RVT Haloween and dates in November: The Cholmondeleys & the Featherstonehaughs are still going strong, Topping and Butch return on 6th Nov and there's a special SLAGS chill out to see you into World Aids day on 1st December. They're in the gay London diary and some midweek tickets are available from ticketweb.
THURS 30th Oct
THE IRREPRESSIBLES
Polyphonic, androgynous, scorching vocal cabaret from the abrasive to the sublime.
with DJ Kitten
Doors : 7pm - 12 midnight
ENTRY : £5
Further info:
http://www.theirrepressibles.com
FRI 31st Oct : 5th FRIDAY OF THE MONTH : HALLOWE’EN
LOVE BUTTON - FEEL THE LOVE
There will be a Halloween party for girls, their gay guests and their transfabulous friends on Fri Oct 31 at RVT.. A Halloween special fright night with live music, performances and DJs ‘til 3am. Hostessed by Fisch and Olga.
Featuring live Halloween Performances and special guests Voodoo Hussy - 4 girls playing Vaudeville Punk. NME said they play like they've been doing nothing else their whole lives!
Prizes for the best costumes so witches and bitches dust off your broomsticks and pointy hats and lets raise the dead!
Doors 9pm ‘til 3am
ENTRY : £6.00 / £3.00 concession (Student/Unemployed)
More details: After the success of LOVE BUTTON - Million Women Rise benefit, legendary lesbian club promoter and compere FISCH returns to the RVT.
SAT 1st Nov
DUCKIE
Post-Poofter Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment. Hosted by Amy Lamé, music by Readers Wifes.
9pm - 2am.
Entry £5
SUN 2nd Nov
S.L.A.G.S / Chill-Out
Huge dance anthems and commercial house from the DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty & Sean Sirrs.
2pm ‘til Midnight. The genius of The D. E. Experience (aka Jonathan Hellyer) on stage at 5.30pm.
Entry £7
MON 3rd Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
A game in 6 rounds: Cabaret*Live Music*DJs
... Live Music by The Accumulator, Choreography by Lea Anderson,
Design: Simon Vincenzi, Musical Director: Steve Blake
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was an obsessive gamble who in desperation to pay his debtors would bet his publisher at long odds on an early completion of his novels.
These extremely tight deadlines meant his work could not be revised or edited and this resulted in an atmosphere of exhilaration and momentum within passages of his novels.
Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s audacious recklessness and his risk taking in the creative process we shall we rushing headlong into the breakneck construction and precipitous performance of six ribald and dizzying cabarets over ten weeks of escalating mayhem in the intimate, intoxicating and dare we say Dostoyevskian setting of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
Eight Cholmondeley and Featherstonehaughs performers are joined by two special guests for each Round with The Accumulator providing live and loud music! Doors at 8pm – and DJs take you through to midnight.
Post show happy hour: Moscow Mule cocktails just £2 for an hour after the show finishes!
DATES:
ROUND 1: October
ROUND 2: 27, 28 & 29 October & 3, 4 & 5 November
With special guests Luca Silvestrini & Makiko Aoyami
ROUND 3: 10, 11, 12 & 17, 18 & 19 November
With special guests Frauke Requardt & Paul Wilkinson
ROUND 4: 24, 25 26 November & 1, 2 & 3 December
With special guests Antonia Grove & Andy Williams
ROUND 5: 8, 9, 10, 11, December
With special guests Ragnhild Olsen & David Hoyle
ROUND 6: 12 December
Surprise!
The final round, the last chamber - the party at the end of the line. Contemporary dance meets cabaret with live band and extreme costumes. Tickets on sale on 24th November £15 - Includes After Party with Kimono Krush from 10.30pm - 3am
TIMES: Doors open at 8pm. The ticket entitles you to entry all night. The show starts at 9pm and runs for approx. 30 minutes with DJs through until midnight.
TICKETS: Rounds 1-5
TICKET INFO: Tickets: £12.50 per show (round)
Multibuy: £50 if you buy Rounds 1-5 at the same time.
