Skin Two Halloween Ball – Venue Announced

Skin Two Halloween Ball is on Saturday October 29th – and it’s part of a three-day programme of events, so you can make a weekend of it. There’s all kinds of stuff going on, from a femdom party on the Friday through to a live band on the Saturday, a dungeon, performances and exhibitions. Read more

Meet Mistress Rebekka Raynor – at two Skin Two events

Star of the last Skin Two Rubber Ball was our Dungeon Mistress, one of London’s elite dominatrixes, top event hostess and superior fetish model (see Skin Two magazine issue 61, pages 19 to 24) Mistress Rebekka Raynor.  Read more

Salon Fetish – a New London Play Party

Salon Fetish was recently launched at the newly refurbished Blue Angel venue in South West London.

Salon Fetish is a BDSM play party on the last Friday of every month from 10pm – 3am. They have a full range of play equipment, including a bondage wheel, cages, spanking benches, beds and St Andrew’s crosses.

Dress code is strictly fetish: rubber/latex, leather, uniforms, medical, role play, corsets, high heels, masks, PVC, goth and so on.

Info at www.thefclub.com/events/salonfetish
Tel: 07778 758888 Email: info@blueangelcocktailbar.com

Richmond BDSM group was at the launch night – you should join if you’re local to Richmond, see www.richmondbdsm.org

Photos by Tim Woodward and Joanna

Sensual Punishment – the Newest, Hottest Femdom & BDSM Play Party in London UK

Sensual Punishment has at least 30 of the hottest dominatrixes, sexy and sadistic – for YOU the submissive, to fulfil your wildest fetish fantasies.
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Salon Fetish re-launches 29th July – South West London

Salon Fetish will be re-launched on Friday 29th July at the new Blue Angel venue in South West London. Salon Fetish is a BDSM play party that will be staged on the last Friday of every month from 10pm – 3am.

Join our decadent play party, equipped with the very best range of play equipment including a bondage wheel, cages, spanking benches, beds and St Andrew’s crosses. A beautiful social space as well for meeting new friends and playmates.

Dress code is strictly fetish: rubber/latex, leather, uniforms, medical, role play, corsets, high heels, masks, PVC, goth and so on, let your imagination run wild and the boundary between fantasy and reality fall.

For the Launch Party the ticket price will be £25 per person but as a Special Offer, anyone mentioning Skin Two – the ticket price will be reduced to £20 per person with free one night membership.

Info at www.thefclub.com/events/salonfetish
Tel: 07778 758888
Email: info@blueangelcocktailbar.com

Miss Alternative UK 2011 London, May 14th

On May 14th London’s Scala nightclub will play host to 24 pretty unconventional pin-ups and beauties with bite, as they compete to claim the title of ‘Miss Alternative UK 2011’. Judged by a panel of alt. celebrities, punctuated by burlesque, twisted cabaret and sideshow-style performances, and followed by an all-night afterparty, the live final of this fresh new modeling competition is set to be a celebration of subcultural style… and one hell of a night out!

Open to any female UK resident over 18, who can confidently say she has the look, lifestyle and attitude to represent the nation’s alternative scene, the inaugural Miss Alternative UK has attracted entrants from across the country. Three months of online public voting, closing on April 14th, will decide which of the tattooed, pierced, mohawked, dreadlocked, leather & latex clad hopefuls take part in the live finals a month later. On the night, the 24 finalists will be put through their paces onstage in four competitions, including a catwalk show, talent contest and interview.

Charged with the task of eliminating entrants at each hurdle is an alt. all-star judging panel, comprised of internationally published fetish and fashion model Masuimi Max, Steven Severin of goth / punk pioneers ‘Siouxsie and the Banshees’, body mod guru and extreme performer Samppa von Cyborg and Die So Fluid‘s latex-clad front woman Grog. Whilst the judges deliberate after each round, shows from The McCarricks, Lydia Darling, Sophia Landi, Transmutant and British Heart will ensure the 1,000 capacity Scala is kept entertained and in suspense until the overall winner is crowned at midnight.

In addition to her title for the next 12 months, ‘Miss Alternative UK 2011’ will receive a prize package including magazine cover and calendar photo shoots, VIP club entry for one year and a custom couture outfit – all courtesy of event sponsors Handjobs Media, Emerald Angel, Devolution Magazine, Alt Fashion magazine, Prong Jewellery, Club Rub, PhotosWithAttitude, Marcus T and Club AntiChrist.

