Welcome
Please explore these pages to read and hear some of the poems, humour and words: live, recorded and on the printed page… with some inevitable musical intrusions!
Video feature – ‘The Man On The Plane’
Sharing a tale with a live audience about a flight in the USA.
Audio clips
These samples of live humour are taken from shows by Simon Mayor & Hilary James or with The Mandolinquents.
Hear the full sequence
The Parrot Joke
The Parrot Song
Deliverance
Bird Noises
The man on the plane
The Russian
Pizzicato
‘Pizzicato’ performed live by Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents)
Of Death And A Banana Skin
Poetry, other words and AR illustrations: Simon Mayor’s first anthology of poems and anecdotes lavishly illustrated by Hilary James, and featuring Augmented Reality.
‘Uplifting… Made me laugh a lot… philosophy thrown in as well… magic… this is the start of something big…’
Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3