28 posts tagged “entertainment”
My comedy cabaret show the House of Hee Haw! will be back on stage this coming Friday, July 4th, to celebrate:
The event will be a lively celebration of Americana-style music, and a DJ spinning souful favourites, along with rock and some cowboy country music. Our growing cast of hillbillies is proud to be part of the new London country rocker club night Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock n Roll. We'll be hee hawing it up alongside a fantastic line-up of live music, and even Cheerleaders! from the dance troupe Cheer-A-Go-Go.
**Download your flyer here and bring it along to claim your
This party is going to be country fried finger-liking good fun.
*And I bet a £1 that everyone will be hee hawing it up all night. No party poopers welcome, this is dance all night, sing all night wild and wacky fun.
***Please note, the artists request that you please leave your hat at the door, following pretend cowboy, cowgirl and hillbilly fun times at the party -- so we can use the hats the next time!
AMERICAN
CO-(IN)DEPENDENCE DAY
FOURTH OF JULY
CELEBRATIONS!
Featuring...
♥♥♥ Cheer-A-Go-Go! ♥♥♥
(Hillbilly
Comedy Cabaret)
♫♫♪♫♪ HellzaPoppin’ ♫♫♪♫♪
(Rockin’ Stray
Cat-Style Trio)
London debut of:
♫♫♪♫♪ The
WildCat Tamers ♫♫♪♫♪
(Country,Soul,Rock’n’Roll)
♫♫♪♫♪ DJ Jon the Boatman ♫♫♪♫♪
& Surprise Special Guests
Barbecue & Grill. Very Reasonable Bar Prices
Friday 4th July 2008. Doors 8 ‘til late. £6/£5 concs.
Inn On the Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, Portobello Green, London W10 5XL.
1 minute
walk from Ladbroke Grove Tube Tel: 0208 962 5757 www.iotg.co.uk
www.myspace.com/littlebitcountryuk
red, the white and the blue -
- of both countries!!
-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
Coming up this July 2-3 in London is a new event called 2gether08 that is being organized summer-festival style, combining the best of conference, with a bit of Festival fun mixed in. Check out what’s happening here:
2gether08 is brought to you by the innovative UK broadcaster Channel 4.
***Early Bird Discount Passes Available Now***
You’ve got until this Monday, 16th June, to
get an early bird discount for passes.
Register here: http://www.2gether08.eventbrite.com/
Come along and help...
Solve Bigger Problems at 2gether08
On offer are two days and nights of talks, workshops, debates, interviews, parties, awards and some surprises. More than 300 people from throughout London’s creative industries are planning to attend and the speaker line-up includes politicians, writers, a philosopher, economists, entrepreneurs, technologists, scientists and more to soon be announced. See the who’s who list of speakers here http://2gether08.com/programme/
Among attendants you’ll find many of London’s top influential creatives from new technology, business, media, art and entertainment, all gathering to hammer out new ideas, along with a few positive action steps that can be taken to make the world a better place. I’m hoping that this is going to be similar to what happens, when ideas get started, and spreading at TED talks.
2gether08 is a Grassroots, DIY, Co-Created, People-Powered Festival of Ideas
Most inspiring is how 2gether08 is being organized, with the active participation of those attending. Invitations and calls for ideas went out among London’s creative entrepreneurial community to begin shaping the agenda for what 2gether08 will tackle, and topic discussions will cover every subject from climate change to international relations to community issues. At the heart of the concept is a focus surrounding how new technology can propel social change, and it is social networking that has been shaping out 2gether08 across London.
I can report that the organizers are listening, with about 100 workshops being organized for attendants, by attendants.
My agency Hai Media Group is proud to be among the supporters of 2gether08.
We are helping out the organizers with PR support, if you have queries about press passes, please contact me. Download the 2gether08 Event Alert here:
**If you have a blog, or Twitter, or know someone who does,
please post news about this event, and help get the ideas going.
I’ll be blogging about what ideas emerge from 2gether08, and
if you have any pressing topics that you’d like to see guest’s put
their heads
together on, I’m interested to hear your thoughts, so please leave a
comment
about what is happening in your part of the world that needs attention.
