Blue Morris Blog - Burlesque
Burlesque Winter Dance Party
- Published on Thursday, 02 December 2010 03:56
- Category: Burlesque
The next Pink Flamingo Burlesque show with Blue Morris on guitar is December 11, 2010 at the Red Room!
We'll warm your cockles with gyrating goodness. Come for the burlesque show then dance along to the Pink Flamingo Orchestra playing live.
FEATURING:
Shaboobie Boobarella
Yum Yum Doll
Madame Mae I
Chai Tea
Doc Chocolate
Valentina Virago
With hosts Teddy Smooth and E-Roc or Cabaradio!
DETAILS
Saturday Dec 11, 2010
Doors at 7.30pm, Show at 8:15pm
The Red Room - 398 Richards Street, Vancouver
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door
Blue Morris in the Taboo Review
- Published on Saturday, 13 November 2010 23:21
- Category: Burlesque
I've done a lot of very interesting gigs in my time, especially since I have been playing guitar for various burlesque groups in town, and of course producing Pink Flamingo Burlesque shows.
This weekend I am in Screaming Chicken's Taboo Review. Originally I was asked to play guitar for a number, but during a rehearsal the producers were lamenting that they needed more clowns. Then they looked at me...
I gulped because I knew this would include a choreographed dance routine, and I am not a dancer. I told them I wouldn't be able to make any of the rehearsals because I am teaching so much these days, etc, etc, and the only night I have off is Friday...
"That's perfect!" Violet said. "Friday is the clown rehearsal!" ... and that's how it starts.
Screaming Chicken Intimate Evening, September 2010
- Published on Saturday, 02 October 2010 07:32
- Category: Burlesque
Even though I am not actually a member of the Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society, I have been performing with them a lot lately, thanks especially to Chai Tea who keeps hiring me to play guitar. Here are some photos from the last "Intimate Evening" show at the Chicken Coop. The show was produced by my good friend Bobbi Whiskey.
This is me with the emcee for the evening, Flash L'efox:
Here are Chai Tea and Ava Lure in their tear-jerking performance of "Irreplaceable," with me on guitar. This is, umm, before their clothes come off:
And here are all the boys in the show, me, Chai Tea, and Doc Chocolate performing Jonathan Coulton's "Soft Rocked by Me." Doc is rockin' the tambourine.
All these photos are courtesy of Johnny Panzo. Thank you Johnny!
Urban Rush with Pink Flamingo Burlesque
- Published on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:39
- Category: Burlesque
The whole band of Flamingos and I got to perform on Urban Rush, Shaw TV's daily talk show. We played the song "Minnie the Moocher." Since it was public TV, and therefore, not suitable for real burlesque, Shaboobie danced but of course wasn't allowed to actually strip.
One of the hosts of the show, Fiona, introduced us and then told the audience, "kids, leave the room now!"
I don't have license to post the video to YouTube, but I did manage to get some photos of us on my cellphone....
Bowties: I'm back in style, dammit!
- Published on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 02:50
- Category: Burlesque
Fashionistas are saying that the young kids are sporting bow ties, though I have yet to see it myself.
Since I was young, I've always said that I was supposed to have been born 50 years before I was. I have always felt a connection to the music and the fashion of the 1940s and 1950s -- the suits, the hats, the ties -- and yes, even the bow ties.
I rarely desire to buy clothes of contemporary styles. In the 1980s when I was in high school, I refused to wear acid-wash jeans. Now that the 80s styles are back, I still refuse to wear acid-wash jeans. I mean no offense to anyone who does, they're just not for me. The same goes for neon. I think wearing a neon shirt would make me feel like a traffic cone.