Two Shots of Christmas Spirit
A John Waters Christmas @ Royal Festival Hall | Brigitte Aphrodite @ The Slaughtered Lamb
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
What Loserville Did
Gabby Young & Other Animals | Office Party | Barbarella | Underwater Love | The Colored Museum
We’ve had a busy two weeks, and we’re really sorry we’ve been a bit slow to keep you all updated… But it’s never too late, so here’s a quick round-up of some of the cool things we’ve seen and done over the last two weeks.
Loserville Loves… Open House London | Sound Tracks Festival | Mysterious Skin
It was a busy weekend for Loserville – Grown-up theatre, new music, and general snooping around – it’s what Loserville is all about…
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…
September To Do List Part Two
Here’s Part Two of the September To Do List, the assured follow-up to the critically acclaimed* Part One!
*It’s true. They just never wrote it anywhere.
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…
Bylli Crayone and Tiffany make us wanna dance with somebody…
Loserville honey BYLLI CRAYONE and 80s Pop Princess TIFFANY join forces on the New LGBT Dance Anthem ‘IT’S OKAY BOY’ (Its Okay To Be Gay). Bylli Crayone of the Modern Club Dance World recently released a new 80s inspired dance album called ‘Presto: Element of Surprise”.
Swedish electrostar, Karin Park electrifies the Queen of Hoxton tomorrow…
We’re very excited that our fave new electrostar, Karin Park is coming to the Queen of Hoxton, this Thursday (18th August) from 7pm. She’s been busy collaborating with some great offbeat legends…see below for more info about Karin and a beautiful video…and it’s Free Entry to the gig! be sure to RSVP: john@your-army.com
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 vs Retro Pigeon @ Vintage at Southbank Centre
Friday 29th July – Sunday 31st July 2011
Loserville has teamed up with Retro Pigeon to run an epically fab stall at Vintage at Southbank Centre this weekend! Loserville is selling all kinds off amazing: Diana pendants, shoulder pets, frumpets and more. But the star of the Loserville show is our beautiful lady lamp, Mandy the Mannequin!
Weekender Bender: Frank Chickens and Home Live Art
Don’t miss Frank Chickens and Home Live Art at the supremely FREE Barbican Weekender…this Saturday at 4pm on the club stage at the Barbican Weekender.
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…
Women should be in charge! Today at the ICA
We’ve always believed that women rock and would make the world a better place if they were in charge. And now Loserville favourites Bob and Roberta Smith present a rather excellent free mini-festival proving us right.
Top tip for tonight! Brigitte Aphrodite at St Pancras Old Church
Join Kate Nash’s tour protege Brigitte Aphrodite for jolly great fun tonight at St Pancras Old Church!
Loserville Loves… London Festivals – Part 1
Get your shorts on, it’s summer.
Pretty much.
Stick two fingers up at the ever present threat of rain, for festival season is fast approaching. Of course, it’s not all about Glastonbury, and here at Loserville, we’re quite happy to stick within the confines of this magnificent capital city of ours, and enjoy all the festival type fun and frolics that London has to offer.
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).
Myra Dubois – The Paradise Lounge – Tonight at the RVT
We’re so excited that two of our favourites (Myra DuBois and Marcus Reeves) teaming up and having a good old plinky plonk and presenting a members club of exclusivity for all! We met her up in Edinburgh at Scottee’s Eat Your Heart Out night, during which 25 teeny boppers walked out, however we knew better and she was brilliant!
Of Montreal – live review @ Koko, October 6 2010
Just like Jay-Z got into Coldplay a century past their prime, so has Beyonce with her choice of Of Montreal as Highbrow Indie Band to Namecheck in Interviews.
September Six
Pinch punch – the six tracks that saved September. Including Redlight ft Ms Dynamite, Deerhunter & Games…
FREE Tickets to TV shows
Sometimes the TV just isn’t big enough… sometimes you wish you could be there with Graham Norton, The Scissor Sisters or Alan Titchmarsh (!) Sometimes it’s not enough to watch the Box – you want to be on the Box Well, my little eager beavers your dreams are about to come true. Our Friends at SRO [...]
Guys with guitars are infinitely hot, except for Newton
Last Friday’s Busking for Cancer boat party aboard HMS Belfast rekindled all the burning questions surrounding an unfathomable phenomenon, which has haunted my existence since my early teens…
Faversham Festival was better than Glastonbury…according to Loserville
We went to Faversham Hop Festival on Saturday in Faversham, Kent and we saw: People with Hop Halos, Dinosaurs, Blacked up Morris Dancers, Speedster Grannies, A fiery celtic ensemble &…
Loserville loves The Highstreet Boys from the X Factor
Someone just posted this on the Social Network…we love em! They belong in Loserville with all of us…