The Countess Cabaret - Season of Yeats
A vaudeville cabaret named after Countess Markeivicz, from Lissadell, one of Yeats ”two girls in silk kimonos, both beautiful, one a gazelle.” Round off Yeats Vintage Day with an eclectic mix of music, comedians, impersonators and burlesque performances in the old style of taproom concerts and music hall variety nights with a modern twist. Dress up; dance till you drop while helping Hospice. Live music by the Teeling Street Band.

Starring all the way from London, Burlesque sensation, Crimson Skye!

"Delightful" - Alice Cooper

"Highly original with a deep, dark sense of humour..able to combine comedy with a sense of the grotesque whilst still looking absolutely beautiful" - Jo King, London Academy of Burlesque

http://www.crimsonskye.co.uk/

Cocktail promotions and late bar. Seated event (limited amount of seats so get in EARLY). Over 18s only.
To reserve a table email countesscabaret@gmail.comDoors: 10pm
Saturday 4th of August 2012
Fifth on Teeling, Pure Nightclub, Teeling St. Sligo
Adm: 10 euros or 5 euros *if in suitable costume.

*The Countess Cabaret reserve the right to decide wether your costume is good enough! Edwardian style please!

www.seasonofyeats.com

Roll up, Roll up, pay witness to the madness as Sligo's hedonistic homies, The Countess Cabaret crew head south for carnival craziness. Bathe your ears in the musical stylings of comedy queen and mistress of ceremonies Sharyn Hayden. Be amused and slightly horrified at the World Twisted Cabaret Crown holder, Big Chief Random Chaos. Feast your eyes on burlesque babe, Bella A GoGo as she pumps and grinds leaving audiences begging for more. Special guest from London Aurora Starr and tribal bellydance by The Orchids.
DJ Shane Tivo and ska band Chewing on Tinfoil to keep you shaking that booty well into the wee hours! There will be circus performers, face painting, glow poi lessons and lots more surprises on the night!:)

Circus themed art exhibition by Making Space on the night!
All proceeds from this event will go to the Making Space Collective!





Date: Saturday July 14th 2012
Exhibition: 8pm
Show: 9pm
Band 11pm-1 am
DJ 1am-2.30 am

Tickets: 15 euros on the door / 12 euro advanced
Tickets available at the Sound Factory, Irishtown, Athlone
FREE FINGER FOOD!


"Big Chief Random Chaos is certainly chaotic, loud, bonkers and daring all the way...!" Burlesque Map London

Our lovely friends over at Poo Promotions present THE CORROSIVE MACHINE E.P. LAUNCH, Mikey Hannon's hard rock/punk crossover beast play their first ever Sligo gig, all the way from Tullamore to rock you down into the ground with heavy heavy chugging riffs of metal and plenty of punky attitude and chanting, YO! YO! Travelling with the machine will be fellow Tullamore rock stalwarts SIDE FX, around for several years now playing many a gig across the land, perfecting their skills and honing their tunes into a formidable creature of rocktastic metal tiger proportions, hear the roar of classic rock metal played the best it can be!

Actively playing hardcore punk are THE JOBSEEKERS from Dublin, this young band have been doing the rounds over recent months, garnering plenty of interest and a loyal following of dedicated fans. Fast, aggressive, loud and angry makes for some great punk rock, but I don't think it will help with the job prospects much.

I did offer this gig to Easky electro pioneers COSMIC CRAYONS, but they couldn't do it, so you got them 'orrible herbert's EXCUSESagain, whinging an' spewing, gribbling an' grobbling, all over the bloody place. Who's gonna clear up the mess, that's what I want to know?

Usual malarkey - doors 9pm, first band 9.45pm, entry 6 euros, wot a bargin! Gig is on SATURDAY 5TH MAY, ADELAIDE BAR SLIGO.

POO PROMOTIONS Present THURS 19TH APRIL - The Adelaide Bar, Sligo. 2tone ska band from France - LES SKALOPES - top notch 2tone Ska just like it was done back in the 80's, it has even been remarked that "Les Skalopes are the French Selector". Great band that packed out the Leitrim Bar last time they were here a couple of years ago, played for ages to an enthusiastic crowd of skanking dancing gig goers, all hypered up on quality Ska tunes.
Regularly play to crowds of 100's back home in France, they are one of the country's top Ska bands, with several CD releases under their belt including 'Chasse a l'enfant' & a split with Stylnox. Get early so you don't miss this gig.LOOPHOLE are a 3 piece guitar driven unit emerging from the Leitrim area to bring strange ragged songs that enchant and hypnotise, the sounds becoming colours in ears, smells sights before your eyes of lurid dreams never seen before creatures, a cat in your brain, all going round and round and round, LOOPHOLE.
Recently reformed Letterkenny rock revolutionaries ZAFARANCHOS open the night ,tight, well crafted songs loud and full of tunes, melodies and rabid hook lines - good to have 'em back in action!Doors 9pm, first band 9.30pm, entry 10 Euros, over 18's only.

Next Sligo Date Confirmed

Tickets 10 euros advanced (purchased in The Adelaide Thursdays from 2-6pm or online. 

12 euros on the door.

NEXT SHOW CONFIRMED

The Countess Cabaret are going on a mini tour...to Athlone! March 3rd in The Prince Hotel. Proceeds to Making Space. 10 euros entry (12 on the door). Ticket frmo MakingSpace.

