Once again we will be offering VIP tickets for our Saturday 29th October Halloween party. Here’s a little more information:

If you’d rather not spend too much time on your feet and like the idea of being able to find a seat easily; if you’re prone to getting hot under the collar and you’d like a restful spot in which to cool down; if you prefer quick access to the booze or if you’re just a snooty type who doesn’t like mingling with the rest of us, the VIP room is for you.

VIP tickets get you into the private glass bar, with the following advantages:

• A dedicated private bar
• Air conditioning
• A view over the main stage
• Access to the private balcony over the main stage
• Plentiful seating
• Limited capacity only for VIPs
• Exclusive walkabout characters in VIP room

VIP ticketbuyers can exchange their ticket for a VIP pass on the door. We will be limiting access to the room so that only VIP pass holders can gain entry. We will be selling significantly fewer VIP tickets than the room’s legal capacity, so you can be absolutely sure that buying VIP tickets will secure you a peaceful refuge, an enclave of calm, as well as a perfect spot from which to view the acts.

Order VIP tickets from Brown Paper Tickets

Next Saturday, White Mischief is teaming up with Vaudeville Rave to create a party that combines cabaret and circus with electroswing and costumed characters. Everyone who arrives early will get a free cocktail. VIP guests will also receive private entertainment and further tasting experiences.

If you’d like to win a pair of VIP tickets, you can enter into one or both of two contests that we’re running on Facebook and Twitter. What we’re asking entrants to do is come up with the most inventive pairing of two guests (fictional, real, living, dead) who they would like to invite to the House of Hapsburg. So for example: “Charles Dickens and Charlie Sheen” or “Florence Nightingale and Florence and the Machine”.

TO ENTER ON FACEBOOK

Make sure you have RSVPd to our Facebook event page. Then go to your own profile and click on your “Home” or “Profile” tab.  Type in your pairing – eg “I’d invite Napoleon Dynamite and Napoleon Bonaparte to” – and finish off by pressing the @ symbol and mentioning our event name. This should create a link to the event House of Hapsburg from White Mischief and Vaudeville Rave. That way we can find all entries – the best will win!

TO ENTER ON TWITTER

Make sure you are following @White_Mischief on Twitter. Then tweet your pairing – eg “I’d invite Stephen Fry and Fry from Futurama to House of Hapsburg” – followed by mentioning @white_mischief. It’s really important that you type in House of Hapsburg and that you mention us – that way we can be sure to find your entries in any searches we do.

WINNER DECIDED TUESDAY 4.30pm

The entry we like the most on Facebook and the entry we like the most on Twitter will win. We will announce the winner on Facebook and Twitter no later than this Tuesday 5 June. If you win and have already bought tickets we can refund you if you wish. You can enter as many times as you like but don’t annoy your friends!

Any questions please email us.

Oct 18 2010: We have now sold out of advance tickets.

Oct 13 2010: Officially we have sold out of our advance ticket allocation, though as so many of you have written in begging for tickets, we’ve decided to release 50 standard tickets that we had been holding back to sell on the door.

Read on for full details, or if you just want to get ordering then visit the ticket page now.

What’s the deal?

There are still over two weeks to go before Saturday October 30, when Scala in King’s Cross plays host to WHITE MISCHIEF “The Haunted Ballroom“. We have sold a greater volume of tickets than ever before, in a shorter period of time than ever before. We understand that many guests will have been caught unawares by this, expecting that they should be able to get tickets two weeks before the party. This afternoon people have been writing in asking how they can get tickets, or worrying because their friends have places but they don’t.

The good news

Firstly we’re overjoyed to announce some more acts that we had been keeping up our sleeves as a final surprise. David McAlmont, the astonishing singer who has collaborated with composers Michael Nyman and David Arnold as well as with Bernard Butler, will take to the stage early in the night to enchant us with his magnificent voice. Later in the evening expect some thrust-and-parry from swordfighters LiveBlades. There will be a few more sideshows and walkabout performers added in the coming days, too.

