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...

Respect Your Elders

Needing a new hobby to make up for woeful lack of burleque dancing and modelling during this Covid-19 madness, I took up foraging. Cardiff is thankfully blessed with a large number of green spaces, and Bute Park - the closest to me - has a large and part-wild arboretum section, perfect for finding interesting and...

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...

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...

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 ......

Black Widow

... but no sexy spy catsuits in this latest photoshoot, I'm afraid: just a replica 19th century dress kindly lent to us by Marigold Costumes along with several veils and a musty-looking bonnet. Combine with heavy dark eye-liner and the old graveyard behind Llandaff Cathedral and you have ... ... and in case any film...

Far, Far Away …

For anyone lucky enough to be in exotic Cardiff on the evening of March the 16th, yours truly will be performing in ... ... albeit only in the chorus line, so to speak. Still, after what will have been a mere ten lessons away from the time when my feet could barely distinguish left from...

Fighting Back

Cal returned from the GIC last Tuesday, and the news was all good: like me, he has been granted a second appointment in February, at which point all going well he will be approved for HRT. The clinician seemed absolutely charmed with him (only naturally), and they had a good conversation. The fact that we...