Starring Shazwanda, Tipsy Bourbon, Alexia Lace, Su Nami, Claudia Shifter, The Orchids, Pussie Byrne and P.Jazzel!

Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos party will be tomorrow (12th November) in The Adelaide, Wine Street Car Park (behind Tescos/Pennys).

Doors 9pm-2am
Tickets: on the door 10 students/14 waged
Proceeds to The Opentradesclub
to reserve tables countesscabaret@gmail.com

Get Creative!
If anyone wants to get creative on Saturday 12th November before what promises to be the FUNKIEST Saturday night out in Sligo, Adam (the guy in the red dress!!) will be at The Adelaide bar, Wine Street carpark, Sligo from 2.00pm onwards.

We are going to make Papel Picado decorations for the Mexican Day of The Dead Festival.

If you'd like to come along and have a go, bring some sharp scissors if you have them, we have plenty of newsprint paper to be cut. We will make decorations for the festival party and an altar honouring the dead with humour and reverence.

You could bring images of people you have admired, respected, loved.

You could bring mementos, tokens, bread, rice, sweets, drink, candles, incense, flowers, messages. Whatever is appropriate to offer to honour the dead.

We will create a place for them. 

CHRIS LYNAM COMES TO SLIGO!!

It is a show that dreams are made of, a dream that shows are made of, a fight between the birds and bees to prove that man is not man at all, but a little part of a little,tiny,baby,baby................thing!

Chris Lynam is renowned for many things, but mainly for bringing his brand of crazed humour to bear on unsuspecting audiences.His comedy is both dangerous and exciting, stretching variety to its limits.

Any one show may include pyrotechnics, acrobatics, outlandish operatic and orchestral overtures, a sousaphone with a mind of it's own and anything else which may spring to Mr Lynam's unnecessarily large and vivid imagination.

What happens when you wake up and find that you will never wake up again, that everything you make up is down, and everything you make down is up?

That piece of toast you had for breakfast is really a piece of beach in the Caribbean,your wife is a fruitcake and your children are raspberries.

In amongst all this confusion it becomes apparent that something very important is missing from the backbone of man's existence...., and in order to restore world peace (of cake) Professor Shputdonk must find the missing........

"Chris Lynam is a brilliantly bizarre antidote to today's truculent society" New York Times.

"mahout of the bizarre buffoon extraordinaire to wit" The Times.

"Surreal unhinged quality which makes for comic greatness" The Guardian.

http://www.chrislynam.net/
www.opentradesclub.com

Door tax: 10 euros waged 8 euros unwaged/students

Well what a night THAT was. SELL OUT! oh yeah. We had an amazing time, great entertainment from our mc Claudia Shifter, Su Nami and her amazing hoop, Streetboobs and her sensational "Ass Dance", Kadri for the bellytasticness, Miss Honey for the excellent tunes, Tipsy Bourbon for the surprise show, Skeleton Crew for the totally shaking psychobilly punk and last but definately not least our fabulous crew, Kerry, Pete, Uli, Antonio and the dashing Adam in his gorgeous red guna! YEEEEEEHAW...

We unfortunately have to move from the Tradesclub but we are on the search for a new venue, next cabaret is November 12th so if anyone has a fabulous venue in mind, give us a shout!

Next show

Tickets are now on sale for our next gig The Countess Cabaret with Skeleton Crew on Saturday the 24th of September 2011. Please go to the Tickets page on this site or dro into the Open Tradesclub on Thursdays from 2-6pm. This is a BYOB event!

A huge thanks to all who supported The Countess Cabaret on Saturday and especially the wonderful team we had, Vincent Sweeney who transformed the place into a den of inequity, Gigi Wallis our inhouse set designer who also made the place look so amazing. Uli for supplying the kebabs and cleaning up. Erraz Pizzaz who did a great job with his DEBUT master of ceremonies performance! All our lovely local and east coast performers who made the effort and travelled many a mile to shake their thangs and bang their drums and of course our FABULOUS audience who rocked the place and danced the night away! Thanks to our our very generous sponsors Urban Gorilla Tattoo and Sailor Jerry Rum. The atmosphere was decadent! THANK YOU we had an amazing night! We think we love Sligo and will defo be back! Check out our pics!

THIS SATURDAY!

Welcome to the The Countess Cabaret. A place of the bizarre and outlandish! We will take you back to the beginning of the century, a time of rebellious secret societies. Hosted by the Dishonorable ArchDuke Ersatz Pizazz we bring you an evening of wild vaudeville, dark cabaret and rebel burlesque. 

Live music by Big Priest, circus supreme Su Nami and her amazing hoop, cheesecake starlet Pixie Spitfire, vaudevillian Fluffy Dutton of The Pony Girls, sexy tribal bellydance by Kadri and tranny rock by Claudia Shifter will then have you dancing into the wee hours.

From the creators and producers of Dublin's Sideshow Cabaret and Gringo and The Pony Girls Burlesque. 

STRICT Dress code: Think glamour! Cocktail dresses, fishnets & seamed stockings, steampunk, pimp and pin-ups, black tie, top hats and tails, diamante & pearls, fascinators & tiaras, show girls, vaudeville. No Casual Wear Please! 

Sponsored by Urban Gorilla Tattoo Sligo and Sailor Jerry Rum

TICKETS: 13 EURO BYOB with complimentary Sailor Jerry Rum..oooh arrrrgh! (limited amount so get in early)
TICKETS & INFO: countesscabaret@gmail.com