The other bit of good news is that we kept aside 50 tickets to be sold on the door at £30 each. But seeing as we’ve received half a dozen begging letters already this afternoon, we have decided to put this final allocation up for sale so that you can be confident that your place is safe and can begin to plan your splendid outfits.

What’s the damage?

The price will be £28.25 per ticket. With service fee each ticket will come to £29.95 and there’s no postage charge. So you’ll be able to get these tickets in advance for less than it would have cost on the door. And these tickets are still cheaper than three of the other major parties on the alternative scene taking place over the Halloween weekend.

These are standard tickets.

Sorry, there are no more VIP tickets available…. so please don’t ask. They sold out over a month ago.

Any more questions please email us.

If you’re ready to order, here’s the link….

Last 50 tickets for White Mischief “The Haunted Ballroom” available from Brown Paper Tickets

Mark your calendars now: we’ll be at the Brighton Ballroom (formerly the Hanbury) on the last Friday of every month, with live music, eye-popping cabaret, and an opportunity to dress up and dance to vintage jazz, soul, rock’n'roll and more.

The Brighton Ballroom has a tremendous heritage and as you’ll see from the photos is really rather exquisite. Whether you’re dining or just there to be entertained, for Londoners it’s the perfect excuse for a romantic weekend away; for Brightonians it’s yet another great night out.

A Spine-Chilling Night of Malign Manifestations and Ruinous Revels!
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9NL, UK

Once the tale has been told and the early hours approach, there will be DJs and dancing; in addition revellers will be able to relax in Blue Beard’s Spa, soothing themselves in the hot mineral waters of a hot tub and luxuriating in the airs of a sauna.

To ensure that the venue is comfortable for all guests we are deliberately limiting the numbers of spaces at this year’s Hallowe’en show. As last year’s Hallowe’en show sold out in advance and we have already sold 20% of the places for this year’s party, we strongly recommend you book now. Prices will rise as each allocation of spaces is used up.

Please visit our Chateau de Barbe-Bleue page for more details on the Halloween party…

See the slideshow below for photographs taken at last year’s Hallowe’en extravaganza.

We vaudevillian types don’t get our glad rags on hoping to garner the attention of venerable rock inkies like the NME, but somehow White Mischief, Tough Love and the whole steampunk phenomenon has managed to capture their attention.

Click here to view the article in its entirety.

This event is selling out fast and the strictly limited number of tickets held back for sale on the door will cost £9. By visitinghttp://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=324633&interface= and entering the promotion code ‘WM1′, White Mischief fans can buy their advance tickets for the bargain price of only £5 (normal advance ticket price £7).

Buy your ticket now to secure your place in this never to be repeated opportunity to be part of pop cultural history! Hurry as offer expires at midnight on Thursday 28th May.

Tickets for Saturday May 23, “Journey To The Centre Of The Earth”

Advance tickets are still available for this show and, we would predict, will continue to be available until mid-afternoon on Saturday May 23. That said, at the time of writing, (May 22, 2009), 75% of the tickets have sold. The early bird discount tickets and the VIP room tickets have all gone, leaving only standard priced tickets available. 

You can either book tickets online or in person.

• To book online, click on our link to TicketWeb

• We will hold back a few tickets at the door on the night but they will be £25, so we strongly recommend that you book ahead and pay the more reasonable £17.50!

• Groups of six or more can get group discounts – but please note that last chance for group bookings is today (Friday 22 May) –  contact us right away for details

• To book in person with no booking fee:

• Visit the Scala box office 10am-6pm Mon to Friday (275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, London, N1 9NL) 

• It is possible to purchase tickets in person with no booking fee from Lulu and Lush, 15 Lamb Street, Spitalfields; and Bordello, 55 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch

Be sure to book in advance, as several of our previous shows have sold out well in advance of the night itself.