In Pictures: Belle Epoque: The Dark Circus Party

In Pictures: Belle Epoque: The Dark Circus Party

From the folk behind Torture Garden and Bourne and Hollingworth comes the latest edition of their vintage and fetish themed events. Last Saturday night, Downtown Abbey got deep down and dirty with Fifty Shades in the subterranean vault that is the Bloomsbury Ballroom...
Lady Alex Gets Crazy About The Eighties

Lady Alex Gets Crazy About The Eighties

This year, the Wam Bam Club is living up to its name with a spurt of explosive growth. Not content with its longstanding Saturday night show at the Cafe de Paris, they expanded in April to take over the Bloomsbury Ballroom on one Friday every month. Just four months...
Are These The Best Awards Categories Ever?

Are These The Best Awards Categories Ever?

Big fat meh, Mercury Prize. Bollocks to you, Brit Awards. Take this and party, Turner Prize. The New York Burlesque Festival may well be the most entertaining major arts awards ceremony this year. “And the winner for Best Blah Blah Blah goes to Whats-Her-Name!...
Six Reasons To Misbehave This Saturday

Six Reasons To Misbehave This Saturday

Are the days of classic gameshows truly behind us? Not if peerless compère Miss Behave has anything to say about it. Call it rose-tinted nostalgia but the days of the epic gameshow are long gone. Nowadays its all about the gurning host, the gormless contestants and...