Vout-O-Reenees

Galley Beggar Press Celebrates Winter Soltice at The Yellow Book Salon
2019-12-04 00:00 (Europe/London)
Galley Beggar Press have a Booker prize short listed novel with Lucy Ellmann’s¬Ý Ducks,Newburyport. ¬Ý Hooray!
They are an amazing publishers indy passionate, considered and original. Members of Vouts they had a wonderful independent summer party at Vouts just after the success A girl is a half formed thing by Eimear McBride. It remains one of my favourite evenings ever.
Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar are Galley Beggar , they wrote to me after I suggested they do a Yellow Book Salon takeover
Sophie!
Just a very quick message to say that authors lined up we have:
– Toby Litt (reading from his new novel Patience, which is just about to come out and is getting tremendous reviews).
– Preti Taneja (who won the Desmond Elliott Prize for her debut last year – We that are young – and will be reading from new work)
– Alex Pheby (previously shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and joint-winner this year for the Republic of Consciousness – he’ll be reading from his upcoming book Mordew)
– Jim Clammer¬Ý -reading from his first adult novel, Insignificance, out with us next autumn.
Join us for a wonderful night of great and interesting writing and listening and then meet the authors.

PV -Man on the Moon - The Fairley Archive. 3rd Dec 6-11
2019-12-03 00:00 - 2020-01-02 00:00
Man on the MoonA celebration of Man‚Äôs greatest feat of exploration
50 years ago this year, the first US astronauts took just ‚Äúone small step, one giant leap for mankind‚Äù.
Presented here is an exclusive display of iconic photographs from a unique archive collected by the late Peter Fairley, the science correspondent for Independent Television News who brought TV pictures into the homes of millions of viewers throughout the space race.
The photographic prints are made direct from original transparencies sent by NASA to Fairley throughout his journalistic career in the 60s and 70s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the exploits of these brave men (and women) who first journeyed beyond our atmosphere into the depths of space.

Following his death, Fairley‚Äôs son Alastair has preserved the archive, which contains thousands of original photographs, prints, press packs, models and other items used in his TV broadcasts.
Together they now make up the Fairley Archive of Space Exploration, a unique record of man‚Äôs greatest achievement.
Dramatic lunar photography at The Stash Gallery
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing in 1969, the Stash Gallery in Tower Hill is hosting an exhibition of original photographs taken by the Apollo astronauts both on the Moon and during their amazing space journeys from and to the Earth.
Here are well-known images ‚Äì the stunning blue orb of earth seen for the first time from space, the first boot print on lunar soil ‚Äì but also some unique finds, such as the contact sheet showing Buzz Aldrin‚Äôs descent down the ladder from the mothership onto the Moon‚Äôs surface, step by step. There are also extraordinary artefacts such as the beautifully embroidered mission badges the astronauts wore on their space suits.
The standard of the photography is astounding as is the quality of the prints in this exhibition. Its curator is Alastair Fairley, whose late father, Peter Fairley, accumulated the archive in the course of his coverage of the Apollo missions for Independent Television News (ITN) in the 60s and 70s. Alastair explains: ‚Äúthe astronauts were all given lengthy training in the techniques and composition of photography. And they were using Hasselblad cameras – the best in the business and specially designed to be operated in the void of space.‚Äù
The photographs on display are just a small part of what is now called the Fairley Archive of Space Exploration (FASE), a large collection of prints, autographs, transparencies and other NASA paraphernalia Alastair inherited from his father. Importantly, all the photographs on display are printed direct from the original, large-format transparencies produced by NASA itself. This explains the richness and depth these prints ‚Äì unlike their digital counterparts ‚Äì possess.
Fairley has some abiding childhood memories from trips to the USA accompanying his father on assignment. He recalls meeting several of the astronauts, including his hero John Glenn when he was only four years old. ‚ÄúI just wanted to say hello to my hero and tell him I wanted to be a spaceman too,‚Äù adding: ‚Äúlittle did I know I‚Äôd now be working in the field, looking after the records of their time in space and engaging new audiences around the world in their work.‚Äù
In addition to the exhibition the Gallery is hosting a talk by Fairley about the Archive, and a screening of Nichola Bruce‚Äôs award-winning film ‚ÄúMoonbug‚Äù, which documents encounters with surviving lunar astronauts as photographer Steve Pyke travelled across the States to create their portraits. The pre-shoot chatter between Pyke and his subjects provides some unique, unguarded moments and some moving reminiscences about the emotional, as well as physical, challenges of a lunar mission.
The exhibition opens on December 3rd ‚Äì 27th 2019 and is open Monday to Saturday from 5-10pm. The Stash Gallery can be found at Vout-o-Reenee‚Äôs Arts Club, 30, Prescot Street, London E1 8BB
More information from Sophie Parkin on 07753 702910 or email:
info@vout-o-renees.co.uk

