24 February
Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
7.45pm / £10 (£8) / 01227 769075

27 February
Felstead Arts Festival @ Hut Theatre
8pm / £10 (£5) / 01371 822 635

01 March
Colchester Arts Centre
7.30pm / £6 (£3.50) / 01206 500900

03 March
Unity Theatre, Liverpool
8pm / £5 / 0151 709 4988

05 March
Bath Literature Festival @ The Guildhall
8.30pm / £6 (£4) / 01225 463362

07 March
Norwich Arts Centre
8.30pm / £5 (£4) / 01603 660352

13 March
Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans
8pm / £6 / 01727 844222

14 March
Essex Book Festival @ The Playhouse, Harlow
8pm / £10 (£8) / 01279 431945

15 March
The Junction, Cambridge
8pm / £7 (£4) / 01223 511511

29 March
Sevenoaks Playhouse
8pm / £12.50 (£8.50) / 01732 450175

26 April
Barrel House, Totnes
8pm / £6 / 01803 863000

27 April
Exeter Phoenix
8pm / £8 (£6) /01392 667080

Notching up the cultural roadkill with ambulance-chasing poetics and stunning visuals, Poetry Boyband Aisle16 return with twelve white-knuckle micro-lectures on the achingly hip subject of contemporary verse. It’s Edutainment, innit.

Poetry Boyband takes previously unthinkable thoughts – like chartering an expedition across Henry Miller’s face and explaining why Alastair Campbell is a poet (it’s to do with love) – and uploads them directly to your brain.

Following success at the Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Boyband played to packed out crowds in London at the end of 2005. It was named Time Out Critics' Choice of the year 2005 and now tours the UK in 2006.

"Aisle16 have reached a new scabrous high" * * * * * Time Out

Building on the success of last year’s darkly satirical motivational seminar Powerpoint, Aisle16 have enjoyed an extraordinarily successful Fringe in 2005.

‘Everything works seemlessly … A brilliant evenings entertainment’ The Stage

Reviewers have been fighting to lavish stars upon the show. Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland, Joel Stickley and Chris Hicks use the flashest costumes, the most daring choreography and the most up-to-date, digitally-enhanced ‘edutainment’ techniques to bring verse to the unversed.

"I heard mutterings of 'they're just Boyzone with poems.' But 200 years ago they were saying that about Keats and Shelley." The Times

Poetry Boyband (Remastered) will be better than ever, including a rhyming stand-off between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud to see who is the daddy of all psychoanalysts, as Aisle16 achieve the feat of putting poetry where it so obviously belongs - on a stage, in a white suit and with girls snatching at its ankles. As 2005 body rocks into 2006 their stated mission to Make Poetry History comes ever closer to a satisfactory conclusion.

"Brilliantly ironic ... one of the funniest things you'll see this fringe" The List ****