Bitterness Personified

/ Stripper, Miss Sata Lyte, in her dressing room, 1962. Photo by Diane Arbus / After an ultra-lengthy absence, Saturday 12 December...

/ Brigitte Bardot, the ne plus ultra of sex kittens / “What a difference a day makes.” Dinah Washington really knew what she meant whe...

/ Kitsch icon Mamie Van Doren, Hollywood's Ultimate 1950s Bad Girl / This Saturday afternoon Dr Sketchy at The Old Queen’s Head i...

/ Kiki de Montparnasse / Not one of my better nights! This Dr Sketchy was actually based around the launch of the graphic novel / biog...

/ Wishing you a Jayne Mansfield Christmas ... / For the first of our two Christmas extravaganzas this month (this one was at The Parad...

I can't imagine DJ'ing at Dr Sketchy and not playing at least one track from John Barry's soundtrack for the ultra kitsch ...