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The Jeepers Peepers Club

Well that was fun.  Lola and myself decided to go out on Friday to see an exciting little burlesque troupe we’ve been hearing an awful lot about called The Jeepers Peepers Club.  They’re based in Newcastle, but have been starting to run nights in York recently, at The Junction.

After getting there a little bit on the early side, we had a couple of drinks while listening to the cheesecake rock n roll being played, and admired the transformation of The Junction into somewhat of a boudoir: table cloths, decorations, even a curtain around the stage.

At 9, the curtain opened as Sweetie Amour, dressed as a french maid, opened the proceedings.  After hyping the crowd for a bit, a job which she did brilliantly all evening, not once breaking from the french accent, she introduced Penny Whipworth, who performed an amusing skeleton themed striptease.  Penny’s act was pretty good, with regular “bone cracks” throughout, but I wasn’t entirely convinced by the routine.

The next act, however, completely blew me away.  Ava Loveless, who was apparently the new girl to the troupe, performed her Barbarella-esque “Saturn Rings” act, which consisted of her doing a striptease whilst hula hooping.  The climax was Ava managing to continue hula hooping whilst taking off her bra.  My own view is that this was the best thing I had ever seen, and it sounded like the audience agreed with me.

After a half hour break of more music, we were treated to Anna Fur Laxis‘ fish-based first act of the evening.  Managing to get off a sequined red dress, an Arabian princess outfit, and underwear in only a few minutes with the aid of some strategically placed hooks, Anna looks like she stepped directly out of a US pin-up poster.  That, combined with the suffocation based dance routine (to “Breathless”), she could easily be on stage with any of the top modern burlesque performers, so it’s a real pleasure to see her somewhere as small as The Junction.

Thankfully there’s more to come.  As soon as Anna’s finished, Chelsea Bangs comes on for her one performance of the evening, a Geisha-themed routine involving various oriental costumes, a parasol filled with rose petals, papers fans and throwing fortune cookies into the crowd.  Unfortunately, she couldn’t quite get the crowd behind her, as dazed as they were after Anna Fur Laxis’ performance, and as she only had the one performance of the evening it felt like she was a little bit wasted.

Certainly not wasted was Ava Loveless, who came on next with a brilliant “Hit The Road, Jack” routine based around her taking her clothes off to pack them in her suitcase.  A very simple routine, with the delicate twist at the end of her being covered in blood, having clearly murdered a man “what done her wrong”.  It probably requires a little bit of polish to get it as good as the Saturn Rings routine, but she’s hot enough to make up for it.

After the next break, we had another routine from Penny Whipworth.  Although she’s good, I was a little surprised that Penny had been chosen to be the second-to-last act on, given the comparative strength of Chelsea Bangs and Ava Loveless.  Her sweet-based routine, starting with an ice-cream inspired parasol and ending with pasties shaped like liquorice allsorts, was good, but I can’t see it as a second-to-last routine of the night.

Which certainly can’t be said for Anna Fur Laxis’ closing routine of the night.  She came on stage dressed as a member of the US Air Force, trapped behind enemy lines, and proceeded to strip down to her nipple tassles, at which point she commenced some tassle twirling that brought the house down: twirling both left, then both right, then both circling out, then both circling in.  The crowd was obviously aware of how difficult this is, as they were screaming at the top of their lungs.

After the obligatory final bow from all concerned, we had a little bit of a dance and headed off home.  It was a bit of a shame that the crowd was nowhere near as big as it should have been, but, even so, the Jeepers Peepers girls put on an excellent show, and a good night certainly appeared to be had by all.  So I hope to see you all there at the next one.

If, like me, you like porn, and if, like me, you like creating stuff, then you’ll love Belladonna’s guide to how to make your own porn.  And if you decide to make your own porn, let me know, and I’ll put it up on the site.

If you like M.I.A., if you like Tom Waits, or if you like the Wire, then you should check out M.I.A and Blaqstarr’s cover / mashup / whatever of Way Down In The Hole called Save Ur Soul.  The tune’s very much back on M.I.A.’s old-skool form, and the video cost less then $10 to make.

From M.I.A.’s myspace via PSFK

If you’re looking for a “thriller” this Halloween (cue: uprorious laughter), then you should check out this article by Violet Blue.  Don’t let your urge to wear a normal sexy costume like Supergirl take hold; be inspired to go beyond the traditional and be sexy zombie: the more decayed the better.  But remember, don’t bite off more than you can chew.

At least it’s better than this

For those of you who love Coco de Mer, pornography, and amusing pictures of yourself and others as much as I do, check out Coco’s new Private Poses feature.  If you go to the Coco de Mer shop in London, you can have a snap taken whilst trying on your sexiest new gear, send it to a friend, and upload it to the CdM website.  And we all get to watch.  Enjoy flicking through: the whole world really is here.

<From Violet Blue’s Open Source Sex>

For those of you who like both Peaches and the Muppets, we give you …

<found at Hear>You>Me>

For those of you who are not up to date with your web-based vlog-inspired horror cult things, be prepared for Zomblogalypse, the true story of three crazy kids trying to survive and not go weird in a world where zombies and hippie zombies have taken over.  It’s very lo-fi, but pretty well acted, so get along and check out Episode 1 (also on Youtube) before they’re killed.

(Full disclosure: Hannah, the weird one, is a long time friend)

This shit is amazing.  Coldcut played at the BBC Electric Proms this year following a panel discussion on the wonderfulness of the Radiophonic Workshop.  Although I didn’t managed to get to see them, the wonderfulness of Youtube has helped me yet again.  And now it helps you.

<From Create Digital Music>

“The land of most folks’ awareness is the Island of Mundania and the surrounding islands. Across the Straits of Fear is the portion of the continent that folks are generally aware of to some extent (gay sex, threesomes, light bondage, and so on). Beyond the Great Barrier Mountains and the Lesser Barrier Mountains, which demarcate the limits of common knowledge of different fetishes, lie the more exotic forms of sexual expression (natori, shibari, cosplay, fisting, puppy play, and so forth). In the frigid arctic wastes to the far north are those activities which only a very, very tiny percentage even of veteran, seasoned kinksters finds appealing (nullification, erotic cannibalism, necrophilia, and that sort of thing).”

Franklin Veaux has just released his version of the famous fetish map by Katherine Gates, and, most excitingly, he’s done it as a real map.  So you can spend your time fantasising about travelling the Bondage Tape lands, crossing the Great Barrier Mountains into the Kingdom of Stocks and Benches, like a sexy Lord of the Rings.  Check out the map here.