My Kingdom for a Grand...

...And by that I mean a grand piano! There will be no grand piano, nor even any piano at all, but rather a mere keyboard, provided by Asphalt for the Let's Misbehave party on the 22nd after all, and Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke has decided that under these conditions it would be better to stick strictly to her bilingual split-personality MC-ing and save the songs that she and Lola la Voix have been working on together for performance at some later date.

Lola la Voix will be at the party anyway of course, in the audience, enjoying performances by Mama Ulita and The Queensgang Orchestra ect, and looking forward to future appearances with Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke (and assorted other planned stuff). We hope to see you there!

And here's a quick overview-reminder of October's Event Cornucopia!

La Fête Fatale No.7 at Goya
Friday night, Oct. 15th


Pinky's Peepshow at Bassy Club
(Schönheitstanz Berlin Burlesque Night
- with special guest, Lorelei Vanora)
- Wednesday night, Oct. 20th


Let's Misbehave at Asphalt
+ Salon Kokett at CCCP
Friday night, Oct.22nd



Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin No.10 at White Trash
Saturday afternoon, Oct.23rd


Bohème Sauvage No.45 at Heimathafen Neukölln im Saalbau
Saturday night, Oct.30th


Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Photos by Nina Zimmermann and Schell Photo Design / Lifestyle Portrait

October's Party Cornucopia!

(Dr. Sketchy's Berlin / La Fête Fatale / Pinky's Peepshow /
Let's Misbehave / Salon Kokett / Bohème Sauvage)

Well, now! Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin really had a fabulous time as the closing event for The Big Draw Berlin festival last night. The Grüner Salon was an elegant and very comfy venue, Marlene von Steenvag was dazzling and lovely - as a model and as a performer, the organizers and staff were friendly and enthusiastic, our DJ, Dr. Hirschfeld, was as fabulous as always, Anne Smith was, as ever, a sweet and delightful burlesque roadie/clean-up girl, and our audience was great! We went away smiling once again! =)

And now for those additional October event dates I promised. My alter egos and I are busy girls this month... ;)

Event no.1: First off, a reminder that it's La Fête Fatale time again. They already spread their mad decadence in Hamburg for the first time on the 8th, and now it's home to Berlin again on Friday the 15th - at Goya this time around!



Event no.2: Lorelei Vanora will be making another Pinky's Peepshow appearance at the Bassy Club on October 20th (a Wednesday, as always); this time around as a special guest of the Schönheitstanz studio here in Berlin. Lady Lou will be presenting another one of her Burlesque School Graduation events (Schönheitstanz Berlin Burlesque Night); with Betty Redcherry (newcomer), Lilly Tiger (performer), and Amber Vanilla (newcomer).



Here's the Pinky's Peepshow flyer itself. Unfortunately, due to a little info-sanfu, my name (LaLaVox) ended up making it onto the flyer...


...But of course it's actually my alter-ego, Lorelei Vanora who will be performing. ;)


Events no.3 + 4: Two days later, on Friday, October 22nd, you will have to choose between The Roaring Twenties and more burlesque. In the Roaring Twenties corner will be the premiere of the Let's Misbehave party (a Josephine Baker Tribute) at Asphalt. In the Burlesque corner will be another lovely Salon Kokett evening at CCCP.

My personal choice for the evening will be The Roaring Twenties, since my alter ego, Lola la Voix will be making an appearance at Let's Misbehave. The fabulous and delightful Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke will be the conférencière for the evening, and she's invited Lola la Voix to sing a couple of numbers with her!





Event no. 5: A reminder not to forget that we'll be back at White Trash Fast Food again for a regular Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin session on the afternoon of Saturday, October 23rd! Dr. Sketchy's #10 - our Halloween Special - starring Lady Lou (La Fête Fatale and Schönheitstanz) and Mitzi Metzger (La Fête Fatale)! Meet us there for lots of gruesome Halloween drawing fun!!!



When?
October 23th 2010 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where?
At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros! (Tickets at the door)

Event no. 6: And last but not least, Bohème Sauvage No.45, on October 30th, to finish up a fabulous month of glamorous Fall events!



We hope to see you there!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Ah Berlin!