No concessions or other prices.
Available by phone only: 020 7223 2223
or
www.russianroulette.thecholmondeleys.org
TUES 4th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
WED 5th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
THURS 6th Nov - TOPPING & BUTCH SCHOOL GANG
Topping and Butch, your hosts for the night with the most amazing line-up of comic supply teachers.
Following their warm-up gigs in a major West End theatre, Topping and Butch are returning to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern for the third term of their incredibly successful RVT School Gang. School uniform is not compulsory but will be rewarded with a free drink from the Tuck shop.
Topping and Butch will be hosting some of the best known and funniest comics on the circuit in their specially designed curriculum - 4 comics in one night, a school joke competition, tuck shop, school dinner, chalk & sweet wrappers...
Previous terms has seen great names such as Milton Jones, Andy Parson, Steven K Amos & Christine & Neil Hamilton (teaching good husbandry). This term we have Chris Niell, Ninia Benjamin, Shazia Mirza, Nick Revell and Markus Birdman coming direct from the Comedy Store.
Registration starts at 7pm, assembly 8.30pm followed by the first lesson. Lateness for lessons will not be tolerated. Dinner will be served by Doris the Dinner Lady at 9.30pm. The Tuck shop will not open before Dinner under any circumstances.
Lessons finish at 11.15pm followed by detention for the over boisterous with Dawn Right Nasty on the decks until 12pm.
Smoking behind the bikesheds only.
Doors 7pm, Show 8.30pm-11.15pm, Detention until 12 midnight
Price £6 (£4 NUS concession)
FREE DRINK if you wear a school tie.
Your Timetable for the Term is as follows:
Assembly (Topping & Butch)
Periods 1&2: Topping & Butch
Periods 3&4: Mr / Ms (see details below)
School Dinner Time
Periods 5&6: Mr / Ms (see details below)
Tuck Shop Open
Periods 7&8: Mr / Ms (see details below)
Each week there will be Extra Curricular Activities: Including School Joke Competition with Prizes
School jokes to be entered into the competition and not on the toilet walls
Periods 3&4 - Mr Chris Neill - Domestic Science
Periods 5& 6 - Ms Lorraine Bowen - Dinner Lady
Periods 7& 8 - Mr Al Barrie - Geography
CHRIS NEILL: Live cookery! Live jokes! Live Delia! (Well, two out of three ain't bad). The Radio 4 raconteur dishes up gourmet comedy in his onstage kitchen. 'A blast ... devastatingly acidic wit' (Chortle).
LORRAINE BOWEN: "Mistress of Melody", "Mary Poppins on Acid", "Joyce Grenfell meets Madonna", are all great quotes given to the hilarious singer/songwriter/performer Lorraine Bowen!
ALISTAIR BARRIE: "He had the Cape town audience eating out of his hand" - 48 Hours
FRI 7th Nov : 1st FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
URSUS LONDON - URSUS GOES POP!
Come and enjoy the fun, fur and frolics with old friends and new, as Ursus London™ celebrates that little pleasure in life, we like to call POP!! We can't get enough of the stuff, so to celebrate the joys of POP! Ursus London™ has a very special 'URSUS GOES POP' party lined up.
This month's special guest is YOU!
We want it to be a night of pure unadulterated POP! pleasure, so for this month only (for now) bring your favourite POP! tune of all time down on a CD and have it played... Especially for you!!! The only rulea are that it has to be POP! and it has to have been a hit, any artist, any era, just make sure it's POP!
On the decks
For your listening pleasure on the decks, playing all your requests, please welcome back the fantastic and furry Filthy Fil and that big, bad bear DKUB! Both will be keeping the party atmosphere up, up and away, playing non-stop POP classics! With a few surprise guests popping in, up and out of the DJ booth through out the evening!
Plus all the usual Ursus London™ fun, fur and frolics - it's gonna be a 100% POP spectacular you can't afford to miss!
www.ursusplanet.com
See you there!
