/ Early line-up of the glorious bad girls of rhythm and blues, the Ikettes from the Ike and Tina Turner Revue: Jessie Smith, Robbie Montgomery and Venetta Fields. I played the Ikettes' song "I'm Blue" in my set /
From the Facebook event page:
Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll - when incredibly bizarre dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the basement Bamboo Lounge of Dalston’s most unique nite spot Fontaine’s! Friday 30 November!
Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! Sensual and depraved! A spectacle of decadence! A Mondo Trasho evening of Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Bad Music for Bad People! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues! Punk cretin hops! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs the Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell. Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock!
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!
/ “There’s no stoppin’ the cretins from hoppin’ / You gotta keep it beatin’ for all the hoppin’ cretins …” /
Following our insane, triumphant and vomit-splattered Halloween spectacular in October, incredibly bizarre dance party Lobotomy Room returned to the Polynesian splendor of Fontaine’s basement Bamboo Lounge on Friday 30 November 2018. Could we maintain that urgent, desperately frantic momentum? Oh, hell yeah! Mainly thanks to birthday girl Kit and her group of friends! Wild, uninhibited, hungry-for-kicks – they were the ideal Lobotomy Room crowd!
And for once we have documentary evidence! Justyna did double-duty on the night as bartender and nightclub photographer!
Mau Mau - The Fabulous Wailers
Exotic - The Sentinels
Katanga - Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm
Monkey Bird - The Revels
Kismiaz - The Cramps
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramonetures
I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) - The Ikettes
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
I Don't Need You No More - The Rumblers
Drive Daddy Drive - Little Sylvia
I Live the Life I Love - Esquerita
I'm Comin' Over - X
Chicken Grabber - The Nite Hawks
Chicken Rock - Fat Daddy Holmes
Run Chicken Run - Link Wray
Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins
Chicken - The Cramps
Jukebox Babe - Alan Vega
Atomic Bongos - Lydia Lunch
Media Blitz - The Germs
Teenage Lobotomy - The Ramones
Riding with a Movie Star - L7
Woo-Hoo - The Rock-A-Teens
I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield - The 5,6.7.8s
That Makes It - Jayne Mansfield
Wiped-Out - The Escorts
Pedro Pistolas Twist - Los Twisters
Peter Gunn Twist - The Jesters
Peter Gunn Locomotion - The Delmonas
Bombora - The Original Surfaris
Here Comes the Bug - The Rumblers
Jane in the Jungle - The 5.6.7.8s
Road Runner - The Fabulous Wailers
Vampira - The Misfits
Forming - The Germs
Viva Las Vegas - Nina Hagen
Be Bop a Lula - Alan Vega
Breathless - X
Let's Have a Party - Wanda Jackson
Wild, Wild Party - Charlie Feathers
Rock Around the Clock - The Sex Pistols
Jailhouse Rock - Masaaki Hirao
My Baby Does the Hanky Panky - Rita Chao and The Quests
Bang Bang - Betty Chung
Gostaria de Saber (River Deep, Mountain High) - Wanderlea
Harley Davidson - Brigitte Bardot
Touch the Leather - The Fat White Family
Somethin' Else - Sid Vicious
Whistle Bait - Larry Collins
Jim Dandy - Sara Lee and The Spades
Juvenile Delinquent - Ronnie Allen
Garbage Man - The Cramps
Rockin' Bones - Ronnie Dawson
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Big Maybelle
Let's Go Baby - Billy Eldridge
Fools Rush In - Ricky Nelson
Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
He's the One - Ike and Tina Turner
You're Driving Me Crazy - Dorothy Berry
Sweet Little Pussycat - Andre Williams
The Pussycat Song - Connie Vannett
Scorpion - The Carnations
Suey - Jayne Mansfield
Pass the Hatchet - Roger and The Gypsies
Year 1 - X
Boss - The Rumblers
Muleskinner Blues - The Fendermen
Shortnin' Bread - The Readymen
Batman Theme - Link Wray
Love Me - The Phantoms
I Stubbed My Toe - Bryan "Legs" Walker
Revelion - The Revels
Steel Pier - The Impacts
Black Tarantula - Jody Reynolds
Margaya - The Fender Four
Tina's Dilemma - Ike and Tina Turner
Esquerita and The Voola - Esquerita
Intoxica - The Revels
Ultra Twist - The Cramps
Twistin' the Night Away - Divine
Cretin Hop - The Ramones
