Fembot Frolics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgbF2qs0eA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1HNLQXd4Avw9kIcXscZ89feUhUWOjtrlRi4dAYA7i5EKDigg1fhEjQl-Y ************ And now, in video form, my latest solo with Cardiff Cabaret Club, cut a little short at the end due to a mix-up of stage directions (there was meant to be a reprise of the Terminator theme as my "dear master" came back home, and I brandished the kitchen knife in readiness), but...

Pretty Fly

For those who care about such things, 'tis my most recent solo, at Ffresh Burlesque (Wales Millennium Centre, 15/3/19). Contains hints of nudeness ... Though one of our smaller venues, this was actually a really nice place to debut this routine, as the strange purple backlighting was actually a lovely, ethereal addition, making the wings...

Recent Burlesque Outings

After a fairly quiet month, it's been a busy week for burlesque. First to report, Cardiff-based musicians Jason "Flapsandwich" Philips and Sandor "Cosmo" Dus, having made an anti-Brexit protest song, asked if I would like to contribute some burlesque dancing to the music video. Always being up for some insanity to liven up the day,...

A Belated Escape

Anyone who has followed this blog from the early days (assuming anyone has) will know that it has been a long-standing desire of mine to change my current job - a manual labour post in a very male-dominated, and occasionally toxic warehouse environment - for something both more congenial and less monotonous. Indeed, it has...

Happy 2019 from the Pretty Techno Moth Ladies

And so 2018 passes, and troubling though it was for various reasons (Brexit, the ongoing Trumpster fire, not to mention some very negative press coverage on trans issues) I shall ever fondly remember it as the year I became fully myself both physically and by finally filling the burlesque-shaped hole in my life thanks to...

Fan-tom of the Opera

Quicker than I had supposed, the videos of last Saturday's burlesque gig are on YouTube, including my solo debut ... (all rather risqué, I should stress, just in case you happen to be reading this post in the office) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypbczMyPAU I cannot overemphasise how wonderful if surreal it is finally getting to see this. I...

Matrix Consolations

(In the dressing room with fellow newbie soloist Schnitzel Von Krumpet. Lovely chap, wonderful performer, and hopefully now as permanent a fixture of the Cardiff burlesque scene as I intend to be ...) In the latest chapter of what has been, on many levels, the most challenging, fulfilling, scary, and exciting year of my life,...

Brains, or words to that effect …

It is late in the day to be sharing this and probably pointless (few of my followers being local, or even UK-based), but just on the off-chance, or in case any of you are interested in my burlesquey misadventures, Cardiff Cabaret Club has a new show on the horizon with a deliciously macabre theme ......

Perils of Persephone

Rather quicker than I had expected, there are now videos of my latest burlesque show with Cardiff Cabaret Club (Yin and Yang show, June 22nd 2018). Thus, as requested, my better judgement notwithstanding, here is exhibit A. I am the suspect at the very far right of the scene, on the dancefloor. Please be forgiving...

Bad Things

(The obligatory dressing room group shot, although not the complete group, as some dancers were doing up to three routines and solo dances that night. I was less ambitious, but maybe one day ...) Over the past three weeks I have gradually been getting more mobile and independent, doing small shopping trips, taking accompanied walks,...