Noted 1: Richard Mortimer

Special mention is due to Richard Mortimer who managed to make this 1950's number work for him....







I love Richard!!!

Madame x

"Is it Halloween......?

....cos there certainly are a lot of witches out tonight!" That's one of my favourite Pete Burns quotes!

And indeed there were many witches out on Sunday night at Ponystep! Who cares if we were a week early? I was going for a Bonnie Parker-meets-goth look.....gave one of my old wigs a shake out (the boys have been playing with my collection of wigs a little too enthusiastically, I could hardly get a brush through it!), and stepped out gingerly in a beautiful old 20's dress Nanny Van gave me a few years ago but manages to shed sequins with every step....

Rudy and Nahid had surpassed themselves with Burton-esque half-face skeleton make-up - I was so impressed!

Richard chose to accessorize with a pumpkin-coloured Giles scarf.....has to be said he didn't last long, as his head got hotter and his neck itchier he decided to retire it early....

Jonjo gave it subtle-yet-effective-fatal-wound.....

And some (i.e.Jack and Troyboy) gave a nod to the proceedings with a slutty smokey eye...

Gwen's concession to Halloween came by way of Lene Lovich-style screams while gyrating in a black leotard - utterly AMAZING! Here she is hitching a lift to the bar....

This isn't the last you'll hear about Halloween on this blog I'm guessing....I'm off to Kent for some more childish shenanigans at the weekend. Kids are a great excuse to give it a bit of American overboard! But then you don't need an excuse to wig-up and don a bit of black....ask Stella....


Madame x

Ponystepping!

Even though I was conscious of having to get up at the crack of a sparrow's fart on Monday morning for my Paris trip to view Spring A.P.C. (of which more next week when I get a chance to edit my movie!), I had the best time djing and then dancing myself dizzy at the Ponystep party on Sunday night!



Richard might've regretted his choice when we realised the decks weren't hooked up, as NO-ONE except me djs with vinyl anymore! Torches were found, leads untangled then hooked up and finally we were motoring! Matthew Stone, Pedro "Busy P" Winter and Hanna Hanra were also djing....In fact Hanra "Hair" Hanra might be more appropriate! Amazing bleach puff going on!




Caught up with lots of old friends....Here's Cybil Rouge and Link Leisure. Now, they won't thank me for telling you this but I've known them close on twenty years!!!! WTF!!!! When I arrived in London from Coventry in the late eighties, one of the places we used to hang out was Freud's on Shaftesbury Avenue. Link was there alot and we became friends and through him I met Matthew Glamorre and his crowd and got asked to take part in a show they were putting on for Easter at Heaven. Cybil was God, perched topless on a huge scaffolding "skirt" which was covered with fabric with an all over multi-vagina design. The centre of each design was split so that Cybil could "give birth" to various club kids....now we get to my part; on either side of the stage were spinning crucifixes with a girl tied to the front and back in full-on crucified position. The only direction we were given was to atttempt to can-can and SMILE!!!! It was a triumph! And was probably the moment when I realised London was definately for me!


Cassia, Lili and I hung out danced a lot, did lots of kissing...


Great to see Gwen, who really could have a party on her own in a paper bag...

What a beautiful, effusive, sparkling lady!!!
And I got myself snapped by Alistair Allan - how does he do it? I've never seen a bad picture of ANYBODY!


MadameX