Straight Nasty: Saturday 30th April

East London’s favourite pop party returns for its monthly slot at Vogue Fabrics, ready to put a SMILEY SMILEY CAROL SMILLIE smile on your face ☺ The dust from last month’s party has just settled so its time for a spring clean and a spruce up. Straight Nasty glambassador Lawrence Llwewlyn-Bowen will be stencilling the shit out of Vogue Fabrics so your juicy ass can dance in a haven of terracotta sponge effect textured wallpaper. Dress code: Exaggerated cuffs.

♡ CLICK GOING FOR £3 GUESTLIST ♡ Rachel Stevens ♥ Geri Haliwell ♥ Mis-Teeq ♥ Kelly Rowland ♥ Madonna ♥ Jennifer Lopez ♥ Kylie ♥ Holly Valance ♥ Cher Lloyd ♥ Sophie Ellis Bextor ♥ Cheryl Cole ♥ Eve ♥ Rihanna ♥ Cher ♥ Sugababes ♥ S Club 7 ♥ Aly & AJ ♥ Charlotte Church ♥ Carly Rae Jepsen ♥ Steps ♥ Diana Ross ♥ Backstreet Boys ♥ Britney ♥ Nicki Minaj ♥ Cascada ♥ Gaga ♥ Little Mix ♥ Girls Aloud ♥ Loreen ♥ Atomic Kitten ♥ Ariana Grande ♥ Mel C ♥ Mel B ♥ Victoria Beckham ♥ Emma Bunton ♥ Spice Girls ♥ Amerie ♥ Lolly ♥ Beyonce ♥ Althea and Donna ♥ Iggy Azalea ♥ Ciara ♥ Nicola Roberts ♥ Cheryl Lynn ♥ Alexandra Burke ♥ Billie Piper ♥ Mini Viva ♥ Janet Jackson ♥ Kelis ♥ Missy Elliott ♥ RuPaul ♥ The Corrs ♥ Katy Perry ♥ Shakira ♥ tATu ♥ Charli XCX ♥ Venga Boys ♥ Timbaland ♥ Scissor Sisters ♥ Lil’ Kim ♥ Lady Sovereign ♥ The First Wives Club Soundtrack ♥ Lily Allen ♥ Kevin Lyttle ♥ Selena Gomez ♥ B*Witched ♥ Khia ♥ Gloria Gaynor ♥ Christina Milian ♥ ♥ Olivia Newton John ♥ Gareth Gates B Sides (jokes) ♥ Alesha Dixon ♥ Aqua ♥ Azealia Banks ♥ Fergie ♥ Gwen Stefani ♥ Christina Aguilera ♥ Destiny’s Child ♥ M.I.A ♥ Taylor Swift ♥ Shania Twain ♥ Dolly Parton + MORE

--- 'The kweens of kitsch are giving you an unapologetic pop party ... set to revolutionise your weekend.' - QX Magazine

'Straight Nasty provides a safe space for you to workthrough that repressed Cat Deeley fantasy' - DIVA Magazine

'Straight Nasty is hand on heart the best night out I’ve had in my whole life EVER' - Pigeons and Peacocks

♥ SAT 30 APRIL V**** F****** DALSTON 10PM-3AM £3 'Going' Guestlist / £5

With resident DJs TR!NNY & $U$ANNAH JE M'APPELLE ROCHELLE & GG BEAR RHYS' PIECES

For updates and event photos be sure to 'like' STRAIGHT NASTY here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/951893871596180/

Miss. E//Part 2: Friday 29th April

It's back after its successful dance floor last month. ////////LAST TIME WAS SO GOOD WE JUST HAD TO DO IT AGAIN////////

//////////CELEBRATE THE GENIUS OF MELISSA ARNETTE ELLIOTT/////////

/////////NOTHING BUT MISSY AND TIMBO AND PARTY JAMS//////

///////////DJ'S ROCKY MILK, RANDY & MONICA, FROSTY KNUCKLES/////////

/////////FRIDAY 29th APRIL!!!!////////

//////////1 QUID BEFORE MIDNIGHT 5 AFTER////////////////

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/503338613184254/

Spoken Word: Wednesday 27th April

Our weekly Spoken Word Open Mic event. Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work.

Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.

Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.

A Wet Satin Press Party for the Spring: Saturday 23rd April

The wonderful Wet Satin comes back for a Spring session at VFD. Lot's of Special Guest DJ's, stay tuned.

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/210605555983335/

http://www.wetsatinpress.com

The "I Do" Disco ST GEORGE + THE BRIDEZILLA: Friday 22nd April

#IDoDisco London’s best worst wedding disco returns to celebrate the most matrimonial medieval myth - St George and the Bridezilla! This month Anna (Metronomy) DJ's.

Strap on your armour. Mount your steed. Sharpen your lance. Prepare to meet and (metaphorically) slay the capital’s fiercest bridezillas on Dalston’s dankest underground dancefloor.

You know the story: insane wedding games, frighteningly cheap cocktails, enlightened guest DJs, and SO MANY ABSOLUTE BANGERS you’ll want to get married/never get married.

It’s more fun in a white dress, but we don't judge. Promise.

***£3 all night if you click 'going' (brides love social media). CLOSES MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 21 APRIL***

/// BOWIE /// QUEEN /// MADONNA /// WHITNEY /// CHER /// TURNER /// ENYA /// ELVIS /// THECURE /// THESMITHS /// DOLLY /// PATTI /// ARETHA /// CYNDIA /// PETSHOPBOYZ /// MARIAH /// BRITNEY /// JLO /// DESTINYSCHILD /// TLC /// KELIS /// AMERIE /// CIARA /// MISSY /// BEY /// RIRI /// AZEALIA /// KANYE /// WILEY /// SKEPTA /// BIGGIE /// MCHAMMER /// SNOOP /// WUTANG /// OUTKAST /// JAYZ /// N.O.R.E /// SHAMIR /// BIEBER /// TAYLOR /// ETC ETC

£3 whenever if you come in an ACTUAL WEDDING DRESS. Otherwise... £3 before 11. £5 after that. And as always we'll give you your very own "ACTUAL" WEDDING RING either way.

Don't forget to like our page for bliss and photos: www.facebook.com/TheIDoDisco/

Twitter: @TheIDoDisco Insta: @theidodisco

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/1684911391747972/

Shellac Discotec: Saturday 16th April

Shellac Discotec is the brand ~*schpanking*~ new party on the block celebrating the diverse talents of our favourite local laydieez She’s a queer little party for the nancy boys, the butch queens, the femme hussys ~ the sisters unabashedly doing it for themselves

Shellac Discotec is for the gals with freshly shellacked talons, nervously bitten tallons, and DIY sparkly tallons.

All welcome ~ big looks applauded!

✿ gurlz on the dex ✿

E L L E S (Legendary Children)

D A N C E A R M S T R O N G (Disco Spritz)

C H A K A K H A N ‘ T (2gurlz1cub)

✿ capri sun tropicana disco beatz ✿ freaky lil groove tunes ✿ all round pumpy vibes ✿

Host ✿ Victoria Sin ✿

Art Installation ✿ Ella Lynch ✿

£3 before 11 / £5 after

10pm-3am

Event Page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/115773495484745/

Bum.p//Spring Sesh: Friday 15th April

BUM.P // SPRING SESH Darling buds of bae, it’s time for you to dust off those tanks and get turnt.

Once again bringing you the finest selection of DJs in London for what is pitched to be the dance sesh of the season.

JAMES PHILLIPS JACQUI POTATO JONJO JURY

The Triple Threat

So get ready to get down And OBVS COME

VFD 66 Stoke Newington Road 2200 - 0300 £5

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/498114577065155/

Spoken Word: Wednesday 13th April

Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.

Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.

