The Mascara Bar -
previous events
Saturday 17th August 2019 - 9pm - 2am
(Ain’t) Misbehavin’ has been running for over 8 years and is a firm favourite at Mascara Bar! Come join us as we move to Saturdays!
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:
Mr Jinx
Tequila Mockingbird
£5 Entry to the Dancefloor
Free Entry to the Bar
Thursday 15th August 2019 - 8pm - 10:15pm
My event is about laughter. Hard laughter.
Wake up sore the next day laughter. Like a gym session for your lateral laughing muscles laughter.
And a buffet, Sandwiches, salads, glorious gastronomical good stuff. And pints for bargain prices.
And it's all free. You'd be absolutely fucking mental to do anything else this Thursday. So don't do anything else. Be at Mascara Bar at 8:00 PM. We'll do the rest.
FREE ENTRY
Tuesday 13th August 2019 - 8pm - 11pm
Mascara Jazz jam, every Tuesday from 8 pm to 11 pm.
Each week consists of rotating guest musicians backed by host and resident drummer, Livio Polisano. Come and join us to check out and play with some of the best jazz players in the London scene.
This venue is a great place to hang and to meet new and old friends! It has a full bar with very reasonable prices.
Hope to see (and hear) you every Tuesday!
FREE ENTRY
Sunday 11th August 2019 - 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 10th August 2019 - 9pm - 3am
Steppin' Out's 3rd Anniversary Party! Celebrating 3 great years of magnificent music provided by a cavalcade of the finest DJs. Big shout out to them all & for the terrific support from the soul community. And to Maggie who rules the finest & quirkiest gin joint in Hackney & possibly the whole of London!
So no argument - come party with us! Starring guest DJs - the quietly brilliant Lewis Peacock & the not so quiet Declan Allen! Par excellence sans pareil!
More night buses than you can shake a stick at!
Rail: Stoke Newington
Bus: 67/73/N73/76/N76/106/149/243/276/393/476
FREE ENTRY
Thursday 8th August 2019 - 8:30pm - 10pm
A false diamond earring, fallen pigeons, waterfalls, snail telegraphy, sock puppets: everything on earth is sopping sponge wet.
For its second screening, Mascara Film Club presents a series of shorts that delve into fantastical and logorrheic narratives.
Featuring work by artists Emma Finn, Nick Granata, Heather Phillipson, Paul Simon Richards, Louis Scantlebury, and Reman Sadani.
FREE ENTRY
Tuesday 6th August 2019 - 8pm - 11pm
Mascara Jazz jam, every Tuesday from 8 pm to 11 pm.
Each week consists of rotating guest musicians backed by host and resident drummer, Livio Polisano. Come and join us to check out and play with some of the best jazz players in the London scene.
This venue is a great place to hang and to meet new and old friends! It has a full bar with very reasonable prices.
Hope to see (and hear) you every Tuesday!
FREE ENTRY
Sunday 4th August 2019 - From 7.40pm
Jack and Nick Caveman shall play some good ol chickenfried country tunes for yer sunday afternoon drinking pleasure... do JOIN! DO CAROUSE!!!
FREE ENTRY
Saturday 3rd August 2019 - 2pm - 3am
Slip into your Hawaiian shirts and bikinis and surf on down to the Mascara Bar for some summer fresh action at our August 2019 all day fun fest and dance-a-thon, you groovy Baywatch peeps !
We're bringing the beach to you, so sit on the sand, dip your toes in the pool under the palm trees, chat to a flamingo or two and sip on a sangria 'cause we have it all ! .. and if you fall in, there's always a lifeguard on call !
Live bands and DJs all afternoon and evening !
Including:
GoGo LoCo playing live at 8 https://www.facebook.com/
DJ Sam Joseph - 9pm to 3am https://www.facebook.com/
FREE ADMISSION
Friday 2nd August 2019 - 9pm - 3am
FREE JUKEBOX NIGHT.
All Night Till 3am
FREE ENTRY
Thursday 1st August 2019 - 8pm - 10:15pm
My event is about laughter. Hard laughter.
Wake up sore the next day laughter. Like a gym session for your lateral laughing muscles laughter.
And a buffet, Sandwiches, salads, glorious gastronomical good stuff. And pints for bargain prices.
And it's all free. You'd be absolutely fucking mental to do anything else this Thursday. So don't do anything else. Be at Mascara Bar at 8:00 PM. We'll do the rest.