Hooray! Twin Birthday Sue & Judy Joint 70th
2019-11-30 00:00
some earlier pics of the gals and some costume suggestions!

Toby and David Wilkinsons Xmas Roadhouse Party
2019-11-29 00:00 - 2019-11-30 00:00

Private Corp Party -Thanksgiving
2019-11-28 00:00

Tim Etchell's Book Launch - Endland.
2019-11-27 00:00
ENDLAND ¬Ý¬Ý Tim Etchells
Introduction by Jarvis Cocker
‚ÄòEtchells is one of the few writers on the front line of British avant-garde theatre who made a tough, eloquent, emotional new language of ideas about class, human fragility, lust, embarrassment and a good night out. He is a legend.‚Äô Deborah Levy
‚ÄòIt insists on being read, at once, and probably out loud.‚Äô Iain Sinclair
A series of cautionary tales for our digital age, Endland is comical and brutal, set in strangely familiar locations that at times seem like Thatcher-era Northern towns under military rule or post-Brexit council estates after a Farage party bender. And things are leaking into Endland from all over the place. Nothing is stable. Now is also then and next year, a landscape that is future and medieval at the same time. What‚Äôs more, the gods have started drinking at lunchtime, which can only lead to trouble. In narratives working a bit like poetry or cartoons, in empty tower blocks, midnight diners and bombsite cities, Endland is a dysfunctional mirror of England.
The world fashioned by Thatcher, Google, IFOR, ICANN, Brexit, Big Brother, Bin Laden and Trump needs new tools to navigate it. These grotesque stories are close to the bone, and help us get close to the heart of the times we are living in.
Screwed-up England and its characters channelled in strange, twisted, funny, cartoonlike innovative fiction that grasps our times better than straight realism.
Tim Etchells is an artist and writer based in Sheffield and London. His work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. As well as being Professor of Performance and Writing at Lancaster University, he works in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the ground-breaking, world-renowned Sheffield performance group Forced Entertainment, whose prizes include the 2016 International Ibsen Award. He has developed a unique voice in writing fiction and exhibited work and presented performances in significant institutions and festivals all over the world, including at Glastonbury Festival and the Tate Modern, and as the 2014 Artist of the City of Lisbon.

Tom's 40th Birthday Party
2019-11-23 00:00 - 2019-11-24 00:00

Suzanne sings George plays Dirty Blues
2019-11-22 00:00 - 2019-11-23 00:00
Come hear about a period of musical history that has been buried since the 1940s, the dirty blues. Sung in brothels, speakeasies and vaudeville theatres by the likes of Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, and where musicians such as Les Paul and Louis Armstrong got their start. Songs with titles such as ‘Don’t you Feel my Leg’ which were so popular that, for a period of time, in Harlem, you could hear people singing it down the street. Or ‘King Size Papa,’ a novelty song by Julia Lee & her Boyfriends which actually went to No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1948.
Now it has been resurrected by vocalist and Vout member Suzanne Noble and pianist George Webster who perform tunes such as ‘Big Long Slidin’ Thing,’ ‘Do your Duty’ and ‘Sam the Hot Dog Man’ in their inimitable style while sharing the background to many of the tunes as well as popular jazz standards of the time. With Imogen Rodgers guesting on sax too!
Tickets ¬£10 online or ¬£12 on the door.
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/485323
Show: 8.30pm start, 7pm doors open
Late Night Bar

