/ Lobotomy Room: the club night for the hillbilly beau monde! /
As promised (threatened?) on the Facebook events page for the 25 March 2016 Lobotomy Room events page:
Rock the long Easter holiday weekend - at Lobotomy Room!
Friday 25 March!
Yes! Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll - when incredibly strange dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the Polynesian-style basement Bamboo Lounge of Dalston’s premiere Art Deco vice den Fontaine’s! With sensational special offer cocktails on the night!
Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! A spectacle of decadence! Bad Music for Bad People! A Mondo Trasho evening of Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and other Weird Shit! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs The Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell (of Dr Sketchy and Cockabilly notoriety). Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock! Now with vintage erotica projected on the wall for your adult viewing pleasure! Come for the cocktails - stay for the putrid music and dirty movies!
Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE!
Lobotomy Room: Faster. Further. Filthier.
It’s sleazy. It’s grubby. It’s trashy - you’ll love it!
A tawdry good time guaranteed!
Yes! Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll - when incredibly strange dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the Polynesian-style basement Bamboo Lounge of Dalston’s premiere Art Deco vice den Fontaine’s! With sensational special offer cocktails on the night!
Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! A spectacle of decadence! Bad Music for Bad People! A Mondo Trasho evening of Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and other Weird Shit! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs The Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell (of Dr Sketchy and Cockabilly notoriety). Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock! Now with vintage erotica projected on the wall for your adult viewing pleasure! Come for the cocktails - stay for the putrid music and dirty movies!
Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE!
Lobotomy Room: Faster. Further. Filthier.
It’s sleazy. It’s grubby. It’s trashy - you’ll love it!
A tawdry good time guaranteed!
/ All dressed up? Ready to fall in love? Come to Lobotomy Room! /
Once again, unfortunately this Lobotomy Room was very
sparsely-attended, but to paraphrase Susan Hayward as tough-as-nails show business
veteran Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls (1967): I’ve got a hard
core. I’ve learned how to roll with the
punches. And in this business they come left, right and below the belt. (You
have to imagine me saying that in Hayward’s butch sixty-cigarettes-a-day
baritone babe growl). While it’s undeniably deeply disappointing (and wounding)
when no one comes to Lobotomy Room, I also feel buoyed by the triumphant
Desperate Living film club I organised in The Bamboo Lounge last month (the busiest
one yet) and the response I got guest DJ’ing at The Glory’s packed barn dance on Easter Sunday. And there’s been gratifyingly
rabid advance interest in my Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies film club screening of The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968) on 27 April. In
fact, if everyone comes who says they’re coming on the Facebook page, we’re
over-subscribed! There won’t be enough seating! So let’s hope success leads to
success.
Anyway, the elite brave souls who did venture downstairs into the
Bamboo Lounge for this Lobotomy Room were definitely intriguing. Around
midnight a suave and stylish 30-something Italian couple, so sleek they could
have been escapees from a mid-century Fellini or Antonioni film, came down. The
striking female half had dyed-red hair and slanting eyes and looked a bit like
Monica Vitti in Il Deserto Rosso. They’d been drinking upstairs and were merry
and ready to have a laugh. The two of them totally embraced the sleazy tittyshaker
music I was playing and the vintage erotica on the big screen. When they arrived,
the film playing was grainy black-and-white Irving Klaw footage of Bettie Page wearing
lingerie and extreme fetish heels shimmying in a threadbare living room. Who
couldn’t love that? Then I swapped-over to Russ Meyer’s Mondo Topless (a Lobotomy Room perennial) and they
hooted at the buxotic go-go dancers’ bouncing bare boobs.
/ Monica Vitti in Il Deserto Rosso (1964) /
When they finished their cocktails they came over to the DJ
booth to say goodbye. The woman said something in husky thickly-accented
Italian and planted a kiss on my lips! I think I blushed furiously. I begged
them to come back next month and they split. Afterwards I said to Pal, “I
couldn’t understand a word that woman said to me” and Pal explained she’d said,
“It’s great down here! I don’t understand why there aren’t more people!”
