New York City girls..
Just read Emma's post, she's always so PROMPT at getting her news on the blog, however i was looking after my kids yesterday and then went to see Dita Von Tease at Koko last night so i kind of have an excuse. Tanya from Maison Bertaux just brought me down a cafe au lait so i can settle down to this....
My gorgeous friend Annabel came to visit on Friday from New York, she was in London for Frieze art fair, she always comes over for that so i was anticipating her call, i really wanted her to see the new shop so she came down for tea and eclairs and tried her way through the eley kishimoto rails. She'd just been to the swingin' London show at the V & A so her head was full of empire lines and print, and she kept pulling dresses out going "This is sooo swingiin london!!" Michelle treated us to cakes as she could hear us squealing downstairs, a "Friday Treat"! So the velocity of us catching up with news got ever louder as the sugar kicked in!!
Her friend Lisa came by, she had a stand at Frieze and was furious because Jude Law had just bought the painting she wanted...so she felt much better after some tea and a bit of retail therapy...here they are with their cake boxes. We all had such a good gossip about all kinds of people none of which is printable!!!!!! Mark Powell dropped by too, and made the girls laugh, they were pretending to be typical american tourists saying everything was "darling!" and Mark was giving good cockney!!!
Friday night Max and i did the warm-up at Fun City at Hoxton Bar and Grill which was really fun. Nathaniel and the Lovely Jonjo were running the night and Trash Fashion played - they were great, kind of Chilli Peppers mixed with the Automatic even though i don't like the Automatic, the backing vocals had that kind of screaming thing. They're sexxy boys, their look is clockwork orange meets a roller disco, and they're really entertaining, riding on each other's shoulders playing guitar solos or playing from behind the bar at one point, they seemed to have all their instruments on radio mics - or the whole thing was on backing tape!
Max and i did 3 on 3 off and i managed to make the system cut out during Lapdance by N.E.R.D.
Then when Nathaniel came on he was playing the most mental acid mixed with jungle and rave, there were loads of kids with whistles going mental - sadly no leather chaps on this occasion, he's been known to feature them teamed only with underwear....probably just as well. Then he blew the soundsystem too and for about 5 minutes there was just the sound of angry whistles!
I should say something about Dita von Tease.....unfortunately there are no photos because they squeezed so many people in to the venue that all you'd see is the back of loads of heads....however the finery on top of said heads has to be commented on - i've never seen so many pillbox hats, netting and sheer hattery in one place! She looked like a milky white goddess in her birdcage, and every part of her costume glittered beyond belief, she danced on point ballet shoes and every movement was perfectly considered - divine! - then a shower turned on in the birdcage and she writhed underneath in pasties and tiny sequinned knickers with bare feet. She's the mistress of her craft, no detail is left to chance....but we left early because they'd crowbarred too many people in and we'd hoped for a revue but they just played tired bump and grind and jive bunny compilations and made us wait aaaaaages for a glimpse of the lady. The Puppini Sisters gave a doo wop rendition of Wuthering Heights which went down rather well, but i think it would've been great if they'd had bad comedians and maybe a few lesser stripteasers like a proper burlesque revue. I think they just wanted money money money, but i bet those props weren't cheap to ship from Hollywood to Camden!
My gorgeous friend Annabel came to visit on Friday from New York, she was in London for Frieze art fair, she always comes over for that so i was anticipating her call, i really wanted her to see the new shop so she came down for tea and eclairs and tried her way through the eley kishimoto rails. She'd just been to the swingin' London show at the V & A so her head was full of empire lines and print, and she kept pulling dresses out going "This is sooo swingiin london!!" Michelle treated us to cakes as she could hear us squealing downstairs, a "Friday Treat"! So the velocity of us catching up with news got ever louder as the sugar kicked in!!
Her friend Lisa came by, she had a stand at Frieze and was furious because Jude Law had just bought the painting she wanted...so she felt much better after some tea and a bit of retail therapy...here they are with their cake boxes. We all had such a good gossip about all kinds of people none of which is printable!!!!!! Mark Powell dropped by too, and made the girls laugh, they were pretending to be typical american tourists saying everything was "darling!" and Mark was giving good cockney!!!
Friday night Max and i did the warm-up at Fun City at Hoxton Bar and Grill which was really fun. Nathaniel and the Lovely Jonjo were running the night and Trash Fashion played - they were great, kind of Chilli Peppers mixed with the Automatic even though i don't like the Automatic, the backing vocals had that kind of screaming thing. They're sexxy boys, their look is clockwork orange meets a roller disco, and they're really entertaining, riding on each other's shoulders playing guitar solos or playing from behind the bar at one point, they seemed to have all their instruments on radio mics - or the whole thing was on backing tape!
Max and i did 3 on 3 off and i managed to make the system cut out during Lapdance by N.E.R.D.
Then when Nathaniel came on he was playing the most mental acid mixed with jungle and rave, there were loads of kids with whistles going mental - sadly no leather chaps on this occasion, he's been known to feature them teamed only with underwear....probably just as well. Then he blew the soundsystem too and for about 5 minutes there was just the sound of angry whistles!
I should say something about Dita von Tease.....unfortunately there are no photos because they squeezed so many people in to the venue that all you'd see is the back of loads of heads....however the finery on top of said heads has to be commented on - i've never seen so many pillbox hats, netting and sheer hattery in one place! She looked like a milky white goddess in her birdcage, and every part of her costume glittered beyond belief, she danced on point ballet shoes and every movement was perfectly considered - divine! - then a shower turned on in the birdcage and she writhed underneath in pasties and tiny sequinned knickers with bare feet. She's the mistress of her craft, no detail is left to chance....but we left early because they'd crowbarred too many people in and we'd hoped for a revue but they just played tired bump and grind and jive bunny compilations and made us wait aaaaaages for a glimpse of the lady. The Puppini Sisters gave a doo wop rendition of Wuthering Heights which went down rather well, but i think it would've been great if they'd had bad comedians and maybe a few lesser stripteasers like a proper burlesque revue. I think they just wanted money money money, but i bet those props weren't cheap to ship from Hollywood to Camden!
Labels: Annabel Mehran, Dita Von Tease, Eley Kishimoto, Hoxton Bar and Grill, Mark Powell
