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Tuesday 30th June
CLOSE-UP FILM PROGRAM at THE WORKING MENS
Ticket: £5/ FREE FOR CLOSE-UP MEMBERS
DOORS 7:45PM / FILM 8:00PM
CLOSE-UP ON JOHN CASSAVETES
“Close-Up on…” is a new series of programs focusing on the work of some of the most important directors throughout the history of cinema. Close-Up is delighted to present five films by director John Cassavetes.
Often hailed as the father of American independent film, John Cassavetes’ maverick approach to film-making captured some of the most honest and genuinely moving portrayals of human emotion ever committed to film. The five films included over the next month represent his self-financed works made outside of the studio system of Hollywood, for which he was afforded complete control.
Populated by beatniks, hippies, businessmen, actors, housewives, strippers, club owners, gangsters and children, the films are beautiful, emotional testaments to compassion.
Directed by John Cassavetes
1977 | USA | 138 mins | Colour
Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life. Featuring a moving performance by Rowlands (and with some scenes shot on stages with live audiences reacting freely to the writing and performing), John Cassavetes’ Opening Night exposes the drama of an actress who at great personal cost makes a part her own.
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Thursday 2nd July
Myra Dubois
*** SOIREE ***
£10 / £8 advance / 9pm-1am
An evening of pretentious performance and intimate Kabarett...
The Hostess is a drunk,The DJ is homosexual,The Maid can't speak,and the Pianist plays.This is Soirée
Finger in the Pie Cabaret and Myra DuBois bring back the spirit of the Working Men's Club. With no room for Jane McDonald and Bingo: this is education through entertainment for the working classes. Do not be a voyeur to art. Participate, educate, and other such things worthy of an Arts Council grant. With monthly guest acts, show tunes, live art classes and chit-chat from Myra DuBois. We provide you with an evening of educational cabaret, music and dancing.
Regular performers include
house maid Violette Crumble,
Sarah Bodalbhai on piano,
Chairman David Robson monitoring the soundtrack and showtunes,
life art classes and chit-chat from hostess Myra DuBois.
The celebrated
Michael Twaits
joins us to emote his little heart out on stage.
Michael Twaits is a performance artist, actor and writer. His work focuses on combining live art, cabaret and theatre.
‘Sheer force of personality. He is an engaging and engaged presence’ - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
‘A great promise for the future of queer theatre’ - The Stage
plus;
Miss Annabel Sings...
the dark chanteuse of the London performance scene.
A little bit cabaret... A little bit performance art... A little bit of a show off... A little bit shy...
The surreal 'she-half' of Pustra Vile-een, Miss Annabel shall be channelling Edith Piaf.
If the technology works.
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Thursday 2nd July
SMACK YO BEACH UP!
The Seaside Extravaganza
Doors open 7.30pm - £5 advance / £7 on the door.
please e-mail me at lindsay_sharman@yahoo.co.uk or onedollaral@hotmail.com.
A Seaside Extravaganza!
An End-o-Pier Party!
We're bringing the glitzy-ritzy tack-o-rama of the British Holiday Experience to Bethnal Green!
Why get on a plane this summer, or even worse, visit some recession-raped British seaside resort,
when you can get a distilled version of the whole sordid experience
in a Working Mens Club in East London??
Hold onto your hankies folks, it’s a night of….
* Briny stand-up comedy *
harking back to the vicious misogyny and jovial racism of traditional end o' pier humour!
(* Not really. That wouldn't be nice. In fact, we even have female comics. Fancy!)
* A Red Coat holiday rep *
to guide you through the experience!
* Live music! *
All the classics! Reach for those Stars, my friends!
* A genuine fortune teller *
who will curse your babies!
(This happened to me once, in Leicester Square. Horrible it was. Just because I didn't want her bloody heather. Mad old bitch.)
* Balloon animals *
Really!
