Friday 12 May 2017

Helen McCookerybook, The Charlie Tipper Conspiracy + Des Was a Bowie Fan Clubnight

Doors: 8pm till 3am
Entry Price: Gig + Club: £5 advance / £7 door. Club Only (After 10.30pm): £4 (cheaplist + members) / £6
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Jamboree welcomes the popular London clubnight Des Was a Bowie Fan, indiepop, new wave, 80s synth pop, 60s soul and rock’n’roll dancing through the early hours, with live musical guests the post-punk / DIY Pop musician and feminist author Helen McCookerybook and Bristol’s The Charlie Tipper Conspiracy, celebrating their joint single, a cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Femme Fatale’.

Helen McCookerybook was a John Peel favourite through the ’80s and ’90s, singing and playing bass in Brighton outsider indiepop/punk bands Jody and the Hooligans, The Smartees and The Chefs before forming her own sumptuous, country-inflected Helen and the Horns. She has more recently helped write women back into the official history of punk with her book ‘The Lost Women Of Rock: Female Musicians Of The Punk Era’, which has interviews with The Mo-dettes, The Slits and Dolly Mixture amongst others. Helen’s songs are beacons of outside of everything lyricism, and her set shall consist of songs from her new LP ‘The Sea’ and classics of yore.

The Charlie Tipper Conspiracy are a sweet-shuffling indiepop band with a roaring jangle and skewering keys and horns, creating their own cuttingly romantic, melancholy sound in the vein of The June Brides. They formed in 2013 as The Charlie Tipper Experiment, releasing an album and accompanying singles, including the ace ‘Ride Out’, via Breaking Down Recordings. A further two EPs full of the sweet stuff and the new single with Helen followed as part of the new Conspiracy. All proceeds from the sale of ‘Femme Fatale’ (linked to above) go to Refugee Aid. The band’s new ‘Network’ EP is released on May 12th.

DANCING

Indiepop * New Wave * Rock’n’Roll * 60s Girl Groups * Motown * Northern Soul * Hot Swing *

Expect to hear: The Smiths * Pulp * The Supremes * Blondie * The Kinks * Dexys Midnight Runners * The Beatles * The B-52’s * The Cure * The Shangri-Las * Belle and Sebastian * Elvis * Orange Juice * The Beach Boys * David Bowie * ballboy * Aretha Franklin * The Ramones * The Ronettes * Marvin Gaye * Leonard Cohen * Le Tigre * Jackie Wilson * Hefner * Candi Staton * Jonathan Richman * Flowers * Richie Valens * The Temptations * The Turbans * Tcha Limberger & His Budapest Gypsy Orchestra & more.

(Requests for the night to deswasabowiefan@gmail.com)

Entry:

FOR CONCERT & CLUBNIGHT:
£6 advance / £8 door

FOR CLUBNIGHT ONLY (after 10.30pm)
£4 members, Cable Street residents & cheaplist / £6 other.
For cheaplist email deswasabowiefan@gmail.com before 10pm.