/ Twist like Jayne Mansfield - at Lobotomy Room! /
Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll -
when incredibly strange dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the basement
Bamboo Lounge of Dalston’s most unique nite spot Fontaine’s! Friday 28
September!
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! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk cretin hops! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and Other Weird Shit! 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! Vintage erotica projected on the big screen all night for your adult viewing pleasure!
One FREE signature Lobotomy Room cocktail for the first twenty entrants!
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!
/ Pagan! Primitive! Taboo! Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll – when incredibly bizarre dance party Lobotomy Room returns to Fontaine’s on Friday 28 September! /
Phew! The September 2018 Lobotomy Room dance party downstairs in the Tiki paradise of Fontaine’s Bamboo Lounge progressed dreamily. This was a massive relief because the July club night was catastrophic and really shook my confidence (let’s just say I DJ’d to a completely empty room for most of the night!). That’s why I never even bothered posting a July 2018 DJ set list on here. (We skipped doing an August 2018 Lobotomy Room club night because it fell on a bank holiday weekend – always a dicey time to do a club night). But flash-forward to end of September and we managed to pull a glamorous, sexy, hip and appreciative clientele. (No of course there are no photos from the night – you’ll have to just take my word for it!). In this racket, I’ve learned to take nothing for granted. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came! To quote the great Lola Heatherton: I want to bear your children!
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! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk cretin hops! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and Other Weird Shit! 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! Vintage erotica projected on the big screen all night for your adult viewing pleasure!
One FREE signature Lobotomy Room cocktail for the first twenty entrants!
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!
/ Pagan! Primitive! Taboo! Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll – when incredibly bizarre dance party Lobotomy Room returns to Fontaine’s on Friday 28 September! /
Phew! The September 2018 Lobotomy Room dance party downstairs in the Tiki paradise of Fontaine’s Bamboo Lounge progressed dreamily. This was a massive relief because the July club night was catastrophic and really shook my confidence (let’s just say I DJ’d to a completely empty room for most of the night!). That’s why I never even bothered posting a July 2018 DJ set list on here. (We skipped doing an August 2018 Lobotomy Room club night because it fell on a bank holiday weekend – always a dicey time to do a club night). But flash-forward to end of September and we managed to pull a glamorous, sexy, hip and appreciative clientele. (No of course there are no photos from the night – you’ll have to just take my word for it!). In this racket, I’ve learned to take nothing for granted. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came! To quote the great Lola Heatherton: I want to bear your children!
/ Scala Cinema flyer from 1982 /
In other news: two nights before Lobotomy Room, it was divoon to DJ at London's Scala for Jane Giles’ book launch on Wednesday 26 September 2018! (Giles was one of The Scala Cinema's former programmers. Her book – a lavish history of the much-missed temple of cinematic sleaze / Sodom Odeon entitled simply Scala Cinema: 1978 – 1993 - is an exquisite deluxe coffee table tome). To be honest, I was thrilled just to be asked. Luckily, I moved to London just in time to experience the final year or so of the Scala Cinema. (I remember feeling bereft when it closed!). The first double bill I ever saw at The Scala was within a month or two of arriving in London and it was Girl on a Motorcycle / The Wild Angels – in other words, both Marianne Faithfull and Nancy Sinatra as black leather-clad biker mamas! This was when Kings Cross was still a genuinely dangerous grungy red-light area / junkie central (just getting from the tube station to the cinema felt like risking your life!). From there, I plunged into underground classicks (sic) like Pink Narcissus, Thundercrack and double-bills of John Waters, Russ Meyer, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Richard Kern and Bruce LaBruce films. The Scala truly warped me at an impressionable age! It shaped me into the dysfunctional hot mess I am today. Wandering the staircases and corridors of The Scala on Wednesday felt Proust-ian because – since the cinema closed in ’93 – I’d never really spent much time there. Popstarz was never my bag (I’ve never been an indie kid!) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a music gig there. Someone had expertly-edited together five-hours’ worth of representative Scala film trailers playing on an endless loop on the big screen. It included films I personally associate with The Scala from first-hand experience (Daughters of Darkness, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Myra Breckenridge, Polyester, Glen or Glenda?) and films that were big at the time that I’d pretty much forgotten (The Fourth Man, Down by Law, Drugstore Cowboy). I DJ’d for an hour (in a cage!). My first job was to evoke the seedy sexploitation / grindhouse ambiance of The Scala with Divine, Elvis, Jayne Mansfield, The Cramps, punk, rockabilly, surf instrumentals and selections from films like She-Devils on Wheels, Pink Flamingos and Scorpio Rising. My second job: to keep the bevy of glamorous onstage go-go dancers shakin’ it hard! I hope I succeeded!
