Theatre Week

I've been gallivanting around all week to various theatre shows and it's been fabulous!

I was excited to go and watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the glorious surroundings of The Royal Albert Hall, and had a bonkers fun evening!

 

 

At The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Emma!

Ice Skaters at The Natural History Museum on the way home

The next night I had a date night and we went to watch an interesting show called The Card Shark which was like a cross between a magic show, a gambling den and a lecture from a nutty professor!

The Card Shark Show at The Courthouse Hotel

My show this weekend was at the beautiful Proud Cabaret Brighton - it's such a gorgeous venue and the audiences are always lovely so it made up for the hellish journey there and the replacement rail buses on the way home!

 

Mirror Picture! With Mister Meredith and Coco Deville! ** Selfie with Cherry DeVille!

I've been having a lovely lazy Sunday relaxing and reading for my university course. I have another exciting week ahead so I'm recharging my batteries in preparation!

What? This is how I recharge!

Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?

Crikey, where does the time go? I can't believe it's been nearly two months since my last blog!!

In my defence, I have been writing a blog, just not here: I've started back at university! And the assessments are done in the form of a blog so I've been working a lot on that. As previously mentioned I also have a 'real' job now as well so that's obviously been taking up a lot of time. It's fun though!

However, the beauty of this now is that I can pop back and forth between my real life and my cabaret life, as I have been for the last month or so - so here we go!

I've been Rocking The Kaff Bar in Brixton a couple of times: it's the most bonkers fun show and we always have a laugh - imagine a big kids party for drunk adults and you're half way there: sparklers, face paint, sausage rolls and a big curly wig all feature and it is the greatest night ever!

 

Backstage Selfies! With Joe Morose, Ruby Deshabille and Chastity Belt!

  

Bad, blurry mirror picture! With Joe Morose and Taz Zebrowski

 

  

 

 

 

Backstage and Onstage! Both mental...

Lighters in the air for Chastity Belt's closing song

 

More Backstage Selfies

Joe Morose is a Gladiator, doncha know...

I've also been back at Proud Cabaret a couple of times: I launched a new act (Ocean Under The Moon) and was honoured to attend their birthday party at the beginning of the month...

Loving the headdress!

Mirror Picture! With Jonathan Finch, Beau Rocks, Joe Morose and Helen Orford!

New costume! Courtesy of Vanity B Corsetry!

 

Outside the Cabaret! With Taz Zebrowski, Chastity Belt, Ben Brown, Joe Morose and Coco DuBois! ** With Ruby Deshabille, Taz Zebrowski, Sophia St. Villier and Ben Brown!

This. This was why it all went wrong...

Speaking of Proud Cabaret, it is where I met my lovely man, and he finally moved on from the venue after four years! We obviously had to go out for drinks to celebrate!

With Helen Orford, Joe Morose, Ruby Deshabille, Jasz Vegas, Ronnie Roberts, Ben Carpenter and Jamie Moon!

 And last, but by no means least, I've been back at The House of Magic with the family!

 

With Yvonne, Abby and Simon!

In lovely-day-out news, I went with a group of the cabaret family to watch 'Briefs' at the London Wonderground, and it was fabulous fun! I also attended 'High Societease' at the gorgeous Kettner's where Chastity Belt and I enjoyed high tea while watching a lovely show!

 

At the Speigeltent with Ruby Deshabille!

Afternoon Tea at Kettner's!

I've also cut my hair (fringe!), been bought a onesie, started growing a chilli plant, seen a meerkat dressed as Dolly Parton, bought a vintage writing desk and got the cats to help me out with Uni coursework...

 

 

 

And there you have it - the month (or so) in a nutshell!
xx

Singing In The Key of Drunk

Boom! A brilliantly busy week nailed! Photoshoots, shows, hoop... the works. And I still found time to chill out (briefly) with the cats and the boy!

Count the cats! One, Two, Three, Four! Definitely pinned... I am a crazy cabaret cat lady...

So on Tuesday I shot with Zebrowski Photography for Vanity B Corsetry alongside the gorgeous Ruby Deshabille. We were working on some promo images for Antonia's new corset and tassels range and supplemented her glorious creations with some fabulous costume items from Angels on Shaftesbury Avenue. Ruby and I had a fan afternoon dressing up and playing around, and Antonia made us cupcakes!! So good.

 

Ready for my close-up ** Showgirl detritus...

Sneaky shot of Ruby and I

One of my favourite images from the shoot

Ruby and I with Antonia - the genius behind Vanity B Corsetry!

On Wednesday I was back with the House of Magic family for more magical shenanigans - the crowd were a little reserved but soon warmed up for the show, especially since it was rounded off by the incomparable Lolo Brow blowing everyone away with an incredible striptease act.

 

Backstage fun-times with Stevie Smallwood and Abby Drake!

On Friday I was fortunate enough to be given a ticket to the London Coliseum to watch the Monte-Carlo Ballet's performance of 'Lac' - the ballet was a re-imagining of Swan Lake and fused classical ballet with modern and contemporary dance. The cast danced their hearts out on stage, completely committing to the unusual but brilliantly realised choreography, and it was captivating! The only thing that could have made it better would have been a live orchestra.

Waiting for the show to start - my favourite moment is when the lights begin to dim and the curtain rises...

Poster for the ballet 

Then it was back to Proud Cabaret on Saturday for another fantastic show with my glorious cabaret reprobates and some of my favourite people: backstage is as fun as the performance! Although I have to say I had one of the greatest moments during 'Shake It Doll' ever... it involved a stag party and a toy cat being thrown onto the stage... filth :P

 

Mirror Pictures! With Jolie Papillon, Joe Morose, Chrys Columbine, Taz Zebrowski and Helen Orford!

 

 

Snaps of 'Shake It Doll' and 'Lust' by Zebrowski Photography

On Sunday I joined Joe Morose and Chastity Belt to watch "Enter Micky Jeronimo", Matthew Floyd Jones' show at the Riverside Studios. Alongside performing his own material he had assembled a fabulous line-up including Kiki Lovechild, The Original Street Dancers, and his partner-in-crime Felicity Fitz-Frisky, among others. It was also lovely to finally meet the gorgeous Vivacity Bliss at long last, and I adored her bonkers Canada act!

Waiting for the show to start...

 

Pre-show selfie ** In the bar with Kiki and Vivacity!

 

It all got a little bit hazy... I remember McDonalds and Disney songs...

I also had a couple of hoop classes this week and Zebrowski Photography popped along to have a giggle at my expense and take some pictures - both of which happened.

 

With the lovely Amanda - putting up with my faffing on the hoop!

 

 

Striking some poses!

 

 

And some more!

It wouldn't be a hoop class without some injuries!!

And now I'm tired and a little bit hungover, and planning to spend the entire day in my PJ's - well deserved I think!

xx