C'mon Everybody - Sid Vicious
Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramonetures
Nothing Matters Anymore - The Alley Cats
Heartbreak Hotel - Buddy Love
Ring of Fire - The Earls of Suave
Comin' Home, Baby - The Delmonas
Lucille - Masaaki Hirao
The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard
Treat Me Right - Mae West
Roll with Me Henry - Etta James
Shake Appeal - Iggy and The Stooges
Nausea - X
Your Phone's Off the Hook - The Ramonetures
Steppin' Stone - The Sex Pistols
Jim Dandy - Ann-Margret
Woman - Peggy Lee
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Mrs Miller
How Does That Grab You Darlin'? Nancy Sinatra
Aphrodisiac - Bow Wow Wow
Let's Go Sexin' - James Intveld
Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley
Don't Be Cruel - Bill Black Combo
Cry-baby - The Honey Sisters
Johnny Are You Queer? Josie Cotton
What Do You Think I Am? Ike and Tina Turner
My Way - Nina Hagen
One Night of Sin - Elvis Presley
/ Booze party! Wild! Wild! Wild! /
Listen to the strange’n’sleazy sounds of
Lobotomy Room from the safety of your own home! I’ve knocked together a Spotify playlist
based on what I played at the November dance party. (For accuracy, disable the shuffle function!).
It’s only approximate because some tracks were unavailable on Spotify: The
Revels are barely represented on there at all! Other missing songs include Betty
Chung’s Mandarin language cover of “Bang Bang”, Josie Cotton’s immortal “Johnny Are You Queer?” Nina
Hagen’s berserk rendition of “My Way” and Bryan “Legs” Walker’s drunken hillbilly rant “I
Stubbed My Toe.” Spotify – sort out these glaring omissions! Anyway, explore the Wild, Wild World of Lobotomy Room here.
Upcoming events: at Lobotomy Room, we have all your festive
needs covered in December 2018!
Next film club:
Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies is the FREE monthly film club downstairs at Fontaine’s bar (Dalston’s most unique nite spot!) devoted to Bad Movies We Love (our motto: Bad Movies for Bad People), specialising in the kitsch, the cult and the queer! For the final cinema club of 2018 (on Wednesday 19 December), let’s wind things down with a crowd-pleaser – John Water’s delirious 1981 black comedy Polyester! A parody of 1950s “women’s pictures”, Polyester sees 300-pound drag monster / leading lady Divine cast against type (and giving one of his definitive performances) in a rare sympathetic role, as long-suffering suburban housewife Francine Fishpaw! It’s an apt choice for last film of 2018 for two reasons: 2018 represented the 100th anniversary of the birth of beloved punk granny Edith Massey (1918 –1984) and Polyester represents her last appearance in a John Waters film. And dreamboat leading man Tab Hunter (1931 – 2018) died earlier this year.
Doors to the basement Bamboo Lounge open at 8 pm. Film starts at 8:30 pm prompt. Arrive early to grab a seat and order a drink! We can accommodate 30 people maximum. First come, first serve! Note that Fontaine’s Christmas cocktail menu will be available, and the featured cocktail of the night is hot buttered rum!
Feeling jaded after Christmas? Didn’t get those cha cha heels you wanted? Come head-bang away those post-Christmas blues at Lobotomy Room! Friday 28 December 2018!
Yes! Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll - when incredibly bizarre dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the basement Bamboo Lounge of Dalston’s most unique nite spot Fontaine’s!
Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! Sensual and depraved! A spectacle of decadence! A Mondo Trasho evening of Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Bad Music for Bad People! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues! Punk cretin hops! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs the Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell. Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock!
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!
Let's end the year on a note of sleazy desperation!
Event page
Further reading:
In August 2018 I spoke my brains to To Do List magazine about the wild, wild world of Lobotomy Room, the monthly cinema club – and my lonely one-man mission to return a bit of raunch, sleaze and “adult situations” to London’s nightlife! Read it - if you must - here.
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