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.
To celebrate the affliation to the GMB, the International Union of
Sex Workers presents:
Bands, performers, DJ's & visuals.
Dress code: Fetish, body paint, carnival, masquerade or any pagan godess.
Venue: The Fringe, 330 Kennington Lane, London SE11, 9pm til late.
Entry £5.
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)
Mayday Madness: Save Spitalfields Market.
Spitalfields Market Under Threat (SMUT) & the 333 Club present:
A benefit night hosted by The Pineapple Boys, with suave surf sounds
of The Bikini Beach Band, latin inuendo of Cuban funkistadors Y-ya, &
retro latino tonemeister DJ Bakan, while Budgie & guests bring on
the funk & break beats.
9.30 - 2am, Entry £8.
333 Club, 333 Old Street, EC1
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