Festival of Alternatives: Gigs, Music & Comedy


Gigs galore... Punk, Balkan & Roma music, Queer Cabaret, magic & comedy are some of the things we've got lined up.

See below for a list of gigs by date:

Saturday 13th April - Benefit gig for Mayday 2002

Chu Nah Mi ("7 piece ska ‘n’ roll, funkin’ dynamite") Headjam, Free State Prophets + Megabitch DJs.
8pm till 2am at Arsenal Tavern, 175 Blackstock Road, N4 (Arsenal, Finsbury Park tubes).
Entry 5 quid/3 quid concs.

Friday 26th April

Balkan/Roma gig featuring Tragic Roundabout, ROMANI RAD, Empty Hat Orchestra & Tarot Magik DJs.

The starting extravaganza of the Mayday Festival of Alternatives with food, visuals and dancers.
Follows a London-wide 'No Borders' themed Critical Mass bike ride (starts from Waterloo - 6pm)

Speakers and stalls by refugee support groups welcome (contact nlmaydayfestival@lycos.co.uk).

From 7.30pm till 1pm at Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, E8. Nearest train station: Homerton on Silverlink line (change at Highbury Islington)
Entry: 5 quid/3.50 quid cons (3 quid for Critical Mass peeps)

Saturday 27th April

The Mayfest Village Fayre!
The Fayre for Queers of all Sexualities - 7.30 - 1am

Venue: Chat's Palace, Brooksby's Walk, Homerton E9
Flaming Queers bring you the Mayfest Village Fayre - May Queens, fertility rites and sexy spring abandon! Join us for maypole dancing, apple bobbing, panata smashing, DJs, bawdy Mayfest cabaret and all the fun of the fayre.

Fancy Dress: lusty wenches, willing farm hands, virgins and fair maidens, Green men, village idiots, mayflies, shepherds and other country folk, or just dazzle us with your glamour and escape the small no-costume surcharge!

DJs confirmed: Megabitch, Offshore and SexyRubberSoles
Dancing: join in with maypole dancing, learn to dance the gay gordon. Can you be a caller?
Stalls: apple bobbing, cakes, kissing booth, brantub.
A Benefit to support future LaDiDah productions:
Free before 8pm, £4 concessions, £5 full price, with a £1 surcharge for anyone not making at least a gesture towards fancy dress. Attitude's more important than attire, of course.
For info./to offer a cabaret act: 07949 976 016

Sunday 28th April

Café in Social Centre - 7pm onwards.
phone: 07786 716 335 on Friday 26th April for details of venue.

Wednesday 1st May - Mayday

Comedy and Magic night.
featuring:
Rob Newman
Ian Cognito
Smile & Subvert
Tony Allen (compere).

a mad bad bunch of anarchist comix to help relieve the stress of the day!
With Vegan food available from the Emmaz cafe crew.

Venue: Chats Palace, 42 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, E8. Nearest train station: Homerton on Silverlink line.
£3.99 / £2.99 concs entry. (A benefit for Our Mayday)

Saturday 4th May

A political punk rock event
featuring:
Seein Red (legendary Dutch Hard core lefties of the DIY scene)
Whizzwood (Singalong angry punk stuff with humour from Hull)
Shakari (Noisey kids of Holland)
Freaks Union (more Hull based punk rock that rips and swings!)
Scalplock (London's grindcoredoomnoisemerchants).

£4 in 4 all!
An Active Event, Benefit for Emmaz Social Centre.
With Vegan food available from the Emmaz cafe crew.

Venue: Chats Palace, 44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, E5 Tel 0208 533 0227

Sunday 5th May

Bass-heavy punky reggae bash with the Restarts, Nomadix Roots, One Style + DJ Dave (Zion Train). The return of the local punk & roots warriors.

8pm till 2am at Arsenal Tavern, 175 Blackstock Road, N4 (Arsenal, Finsbury Park tubes.)
Entry: 5 quid/3.50 quid
Contact for gig: nlmaydayfestival@lycos.co.uk