Super Dynamite Boogaloo

Another DVD catch-up, this time A Scanner Darkly - which was okay. Using Waking Life’s graphical technique, it had some good, quirky, hallucinogenic moments but couldn’t quite sell the story for the full duration.

After a little in-decision to go for Big Chill next weekend due to the rain and lack of holiday from work, we committed ourselves by buying a pop-up tent. The weather forecast seems to be more settled and a friendly chat with my new boss has allowed me a half day of Friday. Bring on the Chill!

Saturday evening was a visit to Brighton’s comedy night, Komedia – Super Dynamite Boogaloo – hoping for cabaret but got school disco with Mackenzie Crook from The Office DJing (rubbishly - couldn’t mix and his selection went from rockin’ to shockin’). The highlights were a huge black guy with impressive ‘fro in a pink leotard and another guy (Boogaloo Stu) dressed as pictured. The crowd were a mix of hen night gaggles and a few desperate single blokes. Later a wanna-be tranny who was staggering around in stilettos holding a pint and bottle of wine entertained us. The music didn’t improve and we realised no cabaret would be appearing so made for the dancefloor for one tune with the hope it got better. It didn’t as Spice Girls – Wannabe came on so we left.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Doh...have you never been to Boogaloo? Cabaret was at around 12.30 and was bloody brilliant...that guy in the pink 'fro is Le Gateau Chocolat is an amazing opera singer and did a couple of stunning musical numbers among other delights.
9:52 pm
Anonymous said…
F*&k! I knew we left too early. Thanks for the tip, we'll try next time and ignore the Spice Girls until the fun really starts.
9:59 pm
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