Lost Vagueness Presents The Chapel of Love and Loathe At The Big Chill

A haven of love by day, but by night a vision of Babylonian excess……

July 21, 2006 - Press Dispensary - The Big Chill (http://thebigchill.net) has invited Lost Vagueness (http://lostvagueness.com) to host its renowned Chapel of Love and Loathe at this year’s festival (August 4 – 6). The crew will transform a 40 metre round top tent into a travelling church, complete with changing rooms, a graveyard and a crypt. This is Lost Vagueness’ first festival appearance this summer, and the Chapel will be one of the only all night venues onsite.

The order of service, from 12pm daily, will see the Chapel hosting matrimonial mayhem for all with ‘pay-as-you-vow’ weddings. Heavenly nuns and twisted vicars will tie brides and grooms in knots with all the pomp and ceremony they can muster. On Sunday at 3pm there will be a mass wedding for any potential bigamists with the luscious Laundrettas casting their loving eyes over proceedings.

At the 8pm call to prayer, this wholesome and pure love palace will metamorphose into a sordid den of iniquity. The devilishly handsome Chapel compére, along with nuns indoctrinated into the Church of Lost Vagueness, will host a night of thrills, spills and unexpected delights as he presents some of the most extreme cabaret to be found, combining music, spectacle, gore and glamour to dazzle and confound the unrepentant. The Chapel’s house band, The Fat 45s, a saintly eleven-piece swing band, will start every evening with a bang.

The line-up for Friday’s Lost Souls themed evening includes the Priscillas, an excess of 60s garage pop and 70s glam; Rudy La Croux and the All Stars, old time rock and roll from the daddies of dirty rockabilly; the Fruitellas; Kid Carpet; and MrTed. Saturday’s Heavenly Creatures will feature the Roxycoco boudoir show; Think, a nine-piece funk band; Polly Cup Cake, world famous chanteuse renowned on the burlesque scene for her coquettishness, fabulous bespoke routines and dazzling costumes; Fi Fi, the contortionist who ties us all in knots; and Empress Stah, performing her signature show ‘Swinging From the Chandelier’. Not for the faint hearted.

Leila Jones, co-producer of Lost Vagueness, comments: “We were fearing a summer stuck in Hackney on our own, so we jumped at the chance to come to the Big Chill. Shocking, thrilling, mesmerising and never predictable, this will bring some Lost Vagueness carnage to a very chilled out field.”

Tickets cost £120 plus booking fee and are available from Ticketweb (http://www. ticketweb.com), tel: 08700 600 100, or from the Big Chill website (http://www.bigchill.net)

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About Lost Vagueness
Lost Vagueness started in 1998 as a casino after originating from an illicit bar on the outskirts of Glastonbury Festival. The original irony of travellers in top hats is now overshadowed by the sheer quality of the show: however the grass-roots humour remains undiminished. As well as running the only field in Glastonbury’s history to be closed due to overcrowding in 2003, and proving a big success at Glasto 2004 and 2005, Lost Vagueness has staged its own events at Strawberry Fair (Cambridge), Stokefest (Stoke Newington) and The Coronet (London), where the Lost Elephant Ball sold out in May 2006. It also showcased a selection of acts at The Lovebox festival in Victoria Park, The Electric Picnic Boutique Festival in Ireland, and ran its own festival near Lewes, East Sussex, in late summer 2004 and 2005. The Lost Weekend festival intended for June 2006 was cancelled at the last minute when its financial backer pulled out.

Lost Vagueness was formed as a company in 2003, assisted by Arts Council of England funding.

The next Lost Vagueness event will be the Glorious Twelfth Hunting Party at the Coronet, Elephant & Castle, London on 12th August 2006.

About the Big Chill

The Big Chill will take place on August 4 – 6 2006 at Eastnor Castle Deer Park. For further information please visit www.bigchill.net.

For further information, please contact:
Roy Gurvitz, Lost Vagueness
Email:
Site: www.lostvagueness.com