December To Do List – London Christmas Joy Guaranteed.
Our pick of the month is Brian Lobel’s Cruising for Art, a suspiciously non-Xmas event. If you’re feeling festive try BAC, BGWMC, Duckie’s Copyright Christmas, Drink Shop & Do and much more…read on Scrooge, read on…
We saw stuff, we liked it
EastEnd Cabaret: The Revolution Will Be Sexual | Arcola Tent
Eat Your Heart Out Presents…Violence | Riverside Studios
Dracula: Sex, Sucking & Stardom | Hen & Chickens Theatre
November To Do List
Remember, remember the month of November
We believe November is shaping up to be slightly wonderful actually. This To Do List of joy includes Wunderbar Festival, Dracula: Sex, Sucking and Stardom, GFEST, Scottee’s ‘Violence’, La Soiree, Paintworks, EastEnd Cabaret and much more.
October To Do List
Lots of fun stuff to do this month, including: storytelling at the Leicester Square Theatre, films at BFI Southbank, dressing up at Institut Francais, dancing at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, music in Hoxton, exhibitions at The V&A, a premiere at Rich Mix and lots more…!
Loserville’s Bestival 2011 Round-up – Part Two
So by the time we got to Saturday, we’d already bopped to Blancmange, been scared silly by the Wall of Death, witnessed a stage invasion, and burnt our fingers on some hot German sausage… and we’d only just begun.
Bestival 2011 Gets The Loserville Treatment – Part One
Loserville swapped the city for the magical Isle of Wight last weekend, for four days of Bestiival japery…
Loserville Loves… The Bourgeois & Maurice Band @ Soho Theatre
1-3 September
Bourgeois & Maurice have taken the next logical step toward world-conquering, stadium-filling super stardom… they’ve only gone and got themselves a band!
Loserville Previews… Duckie 16th Birthday Bash | Royal Festival Hall
Friday 26th August | 21:00-02:00 | £10
We can’t wait to celebrate Duckie finally reaching the age of consent – we’d like to say we’ll be breaking her in gently, but we know she’s already been getting around a bit…
Loserville Offer: Eat Your Heart Out 2-For-1 @ Edinburgh Fringe
Don’t say we never give you anything!
We’ve laid on a fab 2-for-1 deal so you’ve got no excuse not to catch EYHO at Assembly George Square this weekend!
Featuring: Scottee, Myra Dubois, Bryony Kimmings, Jonny Woo & more!
Sixty seconds with our new comedy drag phenomenon: DRAGS ALOUD
Loserville is stoked to catch up with Australian offbeat drag sensation Drags Aloud. Their uniquely biting show is entitled SHOW GURL and we can’t recommend it enought! It’s on at the Edinburgh Fringe at the “BELLY DANCER” UNDERBELLY, COWGATE – AUGUST 18 – 28 2011, 22:20PM tickets here.
Loserville Loves… Apple Cart Festival | Patrick Wolf | Bourgeois & Maurice
The Guardian, The Independent, Q Magazine, NME… Loserville is truly worthy of standing in a field next to any of them. And so we proved at the The Apple Cart Festival, a new music/comedy/cabaret/magic (?) celebration which took over leafy Victoria Park for one day only.
Loserville Loves… UnderConstruction @ Hot August Fringe
Last nights line up, selected especially for the Hot August Fringe, included: Mr Teds, Blanche DuBois, Lazlo Pearlman, Willis, Blue Verse, Marcus Reeves, Sasha Selavie, Natalie Geographic, Helen Noir & Darrell Berry, and Myra Dubois…
Binge on the Fringe
Have we mentioned it’s the Edinburgh Festival? Maybe we have… But for those of us who maybe can’t make it north of the border for whatever reason, don’t fret! There’s plenty of fringe to be had in London!
August To Do List – Sizzling Hot Stuff
There’s no filler here – just wall-to-wall, ball-achingly excellent hits from beginning to end. And we haven’t been paid a penny!
Loserville’s Edinburgh Fest Survival Guide
Here’s our all singing all dancing printable Edinburgh Festival Guide…click the image below or here to get the PDF…including venues to watch, free tickets and our top ten recommended shows.
