Band Line Up 2019

Sophie Sparham is a writer and spoken word artist from Derby. Her debut poetry collection ‘Please Mind the Gap’ was released last year and features a foreword from Benjamin Zephaniah. Sophie has written poetry commissions for Writing East Midlands, BBC Radio 4, The V&A and The People’s History Museum. This year Sophie gave a Ted X Talk at the University of Kent about how spoken word can improve our cultural awareness. 

Sophie co-hosts Word Wise with Jamie Thrasivoulou, which won Best Regular Spoken Word Night at the Saboteur Awards 2019. She was long listed for the Out Spoken Page Prize 2019.

For Bloodstock Sophie is preparing a special metal set.  

"Metal is a massive part of my life and Bloodstock has always been my favourite festival ever since I first attended it as a teenager. It's been a dream of mine to play the festival, but I never in a million years thought I'd get the opportunity to do it as a poet. I'm really hyped to kick things off on the Friday and have got some special music themed poems planned."