An absolutely fabulous evening!

First of 3 posts. - No flash in any of these pictures

Sunday – off out to the Flying Cabaret at the Foundry in ultra trendy Shoreditch. (corner of Great Eastern Street at the junction with Old Street) I used to go there a lot a couple of years ago when I was into Performance Art, but hadn’t been for ages.

The Foundry is an amazing venue – quite unlike anywhere else! The interior is like a squat with old, worn out couches which share the space with banks of ancient computer screens, which flicker with images of the world outside and the traffic and so on. Its basically graffiti covered downstairs and sort of arty on the ground floor – there is no proper stage either and the bigger bands have to play split on town sides with passers by (or dancers) inbetween. I love it there because it’s friendly and you never know quite what you will find next – some amazing poetry – weird sounds – strange performance art. Anything!

The Foundry is scheduled to close soon, as the building's owner plans on redeveloping the whole block into a 350-room hotel. Hopefully the bar will move – but it will be interesting to see if it manages to retain its uniquely shambolic feel – while being so successful.

But I digress – this evening was a celebration of the Foundry and a plea for it to remain. It was a Flying Cabaret organized by the fabulous Rude Mechanicals (of whom more in next blog). It was a great night, rather like an carefully-chosen Klinker night, with experimental acts who were all superb! When I got there there was poetry, then there was Charlotte and he bass sax and then Roshi Nasehi and then Now! And finally, after an absurdist cabaret from John Callaghan, the Mechanicals themselves. What a good night – and aided bu a couple of bottles of Eco Warrior – a great, organic beer!

sounds like such fun, wish I could be there! urmysunshine · 2009-11-16: 10:00

Thanks for including the beer - I'll watch out for it if I get back into the beer tasting thing. ????? · 2009-11-16: 14:52