Battered Suitcase Alumn - Toy Horses

The lyrics of Toy Horses appeared originally in the July 2008 issue of The Battered Suitcase. Toy Horses are Adam Franklin-Williams and Moist Bamboo. Indie, acoustic, pop, and rock, Toy Horses melodic, lyrical style is infectious. You can find out more about them online here: http://toyhorses.myshopify.com/ 

Their debut album is now available. Check out the video for their debut single:

Suitcase Alumn - Adam Ficek

From our mate, Adam Ficek and Roses Kings Castles, from his new album, Suburban Time Bombs:

"One Born Every Minute"

Suitcase Alumn - Kieran Leonard

Touching base with prior contributors to The Battered Suitcase finds singer/songwriter Kieran Leonard in sessions for Gin in Teacups.

Suitcase Alumn - Lyn Lifshin

Poet Lyn Lifshin appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Battered Suitcase. 

Lyn has published over 120 books and edited 4 anthologies. Also out recently: "Nutley Pond", "Persephone" "Katrina" and "Lost Horses". Her web site is http://www.lynlifshin.com/.

Just released to glowing reviews, poet Lyn Lifshin's new collection, "Ballroom."
 
With Ballroom, my 30-year addiction to Lyn Lifshin is reaffirmed and continues, unabated. Each new Lifshin work unravels, ravels and reravels me, shocks me that I’m once again surprised at the author’s depth and range. Ballroom is an invitation to the dance of Mad Girls, lovers, obsession, self-doubt, growth, regressions, transgressions…so potent, sexual, and thought-provoking in ways only Lyn Lifshin can plumb. This book tantalizes, lets us find new sides of the author’s voice that have been living in the margins.
Ballroom inspires the same freshness and glistening in me as did the very first book of Lyn's I read those 3 decades ago. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Lyn. I love this book. 
-- Ted Roberts

In Lyn Lifshin's latest collection of discrete-yet-linked poems, dance becomes an exquisite metaphor for obsessive yearning and desire. Form and content complement each other perfectly: Lifshin's language is as graceful, physical, and organic as dance itself.

-- Janice Eidus, author of The Last Jewish Virgin & The War of the Rosens

News from Suitcase Alumn - Kieran Leonard

Kieran Leonard, featured in our Battered Suitcase Autumn 2009 issue with his powerful lyrics and a brilliant interview with our editor, Alice Bigelow, is making his debut single release, ‘Jerusalem,’ today. 

Released on the Wi45 lable, 'Jerusalem' will be available in Rough Trade and all good Independent Record stores on vinyl and downloadable at Amazon on the link to the right.

Lucky Londoners are invited to the launch party at The Boogaloo (Highgate) on December 15th, featuring a live performance, special guests and DJs. You can RSVP at the Facebook Event Page.

Check out the video:

News from Suitcase Alumn - Adam Ficek

Adam Ficek, indie pop guru and dj extraordinaire, appeared in our premiere issue The Battered Suitcase back in June of 2008.

Late of reknowned UK indie band Babyshambles, now of Roses Kings Castles,
Adam's freshly released Suburban Time Bombs has been receiving rave reviews. We're hoping
to bring him back to the Suitcase for more of his clever lyrical wit and an interview.

Until we can catch up with him on his whirl-wind tour of venues unreachable (and mostly unexplained), you can keep track of Adam and his new band at http://www.roseskingscastles.com/

And you can download Suburban Time Bombs from Amazon.