Category: This week
1920s night at Cabarera
Cabarera is a themed cabaret/comedy night which transports you to a different era each month. This month you’re going back to the roaring 1920′s! The eclectic line up includes the wonderful Pippa Evans (as seen on Channel 4’s The Morgana Show, BBC’s The Wrong Door & Fast and Loose) and acclaimed puppeteer Aya Nakamura who [...]
Listen to Skinny Lister at their free Vintage Store Pop-up Tour
Officially crowned the hardest working band in Britain due to their unrivalled number of performances at UK festivals last year, Skinny Lister are proud to announce a personal best, and the first of its kind: the free Vintage Store Pop-up Tour - four performances, four different east London venues, one afternoon. After a glowing New [...]
Talk: Hollywood fashion in London in the early 1930s
If you are interested in Thirties fashion in the capital then head to “Flooded With Little Joan Crawfords” – Hollywood in London in the 1930s, an illustrated talk by Amber Butchart as part of Beyond Retro’s 10th Birthday Celebrations. As one half of The Broken Hearts DJs duo, Amber was once head buyer at Beyond [...]
1920s evening at the Cartoon Museum
Head to the Cartoon Museum for a Twenties-inspired evening to be held alongside the exhibition of artwork by cartoonist H.M. Bateman who is most famous for his Tatler cartoons ‘The Man Who…’ from the Twenties and Thirties. At the event there will be performances from the Kings Cross Hot Club, a Charleston lesson and performances [...]
At Wilton’s Music Hall: The Great Gatsby
It’s 1922 and we welcome you to prohibition Wilton’s for the stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Surely there is no better place to experience the adaptation produced by the Wilton’s Team and directed by Peter Joucla. Expect late night foxtrots, moonshine in teapots, pearls and flappers, bootleggers and millionaires. Published in 1925, a year [...]
Music dance and mischief at the Black Cotton Club
Enjoy an evening of swing music and dancing at the Black Cotton Club, London’s original speakeasy night. Hosted by legendary DJ duo Lady Kamikaze and El Nino, expect plenty of rare records and gangster sounds from the Twenties to the Forties, sets by guest DJs and live acts – there will be plenty of rare sounds [...]