FREE ENTRY
Wednesday 31st July 2019 - From 11pm
Dave's Meat and Eat - From 11pm
FREE ENTRY
Tuesday 30th July 2019 - 8pm - 11pm
Mascara Jazz jam, every Tuesday from 8 pm to 11 pm.
Each week consists of rotating guest musicians backed by host and resident drummer, Livio Polisano. Come and join us to check out and play with some of the best jazz players in the London scene.
This venue is a great place to hang and to meet new and old friends! It has a full bar with very reasonable prices.
Hope to see (and hear) you every Tuesday!
FREE ENTRY
Sunday 28th July 2019 - 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 27th July 2019 - 8pm - 11pm
Karaoke - Karaoke - Karaoke
Now is the time to unleash your inner rock star.
Stop being a Wall Flower and show the world what you can really do.
Or just have a laugh with your mates....
Free Entry
Thursday 25th July 2019 - 7pm - 11pm
Poets are the "unacknowledged legislators of the world" according to Percy Byshee Shelley. But it's not just as legislators, so much as in general that they're unacknowledged.
Come along to the fantastic Mascara Bar to help redress that at An Obscurity of Poets, the night that puts poetry and poetics first. Hosted by poet, storyteller and self-proclaimed public intellectual, Andrew James Brown.
Come along and enjoy the wit and wisdom of our fabulous feature acts, or share some words of your own on the open mic, with sign up from 19:00.
Features:
Joshua Seigal:
Joshua Seigal is a stand up poet for both children and adults , based in London. He is an official National Poetry Day Ambassador and has several books published by Bloomsbury. He has taken shows to places such as Edinburgh Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Dubai Literary Fesitval. He has been described by the Sunday Times as "extremely imaginative and wonderful" **** Broadway Baby **** Three Weeks. Check out more on www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
Richard Purnell:
The master. Poetry delivered with panche. Wit and wisdom.
More to be announced (I promise!)
There'll also be a fantastic quiz with even more fantastic prizes to be won!
And best of all, it's all free and in a fabulous location.
FREE ENTRY
Wednesday 24th July 2019 - From 11pm
Dave's Meat and Eat - From 11pm
FREE ENTRY
Tuesday 23rd July 2019 - 8pm - 11pm
Mascara Jazz jam, every Tuesday from 8 pm to 11 pm.
Each week consists of rotating guest musicians backed by host and resident drummer, Livio Polisano. Come and join us to check out and play with some of the best jazz players in the London scene.
This venue is a great place to hang and to meet new and old friends! It has a full bar with very reasonable prices.
Hope to see (and hear) you every Tuesday!
FREE ENTRY
Sunday 21st July 2019 - 7pm - 10pm
Gaga Ladies and Fran Isherwood celebrate summer with special guests Yes Mess. Expect it to get messy! We also have poet Fiona Brehony..We start with an open mic session so you can be in it too!
Open mic sign-up from 7 pm, show 7.30 ish..Utterly free.entry, but do take advantage of the comprehensively stocked bar.
Fiona Brehony is a London based poet from Wythenshawe, Manchester, sharing observations from solitude in vacuous spaces of the Capital.
Formed by singer-song writer Danthedan, The Yes Mess will smother you with fanciful incantations that will let your inner animal out.
Joyful and damaged, the vocal combinations live to tell the tale, harmonising and winning. The solid guitar rhythm will welcome you on a journey through the streets of, ‘Illness and Danger’, the ‘Land of the Laughing’ and the afterlife of a ‘Caterpillar’. The snarl and passion, groove and nagging pop melody, will boot-through as the drums roll out the swings and blows, supported by tight, peachy bass beats, and lead guitar experimentations; cheeky, creepy and bewailing. The accordion waves nightmarish imaginations; swiftly U-turning between klezmer to Cuban, jingle to jangle.
"They practice a dark stem of alternative folk which is energetic and mysterious. It's uplifting and real. Great lyrics, surreal images, dark and unique sounds." - The Lantern Society
"An enigmatic, folky, funky, hook laden five piece that rattle the same hallucinatory cages as the Beta Band at their oddest, with elements of Syd’s Pink Floyd in the mix." - The Gladstone
https://theyesmess.bandcamp.com/
FREE ENTRY
Saturday 20th July 2019 - 9pm - 2am
(Ain’t) Misbehavin’ has been running for over 8 years and is a firm favourite at Mascara Bar! Come join us as we move to Saturdays!
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.
£5 Entry to the Dancefloor
Free Entry to the Bar