Sunday July 09, 2006
Rio Carnival is upon us but this time in Hackney!
This is your last chance to join festivities provided by undisputed masters of provocative glamour and eccentric entertainment: www.lostvagueness.com pack.
As part of the Spice Festival they will be hosting a carnival themed night at the Hackney Empire on Friday 14 July. This promises to be a spice infused night, with a heady mixture of live bands and intoxicating cabaret.
Dress for Rio and dance your way into a wired world of gravity defying aerialists, top bands, circus oddities, lovely ladies and dapper gents. Dust off your throw-back slacks, unpack your fancy hats, step into your dancing shoes and await a night like no other.
The program of entertainment, running from 10pm until 3pm, will begin in the streets, a la Hackney Mardi Gras, with an almighty sound clash between the thirty-two piece Carnival Collective and the fourteen piece Balkan Brass Band Orkestra Du Sol. These two huge bands will join forces in Town Hall Square and parade into Hackney Empire to battle it out.
Then the night will go on to feature: Cosmics (ska supergroup, original members of Lee Scratch Perry’s band); Stamford Hill Gun Club (DJ set), playing a sexy mix of Brazilian beats and accompanied by an inverted guitar player hanging from the ceiling; Divine Acts, a Hackney based dance group featuring ballet dancing stilt walkers; Layla Rosa (Shunt trapeze performer); Flybionic, a triple rope routine in homage to Dolly Parton; and a festival finale from Russ Jones, world music DJ legend.
The seating will be taken out of the auditorium to transform it into an 800 capacity dance venue. And being Lost Vagueness, the night offers blackjack and roulette for fun in The Casino - an elite den accessible only to those in evening wear.
Leila Jones, co-producer of Lost Vagueness, comments: ‘It’s spicy, it’s Brazilian, it’s crazy, it’s carnival, it’s a wonderful mixture of music and performers and, like the rest of the Spice Festival, it celebrates Hackney. We’re looking forward to a hot, hot night.”
All guests are required to come dressed to the bananas. This is carnival.
Please note that because of space restrictions, there will be no Changing Room at this event.
Tickets cost £15 (concessions £12) plus booking fee from the Hackney
Empire box office on 020 8985 2424 or at www.spicefestival.com
The next Lost Vagueness event will be the Glorious Twelfth Hunting Party at the Coronet, Elephant & Castle, London on 12th August 2006.
www.lostvagueness.com
“The Spice Festival is a two week event, 9 – 12 July, 2006, celebrating the diverse talent and culture of Hackney and the East End. It is an independently produced festival. All events feature artists based in Hackney and it is promoted and organised by people living and working the borough. It’s a bit like a farmer’s market of culture – local produce that’s tasty and good for you. The fourteen day festival will feature over sixty events, in twelve venues, spanning the genres of music, art, comedy, drama, fashion, film, clubbing, literature, food,
cabaret, puppetry and dance.
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