hallo Halloween!

Had a wonderful night on Saturday 27th - dressing up, dancing, posing at "A Spooky Speakeasy" presented by Minnie's Henhouse, with beautiful hats by Sahar Fremantle's UglyLovely ... pictures up soon from Ronnie & Rose Photography

Tomorrow! Wednesday 31st October, Halloween... I'll be 10 metres up a swinging metal boat in Wapping at BOO! in King Edward Memorial Park on Glamis Road - on the river near Shadwell Station.  A ghost ship installation including pirate/mermaid-based circus acts, live music, fireworks... The installation is pretty amazing, and just a taster for Aircraft Circus' show in December's Greenwich Circus Festival.  Come have a peek! It's free and all!

diary de octubre

Events for the rest of the month........ the last week of October is going to be nicely bizarre....ouff!  Gig at Waterline is well worth a visit, fantastic venue... more details of the night to come, a couple more acts to be arranged...

Saturday 13th October
Soiree Neuf - Entertainments par excellence for Francophones and Franglais, part of Ooh-la-la! - Semain Francophone @ Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, clarinetting with the Kings Cross Hot Club from 9pm
Monday 22nd October
Monday Night Session @ Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden: clarinetting with the Kings Cross Hot Club
Wednesday 24th October
Wednesday Wind Downs at Waterline, 46 De Beauvoir Crescent, London N1 5RY (on Regent's Canal). Balkan, tango, peruvian folk music with Tim Sharp and Anisa Arslanagic.
Saturday 27th October

• 7.30pm 'A Variety Evening' in aid of University College London Hospitals, Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel: clarinet and footstamping with Black Shabbat
• 9pm (yes, two events in one night....) Minnie's Henhouse presents a Spooky Speakeasy @ The Brewhouse, London Fields Brewery: fashion show/tango demo presenting UglyLovely's hat collection. Possible chinese pole act incorporated.

Wednesday 31st October
Family Halloween event in King Edward Memorial Park, Wapping: chinese pole, dance and movement theatre with AirCraft Circus' Shipwrecked Circus project. Pirates performing circus acts, seamonsters, capsizing ships and pyrotechnics...

Oh, October...

Rehearsals and secret building works are going well for Aircraft Circus' Shipwreck Circus event at Greenwich Circus Festival in December... so much so we are doing an installation with some small acts for Halloween in Lewisham on the 31st October... I will post more details as they come!  We are very excited and well acquainted now with the likes of truss and drop forge swivel couplers... 

The Kings Cross Hot Club are playing every Monday in the Seven Dials Club, 42 Earlham Street - with all sorts of intriguing guests and unexpected twists and turns, and a one-armed manager keeping his eyes on our whereabouts.  Last Monday I played so hard my clarinet broke before we even started Ochi Chyornye...  According to some, this is due to a 'shift in the universe'...  Mystical times.

And on the 27th October Black Shabbat will be making one of their rare, enigmatic, foot-stamping-fuelled appearances at 'A Variety Evening' in aid of University College London Hospitals at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Pilgrims Place, Hampstead, NW3 1NG

Anyway, if you want to hear some balkan-ish klezmer-ish music to brighten your autumn day, don't forget to listen to this!  And if you'd like to see a small something, click here to see a video Chris Jones took when a group of us played in Dalston Eastern Curve Garden a couple of weeks ago, we're playing Ederlezi (Serbian folk tune for the feast of Saint George) and A Nakht in Gan Eydn - with Anisa Arslanagic, Tim Sharp, Theo Lais and Ulises Diaz.

More soon!