The Broken Hearts
DJing at the next White Mischief on Saturday June 7 are The Broken Hearts: Amber and Nisha, a DJ and performance duo who see every show as an opportunity to get dressed up.
Combining an eclectic DJ set with their extensive wardrobe of identical costumes and occasional choreographed routines, the girls provide a spectacular experience for the eyes and ears. Drawing from the iconography of Weimar Berlin, circus sideshows and the Golden Age of Hollywood their show is a technicolour extravaganza that takes the DJ out from behind the decks and into the limelight.
Tricity Vogue
Bringing some glamour to the White Mischief second stage on June 7, Tricity Vogue presents her own charming blend of slink and sass – the music she likes to call “cheeky jazz”. Think Peggy Lee after a few too many cocktails.
A vintage songstress with her tongue firmly in her cheek, Tricity’s glamorous cabaret jazz act involves fabulous gowns, her very own horn section, and a small pink ukelele. Miss Vogue’s mischievously witty music harks back to a bygone era while at times sounding suspiciously contemporary.
Continue ReadingPerformers: Dusty Limits
Guests at our last White Mischief will recall the hilarious Dr. Sketchy room, where passers-by were urged to pick up pencil and paper in order to draw a motley assortment of vaudevillians. The room’s hosts were Ophelia Bitz and Dusty Limits, and we’re overjoyed to announce that both will be returning to White Mischief “From The Earth To The Moon”. Dusty will be compere of the second stage “Moon Room”; for more details on the man who has been called “the best MC on the Edinburgh festival fringe” (including video of Dusty at work), click to read more.
DJs: The Shellac Sisters
The Shellac Sisters are four glamorous retrochics who dress in all things vintage and play 78rpm records on 1920s wind-up gramophones. They’ll be spinning the sounds in the Lobby Room, the main portal into White Mischief and the hub of our most eccentric entertainments.
Performers: Red Sarah
Voted Best Female Performer at the UK Burlesque Awards 2007, Red Sarah combines her love of costume theatre with circus skills to perform dazzling acts which ooze charisma. Sarah will be performing a specially-commissioned brand new act on White Mischief’s main stage.
Video: The Real Tuesday Weld
Peek within for video clips shot at the last White Mischief. This time we’re taking a look at live videos of “Terminally Ambivalent About You” and “Decline and Fall”, performed by intellectual jazztronica combo The Real Tuesday Weld.
Bands: Envy & Other Sins
Heading up our second stage will be Envy & Other Sins, purveyors of eccentric, erudite, English pop music. Forged in the furnaces of Birmingham, the four-piece has toured in support of Ok Go! and has played with everyone from Razorlight to The Feeling, The Automatic and Hard-Fi among many others.
Continue ReadingBands: British Sea Power
Wondering about White Mischief’s headline band British Sea Power? Read on for elucidation – both literary, aural and visual.
Do You Like Rock Music? is the third album from British Sea Power. It was made in the Czech Republic, Canada and Fort Tregantle – a 19th Century fortification up on the Cornish cliffs. It was recorded by a band unafraid to embrace the far poles in arts and entertainment. BSP have toured with and been commended by David Bowie, The Flaming Lips, Lou Reed, Radiohead and Jarvis Cocker. But they’ve also been invited to play in celebration of the life and times of Sir John Betjeman, the late UK Poet Laureate, born in 1906. At the launch party for their debut album, BSP played alongside The Copper Family, a clan of Sussex folk singers who’ve been going for 200 years.
Continue ReadingAnd It Goes A Little Something Like This…
What’s it all about, then? All these indie bands invading a good cabaret/vaudeville night, and all these circus performers getting in on a good indie rock night? Well, we could try tell you it’s wild, it’s unexpected, it’s a chance to dress up any way you like, to meet the friendliest and most fun audience in London, to see something amazing – possibly many amazing things – to remember why, as a kid, you wanted to run away and join the circus, and to and hear bands that will suddenly become your New Favourite Thing…
Casino Rustique
Savour the lilting accordion of “Rustic Casino”, performed live by Flipron at White Mischief on Friday 13 April 2007.