I'd seen this wonderful video posted around several places, but I hadn't actually taken the time to watch it until yesterday. I can tell that the maker of this video loves this city as much as I do....

Little Big Berlin from pilpop on Vimeo.

'I dedicate this film to Berlin where I have been living for 19 years now. While the architecture of Berlin is stunningly beautiful, only its inhabitants make Berlin the unique city that it is. In every corner there is something new to discover. And the best thing to do is to film it.
Filmed with my beloved Sony HC9. Edited with Sony Vegas Pro 9.The miniature effect is called tilt-shift, which originates from a particular lens that was used to photograph architecture. The miniature effect is a by-product of that. It can also be achieved by digital postprocessing.
Music: “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” by Franz Liszt' - directed by pilpop

...Which suited my Sunday mood perfectly...

I always feel glowy and good after a session of co-moderating Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, and Saturday's No.9 madness was no exception. A rip-snorting good time was had by all. We were treated to some truly divine insanity served up for us by Mad Kate and Juanofakind in the form of "Alien Birth":

Juanofakind approached the stage as the hugely pregnant Anita Drink, and, after a bit of tea and nostalgia, went into screaming labour pains, then proceeded to give birth right before our very eyes. Mad Kate tumbled into the world clad in a birthday suit of ripped nylons and blood (curry sauce apparently), only to terrorize first Anita, and then the audience, as she climbed her way over and through them before sprinting across the DJ desk to return to the stage for more shenanigans! It was a sight to behold, I tell ya! I can't wait to see the photos!

An audience review of the afternoon (including this performance) can be found at Jen Zeller's blog by the way. :)

And it was lovely to have Eve Blood of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Nürnberg visiting us. We're always quite enamoured of the photos we see in the Galerie at her Sketchy's site, and are looking forward to being able to visit one of her sessions one of these days. I've never been to Nürnberg before. Hmmmm....

And Bohème Sauvage No.44 in the evening was a treat as well. It was held in this beautiful space this time around, and was terribly, terribly full:



It's funny about Bohème Sauvage. It is possible to find yourself feeling a touch of ennui at one these, in spite of all the fabulous eye-candy walking around (the dress code is mandatory, so don't expect to be able to get in in jeans). So, if you go, go intending to either swing dance or gamble (everyone is provided with some Reichsmark at the door to get things going). Or take sparkling company with you, and plan to meet more sparkling company once you get there.

You will be immersed in loveliness. It's always that oddly surreal sensation of swimming in another time; a time that never existed of course - since what you'll see there is a jumble of styles from the 1890s to the 1940s - and varying modern interpretations of these. The gambling tables are always full, and there's always a little movie theater where you can curl into cushy seating and watch silent movies from the 1920s. There are performances to see, and you can dance until dawn! I recommend staying until at least the wee hour of 4, to see the stylish couple-dancing (swing, foxtrot, tango, Charleston, etc...) mutate into a mad free for all as the night progresses.

I was delighted to see the Old Fish Jazz Band performing there again. They were fabulous at Bohème Sauvage No.41 at the Wintergarten, and were no less fabulous this time around. The New Orleans Vintage Jazz feel they jiggled our bones with really made this Mississippi girl's heart go pitter pat! And watching modern flappers dancing insanely in front of them (from the corner next to that stage that I had tucked myself into) was a bit like watching a wild fever dream from behind a velvet curtain.

Why do I love Berlin? All of this and more!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Dr. Sketchy's Berlin No. 9 + Info Roundup

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin No. 9
will be featuring none other than Berlin-based
dancerwritersingerperformanceartist,
MAD KATE (of Kamakazi Queens and Bonaparte)
and her husbandbestfriendmuseinspirationpartnerincrime,
fashion designer and DJ, JUANOFAKIND!



When?
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 - 2:00-5:00pm
(doors open 1:30pm)
Where?
At the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant
Schönhauser Allee 6-7, Berlin, Germany
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros!
(Tickets at the door)

And as you know, it often happens that our Dr. Sketchy's Berlin afternoons are followed by an evening of either La Fête Fatale or Bohème Sauvage. This time around it's Bohème Sauvage again; No.44 to be exact:



And the next La Fête Fatale No.7 has been announced in the meantime as well. Hold onto your hats, Hamburg, because La Fête Fatale isn't just a Berlin event anymore! Put October 8th (for Hamburg) and October 15th (for Berlin) in your calenders, folks!



