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stranger than paradise's Interests
Music
Performers who have graced our club are Earl Okin, The Dead Brothers, Thomas Truax, Luminescent Orchestrii,Tragic Roundabout, Forty Thieves Orkestar, Urban Voodoo Machine, Fantazmagoria, The Otiacs, Balkanetics, Rohan Theatre Band, D-77,The Outside Royalty, Eugene Hutz, Mukka, The Guillotines, Pamelia Kursten, The Irrepressibles, Jason Webley, Mudlow, The Tropics of Cancer, Laxula, Dusty Limits, Los Skeletones, The Future Shape of Sound, Son of Dave, Last man standing, marseille Figs, D-66 Oliviere Schneider, la Brass Banda, Eric Bling, Hells Kitchen,Lili Farling, The Ragged trousered Philanthropists, Ta Mere, The Squirrel Skin Slippers, Hooverville, The David Goo Variety band,Plaster of Paris, Jazz jihad,Chancery Blame and the Gadjo Club... coming soon... Alejandro Toledo and the magic tombolinos! the Spanner Jazz punks!! Hooligan night!! The prints of whales!! Wrestling!! Boxing!!! thats not music tho...
Heroes
People who can fall head first and not be afraid to look in the mirror, peg legs who can tap dance, seeing eye dogs, one eyed jacks, snake charmers, toy makers, music makers, bakers who get up early and make cakes daily without complaining, people who can snarl in the face of diversity
"Ring of Fire " By Ella Guru "A nightclub called Stranger than Paradise, at the end of October 2006. The masked woman in Dottie, and the pig faced man was really there but I don't know anything about him, other than that he had trouble drinking his Gin and Tonic, so I gave him a straw. (Later I made it a Bloody Mary cos that looked better.) The fire dancer is Ane Angel, doing her first fire twirling show. If you look really hard you will see an elephant mask man - that is Thomas Truax who played a very daringly quiet set that night, as it was Halloween and most of the punters would rather squirt each other with fake blood than listen to delicate home made instruments. The absinthe is from Prague, and the liquid opium was left round my flat by a sick friend on his way to Amsterdam."
This is a painting done by Armando at our May 6th show with last man Standing, this painting will go on to majorka along with Pete Doherty and Left Hand, this one i imagine should sell for millions
The Opium Den is back to bring you fireworks on the 4th July.
With performances from the Stillhouse Orchestra, Sam Astley and Craig Temple providing bluesy hillbilly rockin sounds to dance and sing along to and The Opium Den Madame Amanda Mae Steele and Miss Rose Thorne providing the Burlesque you'd be mad to miss it.
There will as always be the delectable opium tea served up to those who need it! And also the inimitable Lydia Darling providing the tunes for you to dance to.
My Darling Amanda!! What an honour to be joining you and your travelling circus tae Glasters! ARIGATO & DANK U VEL!!! I'm stuffing as much stocking and frill as I can possibly shoehorn into my miniscule stewardess suitcase. Until the early hours of Friday's morn! Love to you! xxxxxxx
Hi Amanda This is the the launch night for Lobster Quadrille Magazine issue 4 (a great mag!), you'll probably get a free copy if you come along. It's FREE entry too!
I hope to see you on sunday evening in Brick Lane, it's going to be vibrant (at the Vibe Live ;-) Ahaha ha.
Live Band: Big Mamma's Door (Super sexy 50's R&B) will get you off your feet, but also Superstar Djd - Dj El Nino(Black Cotton Club & Lady Luck) & - Dj Lady Kamikaze (Black Cotton Club & Lucky 7 club) playing their collection of rare 78s on gramophones, and later on dance, jump, jive swing until closure of the premises.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PRESENTING THE NEXT TWISTED INSTALMENT OF PANdemonIUM CirCuS…… @ THE LORD NAPIER (BY HACKNEY WICK STATION) 14TH JUNE 9 TILL ?
STARRING…
THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS A blistering blend of rustic, urbane, industrial folk, agricultural noise, wall of folk, avant-billy, klezmer, gypsy and punk… innit!
ED COX Frenetic accordian folk music meets bloodclot jungle tekno in clowncore cacophony of craziness!
SHAMAN FESTIVAL Belgian gypsy ska with less than subtle undertones of fat ass reggae…
DEAD PLANTS The undisputed champions of caledonian skiffle!
KAT BONAVENTURA AND BANG LASSI Tiny crazed feline pianist weaves a psychedelic tapestry of wonky jazz…
JOHNNY KOWASLKI Fiddle and geetttaar driven rock n roll…
Djs playing a blend of everything from ukranian pop to rockabilly to gabba..
PENNY METAL DJ MALAKA DJ BUMP N GRINDSMAN SAGE BANG CROSBY NASTY MQUAID PIEFACE
…and propping up the rave end of the spectrum with a mixture of monkey dancing don data carnival esque dubstep, jungle and tekno…
DJ STIVS, SCRAMBLED ED And many more life4land mash up merchants..
Expect bouts of human cock fighting, sex crazed puppets on k, clowns suspended on meat hooks and straight up fooling!
The third Opium Den hosted at the infamous Bardens Boudoir Due to the sad passing of Mr Bo Diddley we have a surprise turn from Mr Paul Ronney Angel and Special Guests playing some of his greatest songs.
Also this night as you are all aware we have Mike The London Magician astounding us all with his Mind Reading powers of amazement.
Charlie Khan will be bringing his skiffle sound to the Den's illustrious stage.
Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band will be taking us back to when Penny Farthings graced the streets of London.
Luc Owll will be surprising us with his dark and brooding one man show.
Cogregation will be gracing the stage too with their amazing and unique sound.
Mojo raved about them and it's easy to see why we had to have them play for us too!
And finally the infiniately beautiful Lalla Morte will be charming us with her fabulous burlesque.
DJ's are Duncan DeMorgan (Born Bad, Shore Leave) Lydia Morgan ( B Movie Strength through Joy) and your hostess Amanda Mae Steele.
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