9pm - 2am,
Entry £5
Happy hour 9-10.30pm on selected drinks and spirit
SAT 8th Nov
DUCKIE
Post-Poofter Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment. Hosted by Amy Lamé, music by Readers Wifes.
9pm - 2am.
Entry £5
SUN 9th Nov
S.L.A.G.S / Chill-Out
Huge dance anthems and commercial house from the DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty & Sean Sirrs.
2pm ‘til Midnight. The genius of The D. E. Experience (aka Jonathan Hellyer) on stage at 5.30pm.
Entry £7
MON 10th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
TUES 11th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
WED 12th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
THURS 13th Nov - TOPPING & BUTCH SCHOOL GANG
Topping and Butch, your hosts for the night with the most amazing line-up of comic supply teachers.
SEE 6th NOV for full details
Periods 3&4 - Mr Rajesh - Bollywood Studies (comic: Anil Desai)
Periods 5& 6 - Mr Kurt Van Rimmer - Pornography
Periods 7& 8 - Ms Ninia Benjamin - Emergency Services
Doors 7pm, Show 8.30pm-11.15pm, Detention until 12 midnight
Price £6 (£4 NUS concession)
FREE DRINK if you wear a school tie.
RAJESH : ANIL DESAI - Stand Up Chameleon: 'Rajesh: Bollywood Lounge Singer'
An Ex-bollywood child star, he's a kitschy but charming Vegas style Lounge Act, from Bollywood, looking for love and singing covers of pop songs from Elvis to Coldplay in his own unique comedy style.
'He's a Tosser' Imran Khan
'The Funniest thing in music I never thought I'd see' P-Diddy
'Without him, there would be no brown comedy talent in the UK ' Jim Davidson
'Like Andy Kauffman...but...different...this guys alive!' Paul Provenza
'He's my favourite Mexican Entertainer'-
Gvnr Arnold Schwarznegger
Ninia Benjamin: Star of BBC2's ‘Three none Blondes’; Bursting onto the stage in an explosion of energy, bombastic Benjamin certainly makes an attention-grabbing entrance’ Chortle
FRI 14th Nov : 2nd FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
KIMONO KRUSH
Following a hot packed and steamy opening night, Kimono Krush at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern will be back again on Friday 14th November with an even dirtier mix featuring DJ Lush of Lippy on decks, live performances from Holestar, the Tranny with a Fanny, go go dancers and more. For further information please see attachment.
Taking London by storm, Kimono Krush is the new clubnight from The Sugarlow Boys, Al Dente, MarcwithaC and The Duchess of Pork as they clash cultures with a musical cocktail of girl groups, soul, French pop, disco, new wave, electro, Britpop, indie dance and more. It happens every second Friday of the month at the RVT; £4 in with cheap drinks and Kimono Krush cocktails available for those who can handle it.
DJ Lush is the indie queer diva and a DJ extraordinaire, who has played indie/pop/electro sets at some of London’s best loved alternative nights such as Lippy, Marvellous, Miss-Shapes, Gay Shame and Duckie.
Doors 9PM -3AM
Entry: £4
Links:
www.myspace.com/kimono_krush
facebook group: KIMONO KRUSH
Holestar : http://www.myspace.com/holestar www.myspace.com/holestar
SAT 15th Nov
DUCKIE
Post-Poofter Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment. Hosted by Amy Lamé, music by Readers Wifes.
9pm - 2am.
Entry £5
SUN 16th Nov
S.L.A.G.S / Chill-Out
Huge dance anthems and commercial house from the DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty & Sean Sirrs.
2pm ‘til Midnight. The genius of The D. E. Experience (aka Jonathan Hellyer) on stage at 5.30pm.
Entry £7
MON 17th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
TUES 18th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
WED 19th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
THURS 20th Nov - TOPPING & BUTCH SCHOOL GANG
Topping and Butch, your hosts for the night with the most amazing line-up of comic supply teachers.
