The Mascara Bar -
previous events
Sunday 24th June 2018 - 10.00pm
***** NOW STARTS AT 10.00 ******
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Sunday 24th June 2018 - 5pm - 7.45pm
Jacket Spuds are a group of musicians whose sound is rooted in the richness of the Irish folk tradition. Their musical range and emotional commitment, and their remarkable combination of traditional form and contemporary content has evoked enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world.
“………....toe-tapping traditional, and evocative contemporary songs and tunes…….”
Time Out Magazine
Pete Mona (guitar/vocals), Mick Barker (fiddle/vocals), Eileen Barker (accordion/vocals), have toured extensively throughout Britain and Europe, from the intimacy of small clubs to the large stages of Festivals and Theatres. London gigs to date include the Mean Fiddler, Dominion Theatre, Hackney Empire, National Theatre, Folk Clubs, Colleges and Arts Centres.
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Saturday 23rd June 2018 - 9pm - 3am
Punk and reggae in a two sevens clash.
Short notice I know but there'll be The Ruts, LKJ, X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, The Clash, Culture, The Slits, Junior Murvin, Crisis, The Jam, Dillinger, Patrik Fitzgerald, the Bodysnatchers, the Saints, Jah Stitch, Black Slate, Alternative TV, Tapper Zukie and many more.
Don't be crying all the way to the chip shop.
No door pressure. Late bar and toilets.
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Friday 22nd June 2018 - 9pm - 3am
Gina Baber playing vinyl all night.
80s Disco * Salsoul * Disco * Philly Soul * Funk * No Wave * Soul *
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Wednesday 20th June 2018 - 8pm - 11pm
A super rare double bill - German songstress Fee Reega and The Great Park playing in north London at the Mascara Bar. We know it's last minute but this is likely to be the only UK concert this year by either of these two, so please come if you can!
https://www.facebook.com/feereega
https://www.facebook.com/thegreatpark
https://www.mascarabar.co.uk/
http://www.woodlandrecordings.com
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Sunday 17th June 2018 - 10.00pm
***** NOW STARTS AT 10.00 ******
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Sunday 17th June 2018 - 1pm - 9pm
* Group E *
13:00 Costa Rica v Serbia
19:00 Brazil v Switzerland
* Group F *
16:00 Germany v Mexico
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Saturday 16th June 2018 - Straight after the Croatia v Nigeria game till 3am
Free Jukebox!!!!
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Saturday 16th June 2018 - from Midday
A call to all Joyceans, drinkers of words and the absurd…
Join us at the Mascara Bar from 2pm for stories, poems, songs and real Dublin coddle….
Celebrate the gaiety of nations and the rebel spirit of literature…
Expect Spoken Word - Irish Music - Irish Food - Great Guinness - Good Company - Good Craic
11am - France v Australia (World Cup)
2pm - Dylan O’Bates, live music
2:30pm - Denis Quilligan, stories and song
3pm - Open mic poetry hosted by Hannah Gordon of Spoken Word London
4pm - Niall O'Sullivan, poetry
4:30pm - Fran Isherwood, local poet
5pm - Live Music
8pm - Croatia v Nigeria
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What they said about Ulysses:
"The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape."
"A heap of dung, crawling with worms"
"A memorable catastrophe”
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All timings approximate and subject to change!
Bios to follow...
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Friday 15th June 2018 - 9pm - 2am
(Ain’t) Misbehavin’ has been running for over six years on the third Friday of every month and is a firm favourite at Mascara Bar!
Expect a night of footloose dancing to mischievous music with a sense of humour: swing that really swings, innuendo-riddled jump blues, steamin’ hot jazz, and a load of vintage songs about misdemeanours, unlawful behaviour, and flagrant imbibement in drink, drugs and illicit activity.
DJ's this month: Kid Krupa and Tequila Mockingbird
9pm til 2am, followed by Juke box tunes.
£5 ENTRY TO THE DANCEFLOOR
Thursday 14th June 2018 - 7.30pm - 11pm
Buried in Space present an evening of wonky pop & performance.
Featuring:
DINGBAT SUPERMINX (oakland, CA)
on their first triumphant tour of europe ffo silky rhythms & madcap antic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QG_efYudhs
https://dingbatsuperminx.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-is-as-beauty-does
TARA CLERKIN TRIO (bristol):
Strange & fuzzed out new forms ffo broadcast, the shaggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhWt2vweXe4
https://stolenbodyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hello
VELODROME (london)
ffo bush, bowie & medieval attire
https://soundcloud.com/velodromemusic
With legendary dj BRAM making selections before, between and after sets.
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Saturday 9th June 2018 - 9pm - 3am
Steppin' Out bustin' all over June (she loves it!) with special guests Paul Strutter (Hook & Sling/Orgasm Club) & Lewis Peacock (The Shakeup/Stax of Soul). Quality disc jockeys laying down more of a good sounding than the law permits. All killers & thrillers - strictly floor fillers.