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Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010

And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-TXhERNHo

You can also read an academic dissertation written on SWL here, by William Barns-Graham, on 'Lost in the Moment: Opening Up Utopian Performance With the Lost Generation at Spoken Word London': https://www.academia.edu/9916694/Lost_in_the_Moment_Opening_Up_Utopian_Performance_with_the_Lost_Generation_at_Spoken_Word_London

SWL host Pat Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwOqqiqeOk

SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/culture/word/

VFD Film Night No.1: Tuesday 12th April

Remember, remember the 12th of April. ⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂⌂

VFD plays host to a new series of film nights looking at various relevant social & cultural issues, starting with London’s favourite elephant in the room - gentrification.

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FILM NO.1: Everyday Fascism (11:44), by Kola Grime, looks at the disparity between a marketed housing ‘standard’ and the reality of living in cramped overly expensive homes.

FILM NO.2: The Death of Queer London (11:36), by Nicky Chue & Jack Hamilton, investigates the loss of vibrant culture in London due to redevelopment.

FILM NO.3: London: City in Crisis (9:54), by Ellys Sugarman, centres around a crisis of rehoming, the destruction of community and incompetence when dealing with the redevelopment of social housing in London.

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Special guest, Dr Ben Campkin joins us to chair the night & host panel discussions with the filmmakers.

!£3 ON THE DOOR, ALL PROFITS GO TO CALAID!

Event page below

https://www.facebook.com/events/252329275111259/

Sea Slugs: Saturday 9th April

HELLO BOYS AND GIRLS! Sea Slugs is a one-off party brought to you by some familiar faces on London’s club scene – Lewis G. Burton, Samantha Togni and James Egan aka Dom Top! Come on down and drown your self in a sea of alcohol and dance the night away. The Sea Slugs will be playing everything from tropical pop to bottom-dwelling Moombahton and everything in between as well as an impromptus performance or two!

Come on down and take a plunge in the murky depths of VFD you don’t know what treasures await…

DJs SAMANTHA TOGNI LEWIS G. BURTON DOM TOP

#SEASLUGSLIVE

DOOR: ORLANDO (not the sea world hun, but the person)

10PM – 3AM £5 ALL NIGHT

Event Page

https://www.facebook.com/events/1725527524370968/

I Mean It!: Friday 8th April

A night of Defunctious House with M IMeanIt. £3 before 11pm/£5 after

Event page below

https://www.facebook.com/events/341986645925045/

Peacox: Thursday 7th April

PEACOX are your arrogant, colourful friends! They strut and wriggle and prance and don’t give a fuck who’s watching. Probably everyone. Everyone’s watching.

They indulge themselves because they can and they should.

So come strut and wriggle and prance with us at PEACOX from 8pm-1am.

We will be playing music by fellow peacox Kanye, Riri, Queen Bey, Biggie, and everyone from 90s/00s when peacox were rife and stalked the planes of Earth like the tastemakers that they were.

£5 on the door but £3 if you bring a paper cutout of your own face (look @ cover photo for inspo) and we’ll make you into beautiful elegant peacox adorning the wall.

We recommend bright colours and as much glitter n feathers as you can stick to your person. Bring mates and mentors and lovers and erstwhile lovers and archenemies and acquaintances and strangers.

Event page here https://www.facebook.com/events/167642970284983/

The Pop Kids-Pet Shop Boys Party: April 2nd

"Remember those days, the early ninetiesWe both applied for places at the same university Ended up in London where we needed to be To follow our obsession with the music scene"

The Pet Shop Boys are back and we have to celebrate it! all the hits from the band that made it 22 times to the top 10 & More than 40 UK Top 40 hits from 1985 until today, they were never Being Boring...

With good mix of other hits from the 80's, 90's & Indie tunes we promise you a great party. Expect to hear: West End Girls, Suburbia, Rent, It's a Sin, Domino Dancing, So Hard, Was It Worth It?, Can You Forgive Her?, Go West, New York City Boy, Love etc. The Pop Kids, Hallo Spaceboy, @Girls and Boys (PSB Remix) by Blur and many more... (the list is just too long!)

