Sage Francis, Blindboy Boatclub and Rafeef Ziadeh are the first names to be announced for this year's Lingo spoken word festival
Sage Francis plays Whelans on 17th April. Siobhán Kane spoke with him about his love of words, running a record label and being a closet optimist.
'That’s exactly the kind of task crowdsourcing should be tackling though. As opposed to being used by artists to make hypothetical albums' - Siobhán Kane talks with B.Dolan