Lost Vagueness Presents the ‘Glorious Twelfth Hunting Party’

Grouse Season Gambol at the Coronet, Elephant & Castle, London on 12th August 2006

July 31, 2006 - Press Dispensary - Re-wax your Barbour and squeeze into your jodhpurs as Lost Vagueness (http://www.lostvagueness.com), 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 at http://www.ticketweb.co.uk or Access All Areas http://www.accessallareas.org.

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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.

Lost Vagueness will be hosting The Chapel of Love and Loathe at the Big Chill 2006. The Big Chill takes place from 4 to 6 August at Eastnor Castle Deer Park. For further information, please visit http://www.bigchill.net.

About the Coronet
The Coronet, which benefited from a £2 million refurbishment programme in 2004, has retained many of its original art deco features. Formerly an ABC Cinema, which closed in 1999, and a theatre prior to that guise, the venue has long been renowned for its association with Charlie Chaplin who lived nearby and appeared on stage in its early days. Now, the refurbished 572-seater auditorium hosts live music, product launches, conferences, club nights and film screenings. The Coronet is at 28 New Kent Road, London SE1 6TJ.

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