Firstly let me say that there will be an account of naked dancing ladies in swimming goggles and a man pretending to be a puppet playing the musical saw with another man pretending to manipulate him. If you can't be bothered to read all of it, I've highlighted these bits for you!
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If you still haven't tried to find out more about the art space life space group, then hopefully this should persuade you.
I went to one of the last events at the pro Cathedral last night -- The Bang Bang Club, Cold Turkey Cabaret. In their own words it was "an evening of desperate decadence and delirious indulgence featuring the Zen Hussies, Hot Potato Syncopaters, The Perverted Turkeys, Roller Disco, speed dating and DJ Wifey."
The reason I was there was because the Zen Hussies had to pull out at the last moment (although Jonah still did some excellent DJing), and Stanley Forbes (who I live with) was asked to step in. Woohoo!
The evening started out with a roller disco and a balloon release, before Jake the saxophone player from Stanley Forbes's band led the disco divas, Pied Piper style, into the theatre. I have no idea about sound engineering, or how hard it might have been in such an echoey space, but I have to admit that the sound was rubbish. (Why oh why is it so hard to find a venue that actually produces a good sound from the performing band?) The audience (some doled up in vintage and cabaret clothes) started shouting that they couldn't hear, and eventually the Forbes band got off the stage to do some acoustic numbers in between the tables, to the amusement and bemusement of the audience.
Not a particularly good start to the evening, but all was forgotten once the next act started (I can only presume that they were the Perverted Turkeys?). There were two completely naked ladies on stage apart from swimming goggles and swimming caps, who started dancing, mirroring each other's movements, to the whole of Bohemian Rhapsody. At one point two beach balls were involved. I'm not quite sure what more to say about it, apart from the fact that I've never seen a stranger act in my life! It completely cheered me up! They were definitely not afraid of displaying their genitalia...to full (ahem) effect... and the result was strangley un-erotic. I don't think it was meant to be though...I think it was for comedy/novelty value?
Next up were the Hot Potato Syncopaters http://www.myspace.com/hotpotatosyncopators - three men all dressed in suits and bow ties (the lead singer with a handlebar moustache and a monocle), singing 20s-40s type songs in harmony, playing ukuleles, an assortment of whistles and a tea-chest bass (one of those strange instruments with only one string...I now have a distinct crush on the player of that bass!). They are my new absolutely favourite band -- their performance was amazing, complete with goofy grins and making eyes at the audience. At one point the lead singer (known to some as Duke Marmapants (sp?), writer of the Genital Mutilation Opera...not for the faint hearted,) pretended to hypnotise the other uke player into being a ventriloquist doll, who then sat on the bassists knee and sang a song. It was amazingly well done - I can't help but think that they've all been to some kind of drama school. The bassist then took out a wood cross (the kind that operate the strings of a marionette) and pretended to make the hypnotised man play the musical saw for the next song. All in all their act was absolutely fantastic! Although the sound still hadn't been completely fixed.
There were so many other things going on that I didn't get to take part in because I can't be in two places at once! But I did notice two women acting the part of little old ladies who were going about the place harassing young men.
God do they know how to throw a party!
Ending on a sad note though - as I said, this was one of the last events at the pro Cathedral. It is destined to be turned into flats soon. Oh the humanity! But they are also putting on events in an old police station...I haven't been yet, but it sounds promising.
3 comments:
Good to know that these kind of weird, independent underground events don't just happen in London. Having said that, if you're ever down south take a look at http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/
Thanks for the link! It looks interesting :)
I like this theme, this is a great event and i would like to come there, but i don't have any idea where is it conducted, it is wired but looks like this will be a great fun.
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