Double Poetry Book Launch James Peake + Conor Carville
2019-11-21 00:00
English Martyrs:The title poem of Conor Carville‚Äôs second collection takes off from a London church and its congregation, but pushes on out into planetary, even cosmic dimensions. In another poem, the head of the Blessed Oliver Plunkett appears in the TV room of a London mental hospital, to tell the strange story of a mass on Clapham Common in 1984, when the London-Irish assembled to celebrate his beatification. These poems, and many others here, reassert the capacity of song to grasp the shape of a life, a community, or a world, in the shadow of its vast disorder. Sometimes lyric, sometimes violent, this is a book that teems with the martyrdoms, both everyday and epic, that punctuate our lives.
Conor Carville is a poet and critic from Armagh, N. Ireland. His first collection, Harm‚Äôs Way, was published by Dedalus Press. He lives in South London with his wife and daughter.
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Reaction Time of Glass:
This carefully meditated debut explores the imagination’s material legacy, how our ideas have entered wood and stone, celluloid and skin, metal and glass, and become restless in the process.
Reaction Time of Glass is a work of unusual clarity and coherence. Like the cityscapes it contains, it is home to interiors – eerie or homely, dark as well as light – akin to those we‚Äôve inherited and inside of which we perform our lives.
James Peake has worked in trade publishing for several years, predominantly for Penguin Random House and Pan Macmillan, as well as leading independents and literary agencies. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including The Next Review, The Best New British & Irish Poets 2017, Scintilla and Wild Court. ‘Reaction Time of Glass’ is his debut collection.

Rachels Birthday ... how old? Disco Forever!
2019-11-16 00:00 - 2019-11-17 00:00

Jordan Jackson Live
2019-11-15 00:00
A night of the magical Jordan fresh from Copenhagen during London Jazz week, New young vital jazz say you saw her first. This is a star full of light and energy with a voice like honey. Listen to the last 30 mins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07qngmx?fbclid=IwAR1O8jUl6HaJpglWdfU3FWkOFgxQ0aYQUgeHXC4AdxjxYbFqOxifLeIl5_s

J O R D A N J A C K S O N
**Press Release for Debut EP Release**
EP title- ‚ÄúFootprints‚Äù
Artist- Jordan Jackson
Platform- Spotify, iTunes, Deezer
www.jordanjackson.co.uk
Copenhagen based singer songwriter Jordan
Jackson releases her debut EP Footprints, this summer 2017.
The product of 4 years work, Footprints is a 4 track EP that has always forged connections.
With a focus on inclusivity- spanning generations, and cultural background, Footprints
encompasses an uplifting swinging soul vibe with an energy as dynamic as Jordan Jackson‚Äôs
positive persona.
Jordan Jackson has a charming ability to connect with people, the catchy melody of title track
Footprints regularly has whole audiences singing along. With followers from all backgrounds,
Jordan Jackson‚Äôs music transcends religion, race, gender and celebrates integration and
inclusivity. The lyrics address the ability music has to uplift people.
‚ÄúShe sang so beautifully, blew the pain away‚Äù.
Having played prestigious venues such a Ronnie Scott‚Äôs, the Jazz cafe in London, the Standard
Jazz club in Copenhagen, in addition to opening for soul greats such as Incognito, and The
Sugar Hill Gang, Jordan hopes to make bold steps towards performing at music festivals to
inspire global audiences with her infectious brand of sunshine.
Footprints is available for download via all major online streaming channels including Spotify,
www. Jordanjackson.co.uk

Ali Strick Art Therapy Workshop
2019-11-14 00:00

Life Drawing 6.30-8.40
2019-11-12 00:00
live model!

