Shore Leave - Sat 2nd July SUMMER SPECIAL @SHACKLE

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SHORE LEAVE @ THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS SHORE * SUMMER * LEAVE ! SAT 2ND JULY 9PM, £6 ON THE DOOR £5 IN ADV @ www.shoreleave.co.uk The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane London , E8 2EB 020 7249 0810 Sailors, Wenches, Dockland Dames and Burly Bastards, The Shacklewell Arms, Dalston's last great drinkin taverna welcomes the only true sailor party in town...SHORE LEAVE!!! Bringing all-time tunes fathoms deep from Davey Jones' very own Jukebox, right up to the God forsaken thwarted lower deck o' the Titanic....God rest them souls... Live Bands, Tattshack, Picture Portrait Postcards and a whole bunch of nautical madness to include......... - The Rogues Gallery - Personal mates of the Kraken and accordion-weilding rowdy bastards armed with fiddles, banjos and enough wind in their sails ta take yer lost souls back ta the shore where the ladies be! - Trixie Mailicious - our very in-house queen.... every sailor has had their hearts torn apart by this one from port to port she has travelled the world to lift the spirits o thee lonely men with her humour and boooty-full ways! - More Live surprises TBC - Son of sea beast - Zackary McKraken will be manning the decks and spinning Gypsy-Jazz-Punk, Singapore-Swing, Wartime-Weimar-Jazz, Battering-Ram-Blues, Cannonball-Cabaret-Trash, Ship-Sinking-Chansonnier, Torpedo-Tube-Tango, Russian-Martial-Polkas, Whiskey Drunk-Irish-Battle Marches, the Danse Macabre and olde time rekkids from far flung ports.... - Miss Amy Gwatkin on duty at the legendary Shore Leave Photobooth, capturing your hearts on film and turning them into postcards to send to your lover/mistress/Mum! - Johnny DeMonique’s far-famed Shore Leave Tattoo Shack, get the name of your secret crush drawn on your arm, thigh, back, or anywhere else ye want! - Accordians, fiddles n' pipes in the garden! - Free shots o' Shore Leave Rum on the door! Shore Leave has been throwing the most rowdyist, stylishly decadent, delinquent and debauched sailor parties in London, and putting the 'naughty' into nautical, for near-on 2 years now, bringing ashore the finest dirty jazz'n'swing, stomping folk'n'shanties, rocknroll, cabaret, and burlesque acts and performers from all over London and all over the world..... not to mention the usual felt-tip-Tattoo Parlour, Postcard-Photobooth, Drinking, Dancing and Bunting, as resident DJ's McKraken & DeMorgan keep em swingin'n'swiggin' in the riggin' till dawn.... As well as the monthly shakedown (usually at Whitechapel's George Tavern) and occasional one-off extravaganzas around town, they have hosted rum-sodden soirees for the likes of the Queens of Noize, Smash'n'Grab, T4, The Green Man festival, Selfridges... not to mention hosting Adam Ant's first live appearance in 15 years at the Southwark Playhouse.... "rum-swigging sailors haven....sublime shanties, postwar polkas and ditties so drunken that even a refreshed Shane MacGowan would say they were a touch over the limit" - Guardian Guide "a stellar line-up of bawdy bands and debauched burlesque" - Time Out London "Dude! What the fuck was that tune?!" - Woody Harrelson ..........................................................................