Costume hire, vintage stores and hair salons

Dressing up is by no means compulsory at White Mischief, but we encourage our partygoers to enter into the spirit of things and in doing so we’ve come across dozens of wonderful vintage clothing emporiums, hair salons, costume hire warehouses and more. So we’re delighted to share the best of London’s costume and vintage scene with you here. Remember, while designer clothes may be expensive, imagination costs nothing and it’s possible to pick up some true style for very little cost at these wonderful locations. Don’t forget to tell them you found out about them on the White Mischief site.
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Recommended: Lush Life with Dusty Limits and Tricity Vogue

Lush Life

A Satirical Cabaret in the Private Eye Dining Room

Featuring Dusty Limits and Tricity Vogue
with Special Guests including Tim Clare, Aoife Mannix, Fancy Chance, Nat West & Jo Stephenson

Upstairs at the Coach & Horses, 29 Greek Street, Soho W1D 5DH
Saturday 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March

Two of London’s most acclaimed cabaret performers offer up a sparkling evening of satire and song in the intimate surroundings of the Private Eye Dining Room, secreted above Soho’s iconic drinking hole, Norman’s Coach & Horses. Dusty Limits – the love-child of David Bowie and Tom Lehrer – and Tricity Vogue, the elegant and hilarious songstress, deliver intelligent, low-fi, live entertainment that’s the perfect antidote to brainless celebrity culture. They will be joined each week by a different special guest plucked from among the nation’s finest poets and troubadours.

“The remarkable Dusty Limits: beautiful to behold, with West End-worthy vocal cords and a masterful grasp of the emcee’s role, teasing, flirting and haranguing us until we ate out of the palm of his hand.”
(**** The Scotsman)

“Anyone else a massive fan of the divine Miss Vogue..? Thought so.” (Time Out London)

http://www.dustylimits.com/
http://tricityvogue.com/

Dinner from 7pm, Cabaret at 9pm
2 course set menu £18 + £10 for the show
Cash tickets sold in the pub.
For credit card bookings call 020 7437 5920 10am-5pm.
Full ticket price – £28 pp + £2 booking fee per credit card transaction
Reservations taken in advance – minimum deposit £10 pp + £2 booking fee per credit card transaction

Recommended: Tricity Vogue at Pizza on the Park this Sunday

Tricity Vogue invites you to her star-studded jazz show at Pizza in the Park this Sunday night – and we have a discount to encourage you!

The Lost Supper presents: Tricity Vogue
Sun Mar 7 Pizza On The Park, 11 Knightsbridge, Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7LY

Cheeky, soulful, a little bit blue and a whole lot of fun, Tricity Vogue is celebrating her sixth birthday with a special one-off gig she describes as ‘a cabaret Desert Island Discs’, as part of MMP’s Lost Supper Season. Expect some sources of inspiration, some of her own numbers, some blasts from the past and, with any luck, some filthy gossip. Introduced by Paul L Martin with a star-studded cast of special guests including Jonathan Cohen, Dusty Limits, Rosa Conrad, Lana Shelley, Tom Mansi, Pete Saunders, Roy Young, Adam Lucas, Nick Trepka, Nick Field and Richard Link.

Nearest Tube: Hyde Park Corner

Telephone: 020 7235 7825
http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/poplist.aspx
Doors 6.30pm, show 8pm

full price £15

RSVP to pizza@tricityvogue.com for £12 guestlist

Facebook event page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=473396190213&ref=ts

We recommend: Professor Starmayr’s Exposition of Wonders

Professor Starmayr’s EXPOSITION OF WONDERS

 

 

 

Special Offer for Mischief Makers: Saturdays at Last Days of Decadence First Birthday Party

The most decadent little soiree in Shoreditch is one year old this Saturday 5th December and, to celebrate, they are offering advance tickets at the truly vintage price of just £5 per head. Join the Last Days crew as they celebrate the transition into single figures, with Top Shelf Jazz, Frisky and Mannish, Dusty Limits, Natsumi Scarlett, Josephine Shaker, our resident barrelhouse pianist “Play It” Sam plus DJs Count Sizzle, Jean-Paul Seculaire, Dandy Dan and Lucifer Box.

