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Ya’ll will have another chance to check out my Hee Haw! House comedy cabaret act, this coming Friday night, as we are performing as part of a new club night A Little Bit Country and a Little Bit Rock N Roll. The night promises to be an Americana-style celebration offering up country western, blues and good old fashioned rock-n-roll music, along with dancing and performance and DJs, and great big grins at the Inn On The Green .
Yes, smiles will be a plenty among this crowd, a gathering being organized by the talented
country western, and rock ‘n roll, singer Cheyne Pride. She’s brought together talent for the first of her new regular club nights with an Americana theme that will leave Londoners feeling warm and fuzzy about the good ‘ol stars and stripes and the fantastic music, art and cultural talent that has brewed from the USA.
Headlining the night is the band National Debt, a country blues rock band based in London, founded by Ronnie Smith and Michael Messer, with backing vocals by Cheyne Pride, sound engineer Chris Clarke, and Ed Genis contributing on guitar. The band’s debut album ‘From the Horse’s Mouth’ was released last spring, earning attention from music press in the UK, including airplay on BBC Radio 2, when Mark Lamarr took a liking to the band's tune ‘Oozlin’ Daddy Blues’.
This band will get you slapping your thighs, lifting your cowboy hats in tribute and tapping your feet along with the beat. Added bonus of the night is JC & the Disciples and dancing cheerleaders from Cheer-A-Go-Go, along with my very own Hee Haw! Whore House comedy. As The Madam of the Hee Haw! Whore House, I’ll be presenting new comedy material SMACK-down style with cabaret wrestling!
Well I hope ya’ll can come on down this Friday, and if you can’t make it this week, do mark your calendar for July 4th to enjoy an American-style celebration of the national holiday, right in the heart of Londontown at Inn On The Green.
Here
are the details for Friday:
Cheyne Pride Presents:
A Little Bit Country A Little Bit Rock-n-Roll
A new London country western and rock ‘n roll club night featuring:
National Debt
JC & The Disciples
Cheer A-Go-Go
Hee Haw! House
Doors Open at 7:30 PM
(Yes, there is a cover and it will be less than a tenner)
INN ON THE GREEN
3-5 Thorpe Close W10
(Ladbroke Grove tube - cross over and walk under the motorway - look for a balcony and come upstairs)
Buses 7, 15, 23, 52, 70, 295
Feeling a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n roll,
-Lisa
Who’s Lisa Devaney?
I head the Hai Media Group, a multimedia communications company based in London, offering client’s traditional public relations, combined with new technology marketing strategies. I also perform, creating original Cabaret-style comedy skits for festivals, theatre and parties. Find out more about me, and the talented entrepreneurs I collaborate with, by visiting: www.haimediagroup.com
I’ll be debuting my new comedy cabaret show with the Finger in the Pie cabaret festival at Madam JoJos in the heart of London’s Soho this weekend. Come on down for my:
Hee Haw! Whore House
When: Sunday, 6th April, 2008
Doors open at 7 PM
Tickets £8
*Advised that you pre-book or come by 7 PM to be sure you get in, and get seats.
You can expect to have a hee haw! of a
good time if you come down, where there will be plenty of a hooting ‘n a
hollering in hillbilly style.
Simon Harris, who is the head of the Hand of Glory record label and a co-organizer of fantastic random clubbing nights with events like The Human Zoo, inviting people to get in touch with their inner beasts, and the Nativity Hoedown. This spring he debuts a new CD from artist Mary Epworth and the Jublilee Band. Connect with Simon over at myspace.com/handofglory7.
James Whatley, who studied drama and spent a few years working in television before finding his niche in the mobile technology industry where he is fondly known by his colleagues as Whatelydude. Connect with James at whatleydude.vox.com
Tiara Diamond, who is studying drama
at Thames Valley University, is a graduate of BWI’s Ultimate Burlesque Workshop
and performs burlesque under her stage name Tiara Diamond. Her play ‘Breakers’ featured at the
cornerHouse festival. You can find her on The BurlyQ Blog at tiaradiamond.wordpress.com
Our stage hand for the Hee Haw! Whore House is my husband Dr. John Fraser Laird Devaney (he’s smart
because he has a PhD in physics, and is
figuring out some crafty set challenges we’ve had). We’ve also got our own
stylist and costume maker Diana Munauru who sews bespoke costumes and clothing
for theatre performers, fancy dress and gowns for charity and society
functions. You can book Diana by emailing her at Diana.langa@hotmail.co.uk
And me! When it comes to entertainment
experience I don’t have any real formal training, except having studied
improvisational comedy with the fantastic Upright Citizens Brigade in
New York City, a group that can claim a number of comedy stars, and having absorbed knowledge from being around show business since childhood, with my father, who was a
Julliard-trained Broadway musician. I’ve also performed a one-woman show, having
turned myself into an online/offline cartoon girl of the New New York who took to the stage and became known as (((Futuregirl))), or the FutureG among some. With that adventure I pulled my
friends into my art project (those who were willing and surprisingly no one declined to be turned into a cartoon) by giving them cartoon ‘treatments’ and having
them come out for a party dressed in their self-created cartoon selves. It looks like I'm up to similar tricks here in London, and I'm really looking forward to being on stage with others this time.
No sparkly star studded cast and crew is complete without fans, so we’ve even got an entourage coming along, with the fabulous Miss Risk (Kate Risker) planning to attend, and others.
I’ve produced this Americana slapstick-style comedy, with a bit of old fashioned British pantomime influence that I hope will entertain London audiences. With this show, I’ve also unofficially anointed myself as being:
Having witnessed British people really
adore a bit of down-home American-style music and entertainment, when I
was
part of the Nativity Hoedown, I’ve decided to carry on with this theme,
presenting a bit of hilarity with my new cabaret act.
Made with inpsiration from: The Original Hee Haw! Television Show. View clips here:
For those of you who remember American sitcoms in the 1970s, you may recognized this performance is inspired (not at all copied as an fyi to any copyright cops reading this blog) by that popular show Hee Haw! that I watched often, while growing up with my family in America. Having lived here nearly four years now, at a time when my country is terribly unpopular, I'm inspired by the inevitable upcoming political change that will happen in November, and I'd like to be a little bit more courageous in offering up examples of the more positive things about America that I feel have been extremely overshadowed by these year's under an unacceptable presidential leadership in my country. So hee haw! for my America and hip hip hurray for whoever takes George Bush's place in November.
If the Hee Haw! Whore House is well-received with this performance, expect to see more hee hawing here in London in the future.
Practicing my hee haws for Sunday night,
-Lisa
Who’s Lisa Devaney?
I head the Hai Media Group, a multimedia communications company based in London, offering client’s traditional public relations, combined with new technology marketing strategies. I also perform, creating original Cabaret-style comedy skits for festivals, theatre and parties. Find out more about me, and the talented entrepreneurs I collaborate with, by visiting: www.haimediagroup.com