Jilly Welch Birthday
2019-11-09 00:00 - 2019-11-10 00:00

Simon's Birthday Private party
2019-11-08 00:00 - 2019-11-09 00:00

Don't leave Me This Way - mixed show curated by Nicholas Moore until 30th Nov
2019-11-07 00:00 - 2019-11-30 00:00
Don‚ÄôtÔÄÝLeaveÔÄÝMeÔÄÝThisÔÄÝWayÔÄÝÔÇÝ
Don’t leave me this way
I can’t survive, I can’t stay alive
Without your love, no baby
Don’t leave me this way
I can’t exist, I will surely miss your tender kiss
So don’t leave me this way
Oh, baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
So come on down and do what you’ve got to do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can’t you see it’s burning out of control
So come on down and satisfy the need in me
‘Cause only your good loving can set me free
………………
Don‚Äôt leave me this way, or any way for that matter!
Maybe it‚Äôs Brexit, maybe it‚Äôs an affair, could be death. Is there a right way to leave? Somehow, I at least, doubt it!
We are a group of U.K. or Greece-based artists. Some of us have been both at some time or other and one of us, at least is in deep mourning at the loss of our union. All of us have left something behind, whether it be a person a country or an accord. It doesn‚Äôt have to be all Sturm und Drang, some things are good to leave behind. What‚Äôs your take?
The show will take place at the Stash Gallery which is part of Vout-O-Reenees Arts Club near Tower Hill in London. The show opens to the public on the 7th and will run till Saturday 30th November. The show will transfer to the Project Gallery, Athens, Greece in March 2020, opening date to be confirmed.
Artists :
Thodoros Brouskomatis
D&A
Roger Dean
Antonis Frantzeskakis
Nikos Giavropoulos
Rupert Goldsworthy
Roxana Halls
Sally Heard
Wilma Johnson
Katerina Kalogeraki
Alexandros Maganiotis
Jordan Mckenzie
Nicholas Moore
Gustavo Ortiz
Sophie Parkin
Sofia Vlazaki
Antigoni Kavvatha

Bitchin'! It's Jonathon Green's Book Launch!!!
2019-11-06 00:00
Sound And Furies – a dictionary of Women’s slang through the ages.
I cannot tell you how proud I am to be hosting Jonathon’s new Dictionary Launch¬Ý at Vout-O-Reenees (which of course is named after Slim Gaillard’s Dictionary of Jive Slang). Mister Green has been studying slang and writing dictionaries for 40years. Give this man a knighthood for dedication to duty! And please NOBODY tell me why isnt this done by a woman, until you show me the woman who has done this.¬Ý Here at Vouts we identify as Human.
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Women as slang creators and users is perhaps the last, and very important, piece of the slang jigsaw. Women in slang is a pretty sorry story, but women and slang is an undiscovered territory, which this book explores, from fishwives and flappers to Mumsnet.
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Women’s relationship to slang, and especially their role in coining and popularising it, has been not so much a neglected topic as a non-issue: collectors and scholars have often assumed either that slang was an overwhelmingly male preserve, or else that women’s contributions had gone unrecorded, and were consequently inaccessible to research. In Sounds and Furies Jonathon Green has put these assumptions to the test, and found many of them wanting. From fishwives to flappers and from music hall performers to Mumsnetters, women have indeed made contributions to the slang vocabulary of English; by bringing together so much fascinating material about their words and their worlds, this book makes its own contribution to the history of both women and language. (Professor Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication, Worcester College, University of Oxford)

Green’s Dictionary of Slang Online: https://greensdictofslang.com
The Timelines of Slang: http://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com/
Website: http://jonathongreen.co.uk
Twitter: @misterslang

Life drawing Tuesday
2019-11-05 00:00
Professional model . members ¬£5. Non More!
Julia Streets in the Garden Room 5-8