To claim your £5 tickets, simply visit http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=357064&interface=

Next Saturday: a Winter Voyage from our friends at The Secret Garden Party

Dear Mischief Makers

The Secret Garden Party festival and the spin-off soirees they have been hosting in London are the toast of the party scene, so they barely need any introduction. Now they are hosting a Winter Voyage aboard the fictional HMS Ulysses on December 12. After meeting a few Mischief Makers at our most recent Halloween show, the Secret Gardeners asked us to make sure you were all invited. So please be sure to read the fabulous line-up below…

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world. To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths, of all the western stars”

LADIES & GENTLEMAN, ANCIENT SEA CREATURES, NAVAL OFFICERS & FUTURISTIC PIRATES…

The only Christmas party not to be missed this year…

THE SECRET GARDEN PARTY’S WINTER VOYAGE

12th December, HMS Ulysses, 9:00pm – 4am

AKA The Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, East London

We cordially invite you aboard the wildest ocean liner ever to set sail.

The HMS Ulysses (aka The Troxy) will play host to an all night party in a beautifully dressed art-deco setting, featuring all the usual irreverent fun and frolicking of Secret Garden events, with a nautical twist.

Crewed by the Head Gardeners & a host of Gideon Reeling’s Assistants to guide you into an exploration of the ballrooms, cocktail bars, secret steerage parties and hidden passage-ways of the retro-future ocean going colossus.

>>LIVE<<

Rinôçérôse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9ghqIgof4

The Correspondents http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGljXvvIRQ

The Destroyers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEbwuMkxz4c&feature=related

Ta Mère http://www.myspace.com/tamerelondon

Blue Harlem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKChUFpP8So

>>DJ<<

The Head Gardener

Bobby Lost

Hugo Heathcote & Ben Bridgewater

Your Niece

Tallest DJ int the World

Head of State

Dirty Au Pairs

BenZavenCrane

Ben De Queer

Plus many many more….

5 Rooms Hosted by… The Bearded Kitten – Dance Off Crew – Artful Badger - Videopia – THE LAA OF SOFT THINGS

Early bird Ticket: SOLD OUT – £36 +BF (includes party at the Port and free carriages to the boat – Limited Port tickets available)
First Class Travel SOLD OUT

FULL PRICE TICKETS: £45 + BF – AVAILABLE (includes party at the Port and free carriages to the boat – Limited Port tickets available)

Venue: The Troxy, 490 Commercial Rd London, E1 0HX

Please be at the Troxy by no later than 10:30pm… Don’t miss the boat

Fancy Dress is strictly required.

Dress Code: – PORT OUT STARBOARD HOME, Ladies, GENTS, SILLY FILLIES AND DILLY TOFFS, Futuristic Pirates, Ancient Sea Creatures from the deep & Naval Officers from the bridge

20% of OFF Prangsta costumes if you mention this event. www.prangsta.com.

STRICTLY OVER 18’s only… this is not a real boat…

For travel information please see our website http://www.secretgardenparty.com

Tickets here - http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?filler1=see&showcode=433139&n

We recommend: The Clockwork Quartet

White Mischief is proud to recommend a show from a musical outfit upon whom we have been keeping our beady eyes for some time. Featured in a Guardian article on steampunk before they had even played outside their own mysterious Victorian warehouse venue, now the Clockwork Quartet is presenting its series of songs and stories before the public for the first time, at London’s historic Horse Hospital. Read below for further details.