100% Original Vinyl Rare & Northern Soul, Vintage Rhythm & Blues, Motown, Boogaloo, Mod Jazz - all the soul that fits at the legendary Mascara Bar - proper sound, wooden dance floor, pub prices, great staff team + a crazy mixed up crowd of soulies, mods, tourists & local characters.
A right good'n guaranteed!
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Sunday 3rd June 2018 - 10.00pm
***** NOW STARTS AT 10.00 ******
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Sunday 3rd June 2018 - 6pm - 10pm
Featuring music from Helen McCookerybook and Miss Havisham’s Digital Clock, and poems from Andrew James Brown and Fran Isherwood. (Gaga Ladies are away, back in July.)
Then, from 10.30 pm The Mascara Band Featuring Mario will take us into the small hours with their Sunday Night Late Set. Free entry.
This is a Stoke Newington Literary Festival event
http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/sunday-shenanigans-dons-its-reading-s
Helen McCookerybook was the bass player/singer with The Chefs and guitarist/singer with Helen and the Horns in the 1980s, both of which were favourites of BBC Radio 1’s John Peel. After a 20 year break to raise a family, she returned to the stage as a solo artist with a new set of songs ten years ago, and since then has toured the UK regularly, releasing four solo albums and two with songwriter Martin Stephenson. She has just completed a new solo album, ‘The Sea’ that has received airplay from BBC6’s Gideon Coe.
https://helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/the-sea
Blog: mccookerybook.blogspot.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Helen-McCookerybook-346530963905/
Twitter: @mccookerybook
Andrew James Brown is a Wetherspoons enthusiast, poet and thinker, sharing thoughts and wisdom on everything, something and nothing.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/andrewjamesbrown
https://www.reverbnation.com/misshavishamsdigitalclock
Fran Isherwood is a poet with a comedic bent (bit like Housemaid’s Knee) who gads about on the London poetry circuit and (sometimes back of) beyond.She co-hosts Sunday Shenanigans (usually 3rd Sunday of the month) with The Gaga Ladies. Her poems lurk in several anthologies, print and online periodicals and in ‘Poems in The Waiting Room’ which was distributed in surgeries and hospitals nationwide. Her pamphlet Swimming with Endorphins was published in July 2015 and was Longlisted in the Saboteur Awards 2016. Originally from Manchester, she has previous form as a singer, comedy improviser and actor.
Her poetry is a wry, awry, word-playful gallop through the vagaries of life encountering mail stealing snails, lollipop ladies, Glam Rock, insomnia and macabre part time jobs en route.
Warning: May contain puns.
http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/sunday-shenanigans-dons-its-reading-s
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Saturday 2nd June 2018 - 9pm - 3am
Tell me more! Tell me more!
Ian Duhig, Emily Harrison, Tim Wells, Imogen Robertson, Michelle Fisher
Poetry, beer, and summer loving
No door pressure, late bar and toilets
This is a Stoke Newington Literary Festival event
Uh well-a well-a well-a huh!
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Friday 1st June 2018 - 7pm - 11pm
19:30-20:30 Reynard | a poetic monologue by Jan Noble
21:00-00:00 New River Press presents poetry from Niall McDevitt, Robert Montgomery, Greta Bellamacina, Rosalind Jana, Jamie Lee, Lisa Luxx, Suzi Feay, Kirsty Allison, Barney Ashton-Bullock, Ana Seferovic and Jeremy Reed. Compere: Heathcote Ruthven
This is a Stoke Newington Literary Festival event
Event info:
http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/reynard-a-poetic-monologue-by-jan-noble/
http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/new-river-press-presents/
£10 on the door or CLICK HERE to register for free guest list - https://jannoble.co.uk/Reynard/
Sunday 27th May 2018 - 10.00pm
***** NOW STARTS AT 10.00 ******
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Sunday 27th May 2018 - 5pm - 7.45pm
Jacket Spuds are a group of musicians whose sound is rooted in the richness of the Irish folk tradition. Their musical range and emotional commitment, and their remarkable combination of traditional form and contemporary content has evoked enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world.
“………....toe-tapping traditional, and evocative contemporary songs and tunes…….”
Time Out Magazine
Pete Mona (guitar/vocals), Mick Barker (fiddle/vocals), Eileen Barker (accordion/vocals), have toured extensively throughout Britain and Europe, from the intimacy of small clubs to the large stages of Festivals and Theatres. London gigs to date include the Mean Fiddler, Dominion Theatre, Hackney Empire, National Theatre, Folk Clubs, Colleges and Arts Centres.
FREE ENTRY
Saturday 26th May 2017 - 9pm - 3am
The Mascara Bar is proud to present the very best of the 70s and 80s with Cork DJ Simon O'Connell's FEEL GOOD SET.
* Happy vibes to kick off the long weekend ***
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