THe Death of Art - Sweet 'Art Halloween Party
2019-11-02 00:00 - 2019-11-03 00:00
FANCY DRESS! The Death of Art – Halloween PartyPublic ¬∑ Hosted by Sweet ‘Art
***Costume Party – Sat 2 November***
Earlybird tickets on sale now!
The Death of Art – An arty party exploring all things deadly, deathly and undead
Sweet ‚ÄòArt are thrilled to invite you to The Death of Art, our next arty party and exhibition, to be hosted in the aptly decadent Vout-O-Reenees arts members club, housed in the crypt of a gothic church. The party will be running alongside our visual art exhibition, showcasing the work of over 30 artists.
Join us if you dare on 2 November for our costume party for an evening of art, cocktails, spooky performance and storytelling, music and a sweet treat gory banquet! Create your own exquisite corpse while enjoying a poisonous cocktail; hear tales of murderous artists and deadly artworks by candlelight, courtesy of the talented Laura Sampson; feast on the entrails of Gilbert & George at our gloriously gory buffet; and then cower in abject terror from performances from The Ghost of Art and Marnie Scarlet! Very fancy dress will be mandatory at pain of death. Think zombie Picasso; think ghostly Van Gogh. Come as horrifying artworks, dead and decaying artists, and murderous makers. You should be dying to come!
Exhibition open: 16 Oct -2 Nov, 18.00-23.00 daily Tues- Sat
Costume Party (Tickets via eventbrite)‚Äì 2 Nov 18.00 ‚Äì late
Tickets for The Death of Art Costume Party can be purchased at
https://the-death-of-art.eventbrite.co.uk
We have created a pinterest board of inspiration for you, take a look for some ideas https://www.pinterest.co.uk/charlotelliston/the-death-of-art/

Hallowe'en 31st truly a carryon at Vout-o-Screamee's
2019-10-31 00:00 - 2019-11-01 00:00
When this night promises to be all about leaving…. you won’t want to leave Vout-O-Reenees once you learn about the horrors that await you outside with Tales from the Crypt. So prepare yourselves to be scared witless not by Boris Johnson but by the other blondes Lily Driscol and Sophie Cameron… bottle of bubbles for best costume.
Tim Wells reads from his pulp skinhead horror Moonstomp.
Sophie Parkin gives a ghostly tour of the haunted building.
Sophie Cameron pours horror on horror
Lilly Driscoll chills the blood
Booger Bee Edgar Allen PosesHave your dark future illuminated by Tarot reader Lucy Porter ‘Exceptionally gifted!’
A short horror film VICIOUS by Oliver Park.
¬£5 door pressure -¬Ý on the door
Amply stocked bar , pumpkins and clean toilets

DIY Art Therapy Workshop for Women
2019-10-30 00:00
Led by Ali Strick. Tickets must be purchased beforehand.

Life drawing 6.30-8.40
2019-10-29 00:00
Hannah Models, Geoff Brunell teaches

PRIVATE PARTY
2019-10-26 00:00 - 2019-10-27 00:00

Natty Bo 's Killer Diller Night with live 7 piece band!
2019-10-25 00:00 - 2019-10-26 00:00
A vintage night of fun. Dancing shoes, appropriate dress lipsticked smiles! ¬Ý welcome …

VOUT-O-REENEES!

Book Launch - Stephen Ellcock's All Good Things
2019-10-24 00:00
Wonderful Man wonderful book. Ideal Christmas present for anyone with a curious mind and only ¬£20!

life drawing 6.30-8.40
2019-10-22 00:00
Sophie models
Julia Street training workshop in the gallery 5-8

Footwrk
2019-10-19 00:00 - 2019-10-20 00:00
Live performances – Soul Music from Aanya¬Ý Martin, Jazz Funk, Danny Trash, dancing, Djs Dreamhaus Misha, Tres Chill.

