Forthcoming Events
David Saxbys Children in Tweed Benefit
Friday 12th June
8pm–2am
Aragon House, 246 New Kings Road, Parsons Green, London
SW6 4XG
Tickets: 10 in advance from Old Hat, 66 Fulham High
Street (020 7610 6558) or on the door by prior arrangement
The night features the Jazz Cannons eight-piece band
and presumably David himself crooning along. Im not sure whether he is
seriously depicting Children in Tweed as a charity but itll to be a sterling
night out either way. Facebook event here.
NSC Film Night
Thursday 18th June
6pm-12am
The Geography Room, The William IV, 7 Shepherdess
Walk London, N1 7QE
Admission: Free, though youll have to pay for your own
food and drink
Miss Suzi Livingstone will treat us to a screening of
the 1970s documentary Grey
Gardens, about two women, a socialite
mother and her daughter, both named Edith Beale, living in a dilapidated
mansion in East Hampton, New York. The World Film Academy has ranked it the
second best documentary of the Twentieth Century.
The
venue is a stylish gastro pub and we have the upstairs room to ourselves. They
serve hearty ales and fine food and wine and weve got the place till midnight.
The Furbelows at The Water Rats
Wednesday 24th June
Doors 7.30pm; The Furbelows 8.15pm
Monto Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross,
London WC1X 8BZ
Admission: 6
The Furbelows, that band of musical
japesters consisting mostly of NSC Members (and also perpetrators of the Cirque
de Crme Anglaise—see page 8) are playing at rather a significant venue.
Theyre on first, supporting Kazz Kumar (who is best known as part of
Bhangra/hip-hop collective the Sona Family but has now launched her own
pop-rock band), fresh from the Radio One Big Weekend, plus indie janglists The
Dead Roads. Nothing very Chappist about any of this, I admit, but if youve
ever considered coming to a Furbelows recital this would be a good choice, not
least because the promoters Sauron-like eye will be on the band to assess
their, ahem, following.
Jive Joint Sunday Swing Dance
Sunday 28th June
2–5pm
The Rose
Theatre, 24–26 High Street, Kingston, London KT1 1HL
Admission: Free
I know little about this event but it comes
recommended by Ardbracchan. The discs are being spun by international DJ John Vassallo.
NSC Club Night
Wednesday 1st July
8pm-11pm
Upstairs, The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1T
1JB
Members: Free
Non-Members: 2 (first visit free)
Mr Robin Johnson and his troupe of
thespians will tantalise us with the first scene of their one-act play Broken Holmes, a parodic poke at Holmes and Watson. They will be
taking the show to Edinburgh the next month and will be passing round a hat to
help gather the necessary funds.
The New Sheridan Club presents its Summer Party
Tempting Fte
Saturday 4th July
7pm-1am
The City Tavern, 29 Lawrence Lane, London, EC2V 8DP
Members: Free
Non-Members: 5, but this may be offset against Membership
if you join on the night
Stroll with us through a
traditional English country fte—tombolas and lucky dips, cheese-rolling
and prize vegetables, maypoles and bunting, Green Men,
guess-the-weight-of-the-cake and, of course, the church roof fund. From the
opening of the fte by the vicar, to the squires evening sherry party, youll
find an idyllic English summers day here (if not outside, where there will
doubtless be a hailstorm).
As usual there will be
performers, games and silly things to do. More details to come, but I can
confirm that we will be entertained by the seemly yet foot-stomping sounds of Mr B. the Gentleman Rhymer,
a demonstration of the Victorian walking-stick martial art of Bartitsu, plus a
live broadcast by the Fitzrovia Radio
Hour.
There
will be competitions for precision cheese-rolling, turnip jousting and guessing
the weight of a cake. There will be a tombola with suitably lame prizes and a
prize for the most impressive vegetable brought along by a guest. And maybe
something to do with identifying silhouettes of cows. And of course there will
be the Grand Raffle, entry to which is free but to Members only, including any
who join on the night. A list of the prizes will be coming soon.
The
venue is very central, just a few minutes walk from Bank underground station.
Smokers will be pleased to hear it has an outside decked area, which is also
sheltered by awnings in the event of the inevitable downpour. The inside has
the feel of a 1920s country manor. We shall be decking the halls with flowers
and bunting and hope to install a maypole too.
There will be a menu of hearty traditional dishes with which
to line your stomach before hitting the cider and mead.
I
should point of that the arrangements are by no means set in stone, so if you
have any ideas or suggestions, wish to offer your services or perhaps donate a
Grand Raffle prize or a pig for which comers must attempt to climb a greasy
pole then please get in touch.
Tricity Vogue and the Lost Band
Tuesday 7th July
Doors 6.15pm, show 8pm
Volupt, 9 Norwich St, London EC4A 1EJ
Admission: seated 10 (dining optional), standing 5
The cheeky songstress dubbed by Time Out mistress of
the ukulele has a new show in which she attempts to fashion a band for herself
from the audience. (Something tells me she may have seeded musos among the
crowd, but who knows?) Saucy
songs and a splash of burlesque. See www.tricityvogue.comand
www.volupte-lounge.com.