Anyway, here's what I was laying-down at the September 2018 Lobotomy Room:
Der Karibische Western - Lydia Lunch
Steel Pier - The Impacts
Road Runner - The 5.6.7.8s
Kismiaz - The Cramps
Mau Mau - The Fabulous Wailers
Katanga - Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm
Monkey Bird - The Revels
Esquerita and The Voola - Esquerita
Working On Me, Baby - Tiny Topsy
Fever - Edith Massey
Money Money - Big John Taylor
Surf Rat - The Rumblers
Drive Daddy Drive - Little Sylvia
The Swag - Link Wray
She Wants to Mambo - Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin
Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown
I Don't Need You No More - The Rumblers
Ridin' with a Movie Star - L7
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramonetures
Three Cool Chicks - The 5.6.7.8s
Salamander - Mamie Van Doren
Woodpecker Rock - Nat Couty and The Braves
Year 1 - X
Vampira - The Misfits
Pedro Pistolas Twist - Los Twisters
Bombora - The Original Surfaris
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Mrs Miller
Lightning's Girl - Nancy Sinatra
Harley Davidson - Brigitte Bardot
Touch the Leather - Fat White Family
Bad Boys Get Spanked - The Pretenders
Be Bop A Lula - Alan Vega
Viva Las Vegas - Nina Hagen
Somethin' Else - Sid Vicious
Breathless - X
Funnel of Love - Wanda Jackson
Bottle to the Baby - Charlie Feathers
Let's Go, Baby - Billy Eldridge
The Big Bounce - Shirley Caddell
Juvenile Delinquent - Ronnie Allen
I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
Fools Rush In - Rickie Nelson
Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
Sweetie Pie - Eddie Cochran
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Big Maybelle
Run Chicken Run - Link Wray
Chicken Grabber - The Nite Hawks
Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins
Chicken - The Cramps
Chicken Rock - Fat Daddy Holmes
Jukebox Babe - Alan Vega
Atomic Bongos - Lydia Lunch
Forming - The Germs
Margaya - The Fender Four
Muleskinner Blues - The Fendermen
Shortnin' Bread - The Readymen
Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
Batman - Link Wray
Boss - The Rumblers
He's the One - Ike and Tina Turner
You're Driving Me Crazy - Dorothy Berry
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
I Just Don't Understand - Ann-Margret
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad - Tammy Wynette
One Night of Sin - Elvis Presley
Further reading:
In August 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.
Upcoming dates for all your Lobotomy Room-related needs:
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Who doesn’t love a lesbian vampire movie? Decades before Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers (1970), Delphine Seyrig in Daughters of Darkness (1971) or Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger (1983), the original Sapphic glamour ghoul was Dracula’s Daughter (1936)! Embracing the macabre spirit of Halloween, on 17 October Lobotomy Room presents this compelling classic from the same cycle of 1930s Universal Pictures horror masterpieces that includes Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931) and Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Who doesn’t love a lesbian vampire movie? Decades before Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers (1970), Delphine Seyrig in Daughters of Darkness (1971) or Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger (1983), the original Sapphic glamour ghoul was Dracula’s Daughter (1936)! Embracing the macabre spirit of Halloween, on 17 October Lobotomy Room presents this compelling classic from the same cycle of 1930s Universal Pictures horror masterpieces that includes Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931) and Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Accompanied by her faithful hunchbacked assistant, mysterious and wraith-like Hungarian Countess Marya Zaleska (portrayed by the morbidly beautiful Gloria Holden, sporting a dramatic wardrobe of capes and gowns) arrives in London following the death of her father Count Dracula. Offered a glass of sherry, the Countess quotes her late father (“Thank you. I never drink . . . wine”). Before long she’s leaving a trail of drained corpses in her wake! The most elegantly Art Deco of vampire films, Dracula’s Daughter is the ideal choice to watch over cocktails at Fontaine’s.
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! Doors to the basement Bamboo Lounge open at 8 pm. Film starts at 8:30 pm prompt. We can accommodate thirty people maximum on film nights. Arrive early to grab a seat and order a drink! Full gruesome details on event page.
It’s creepy and it’s kooky … mysterious and
spooky … it’s all together ooky … it’s the Lobotomy Room Halloween dance party!
Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll on Friday 26 October at the punkiest,
campiest, kitschiest low-brow Halloween bash this accursed month! Downstairs at
Fontaine’s bar (Dalston’s most unique nite spot!).
One FREE signature Lobotomy Room cocktail for the first twenty entrants!
Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE!
Lobotomy Room: Faster. Further. Filthier!
Full putrid details here.
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