Playing White Mischief’s second stage “Moon Room”, at the request of British Sea Power, we are delighted to welcome Dear Britch.

As seen on BBC3’s new series, ‘Singing With The Enemy’, Brighton rock-starlet Stuart Flynn is the creator of The Dirty Cakes cabaret-rock band; queen of the queer hip-hop scene: Dear Britch; and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Stuart has come along way since his former days as a Miss World coach and fashion stylist.

To date he has toured as guest front-man for The Electric Soft Parade, supported Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong, Ash, Vile Imbeciles, The Pipettes and jazz legend Barb Jungr to name a various few. Reviewed as “The bastard love child of Shirley Bassey and Axl Rose”, “80s Bowie meets Tom Waits”, and “Vivienne Westwood and Marc Almond on acid” he bounces back from every attempt at being boxed into a safe corner. But after a career which has taken him all over Britain, to Cyprus and Japan, playing millionaires’ playgrounds to spit and sawdust dives.

Whilst currently developing the band and extending the DearBritch repertoire, Stuart is also now working on an exciting new project with Electric Soft Parade’s Thomas White.

What they say:

“At the centre of his work, dark tho’ it may be, there shines an inexhaustible sun.” - The Pipettes

“Amazing! Like Frank Sinatra and his band had a glorious week-long bender and ended up playin’ a gig at the Volks! You’s a well dressed kat too, very swish indeed!” - With Scissors

“Oooh, we like you!” - The Puppini Sisters

“The darkest cabaret-sword that’ll cut through the evil of the world (whilst donning fancy hair). Lock your doors and prepare for battle!” - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

“What a great band! Stu sings between a Dalek and Noel Coward. … A wonderfully well-controlled discordant mess, a little like Gram Parsons when he was still good and on Codeine. Pithy lyrics and sweaty live…” -The Guillotines

“Fantastically demented.” - ChemLab/Jared Louche

“Stuart Flynn is a VERY naughty boy.” - Heidi Heelz

“One of those raspy, gin-soaked, Nasal-Shirley-Bassey-Gay-Cabaret voices. Instantly authoritative. Like a posh, alcoholic aunt. Like a hot screwdriver cooling off in a glass of whisky. Surprisingly powerful in a non-rock way. And therefore something of a refreshing change.” Kim Rollo

“Stuart is every inch the individualist, inhabiting uncharted ground somewhere between the quirks of Vivienne Westwood and the eccentricity of a Dickenisan Miss Havisham, qualities which render him truly captivating” Charlotte Dunckley, Things We Love Fanzine
More info:

http://www.myspace.com/stuartflynn

http://www.myspace.com/dearbritch

http://www.myspace.com/thedirtycakes