Following the crowning, revellers and runners-up are invited to stay and party in the company of an eclectic bill of DJs and a host of weird and wonderful walkabout acts, for Miss Alternative UK’s marathon after party (“The Alternative Ball”). Celebrations kick off immediately after the winner is crowned with a set from a special guest band (to be announced March 6th – stay tuned), and run right through to 6am!

Miss Alternative UK live finals 2011
May 14th at The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL – 5 mins from King’s Cross tube & overground
Doors – 6.30pm. Live finals – 8pm. Crowning & start of Alternative Ball – 12am. Close – 6am.
Tickets are now on sale in the clubantichrist.com shop, and on Ticketweb and Skiddle, priced at £25, or £50 for VIP (limited to 40). Tickets for the afterparty will be available on the door, subject to availability, at £10.

www.missalternativeuk.com
twitter.com/MissAltUk
www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Alternative-UK/153288128045021

Manchester’s fabulous Club Lash moves to Saturday night!

The Club Lash goddesses are very excited: in March 2011, Club Lash is returning to a Saturday night slot.

Vampire Queen Rosie Lugosi is at the helm, ably assisted by Scarlet Woman Miss Jinny, and Wardrobe Mistress Lady H. ‘When Club Lash began, way back in 1998, we were on a Saturday. But fetish-friendly venues in Manchester are like gold dust – so we had to move to Fridays for a while.’

But now they have managed to swing the second Saturday of each month at The Tunnel, 6 Whitworth Street, Manchester. Same great venue with its atmospheric underground ambience, same friendly staff, same spankingly warm welcome.

And there are amazing room deals to be found at The Hotel International next door (http://thehotelinternational.co.uk). Gay-run and kink-friendly, you’ll find fellow Lash club-goers in the hotel bar. But it gets booked up fast on Club Lash weekends, so hurry! And with deals like this, you could make it a kinky weekend, taking in famed Manchester stores such as Kiku www.kikuboutique.co.uk , Nua and Affleck’s Palace. Join the Club Lash Facebook group for the latest news.

‘Of course, our January and February events will be happening on the regular second Friday. But keep Saturday March 12th in your diary. The theme is Pervy Popstars and it’s going to be a hell of a party!’

www.clublash.com
www.myspace.com/clublash

Club Subversion’s New Venue

Subversion is at their NEW venue on Saturday 8th January for their Alternative New Year event.

So many of us have to do the vanilla family thing on New Year’s eve so Subversion’s January event is always a great way to see in the New Year a few days later without the added pressure of no tubes or buses running, huge bar and cab prices, and instead, just seeing in the alternative New Year in kinky style.

The theme for January’s party will be ‘Girls will be boys’ and boys will be girls’ so drag it up to your heart’s content and of course if you don’t fancy coming in theme, then regular fetish wear is acceptable. However, they do have a strict fetish dress code so click here to read the full dress code policy on their website.

The new venue (only five minutes walk from their previous residence The Hub) is at 33-35 Commercial Road, E1 1LD, near Aldgate tube. It has a more underground feel… and they are able to lift some of the previous venue’s restrictions.

For those of you who love to play there is still a big dungeon area with loads of equipment by Playpenz and definitely enough room to crack a whip. There is a separate medical room and now a separate couples’ room as well. The popular maid service area continues at the new premises.

For those of you who like to dance, the resident and guest DJs at Subversion will still be tearing up the dance floor.

Advance tickets are £15 for members and £18 for non members (+ £1.50 booking fee). Tickets available on www.clubsubversion.com or by calling the ticket booking hotline on 020 7582 4545. Admission on the door is £20

Club Subversion, 33-35 Commercial Road, E1 1LD
10 pm – 5am, Saturday 8th January

Website: www.clubsubversion.com

Advance tickets are available at these outlets…

Breathless, 131 Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9BJ Tel: 0207 278 1666

Expectations, 75 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3RY Tel: 0207 739 0292

Fairy Gothmother, 15 Lamb Street, Old Spitalfields Market, E1 6EA Tel: 0207 377 0370

Fettered Pleasures, 90 Holloway Road, London, N7 8JG Tel: 0207 619 9333

Honour, Waterloo Shop, 86 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7AB Tel: 0207 401 8219

Liberation, 49 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9HE Tel 020 7916 3346

Master U, 330 Kennington Lane, London, SE11 5HY Tel 020 7582 9406

Anger is an Energy: Festival of Sins Gets Fired Up

We were lost again. Oh why had I decided to just throw ourselves into central London and assume we would find our way? In The Crown on New Oxford Street we supped trendy cider and distracted ourselves with a fashion assessment of the Shorebitch geek behind the bar. The Timmy Mallet glasses got me into enough of a rage to make me forget we weren’t at the Festival of Sins yet.