PV - Sweet 'Art's Halloween Show! Always good always busy.
2019-10-17 00:00 - 2019-10-18 00:00
Opening Party mixed show by this forward thinking Feminist charity of curators.The Death of ArtAn event exploring all things deadly, deathly and undead
Sweet ‚ÄòArt are thrilled to invite you to The Death of Art, our next arty party and exhibition, to be hosted in the aptly decadent Vout-O-Reenee’s arts members club, housed in the crypt of a gothic church. The party will be running alongside our visual art exhibition, showcasing the work of over 30 artists.
Join us if you dare on 2 November for our costume party for an evening of art, cocktails, spooky performance and storytelling, music and a sweet treat gory banquet! Create your own exquisite corpse while enjoying a poisonous cocktail; hear tales of murderous artists and deadly artworks by candlelight, courtesy of the talented Laura Sampson; feast on the entrails of Gilbert & George at our gloriously gory buffet; and then cower in abject terror from performances from The Ghost of Art and Marnie Scarlet! Very fancy dress will be mandatory at pain of death. Think zombie Picasso; think ghostly Van Gogh. Come as horrifying artworks, dead and decaying artists, and murderous makers. You should be dying to come!
The Stash Gallery, Vout-O-Reenee‚Äôs, 30 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB
Art exhibition open: 17 Oct -2 Nov, 18.00-23.00 daily Tues- Sat Costume Party (Tickets via eventbrite)‚Äì 2 Nov 18.00 ‚Äì late Tickets for The Death of Art Costume Party can be purchased at https://the-death-of-art.eventbrite.co.uk Please contact us for further queries on press@wearesweetart.com
For further details and info about us please check out our website and social media:
www.wearesweetart.com twitter.com/wearesweetart facebook.com/wearesweetart instagram.com/we_are_sweet_art/

Booker Prize Night Party for Lucy Ellmann
2019-10-14 00:00
If you haven’t read this book ask yourself why? this will challenge all your preconceptions of how long a book needs to be, at over 1000 pages its not one for the tube or the beach, but leisurely days at home on the sofa . Perfect autumn reading that surprises you with its humour, wit and depth of understanding of how we function as humans . How we go on, ‘the fact that…’ we do.
Galley Beggar Press Publishers continue to courageously publish books outside the commercial remit , they are celebrating Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann, but it is they that should be praised too, for bringing it to our table.

C.A.Sutton Band (Flamenco Thief) + Wrap party for Chris Spring
2019-10-12 00:00 - 2019-10-13 00:00
C A Sutton Band (formerly known as The Flamenco Thief) plays live.
Accoustic wizardry…
C.A.Sutton. Full Live Band Experience.
C.A.Sutton is the new full 7-piece live band experience from Craig Sutton (formerly The Flamenco Thief).
Craig is accepting offers for festival bookings as the live band and/or solo; with the option of performing both sets across the weekend.
FULL BAND
Craig Sutton, previously known as The Flamenco Thief, is an English guitarist whose phenomenal rise within the DIY music scene has seen him become one of the busiest touring artists in the country.
Specializing in fast rhythmic guitar playing Craig has earned a reputation for mesmerising live performances in which he uses a Spanish acoustic guitar with the Boss RC loop pedal to blend modern rhythms with time-honoured Flamenco techniques.
After seven years in the making C.A.Sutton has arrived with his second album featuring the full live band,
The live show features Angela Chan on strings (Placebo, Slamboree, Beans on Toast and Lanterns on the Lake), Simon Wiley on keys (personal engineer to Bryan Ferry and recorded the new album), Robbie Verrecchia on percussion (Jamma de Samba & Slamboree Soundsystem), Jack Kitchen on drums (And The Wasters) and Rich Godfrey on Bass.
The album launch earlier this year was selected by Bristol‚Äôs Jam Jar Collective to launch the reopening of the venue and sold out in advance (videos links included below).
SOLO
A particularly resourceful musician, Craig‚Äôs solo set utilizes the guitar as a percussive instrument, layering metronomic hip-hop beats by carefully beating the body; creating a unique energy that few solo instrumentalists manage to achieve.
His influences of ska, hip-hop and gypsy swing are evident throughout Craig‚Äôs music, helping him craft a catalogue of songs that are intelligent but accessible.
The compositions revere Flamenco‚Äôs heritage while embracing music technology, and as a result each song is delicately poised between the classical and contemporary.
His eponymous solo debut six-track EP was released in the UK in 2011 and quickly gained recognition from the likes of the BBC and NME, both of which have gone on to endorse the artist.
The debut album, Liberating Parts of the Cosmos, was released in 2013 and supported by a three month European tour, spanning 17 countries.
From 2014 ‚Äì 2018 Craig has strengthened his status as one of the hardest working musicians in the business performing over 500 concerts across 40 countries and three continents. The new album, Where The Sunshine Lay is due for full release later this month with tracks already having received air play in 7 countries across Europe.
