2023 Roundup

A very quiet year for burlesque, alas. Just two bookings for the Phantom routine, both in January, and no interest since. Quite a contrast from having performed all my routines in 2022. I have put in an application for the Wales Burlesque Festival 2024, so hopefully that may come to something (if they accept, and...

Flygirl

Thanks to those lovely folks at Clumsy Cabaret and Tiny Rebel Cardiff I have danced nearly my entire repertoire of burlesque routines this year, more than making up for the depressing inactivity of 2020-21. Soon I shall have to start making new routines or finding new audiences but either way, it's been one heck of...

Cyberstrippers

A video of my most recent burlesque performance at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff, filmed from the audience by my lovely girlfriend and hosted by Clumsy Cabaret. More evidence (as if any were needed) that my childhood obsession with robots has achieved sleazy and disturbing Gigeresque dimensions… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPSVi3lGN8

Life is a cabaret (again, at last)

Curtain call at Tiny Rebel Cardiff after performing with Clumsy Cabaret. My first actual performing gig since 2019, after which Covid killed my burlesque career, such as it was. What an amazing feeling to get back on stage (or at least a bar room floor) again, and such an amazing crowd: so thrilling for me...

Interview with Tafad Tan

An interview I did today with three Cardiff creatives (Jason Philips - musician and producer, Alrick "Ninjah" Wilson - musician and occasional drag queen, and Max Lewy - poet), on such topics as Beijing, burlesque, decluttering, writing, being transgender, and boasting a little about famous relatives. YOUTUBE LINK

Retro Realness

I had a lovely surprise in the post today: Bobr Games liked my 2020 SEUCK Competition entry so much they've given it a full physical release on ROM cartridge, complete with map, ID card, manual, and stunning original art by Simon Butler. Sadly, I don't have an actual C64 myself so I can't appreciate the...

Modelling Update (CW 18+)

A quick update on my modelling career, such as it is. OnlyFans didn't work so well for me (I imagine I was far from the only model to resort to it in 2020) and after three lockdowns I'm just too low on spoons to keep churning out home content anyway, so I've closed that account....

Burlesque Showreel, Act 5

Against all probability, here is my first burlesque solo of the year. Also a debut performance for this dance, albeit only in appropriately socially-distanced music video form. A huge thank you to Jason "Flapsandwich" Philips (musician, producer, writer) and Clusterfuck for getting me on board with this - I really needed that bit of performance...

Burlesque Showreel, Act 4

A reworked version of my third burlesque solo, with earlier mask removal (as this routine is hard enough without sod all peripheral vision and compromised breathing) and an improved costume, as my earlier attempt at light-up pasties - while a painstaking wiring job - were sadly too dim to really make an impact. This will...

Burlesque Showreel, Act 3

The third and last installment in my burlesque showreel project pro tem. Although I have two more acts eventually to add to it, one of them needs costume work and the other I did for a music video as yet unfilmed, so it would not be right to debut it here. Some of you may...