Re-wax your Barbour and squeeze into your jodhpurs as Lost Vagueness, purveyor of finest festival and club entertainment, is returning to The Coronet music hall at Elephant and Castle, London, on Saturday 12 August to send out the hunt in style with its ‘Glorious Twelfth Hunting Party’.
Headlining the event will be Ska Cubano - an explosive eleven piece clash of ska and Cuban music - and the Noisettes, the renowned London-based three piece outfit. Ska Cubano will warm up for the headline set at WOMAD with their only London date this summer. Fusing compulsively danceable Jamaican rhythms with crazy Cuban brass, Ska Cubano is about having a huge amount of fun.
The Noisettes are fronted by the talented and beautiful Shingai Shoniwa - a vocalist and instrumentalist who sings somewhat like Billie Holiday on PCP while patrolling the stage in the guise of an Amazonian warrior with an eye for fashion. With Dan Smith on guitar and Jamie Morrison on drums, the Noisettes’ music is schizophrenically contradictive. One minute rough, raw and explosively dramatic - the next, detached, calm and serene. Possibly this band serves up more intense live than the White Stripes.
The programme of entertainment will also include burlesque and bizarre cabaret and the pheasant delights of Nick Hollywood, El Nino, Natty Bo, Club Montipucciano, Lady Luck, Stamford Hill Gun Club and Marshmellow Mike. In the usual style of Lost Vagueness, guests can try their hand at blackjack and roulette for fun in The Casino, while the Changing Room provides a boudoir of transformations.
The Glorious Hunting Party takes place from 10pm to 6am on Saturday 12 August, 2006. Tickets cost £25 plus booking fee from Coronet Box Office (08700 600 100) and Ticketweb or Access All Areas