THE CLOCKWORK QUARTET

Listen & book tickets at http://www.clockworkquartet.com

Thur 15th | Fri 16th | Sat 17th October
The Horse Hospital
Doors open at 7:30 for an 8pm start, £15, Book Here

“Tarnished, bittersweet music that conjures up Portishead” – The Guardian

Dearest Friends,

I take great pleasure in inviting you to the world premiere of my new show. A collection of songs and stories following the cursed paths of a clutch of troubled souls – with music and light relief provided by my infamous companions, The Clockwork Quartet.
- The Raconteuse

Discover The Horse Hospital transformed into a run down Victorian music hall, where you can enjoy a cup of tea, a glass of port, or something more potent, and refreshments crafted by the band chocolatier. Advanced booking recommended.

“The Clockwork Quartet is a Dresden Dolls-esque collective of 20-odd musicians, actors and cabaret performers who all play various bizarre and morbidly dark characters. Intrigued?” – NME

Listen & book tickets at http://www.clockworkquartet.com

Click below to view teaser e-flyer:

We recommend: Steampunk Tales

Described as “The Penny Dreadful for your iPhone”, Steampunk Tales is a regular compendium of neo-Victorian and steampunk fiction from authors including the highly respected GD Falksen.

To preview issue one for free, visit SteampunkTales.com

Special discount for this Saturday where two White Mischief favourites are performing

Mischief Makers can benefit from a specially discounted entry to International Hi Fi this Saturday, a three-room party where two White Mischief favourites (DJ Jean Paul Seculaire and escape artist Mr Flay) will be performing in the “Salon” room.

Held at the newly refurbished Garage club in Highbury and Islington (London N5 1RD), International Hi Fi has three rooms of music, cabaret and star DJs.  The venue has air conditioning, new lights, a new sound system and a staircase connecting the different spaces.

To get entry to this Saturday’s International Hi Fi for just £5, all you need to do is contact us with your guest list of names. You can also leave your names on the Facebook wall for White Mischief.

Who’s performing

Although this isn’t a party organised by White Mischief we have invited a couple of  our friends to perform in the “Salon” at International Hi Fi:

DJ Jean-Paul Seculaire (Right-On.org)

With an uncannily huge collection of vintage soul, jazz and Latin music, Jean-Paul is a man about town and a White Mischief regular, having kept the dancefloor jumping on New Year’s Eve and at a previous Scala show. He’s the founder of the acclaimed Right On! parties and writer of the London Dossier website – and his dress sense is the sharpest in town.

More information on Jean-Paul Seculaire…

The Irrepressible Mr Flay

Escape Artist and Man of Action The Irrepressible Mr Edwin Flay will be familiar to those of you who saw him hanging upside down above the audience at White Mischief’s “Journey To The Centre Of The Earth” party. He has performed at events from Glastonbury to the Burning Man festival and is building renown for his own “Flay and DeVille’s Circus of Marvels.” With a bewilderingly large collection of chains and handcuffs, Edwin Flay is a man who cannot be pinned down for long. He was once shot in the face by Tracey Emin.

In the other rooms:

Resident DJs:

BLACK KNIGHT (Casino Royale)
ED THE SAINT (Club NME)
JOHN DOWNFALL (Cheap$kates)
ROCK HUNTER (Casino Royale)

For more information:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Hi-Fi/93763681106

http://www.myspace.com/internationalhifi

Cheap entry:

To get entry to this Saturday’s International Hi Fi for just £5, all you need to do is contact us with your guest list of names. You can also leave your names on the Facebook wall for White Mischief.

Desperate Romantics on tonight – plus free download

We’ve managed to get hold of an exclusive for White Mischief fans, which is a special package of a few tracks from the soundtrack of new BBC TV drama Desperate Romantics.

Set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, Desperate Romantics follows the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.

To watch preview clips visit the BBC microsite for Desperate Romantics

Check the programme out on iPlayer or at 9pm Tuesdays on BBC2 starting tonight (Tuesday 21 July)

Tracks from the soundtrack, exclusively for White Mischief fans, are available for free download here.

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