You are welcome to contact me here, or email me at info [at]
haimediagroup [dot] com
Helping out to solve bigger problems with 2gether08,
-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
Well last Friday night my performance art group helped a great bunch of folks kick-off a new club night here in London called Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock n Roll, an evening presented by artist and musician Cheyne Pride, who, if you remember the 80s, had a hit dance track called Call Me Mr. Telephone.
As part of my hillbilly comedy cabaret art, I wrote new material to present an evening performance featuring my Hee Haw! House.
The audience laughed out loud over the show, featuring a cast of characters who went at it SMACK-down style in cabaret wrestling! I loved the mash-up style of the evening that mixed country rock lovers with British punk rock lovers and a lot of other pop cultural influences inbetween. We teamed up with Cheer-A-Go-Go to energize the audience for the evening, and get them ready for the fantastic headliner band JC & The Disciples, formed by a couple of legends from the original London punk rock scene.
Check out a few of my favourite photos from the night, here:
Folks liked it so much that we've been invited back for more, and are now invovled with helping the organizers get ready for a big bash here in London celebrating the Fourth of July! If you are in London, please mark your calendar and I hope ya'll can come on out and join us at Inn On the Green in Ladbroke Grove on Friday, July 4th!
-Lisa
PPS: Hey, do you want to be part of our urban hillbilly fun? We are looking for all kinds of artistic collaborators for this adventure. If you can do things like play a washboard, harmonica, banjo, pots 'n pans, jews harp, square dance call, line dance, or whatever you think an urban hillbilly might get up to -- please get in touch with me! Drop me a note here on my Vox blog, or email me: info [at] haimediagroup [dot] com
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
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
What will Boris do?
Many Londoners are wondering the same thing I am, for better, for worse, for whatever. Boris Johnson is our new Mayor, and I’m looking forward to watching these things unfold, living under this new leadership:
Buffoonery
There is going to be a lot of it, and I get the feeling that Boris, in addition to outsourcing his entire professional team, is also recruiting a top comedy performance coach to keep his public laughing, as we get dragged along for this ride.
Comedy Sketch Shows
Can’t WAIT to see what the top British comedy talent comes up with. Will Matt Lucas step up to the plate on this one? There is plenty of material for him already.
Fancy Dress
Festival season, fancy dress parties (hey Americans, that means costume party) and club nights are going to be sprinkled with Boris look-a-likes. I suspect the fancy dress shops are now stocking up on floppy blonde haired wigs. Better get my order in.
Documentaries
I suspect that brainstorming is now in progress among Channel
4’s Dispatches, the BBC’s Panorama and all the other fantastic British documentary producers, who are planning for the
next investigative piece about how and why Boris Johnson won the London Mayoral
election. I’m looking forward to some hilarious ‘docudrama’ about the subject,
and wondering who will be cast as the lead role for...Boris the West End Musical, or for Boris the Movie? Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis could dye his mop blonde, gain weight, and give a fantastic OTT moving performance, something he is great at, as a bonified card-carrying member of the Overactors Annoynmous. He won't take the gig though, as for him to play Boris, it would require him to do some actual acting.
Virals
I’m already seeing some citizen-created viral campaigns appear in response to this election, such as the folks over at I Didn’t Vote For Boris, who invite non-Boris voting Londoners to tag a photo with ididntvoteforboris and add it to the Flickrstream. The conservative viral online campaign viral Boriswatch, has had its day, and now I’m looking forward to other Citizen Journalist reports, such as the eye view of Sunny Hundal, from the frontlines of what may be a new sport in London of Boris Watching. Clearly with 2,000+ already signed up to the Facebook group, it will be a popular activity here.