Anyway, here is what I played. As you can see, the set list is substantially shorter than usual (I didn't DJ while there was no one downstairs).
Night Scene - The Rumblers
High Wall - The Fabulous Wailers
Sheba - Johnny and The Hurricanes
Three Cool Chicks - The 5,6,7,8s
Little Darlin' - Masaaki Hirao
Adult Books - X
Taboo - The Shangaans
Kismiaz - The Cramps
Monkey Bird - The Revels
Beatnik - The Champs
I'm A Woman - Peggy Lee
Don't Be Cruel - Bill Black Combo
The Whip - The Originals
Khrushchev Twist - Melvin Gayle
Here Comes the Bug - The Rumblers
Wiped-Out - The Escorts
Suey - Jayne Mansfield
Pass The Hatchet - Roger and The Gypsies
Sweet Little Pussycat - Andre Williams
Pussycat Song - Faye Richmonde
Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? The Cramps
Boss - The Rumblers
Twist Talk - Jack Hammer
Viens danser le twist - Johnny Hallyday
Peter Gunn Twist - The Jesters
Peter Gunn Locomotion - The Delmonas
Bomb the Twist - The 5,6,7,8s
Twistin' the Night Away - Divine
Further reading:
Read about all the previous antics at Lobotomy Rooms to date here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here , here, here, here, here, here and here!
Follow me on tumblr for all your kitsch, camp, retro vintage sleaze needs!
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Most importantly - upcoming Lobotomy Room-related dates!
/ Throw on a blonde wig! Borrow a chihuahua! Put a wiggle in that walk! Coo and squeal like a sex kitten-gone-berserk! /
Wednesday 27 April 2016: As host of the regular monthly Mondo Trasho punkabilly club night Lobotomy Room, I – Graham Russell - will occasionally crash Fontaine’s free weekly film night and screen a rancid title of my choice, with an emphasis on the cult, the queer and the camp! The Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies selection this month is – The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield!
Rated “X” upon its release in 1968, the ultra-trashy faux documentary
chronicles the kinky globe-trotting misadventures of Hollywood sex kitten-gone-berserk Jayne Mansfield. Watch agog as kitsch
icon Mansfield - the punk Marilyn Monroe, revered by John Waters and Divine
(and “the face” of Lobotomy Room) - visits
the hedonistic “sin spots” of the world, encompassing topless go-go clubs, gay
bars, drag queen beauty contests and nudist colonies, usually accompanied by
her pet Chihuahua!
The low-budget Wild, Wild World was in production 1964 - 1968. Bear in mind Mansfield died in 1967. Part of the fun is spotting how the
producers cobbled things together after Mansfield’s death in order to complete
the film. Watch for the (many) shots of a body double filmed from behind wearing
Mansfield’s disheveled blonde wig. And
the sound-alike who delivered the voice-over narration (nailing Jayne’s
breathless babydoll coo) deserved an Oscar!
In an eerie unplanned coincidence, April marks Mansfield’s
birthday (she was born 19 April 1933). Let’s make the night a celebration of
all things Jayne! Come dragged-up as Jayne Mansfield and / or accompanied by a
Chihuahua – get a free cocktail.
As usual: arrive circa 8 pm to order your drinks and grab
the best seats. The film starts at 8:30 pm prompt!
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Friday 29 April 2016: Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll - when incredibly strange dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the Polynesian-style basement Bamboo Lounge of Dalston’s premiere Art Deco vice den Fontaine’s! Friday 29 April! With sensational special offer cocktails on the night!
Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! A spectacle of decadence! Bad Music for Bad People! A Mondo Trasho evening of Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and other Weird Shit! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs the Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell (of Dr Sketchy and Cockabilly notoriety). Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock! Now with vintage erotica projected on the wall for your adult viewing pleasure! Come for the cocktails - stay for the putrid music and dirty movies!
Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE!
Lobotomy Room: Faster. Further. Filthier.
It’s sleazy. It’s grubby. It’s trashy - you’ll love it!
A tawdry good time guaranteed!
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