Thread: The Bongo Club Cabaret is Back!

The Edinburgh Fringe’s most infamous and anarchic Cabaret revue is back! The Bongo Club Cabaret, returns to delight late-night Festival revellers in its den of strange entertainments comprised of some of the best, hand-picked acts from across the Fringe.

Enter an ever-changing world of music, comedy, burlesque , performance art, vaudeville, circus and theatre. Putting the verse into diverse and the sin into scintillating, The Bongo Club Cabaret is the place to see all the most controversial and wonderful performers the Fringe has to offer. Can’t decide what to see this year? Then join us any night and sample a little bit of everything for only £8 and then dance until dawn!

Hosted by special guest hosts each night including The List Operators (8th), Chris Cresswell (9th), Richard Higgins (10th), Mysti Vine (11th-17th) & Dusty Limits (18th-30th), tasters from this year’s line-up include…

Tricity Vogue-The Blue Lady, Kiki Kaboom , Frisky & Mannish, The Creative Martyrs, The List Operators, Miss Leggy Pee , Anna Pocket ROCKET, Piff the Magic Dragon , 3 Gaga Heads, Lynn-Ruth Miller, Missy Malone , Honey Wilde , Rosie Wilby, Daiquiri Dusk , The Suitcase Royale, and many, many more!

With Live bands to end the show every Sunday, the Bongo is open until 5am for drinking, dancing and debauchery with the stars of the Fringe, The Bongo Cabaret is your late-night Fringe fix.

7th – 30th August (excluding 14th & 20th) at The Bongo Club, 22:15-23:30 venue open until 5am every night with Live Bands on Sundays. Only £8.00 (£7.00)

Seven 4-star reviews in 2009!

"Go, and then go again." - Time Out

"A very accomplished and confident evening. Both wonderful, and gorgeous." - FringeReview.co.uk

"Thoughts that variety is dead are dispelled... Rhymes with Purple know what they're doing, and if the acts are this good every night, this could become a must see. I want to go again!" - The List

"Refreshingly spontaneous and true to the spirit of the Fringe." - Fest

"One of the best showcases for the most entertaining, jaw-dropping and downright bizarre acts... simply one of the best value, high quality chances to see the pick of the Fringe out there. Long may it continue." - The Skinny

"A dynamic and intensely entertaining night for cabaret enthusiasts." - Three Weeks

"Make sure not to leave it off your itinerary." - The Scotsman

The Bongo Club Cabaret is being produced and programmed by award-winning Theatre Company and directors of the Glasgow Cabaret Festival, Rhymes with Purple.

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The Bongo Club Cabaret is now on Twitter @bongocabaret - follow us, into a den of inequity!

Some exciting additions to the line-up include...

Amazing, Glasgow junk orchestra - Hussy & the Wolf

Melbourne theatre-maker, performer and producer of the underground performance collective, The Last Tuesday Society - Bron Batten

One half of the incredible The List Operators and comic genius - Richard Higgins

Stunning Jazz-Cabaret diva - Maria Tecce

With loads more to announce and surprises to see on the night,The Bongo Club Cabaret is at the cutting edge of eclectic and innovative cabaret performance at the Fringe Festival and is pushing the boundaries for what a night at a cabaret show should be. Guaranteed to deliver something exciting, different, weird and thought provoking every night Do not miss!

L x

Even more exciting updates to the line-up...

Mister Joe Black

Out of the Blue

Pippa the Rippa

Sxip Shirey

Annabel Carberry

Ivy Paige

Chris Cresswell

Circus Trick Tease

Dr Brown

Kev Orkian

The List Operators

Michael Topping

Fuddlepuck

Mrs Bang

Strong & Wrong

Suitcase Royale

Morgan West

2 Man No Show

And that is just the tip of the epically entertaining iceberg...we open on the 7th, 16 DAYS!!!!

Lucille x

So far we've welcomed Frisky & Mannish, Piff the Magic Dragon , The 3 Gaga Heads, 2 R Mansion, Daiquiri Dusk , Kiki Kaboom , The List Operators, Tricity Vogue, The Creative Martyrs , Mister Meredith, Tommy Bradson, Strong & Wrong and the incredible gypsy circus band Rapskallion to the Bongo stage.

First night saw us end the show and lead into an incredible final ever Headspin with a set from DJ Yoda and last night we had a special extended show followed by live music and then DJ Rufus through to 4am!

Keep an eye on our blog for updates and photos:

Http://bongoclubcab.posterous.com

Oh yeah, the Bongo Club Cabaret is the place to be!

Were 2 R Mansion the matrix-style choreographed guys you were telling me about? If so, do you know which show they're part of, and will they be at Bongo again?

x

2 R Mansion were the awesome performance group who did the Martix style routine as well as som amazing and funny physical comedy.

The group are street performers this year but they're on again on Sunday night and then they're leaving Edinburgh.

hubby and i are hoping to get through for at least one show...totally enjoyed our evening in the bongo club at last years fringe.xxx

Top top show last night!
Brilliant!
Every single act was excellent! well done to everyone for putting together such a tremendous evening!

And to top it off I apparently have a great laugh! Hey I got a hug from dusty limits because of it so it can't be bad! X

Well...

It's all over.

After 21 shows with 6 seperate comperes and 78 individual acts filling 145 performance spots with 4 five am finishes and 504 free bottles of Tiger Beer plus 6 no-shows, 5 last minute drop-outs and one "You're here? Get on stage and fill 10mins!!" for a certain Participant Development Co-ordinator for the Fringe Society the 2010 run of the Bongo Club Cabaret has come to an end.

We've had some great reviews (5 stars!) and some not so great (less than 5 stars!). We've played to sold-out, standing room only nights and we've played to nights that were more... intimate.

But best of all, we've welcomed the following people to our Bongo stage:

Give it up for;

2 Man No Show
2 R Mansion
3 Gaga Heads
Amy Duncan
Anna Pocket Rocket
Baby Warhol
Bareback Banshees
Bron Batten
Chris Cresswell
Chris Cross
Circus Trick Tease
Claudi O'doherty
Creative Martyrs
Daiquiri Dusk
Daniel Baird
David Bear
Dr Brown
Fat Kitten
Frisky & Mannish
Fuddlepuck
Good Gracious
The Grandees
Helen Arney
Honey Wilde
Hot Gusset
Isabel Hertaeg
Ivy Paige
Joe Black
Jump The Musical
Kev Orkian
Kiki Kaboom
Kiki Lovechild
Leggy Pee
Liberty Sweet
The List Operators
Lois Of The Lane
Lynn Ruth Miller
Marcus Machiavellian
Maria Tecce
Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle
The May Days
Michel Topping
Missy Malone
Mister Meredith
Morgan & West
Movin' Melvin Brown
New Art Club
Not Quite Quartet
Nothing To Show
Oliver Meech
Piano Divalicious
Piff The Magic Dragon
Rosie Wilby
Rug Tomcat
Sharron Matthews
Spontaneous Broadway
Strong & Wrong
Suitcase Circus
Suitcase Royale
Susanah Mcdonald
Sxip Shirey
Tammy Stone
Tap Ole
Teniah Twisted
Tommy Bradson
Tricity Vogue
Vachel
Vendetta Vain
Vicky Butterfly
Victoria Aitken
Wild Card Kitty

And these excellent bands who helped us party into the small hours of the morning;

The Crooked Fiddle Band
Sxip Shirey & The Horndog Brass Band
Graveyard Train
Hussy & The Wolf
Rapskallion
Sharon King & The Reckless Angels
The True Gents

Roll on 2011!