* Angry Spanish policemen! *
Oooh, I trust that’s not a nun’s outfit sirrah?
* Cocktails! *
Sex on the Beach? I should co-co!
* Karaoke! *
Are you weeping yet? You will be!
So book now! Regret later!
To book, please e-mail lindsay_sharman@yahoo.co.uk
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Friday 3rd July
PAUL KAYE'S
cLUB fOR ZerOs
£7 with Flyer(or printoff) £10 on door / 9pm-2am
WARNING:This night contains Adult material
Starring Paul Kaye’s latest comedy incarnation
“Mike Strutter”
he's a bad tempered, bad mouthed, bad man
(as seen on The Russell Brand Show)
A night of excessive stimulation… for pimps and punks at heart
Headliners:
chaos-makers...
‘The Mike Strutter Group’
Witnessing The Mike Strutter Group is as close as you’re gonna get to being stoned and sticky down the front of CBGB’s, NYC, circa 1975.
Mike Strutter is an electrifying performer; he's a child of the 60’s but a bastard of the ‘70’s, a cocksucker in the ‘90’s, and a full blown motherfucker in whatever the fuck the decade it is now.
Mike Strutter Group is the cure to make you pure.
The group features Paul Kaye (ex-Dennis Pennis), Paul Jones (ex-Elastica) and Louis Jones (the Warm Jets).
"The Birthday Party meets the Dead Boys, this is punk cabaret at its hilarious and exhilarating best” NME
"Strutter is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen man" Dizzie Rascal
"Mike Strutter is staggeringly offensive.......and we LOVE him for it!'' Daily Mirror
"Strutter is my fucking hero!" Joe Calzaghe
Plus Mike’s hand picked ,special guests,
Steve Oram & Tom Meeten (from Club Fantastico)
Oram & Meeten are an inventive double act that perform a unique blend of stand up, strange characters and catchy music. Their comedy has been described as surreal, original and imaginative yet firmly rooted in reality.As well as their TV work with everyone from Steve Coogan to the Mighty Boosh, Tom and Steve have written and performed sell out shows at the Edinburgh Festival for the past three years.
"thoroughly irresistible" - The Times
"proof positive that the UK makes the world's most gloriously strange comedy programmes. Bold and brilliant stuff." - Maxim
"breathtaking and imaginative …clever and dynamic as well as incredibly funny…gifted" - The List
PLUS:
*** KIRIA ***
AND VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
Filthy music to Die for:
NON - STOP, all night long from...
Martin Green
Mixing rock, roll, soul and a fabulous rare vinyl collection:
UNTIL YOU CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE.
DrEss UP To mEss uP!
ATTENTION:
Save yourselves £3 and print off the picture above- don't forget to bring it with you!
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Saturday 4th July
Grind A Go-Go
£8 / 9:00PM-2:00AM
An evening of 60s garage, lounge & sleaze, dance routine ditties & novelty songs......Go Go dancers, Live Music, sexploitation clips, tv monitors, revolving stage, dance floor Go Go podiums & more....
FEATURING...
TRIXIE MALICIOUS & FANCY CHANCE!
with some delinquent 60s striptease!
OMGIMY's tassled GO GO GIRLS!
WAY OUT HOOPS FROM
AMBER TANSIE
WITH A WILD 60s HULA HOOP SPECTACLE!!!
Shake down to resident DJ Dead & The Showboats playing a mixture of Novelty Rock 'n' Roll, 60's garage, kitsch classics, sock hop dance routine ditties & novelty pop...
Dress like a hair hopper!
Beehives, saddle shoes, greasers, buxotics, fast pussycats, supervixens, biker gangs, drainpipe suits, teenage dolls, runaround sues, Glitz, Snow,mini dresses, frills, Tassels, Mink Stole, John waters, Divine, Russ Meyer, velvet suits, gameshow hosts, radio stars, dance offs, Hairspray, side partings... winklepickers......
take a sneaky peek...
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