I need to learn tolerance. I need to sever my ties with international fascists, we’re a global village now. My companion Charley egged us on out, eager to show off her new Atsuko Kudo Bolero top. For this is a big reason why so many kinksters ‘exhibit’ themselves, they need a place to affirm their purchases and allegiance to the scene. Her urgent eyes spurred me to trust my instincts that the guys in the bar were onto something when they waved their fingers up with a south-easterly flourish and nailed our destination with the proclamation: ‘Reckon its that way, we think. Yeah, try that way!’

I thought The Den and Centro would be more well-known, or is it that you don’t really find locals in the middle of London on a Saturday night? As it was, down the next side-road there was the promised projection of the Festival of Sins stiletto logo on the opposite wall. Charley and I were excited having been hyped up by the great reviews from Bizarre magazine and Time Out. Mostly they talked of an intense programme of events and the cross-sexual openness of the night. Flounce in dress-up nights is always fun or funny, and tonight with the theme of Wrath we were to experience extra helpings of ire and passion.

You had to give the club a massive credit for the effort; while changing we could overhear the internal politics of performers kicking off – in my experience this was always a sign that people cared. And there was a lot to care about. Three bands (including the electro of Sister Suicide), three fashion shows, art installations and fetish booths, stalls, a photo studio, free goodie-bags, free latex Reshining from Pjur, plus the obligatory play areas and plethora of notabale DJs (with Torture Garden’s Allen TG no less). At no point did we walk into a room and find nothing going on, it was a riot for the visual senses.

Having been spun through a few circuits we stayed awhile to watch Carli Jefferson and her extraordinarily bonkers re-enactment of ‘anger requests’. My pointed wind-up for Charley: ‘Frustration at human emotions being projected onto cats’ was done so precisely in its comic blur of furious expression that she laughed immediately in recognition at my ‘pet’ hate.

The Rubber 55 fashion show debut was another highlight for us latex enthusiasts, its style more suited to practising BDSMers than just for clubbing and show. (Check out my links in this direction on my news post at 3xL). Just after we caught the chintzy but surprising charms of The Feterati Girls, who turned a dance routine into a raucous and inventive shibari-inflected variety turn, buoyed on by an infectious and flirtatious girliness.

The club itself was a cracking venue but to my mind could have supported the splendid aspirations of the Festival better. Advertised to go on till seven am the upstairs bar shut at two am. Maybe the Den and Centro had licence issues, but they could have easily made a few grand more had they stayed open. This forced bodies to hang around downstairs in the play area, unfortunately positioned on the mezzanine through-way level between dancefloors, and thus the bustle occasionally compromised play and the space to watch.

Spotting a few shirts-out lads, I made a mental note to not to rubber up too much next time. As with all first time visits to a club night, I guess one has to find the right pitch for future visits. Festival of Sins’s dresscode is optional, which meant anyone could walk in, a device to increase revenue flow and promote inclusiveness, no doubt. With more fetish nights than ever in a time of recession this is perhaps becoming increasingly necessary, though without being snobby I had come expecting not to see the back-of-the-bus brigade. I have since been told the excellent news that Festival of Sins won’t be letting in anyone who doesn’t at make some kind of effort. The next one will be themed ‘Sloth’ and takes place on Saturday December 11th, so lets hope the devil finds some other mischief for those idle in the wardrobe department.

In conclusion it seemed to me Festival of Sins ‘Wrath’ was a good-time celebration of alternative culture – and an above-average one at that – rather than a hardcore BDSM night for extremists like myself. I know I should learn to be more tolerant. Dear readers, Charley has since punished me for this. After which, yes I punished her back, but she has since punished me some more.

By Jackson Rocco
Photos by Rah www.rahrah.info

Stiletto Party at The F Cub, London

The F Club is almost unique in the fetish world. They don’t rent premises for the night, like just about everyone else – they actually have their own building, so they control the environment totally. At The F Club, everyone you deal with, from the doorman to the bar manager are all permanent staff under the control of your hosts, Brian and Caroline. This makes a big difference – other clubs have to deal with whatever security, bar staff and management they are lumbered with at assorted venues and it can be a nightmare. That’s why many fetish clubs move around as much as they do.

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