A night of romance and surrealism. . . .
Are you fatigued by the same old dour techno nights or commerical cookie cutter drag shows?
At CASSANDRA'S, enjoy a 1980s style movie DIVE BAR SETTING with SURREALIST ELEMENTS – drinks, cocktails on round tables to intermittent drag queen, performance art & showgirl numbers, akin to Katrina's Club in the film VAMP starring GRACE JONES where she emerges as VAMPIRE with her killer sex and kabuki dance to bamboozled old worker men, and the expressive, passionate contemporary yet flash-trash dances seen in FLASHDANCE performed to trashy New Yorkers sitting at the bar & tables. . . . .
At the round tables after your work shift catching up with friends or coming alone to unwind and possibly meeting a new flame, feel RELAXED YET SLEAZY YET GLAMOROUS . . . THAT CERTAIN 1980S VIBE OF GAUDINESS YET GLAMOUR, SLEAZE YET SOPHISTICATION & STYLE SENSATION. . . .
GLAMOROUS 1980S MUSIC WILL PLAY, THAT COLD STYLISH SNARE, LUSH SYNTHESISERS, AND RAUNCHY GUITAR OF 1980S SONGS, IMBIBING THE TRASHY YET STYLISH VULGAR VIVACIOUSNESS OF 1980S TO THE NIGHT.
Imagine movies such as SCARFACE and AMERICAN GIGOLO, so suave yet trashy are the characters; ITALIAN AMERICAN & CUBANS (feel free to dress in this manner) IN A SLEAZY NEW YORK DIVE POPULATED BY SURREAL NIGHT FLOWERS.
The relaxed salt-of-the-earth feeling of a Wetherspoons how you sit around with friends, but with mad transvestites and showgirls swanning about it – and the lighting is not dive bar yellow but demure blues purples whites. . . That combination creates that 1980s New York dive bar feel with sleaze & style & androgynous beings. . . . . TELEPORT this into the DALSTON LONDON VIBE however with its hard fashion severity edge on a cold November night but we bring the warmth, tempering the cold hard-faced poseurs of London with a more trashy let-loose New York unpretentious feel. . . . . A combination creating this NEW UNIQUE FUSION IN THE MIND OF CASSANDRA.
DRESS CODE:
MEN: ITALIAN-AMERICANS AND CUBANS IN WHITE VESTS WITH GREASE STAINS; SUITED AND BOOTED WORKERS; SUAVE GIGOLOS IN PINK OR WHITE OR BABY BLUE SUIT OR FUR.
WOMEN: ROCK CHICKS IN RIPPED FISHNETS LEATHER PVC, BEJWELLED SHOWGIRLS IN RHINESTONE BEADS & OSTRICH FETAHERS, GEISHAS IN STARK MAKEUP, OR 1980S CHICK IN SIMPLE CLOTHES LIKE T SHIRT & SHORTS BUT WITH BIG MESSY HAIR AND SHABBY DUNGAREES WITH A STRAP HANGING OFF; BANANARAMA LOOK.
ANDROGYNES: MARLENE DIETRICH TRANSVESTITISM, ENGLISH NEW ROMANTICISM, LINDSAY KEMP FLOWERS & MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM WHIMSICAL SURREALISM
PERFORMERS TBA