I love the 1950s, dressing up, gin, rockabilly, live music, history, old buildings, shiney things, vintage glamour.
Music
The list is endless... but then I probably only say this because I really can't be bothered to list every band and every song I like. Mainly and in no particular order: rockabilly, rock n' roll, blues, hillbilly, Las Vegas grind, surf, western swing, gypsy manouche.
I really wish that bands that I blatantly would have no interest in would stop adding me (in the deepest darkest depths of your soul you know who you are).
Movies
Mainly old films from the 40s & 50s. The Girl Can't Help It, Some Like It Hot, Gi Gi, The Third Man, Lili, Sabrina, Ealing comedies, Buffalo 66, Stand By Me, True Romance, Back to the Future, Lost Boys, Goonies, Amelie, Walk The Line, Tim Burton, Crybaby. Too many to list and there really isn't the time, there's probably some essay I'm supposed to be writing right now! I like Johnny Depp and Joaquin Phoenix...I admire them greatly for their acting abilities
I love Dogfight...
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Television
Springwatch, You Rang me Lord, Allo Allo, Black Books, Love Soup. I loved Toby Amies' Alternative Nation. Sherlock Holmes. Jem! (She's truely outrageous)
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Books
Mainly course books, at the moment I'm studying film & television history...allegedly.
Heroes
Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Bettie Page, Audrey Hepburn, Debbie Harry, Mamie Van Doren.
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I'm quite partial to pirates and any glamorous, peculiar and mysterious historical figures.
I'm shy, I love the 1950s, burlesque, going to gigs, old films and old buildings. I tap dance badly but I give good guided tours. I leave everything until the last minute, except for planning outfits and buying dresses, shoes, handbags and make-up, in which case you'll be amazed at how organized and thorough I can be. Maybe it was the shoes that got me into tap dancing. I'm prone to sarcasm. My dancing often leads to much embarrassment. I should exercise a little more and drink a little less...but how dull would that be. Old drunk tramps sometimes shout 'Alice!' at me and laugh, I think they're referring to Alice in Wonderland but you never can be sure. I'm a lapsed vegetarian. I have two cats. I can't stand lies. I have a phobia of wax works and some shop dummies, not all; it depends on how shifty they look and how brave I'm feeling. I particularly don’t like the ones in Marks & Spencers that lean over the escalators, leering, there's got to be a reason why they're waiting up there. Prefers tea to coffee, preferably Yorkshire Gold, not weak!
TIP: I find it tastes better if your tea cup matches your dress.
The Rubber Room returns on Saturday November 28th for a round of hard hitting rock'n'roll from howlin' blues through stuttering rockabilly, into surf and frat before winding up with some killer 60's garage.
come on down and do the stroll, the shimmy, the shake, whatever moves you and let's have a party!
Spinning the savage 45's will be Nick Smith & Tom Lawrie plus friends
sleazy video projections all night.
The Maze (Forest Tavern), Mansfield Rd, Nottingham
10.30 - 3am £3 Sat. 28th Nov
next night will be December 11th with Louie & The Louie's + Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers LIVE on stage - killer frat/surf and rockabilly party from a great band comprising Sir Bald Diddley and Ex Milkshakes/Headcoates man Bruce Brand.
The Rubber Room returns for a savage rock'n'roll Christmas Party, featuring TWO killer bands fronted by the Legendary Sir Bald Diddley on guitar / vocals, John 'Lard' Gibb on Bass & featuring ex Milkshakes / Headcoates / Holly Golightly Drummer - Bruce Brand!
Louie & The Louie's: Wild, frat/surf/garage party sounds - think the trashmen meets the sonics meets link wray + more! http://www.myspace.com/dothelouie
HipBone Slim: Wild, authentic back alley rockabilly with a switchblade to the throat, this is the real deal hepcat's... http://www.myspace.com/hipboneslim
This will be a unmissable party so spread the word and come party with us to the wild sounds. First band will be on at 11pm so get down early to avoid disapointment. The Maze (Forest Tavern), Mansfield Rd, Nottingham FRIDAY December 11th 10.00 - 3am £5
Spinning the savage 45's will be Nick Smith & Tom Lawrie playing 50s & 60s rock'n'roll / rockabilly / surf instro's / stompin blues / garage / frat - from original 45's - No CD's ever! sleazy video projections all night. Rubber Room MixCD to the first 30+ through the door
Pick up your copy of Catch That Rockabilly Fever today.
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A few weeks ago I backed up Don Woody at the 1st Rockabilly Bash. I did that with the Tri-Tones from Estonia. Here’s a video clip with his song “Barkin’ Up The Wrong Tree”.
At the same evening I released my 2nd album ‘Mixed Up”. I recorded this album with The Neva River Rockets from Russia, the Tri-Tones from Estonia and did two duets with U.S.A singer Karling Abbeygate.
The Rubber Room presents a Night of Crazed, Derranged, Psychotic and downright Degenerate Halloween Spookiness.
We will be dressing the room up and projecting vintage monster edits through the night as well as spinning some of the strangest and most disturbed 45s in our collections. Alongside the usual mix of blues stompers, rockabilly, sixties garage and frat, surf instros and rock'n'roll.
Hope you can make it!
The Maze, Forest Tavern, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.
I'm shy, I love the 1950s, burlesque, going to gigs, old films and old buildings. I tap dance badly but I give good guided tours. I leave everything until the last minute, except for planning outfits and buying dresses, shoes, handbags and make-up, in which case you'll be amazed at how organized and thorough I can be. Maybe it was the shoes that got me into tap dancing. I'm prone to sarcasm. My dancing often leads to much embarrassment. I should exercise a little more and drink a little less...but how dull would that be. Old drunk tramps sometimes shout 'Alice!' at me and laugh, I think they're referring to Alice in Wonderland but you never can be sure. I'm a lapsed vegetarian. I have two cats. I can't stand lies. I have a phobia of wax works and some shop dummies, not all; it depends on how shifty they look and how brave I'm feeling. I particularly don’t like the ones in Marks & Spencers that lean over the escalators, leering, there's got to be a reason why they're waiting up there. Prefers tea to coffee, preferably Yorkshire Gold, not weak!