Something I never got around to mentioning here was our Dr. Sketchy's Berlin Meets the Direktorinhaus event last week. It was so well publicized elsewhere however, and the turn-out was so good, that I'm finding it very easy to forgive myself for this.



105 People attended our first “out of house” session at the elegant Direktorenhaus Art Space in Mitte - which makes it our biggest event so far! (It couldn't have hurt that it was also our only free event so far... ;-))

Special thanks to Clare Molloy, Nicole, and all of the other lovely people at the Direktorinhaus, to our rockstar models Clea Cutthroat (of Bonaparte and Eat Lipstick) and Megan Goddard, to our musical butterflies Operalesque (Johanna Blackstone + Rachel von Hindman), and to all of you who flocked to us in such great numbers, and then drew and drew and drew some more, squished in together with us in those two beautiful rooms!

The Direktorinhaus has promised us a selection of some of the photos they took during the course of the evening, but in the meantime we have a selection of what our organizer (and my co-host) Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz (aka Matthias Pflügner) has been calling his "crappy" (and what I would call his "fun") snapshots to peruse. Please click this fetching shot of The Mysterious Bucket-Headed Woman to be whisked off to his Flickr gallery of these...




Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Dr. Sketchy Berlin no.7 (Mermaid Time!)

NEWS FLASH!!! - DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI ART SCHOOL BERLIN No.7 tomorrow at the White Trash Fast Food Diamond Lounge from 2:30pm to 5:30pm!!! (Doors open at 2:00pm)

More info can be found at www.drsketchy-berlin.de of course...

...LaLaVox here again, as always. Here's tomorrow's line-up...


CLEA "Underwater Love" CUTTHROAT
FEZ "The Drowned Dandy" WRECKER
& LORELEI VANORA - The Singing Mermaid

I usually co-moderate these Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin wing-dings (and absolutely love doing it, I might add), but like Superman and Clark Kent, Lorelei Vanora and LaLaVox never can seem to manage to be in the same place at the same time. Because of this odd fact of nature, Anne Smith (who has spun tunes for us on occasions when DJane Strangelove couldn't be with us) will have to fill in for me. And what a lovely co-moderator she will be! :)

Lorelei Vanora's "look" has had a bit of an update, by the way, thanks to the ever delightful and wonderful Hedoluxe, and this update will see its stage premiere tomorrow! Big fat hugs and kisses of gratitude to Hedo! *muwah!*

And since I still haven't managed to get those little photo-collage photo-gallery-previews that I like doing up for no.4, no.5, + no.6 yet (anyone think I might actually manage to get to those by no.7?), I thought I'd do a little run-down of all of the Dr. Sketchy Berlins in this series so far - with links to each of the galleries (click the pix) - in descending order from last to first. Here we go...

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.6 / March 20th 2010
starring Miss Julietta la Doll and Marz Star!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.5 / February 20th 2010
starring Nelly Farouche and Marlene von Steenvag!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.4 / January 16th 2010
starring Joey Love, Golden Treasure,
and secret special guest, Hedoluxe!



Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.3 / December 12th, 2009 - The X-mas Special
starring Xarah von den Vielenregen und Marnie Van Helsing!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.2 / November 14th 2009
starring Clea Cutthroat and Lola von Dage!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.1 / Premiere - 10. Oktober 2009
starring Tronicat la Miez
and secret special guest, Hedoluxe!



It's fun for me to see all of the Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin flyer-pix together like that. :) And Lorelei Vanora is already all excited about tomorrow! ;) We hope to see you there! =D

By the way...

After an afternoon spent drawing mad sea creatures with us, you can put on your fancy 1920s duds and step out for an extravagant evening of vintage charm at BOHÈME SAUVAGE No.42 at the Meistersaal here in Berlin. A wonderful time will be had by all!


And here's something to make a note of in your calender for May 12th. Le Fete Fatale's One-Year Anniversary - LA FÊTE FATALE No.6 - The Carney Cult of Hoochie Cooch! - at the Bassy Club!


Hugs + kisses!

LaLaVox
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