But the way his team performed spoke of a side that believes it belongs in the Premier League.
In 2011, she performed spoken word in 57 cities.
She has read her fictional piece "Thahab" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, performed spoken word pieces at the Scholastic Auditorium and has spoken at the New School and St Francis College.
Last year he performed spoken word with musical backing from Gang Gang Dance (he also has a fanzine about Brian from the same band's pet tarantula).
The shoddy quality of his concert performing speaks to a more complicated relationship.
Taking place in the church in which the bard was christened and is buried, the concert lineup will also include actors Forbes Masson and Katy Stephens, who will be performing spoken interludes throughout the evening.
She was referring to writing and performing spoken word.
Bikel will perform spoken monologues as Tevye between the orchestral sections.
How many of the people in that packed theatre would have supportively cheered for a raucous angry feminist punk performing spoken word poetry about oppression at a radical gathering of misfit kids in the early '90s?
At the open-mike nights around Dublin where the friends perform spoken-word poetry together, Bobbi ignores any guy who tries to chat them up, leaving him to Frances.