We Party at VFD - VFD 66 Stoke Newington Rd. N16 7XB London

Saturday 2/4/16 From 10pm till 3am

Advance Tickets - £5 On The Door - £8 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353719

Come Early - Dance More! Post you requests on the wall!

Event Page here for requests and info https://www.facebook.com/events/892353730881135/

Jack Appleyard presents-Aprils Fools: Friday 1st April

What did the chicken say to the pilot? Can I have a ride to chicken island.

COME ON DOWN TO VFD AND TO HAVE A FABLUS TIME WITH DJ'S PERFORMANCES AND PARTY GAMES

**KEVIN LE GRAND BAILOR** DJ GIRLS BLOUSE DJ CHARLES JEFFERY LOVERBOY AND OTHER PERFORMANCES 10-3 3ER B4 11 5ER ON THE DOOR AFTER 11

Earthly Delights: Eden Loweth in the Window, VFD Launch Party: Thursday 31st March

Launch party for Eden Loweth's installation in the window of VFD, 9pm-1am. Featuring music by Shazzy Xzang and a special "Earthly Delights" cocktail

Brilliant, gorgeous, painted, gay, Vivid, flaunting, tearaway, Glowing, flaring, lurid, loud, Screaming, shrieking, marching, proud, Mellow, matching deep and sombre, Pastel, sober, dead and dull, Constant, colourful, chromatic, Party-coloured and prismatic, Kaleidoscopic, variegated, Tattooed, dyed, illuminated, Daub and scumble, dip and dye, High-keyed colour, colour lie. - Derek Jarman in Chroma (1995)

Event page below

https://www.facebook.com/events/1678711302395311/

Spoken Word: Wednesday 30th March

Spoken Word London is a weekly open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.

Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.

Sunday~Funday:wwjd Bank Holiday Boogie: Sunday 27th March

Now fortnight going into the year, Sunday~Funday is back at Easter. It's a Bank Holiday. Jesus has risen. Easter Sales. Hot Cross Buns. Discount Chocolate. Spring Bulbs. The Pope. Ham.

Spring is springing and we can all feel it! So put that extra energy and power of awakening to good use and come and dance your hot-cross socks off with the gang. With a fine film of FUN lovingly sprinkled over the night's proceedings, Maxi More and her FUN-enabled gang are set for another high-fantasy low-budget adventure. Come and bounce around our Easter funland, and be bewildered and bemused by our now infamous not-to-be-missed-late-night-dive-bar-drag-show!!!

And it's a Bank Holiday (whatever that means) so the party can just go on and on!

Back again for another mind altering visit to the underbelly of the weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY is your go-to Sunday night queer performance night and dress-up dance party at Vogue Fabrics Dalston. For those in search of a final moment to saver the weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY brings the big toys out for one final play with contageously danceable music, an infamous late-night drag show, drinking/hang-over games, and always a double dose of fun!

!!!With extra special VIP (recently-resurrected) suprise guest!!!

9:00PM-LATE, £5 on the door

Straight Nasty: Saturday 26th March

You might have dreams of rebirth this Easter, repenting your sins and stuffing yo'self with simnal, but hunny we’ve got news for you… you’re going straight to hell, cos after this party aint nothin gonna cleanse ya. STRAIGHT NASTY is back for it’s monthly shit show in the tomb that is VFD  on Saturday 28 March – and for our Easter Eggstravaganza we'll be resurrecting a fabulous selection of mouldy old cheese, RnB and Pop...and the rest of it!

Dress code: Mount Olivet realness.