Life is a cabaret, part deux – Show restaurants! Have a ball!
Roll up, roll up for the greatest show on earth! Yes it’s our show restaurants article part 2, this time it’s personal. We’ve picked a bevvy of delights to entertain you until the early hours. Including Supperclub London, The Pale Blue Door, Sarastro and Bistrotheque.
The world has gone POP-UP: The Yard, Folly for a Flyover, Floating Cinema & Shacklewell Nights
Loserville loves a good POP-UP venue and think they’re the best way to experience true DIY culture in London. Some of these venues covered are exclusively revealed by us on the very little information that we have garnered for you our lovely readers.
Watch This Space Festival | National Theatre | July 1 – September 11
Summer. On the South Bank. With Free Stuff. Perfect! The Watch This Space Festival returns for 2011 outside the National Theatre, and there are a number of diverse themes throughout the run, including Circus Space Week, Gandini Juggling Week, and the Thames Festival Weekend…
Loserville Loves… Lullaby | Justin Vivian Bond | Jonny Woo’s Gay Bingo
What a week for Loserville – we HEART Lullaby, Justin Bond, and Gay Bingo! Check out our reviews here…
Sleepover with Duckie at the Barbican – ‘Lullaby’ starts in two days
We actually cannot wait to get into our PJs and have a beautiful one night stand with Duckie at the Barbican…A unique and truly sensational experience not to be missed!
Life is a cabaret! London’s most spectacular show restaurants…part one
There seem to be so many Geminis all having birthdays this month. This inspired us to write a long overdue article about the rise of the ‘show’ restaurant. Including Circus, Nikitas, Soho Theatre Downstairs & more
At last, Burger Queen, fatty talent contest is here…YUM! Tonight at the RVT
At last, it’s here. Don’t you dare miss, friend of Loserville, Scottee’s Burger Queen Contest…tonight at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
June To Do List – Loserville, a real humdinger…
We’re not blowing our own trumpet (wish we could) but we think June’s Loserville to do list is a real humdinger! Slut walk, sex worker films, geeky cinema romp, a celebration of polyester, Soho Theatre’s new secret space and free spectacular festival should be enough to whet your appetite!
Things we learnt auf Dusseldorf…
In this years cultural exchange we kindly label Eurovision, we learnt a great deal. About Germany, about Europe, about sausage and most importantly where Aserbaijan actually is. And as we’re on Loserville we thought we’d present our research via the medium of contemporary dance, just kidding, we thought a list would be more appropriate…
Accidental Festival | Roundhouse, Camden
19-22 May | Various Times
We can’t recommend enough this fantastic festival which is cheap, chic and features cabaret, cutting edge theatre, short films and a new performance by wacky performance veterans Forced Entertainment.
E4 Udderbelly Festival | Southbank Centre | April 21 – July 17
Holy Cow, Is It Udderbelly Season Already?
Yes.
It is.
The E4 Udderbelly Festival is back at the Southbank Centre for a summer-long gigglefest of bovine proportions.
Megabargain tickets for Eat Your Heart Out at Stratford Circus
We can’t wait for Scottee’s second outing in the Olympic hub of Stratford, come and get your kicks from this troupe of weird and wonderful neo-cabaret stars! And we’re getting you cheap tickets…just £6!
Loserville To Do List – March
Well, apparently winter is over. We’re not so sure. While we all wait for global warming to, well, do some warming, here’s some fun/interesting stuff to do this month, all indoors and all vaguely excellent (probably).
Bored of Christmas telly? So are we! – Head to the Attic for unadulterated cabaret fun!
EastEnd Cabaret has invited us and our lovely readers to come up to The Attic – an intimate pop-up cabaret club, ensconced within the new residence of the Oubliette Arthouse and in existence for only three days. It’s starting tonight and we can’t wait!
Three More Chances to Catch Bourgeois & Maurice!
We previewed the show a little while back, and were lucky enough to catch them at the end of last week. Now there are just three more chances to catch Bourgeois & Maurice at the Lilian Baylis Studio @ Sadler’s Wells for their hit show Can’t Dance.
Can’t Dance runs until December 23rd.