Celebrity Commentary
Some have already spoken their mind, and I’m watching to see what others have to say, on both sides, in what is going to be endless payday for the tabloids, paparazzi and other media types who feed on electric headlines. Here’s a few A-Lister comments I’ve enjoyed, and thanks to Devious Diva for compiling many more:
“Boris has as little knowledge of multiculturalism as I have of life on Jupiter. He used to go to this club in Oxford called the Bullingdon Club, full of snobs and creative conmen. The man has not only no physical ability to run anything, he is immoral and a bully. Boris as mayor would be like discovering you had piles and there was no cure for it.”
“In Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, there is a scene where a character is talking
about another who is a card player and he’s described as ‘a fucking liability’. That’s my idea of Boris. The mouth engages before the mind does. He doesn’t have any sense of diplomacy or tact. London is a cosmopolitan city. You can’t have someone who makes quotes like that [Johnson’s “piccaninnies” comment] representing London, regardless of the fact it was in the past [Johnson wrote the comment in 2002]. Of all the things people say about Ken, in my view he’s done a lot for London. When you go into the city it looks like a European capital now with all the regeneration, and it didn’t before. Trafalgar Square is a much more welcoming place.”
David Mitchell
Comedian, Peep Show
“Boris is mad. He wants to bring back bus conductors, but that’s never going to happen. I think he talks rubbish. He’s
out of touch and he doesn’t understand Londoners. People say Ken is obnoxious, but what can you do? One thing about him is he knows London.”
Charlie Brooker
Guardian columnist and Television Presenter
Thanks to this election result, I’ve now got a powerful
retort to the next Brit who blames me for the conservative politics of George
Bush, because clearly it can happen here as well, and I will not be surprised if David Cameron is this country's next Prime Minister.
I’m watching Boris,
-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
Looking forward to a night learning about tantra, viewing adventures in India & partying with the real life
Tantric Tourists, for the World Premiere of this new British indie film: headlining London's East End Film Festival.
Tantric Tourists is a spiritual journey similar in style to the cult film classic Spinal Tap. The difference is that Tantric Tourists is a real travel adventure, about real people who seek the real India. This is the hotly anticipated
Director Alexander Snelling & Producer Kirsty Allison
Tantric Tourists is
narrated by
Steven Berkoff
*Don't lose your ticket to tonight's screening, it is also your pass to the after party featuring FERAL (from Cantankerous), BISHI, THE JUNKETTES, and secret guests.
My Personal Thanks For This Experience
In follow-up from Friday's Tantric Tourists film premiere, I'm happy to report that the evening was an outstanding success and the filmmakers are receiving a lot of positive response. I am personally very proud to be able to have supported the filmmakers at their premiere, on behalf of my agency the Hai Media Group, and have included a few extras here on my personal blog to share with my Vox neighbors, and whoever else stumbles by to read about Tantric Tourists, that I think are collectible gems from the very beginning of something that is awfully special. These are items that I feel are little pieces of the start of a terrific art, technology and cultural project at the very early days of its emergence. The official Tantric Tourists website will soon provide a resource center and house all of the information and goodies that will be shared about the film moving forward, so please check on over at www.tantrictourists.com for updates and resources.
Please note that I do not speak for Slack Alice Films, and the opinions and information I share on this blog are my own, and I invite anyone with interest in this film to get in touch with the filmmakers directly. Director Alexander Snelling and Producer Kirsty Allsion, are approchable and happy to talk about Tantric Tourists directly, schedules allowing. My contribution here was to simply put my agency's experience and talent behind this debut, and offer counsel to the filmmakers, both along the way, from time to time, in this feature's production, and over these last three weeks. Yes, that is correct -- you read that correctly -- three weeks! Tantric Tourists received word less than a month ago, that the film was accepted into the East End Film Festival, and that it would also be one of the featured screenings. The filmmakers contacted me, along with other key partners they have supporting this project, and the team has been working 'fast and furiously' to make sure London film lovers knew about this opportunity to view Tantric Tourists, got their tickets and marked it on their calendars as a 'must attend' evening -- prior to anyone else in the world. Those invovled behind-the-scenes of this launch have put a lot their own time and energy toward making the premiere a special night for Londoners to remember. Those in attendance were very fortunate to experience this visually spectacular journey th