♡ Click 'Going' for ￡3 guestlist all night long ♡(closes @ 6pm on the nite)

Rachel Stevens ♥ Geri Haliwell ♥ Mis-Teeq ♥ Kelly Rowland ♥ Madonna ♥ Jennifer Lopez ♥ Kylie ♥ Holly Valance ♥ Cher Lloyd ♥ Sophie Ellis Bextor ♥ Cheryl Cole ♥ Eve ♥ Rihanna ♥ Cher ♥ Sugababes ♥ S Club 7 ♥ Aly & AJ ♥ Charlotte Church ♥ Carly Rae Jepsen ♥ Steps ♥ Diana Ross ♥ Backstreet Boys ♥ Britney ♥ Nicki Minaj ♥ Cascada ♥ Gaga ♥ Little Mix ♥ Girls Aloud ♥ Loreen ♥ Atomic Kitten ♥ Ariana Grande ♥ Mel C ♥ Mel B ♥ Victoria Beckham ♥ Emma Bunton ♥ Spice Girls ♥ Amerie ♥ Lolly ♥ Beyonce ♥ Althea and Donna ♥ Iggy Azalea ♥ Ciara ♥ Nicola Roberts ♥ Cheryl Lynn ♥ Alexandra Burke ♥ Billie Piper ♥ Mini Viva ♥ Janet Jackson ♥ Kelis ♥ Missy Elliott ♥ RuPaul ♥ The Corrs ♥ Katy Perry ♥ Shakira ♥ tATu ♥ Charli XCX ♥ Venga Boys ♥ Timbaland ♥ Scissor Sisters ♥ Lil’ Kim ♥ Lady Sovereign ♥ The First Wives Club Soundtrack ♥ Lily Allen ♥ Kevin Lyttle ♥ Selena Gomez ♥ B*Witched ♥ Khia ♥ Gloria Gaynor ♥ Christina Milian ♥ ♥ Olivia Newton John ♥ Gareth Gates B Sides (jokes) ♥ Alesha Dixon ♥ Aqua ♥ Azealia Banks ♥ Fergie ♥ Gwen Stefani ♥ Christina Aguilera ♥ Destiny’s Child ♥ M.I.A ♥ Taylor Swift ♥ Shania Twain ♥ Dolly Parton + MORE FABULOUS FABULOUS MUSICAL MUSIC WILL BE DELIVERED, BY C-SECTION, FOR YOUR DELECTATION

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'The kweens of kitsch are giving you an unapologetic pop party ... set to revolutionise your weekend.' - QX Magazine

'Straight Nasty provides a safe space for you to workthrough that repressed Cat Deeley fantasy' - DIVA Magazine

'Straight Nasty is hand on heart the best night out I’ve had in my whole life EVER' - Pigeons and Peacocks ♥ SAT 26 MARCH V**** F****** DALSTON 10PM-3AM £3 'Going' Guestlist / £5

With resident DJs TR!NNY & $U$ANNAH JE M'APPELLE ROCHELLE & GG BEAR SHY CHARLES

For updates and event photos be sure to 'like' STRAIGHT NASTY here: facebook.com/straightnastyclub

https://www.facebook.com/events/1580262322298944/

Sassitude VOL VI: Friday 25th March

  I'M UR VENUS I'M UR FIRE UR DESIRE -bananrama 1986

It's time to embrace your sass and unleash your inner Godess with our sixth edition + one year anniversary of SASSITUDE

Whether you're strong and sassy like Athena, a sultry bombshell lke Aphrodeite or just wanna dress up and party like Dionysus (ya I know technically he's a God but he's also the patron saint of homosexuality so you know) Friday the 25th is the night for you to let your hair down and get your godesss groove on.

♥ ♡♥ djs to be announced

Here's the deets: £5 entry 10pm-3am dresscode: yr inner godess duh

#keepitsassy

Spoken Word: Wednesday 23rd March

Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.

Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.

***

Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010

And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-TXhERNHo

You can also read an academic dissertation written on SWL here, by William Barns-Graham, on 'Lost in the Moment: Opening Up Utopian Performance With the Lost Generation at Spoken Word London': https://www.academia.edu/9916694/Lost_in_the_Moment_Opening_Up_Utopian_Performance_with_the_Lost_Generation_at_Spoken_Word_London

SWL host Pat Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwOqqiqeOk

SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/culture/word/