasco, and those strange 2am Adult Swim sermons, his mission is simple: To reclaim the narrative. To return power to the people. To remind us what it means to feel—and to fight.

Host or Publisher Dirty Gerund