The Chap Olympics
Saturday 11th July
Some time in the afternoon, Ill warrant. Say, 1-2ish?
Bedford Square Gardens, Bedford Square, London W1
Admission: Has always been free in the past
The annual trial of Chappist prowess returns. Last year,
following the loss of the lucrative sponsorship by Hendricks, the event adopted
a low-key tone and moved to a mysterious clearing on Hampstead Heath. This
year, however, thanks to a sponsorship arrangement with the nearby bar, Bourne
&Hollingsworth, the Olympics is back at Bedford Square Gardens. And because
it is no longer beholden to one beverage brand I believe there will be a wider
choice of refreshments and even some victuals..? For more details of this
pivotal event in the Chappist calendar, see here.
NSC Club Night
Wednesday 5th August
8pm-11pm
Upstairs, The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1T
1JB
Members: Free
Non-Members: 2 (first visit free)
Lord Rupert will chill our spines
and outrage our sensibilities with a louche squint at Sir Francis Dashwood
and the Hell Fire Club.
The
Furbelows Present
Cirque de Crme Anglaise
Friday 21st August
7.30pm–2am
The Cross
Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX (Kings Cross rail and tube)
Admission: 5
This quarterly musical extravaganza, perpetrated by
The Furbelows, the beat combo that counts among its numbers NSC Members Mr
Clayton Hartley, Mr Neil McKeown and (some of the time) Miss Tabitha
Maynard-Addersley, reaches its first birthday. As ever, the tone of the evening
is dark humour, theatricality, cabaret swagger and vaudevillean vamp. In
addition to The Furbelows themselves we have headliners the David Goo Variety
Band (whom you may have unwittingly heard recently as a tune of theirs featured
on a television advertisement for a building society), an act thats difficult
to describe—theres quite a variety in what they do, taking in acoustic
strumming and klezmer/punk knees-ups. Think of a folky Frank Zappa and youre
not far off. Also on the bill is Android Angel (not the name his parents gave
him, Ill warrant) an extraordinary one-man band who uses looping pedals, bell
trees, maracas, synth drones and a guitar to create a sound not dissimilar to
Lemonjelly.
All
this and you get a free limited edition badge too! And free custard creams!
The venue is jolly and friendly and they do good,
reasonably-priced food too.
NSC Club Night
Wednesday 2nd September
8pm-11pm
Upstairs, The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1T
1JB
Members: Free
Non-Members: 2 (first visit free)
Guest speaker Mr David Waller will
warm our cockles with a rummage through the little-known life of The
Magnificent Mrs Tennant. Gertrude Tennant
came to prominence as a widow later in life, through the literary and political
salon she established at her home in Whitehall—habitus included Gladstone and Balfour, Mark Twain, Thomas
Huxley, Millais, Henry James, Browning, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde and Victor
Hugo. She was apparently the only person on the planet of whom the explorer
Henry Morton Stanley was afraid. She was also a lifelong friend of Gustave
Flaubert and Mr Waller has just published a book based on a previously unknown
cache of letters between the two, found in a farmhouse attic.
Goodwood Revival
Friday 18th to Sunday 20th September
Goodwood House, Goodwood, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0PX
Admission: From 33 for a day; from 103 for the whole
weekend.
The Goodwood Revival is the worlds most popular
historic motor race meeting and the only event of its kind to be staged in the
romantic time capsule of the Fifties and Sixties. As well as recreating the
golden era of motor sport, the Revival offers exceptional wheel-to-wheel racing
around a classic circuit, untouched by the modern world.
The
Revival relives the glory days of Goodwood Motor Circuit, which ranked
alongside Silverstone as Britains leading racing venue throughout its active
years between 1948 and 1966. During this time, it hosted contemporary racing of
all kinds, including Formula One, the famous Goodwood Nine Hours race and the
celebrated Tourist Trophy sports car race.
Now,
for three days each September, the circuit stages a historic race meeting for
the kind of cars and motorcycles that would have competed at Goodwood during
1948-1966. The circuit echoes to the spine-tingling bark of golden-age Grand
Prix cars from the Fifties and Sixties, thundering sports and GT cars, as well
as historic saloon cars and little-seen Formula Juniors. Many of these
important historic racing cars are driven by famous faces from motor sport past
and present. Sir Stirling Moss, John Surtees, Sir Jack Brabham, Phil Hill,
Derek Bell, David Coulthard, Damon Hill, Gerhard Berger, Johnny Herbert, Wayne
Gardner, Giacomo Agostini and the late, great Barry Sheene have all taken part
at the Revival.
NSC Club Night
Wednesday 7th October
8pm-11pm
Upstairs, The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1T
1JB
Members: Free
Non-Members: 2 (first visit free)
Matthew The Chairman Howard will doubtless
scandalise the neighbourhood with his address, The Big Siam: Oriental Excess
in the East Indies, a talk he insists upon
styling The Second Lady Malvern Memorial Lecture (see the Year
Two archives for an explanation of this nomenclature)