Rip Roaring Twenties Night

28th of April











Myself and the lovely Sukki Singapora hosted another great night together.
Photos are to come soon of course, and this time....Video as well! filmed by the awesome Carl Whitely.
It was an absolute pleasure to share the stage with all our acts, each one of them was a delight on and off stage, couldn't have hoped for a better line up. Just in case you can't see clearly on pic the line up went a little something like this:

STARRING:
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DIVA HOLLYWOOD
One of The World's Top 100 Burlesque Performers!

SUKKI SINGAPORA
Multinational Burlesque Newcomer and Sensation!

SWEET CHERRY KISS
Actress, Vocalist and Star of Cherry Kiss Kabaret!

AMELIA VALENTINE
Star of the World Class Blind Tiger Burlesque!

BEXI OWEN
Jazz, Blues and Swing Singing Starlett!

RED REDMOND
One of the UK's Top Comedians, and Host for the Night!

**Our night even had a VIP GUEST it was Salford's very own super hero, Knight Warrior. Who even gave our compere Red a deomonstration of his crime fighting abilities, check out the video on youtube:                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXzD9I8tDz8

26th of November

Found myself covering for Sukki at a private 40th Birthday party.

My first private gig without being part of a troupe, somewhat nervous en route, but soon put at ease. The party was held at a lovely home; professional pianist playing, catering staff mingling amongst the crowd, bar men spinning and catching cocktail shakers and myself as the entertainment.

Performed the balloon pop and feather fan dance as Sukki mentioned they wanted traditional burlesque, went down well and definitely livened up the atmosphere of the party.

Still in a slight funk about performing, really wish my pac-man and little red costumes hadn't gone missing this year, really miss my silk fans.

Blazing Burlesque

5th of November saw myself Sweet Cherry Kiss and the sublime Sukki Singapora combine forces to create the sell out show, Blazing Burlesque!





The night was held to raise money for Breast Cancer Research and with the help of a raffle and audience collection we rasied £185.50 for the charity. Apparantly the people in the chairity office had a week long giggle over the names Sweet Cherry Kiss and Sukki Singapora, oh well we had an amazing night and raised a nice amount of money for them!

Sweet Cherry Kiss

Sukki Singapora

This evening was the debut of my feather fan dancing, they were so much fun to play with! A dream to dance with, much thanks to Luli Blue for making them. It was also the debut of Sukki's Bollywood inspired palm laves fan dance and with Bonnie's silk fans we had quite the array of different fan dances for the audience to enjoy!

Myself and Sukki acted as hosts for the evening and were joined by several very talented acts who helped make our night extra special. Red Redmond was a great compere, bright, friendly, very engaging with the crowd, even allowing an audience member trained in MMA to show off a spectacular body slam using himself, Red was sent somersaulting through the air!
Bella Von Kiss captivated the audience with two very well suited ballads for the show, even sending a collection through the audience to help boost our fund-raising.

Burlesque, Bonnie Petite

Bonnie Petite jumped in to cover for another act who due to travel emergencies couldn't attend the night. She was a star! Her routine was definitely fiery, she was a delight to have in our show.

Compere, Red Redmond

Singer, Bella Von Kiss

Duncan Oakley

And our headline act was no other than the amazingness that is, Duncan Oakley. His highly energetic ranting, amazing comedic abilities and musical funness was a great round off to the night, left everyone with a smile on their faces.



Was great to see a few loyal fans at the gig and friends who travelled aways to be there, made the night even more memorable.
Thank-you so much to all who supported this event by attending and giving to the chairty.

Massive Thank-you to Sukki, Dave and Duncan, who without this event would not have happened.

Cherry Kiss Kabaret!

Cant believe I forgot to blog about this!

Stand Up comedian Chris Brooker was an amazing compere for the event.  Brooker was hilarious, much loved by the audience and great to have involved, hope to work with him again in the future.

The lovely Lisa from the Laugh Inn came over from Chester to perform with us and the glamorous Kitty Cointreau performed an amazing routine, glitter and sublime feather fans. There was also live music from Louise Johnstone and her band and also the wonderful Voice Collective.

A massive Thank-You to all who were involved and came to watch and support it was a great night.

Cheers to the  Not Part of Festival for their support and advice in putting on an event for their festival.

Photographs by Gavin McQuarrie
http://gavinmcquarrie.webs.com

End of the Summer

Been a tiring summer, commitments to a play and helping out in Edinburgh.

In the chaos of moving house twice, bipping around the country performing I have lost my Pac Man Bra and Silk fans! and the whole of my Little Red Costume.
Sad days for Sweet Cherry Kiss.

Have been made happier though, by seeing lots of talented acts at Kitty Cointreau's BraHaHa this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe and seeing the girls of Chester's the Laugh Inn perform several times.

Very excited with my new props! Gorgeous red and purple feather fans, made by the beautiful Luli Blue, during the workshop with Luli I had loads of fun, she was an amazing teacher and made the fans herself, could not be happier with them!

Lovely Duncan took some amazing pics of me with my new fans, will have to post them soon!

New Routine

Biffy Clyro: Bubbles

Traditional Balloon pop, but, balloons are on a boa. Allows me to dance with them, create great big shapes on stage. Love it!
Best part Balloons are filled with glitter, theyre almost alive, make each performance slightly different.

Glitter Kittens at Joshua Brooks

 

Next Show this Friday, some new routines to test out hopefully.