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Clare Rixon checks out Lost Vagueness at The Big Chill...I wandered into LV at 12.00 midday and was tickled to see people getting down to the sounds, inhibitions abandoned in favour of getting stuck in to the fun and frolics.
Everyone was dancing, the music meandered from 1950s rock and roll to gospel. A gorgeous couple of crew members were jiving like no one was watching. But people were watching and applauded their handsome efforts.
I bumped into some brides awaiting their wedding in the Chapel of Love and Loathing...
"Who are you marrying?" I asked.
"Each other" they replied
Their attire was as random as everything else in LV. The fact that this was only Friday lunchtime was clearly irrelevant. I wondered if they'd peak too early but realised, it was only gonna get madder and funnier by the hour.
"So how do you feel before you're special day?" I asked the brides who were dressed in the most bizarre manner - everything from stockings and suspenders sans dress to nuns habits, with wimpole and very little else. It was comic and sexy and inclusive. Ladies in skimpy, nasty nylon nighties with hair in rollered domes welcome the wedding guests into the chapel.
It was a beautiful, mad festival moment.
Clare Rixon
Lost Vagueness at The Big Chill
Let the mayhem begin as Lost Vagueness bring their Chapel of Love and Loathe to The Big Chill, for its only UK outing this year!
This will be Lost Vagueness' first camping festival of the summer, the only outing this year for their Chapel (see below) and the first time they've toured it outside of Glastonbury festival's Green Fields!
We believe that the Lost Vagueness theatrical madness will compliment all the music, arts and entertainments on offer at The Big Chill, and gives Big Chillers an even wider range of choice at what will surely be the best weekend of the summer.
So, Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, we proudly present to you. The Chapel of Love and Loathe.
The heart of Lost Vagueness will beat in their original, world-famous Chapel of Love and Loathe. Bigger than ever before this 40m travelling Church hosts ceremonies in a 24x24ft boxing ring where genuine ministers (of varying colourful personas!) marry, confirm the vows (or divorce!) couples, between midday and 7pm daily. Happy newlyweds will receive a commemorative certificate and a slice of wedding cake washed down with fizz, before they start their happy day with the first dance.
After dark things take a different turn. Lost Vagueness will be themed each night. Lost Souls (Indoctrination and Intoxication) is Friday's theme, Heavenly Creatures fill Saturday while Sunday will be a Night of the Living Dead.
Sunday afternoon will see a mass wedding, with up to 20 couples making their vows. Bookings will be taken at the Chapel early on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings. And don't fret if you haven't packed your wedding dress - you'll be able to kit yourself out in Lost Vagueness' own dressing up area, which has plenty of outfits to ensure you look your best on your special day.
From 8pm to 2am, The Chapel will host cabaret and circus acts and bands that all draw on Lost Vagueness' leftfield merrymaking tastes. The bands cover a wide range to styles (lots of surprises are in store but we can tell you to expect some fine rockabilly). Cabaret and circus performances showcase the skills and twisted fun that Lost Vagueness is renowned for; welcome to the world of Roxy Velvet, Empress Star, The Lost Pirates and The Fruitellas, where anything goes, in cabaret clothes!
Between 2am to 5am, DJs take over, with LV favourite DJ Miss Pink (among others) taking to the decks before, during and after kooky, late-night cabaret. And there's also The Crypt, within the Chapel, offering Lost Vagueness' own chill out space.
More details about the performers, the ceremonies, the twenty gorgeous nuns, and details of how you can win an advanced wedding ceremony booking at The Chapel of Love and Loathe, are coming soon.
*Weddings in The Chapel of Love & Loathe are not recognized under UK law, so if you wake up with a 'what have I done!?!' hangover on Monday don't worry, there'll be no legal bills.
If you're still happily betrothed after the weekend then we wish all the very best in your future together…
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Lenard Rudy La Crioux & The All Stars
Paloma Faith and the Healers
The Lost Pirates
The Pricillas
Think
Ivan the Terrible
Polly CupCake
Tommy Angel
Empress Stah
Roxy velvet
Kid Carpet
The Fastest Spoons on Earth
Gobsausage
Joe and Austa
Dougie
Fionna FI-FI
Ted
The Laundrettas
Terror Aerobics
Written: 5th Jun, 06
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