SEE 6th NOV for full details
Periods 3&4 - Ms Marion Pashley - Sex Education
Periods 5& 6 - Mr Andre Vincent - Local Government
Periods 7& 8 - Ms Shazia Mirza - Hair Removal
Doors 7pm, Show 8.30pm-11.15pm, Detention until 12 midnight
Price £6 (£4 NUS concession)
FREE DRINK if you wear a school tie.
Marion Pashley: ‘Deadpan Pashley could be Les Dawson's great grand daughter’ - The Herald
"Delightful" - The Guardian; "A superb slice of stand-up comedy" - The Scotsman
Shazia Mirza: 'Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy' - The Guardian
FRI 21st Nov : 3rd FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
COZMIC - 100% Uplifting NRG & House Anthems
with DJs ‘The Cozmic Brothers’
9.30pm - late (happy hour until 11pm - selected beers & spirits just £2)
Entry £5
COZMIC London features 100% uplifting hands-in-the-air NRG and house anthems all-night long. We shall be playing lots of classics of the past few years, but with a new twist and adding in a few new anthems and some fabulous tunes you may not have heard before... plus we'll even play requests! All in a relaxed social atmosphere with trippy visuals, flag-dancers plus free snacks and chocolates from our hosts.
Get a free membership at our website below giving you reduced price admission and other special offers.
www.cozmiclondon.com facebook group: Cozmic - at the RVT
SAT 22nd Nov
DUCKIE
Post-Poofter Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment. Hosted by Amy Lamé, music by Readers Wifes.
9pm - 2am.
Entry £5
SUN 23rd Nov
S.L.A.G.S / Chill-Out
Huge dance anthems and commercial house from the DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty & Sean Sirrs.
2pm ‘til Midnight. The genius of The D. E. Experience (aka Jonathan Hellyer) on stage at 5.30pm.
Entry £7
MON 24th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
TUES 25th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
WED 26th Nov - THE CHOLMONDELEYS & THE FEATHERSTONEHAUGHS present RUSSIAN ROULETTE
SEE 3rd NOV for details
THURS 27th Nov - TOPPING & BUTCH’S SCHOOL GANG
TONIGHT SOLD OUT - (by invitation only)
FRI 28th Nov : 4th FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
KUNST
An evening of neo-Weimar cabaret.
hosted by DUSTY LIMITS - 'the best Emcee at the Fringe' (the Scotsman).
with DAWN RIGHT NASTY - the mistress of the decks.
and SILENT NIGHTS - Screenings of classic and obscure modern silent films to start off each evening.
Doors: 8.30pm
Club: until 2am
Entry: £5
Dress Code: The History of Art - come as a work of art to get free entry and cocktail prizes.
TONIGHT:
NATHANIEL DE VILLE - host of Vauxhallville and playmate of the Tiger Lillies, Nathaniel De Ville will be performing his controversial tribute to Her Majesty the Queen.
Further guests to be confirmed.
with HOLY GHOST REVIVAL and LES OBJETS PERDUS
SAT 29th Nov
DUCKIE
Post-Poofter Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment. Hosted by Amy Lamé, music by Readers Wifes.
9pm - 2am.
Entry £5
SUN 30th Nov : WORLD AIDS DAY (eve) S.L.A.G.S / CHILL-OUT SPECIAL : DO YOU?
Stay with us after Midnight and see in WAD at the RVT.
As well as all you know and love of a Sunday at the RVT, we bring you an auction of great prizes to raise funds for GMFA with The D.E. Experience returning to the stage for a PA at midnight and an extended party.
£10* tickets (available at the bar midweek, 50% of the door going to GMFA)
2pm - 2am
The nights theme is 'DO YOU?', please visit 'RV Taverners' on Facebook and post your thoughts, humour, experiences... of what HIV, AIDS and WAD means to you?
(*T&C: £5 entry + £5 voluntary donation with completed form)
