| Dear friends, please join us on a trip through time to an unspecified point in the Victorian era. The air quality is poor as fires and gas-lamps light and warm London. To the east Jack is ripping. In Fleet Street Sweeney Todd is slipping Mrs.Lovett a bit of dodgy meat. The air may be poor but it is also full of heady ideas brought back from the east by travellers. Madame Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn and the spiritualists are also active. Houdini is on his way.
We have heard tell of a secret society with links to Peter Ackroyd's mystic Londoners - Dr. Dee, William Blake, the druids on Primrose Hill; the gypsies and cunning folk of the English countryside. After many years following clues, rumours and lies we find ourselves in the shadow of London Bridge. It is dark but both the bridge and the river below are a throbbing mass of humanity. We knock upon a heavy wooden door, whisper some words and slip within. We are inside the ZOETROPE.
Confused modern people, a ZOETROPE is a form of optical illusion, a magic lantern where you can view images that appear to be moving. In the pre-TV days the Victorians loved that stuff. So, from one magic circle that enchants and delights to another as we request your presence on Easter Sunday evening (4th April) at a grand séance. The female forces behind WiSH and Jaded, like the witches of MacBeth and the three graces of Ancient Greece, will be joining hands at London's most exciting new venue, Cable, and we will be summoning a combination of WiSH and Jaded favourites, old friends and special guest DJs to manifest in its three rooms. The full and fearsome list of gods and demons is listed adjacent. But it's not just magic for the ears that we will bring - WiSH VJ Hobbyboy will be opening his box of tricks in the WiSH room. He will have a Magic Lantern, an Alethiometer, and will be showing saucy daguerreotypes. Please also note that Cable has many lavatories so there will no need to go in the doorway of Subway as there was in days gone by.
Those of you who are not in the grips of the Opium Poppy will recall that last year we promised you 3 wishes this year and this is the first of three Bank Holiday WiSHes. It will be followed by a WiSH in Paris on May Day weekend (Sat 1st) and then back to our old home at Gramaphone on the second May Bank Holiday (Sat 29th) . And, throwing aside the three wish limit, there may be a surprise in the great outdoors in July - calm down euphemism fans.
Enough of the future, back to the past - we will see you at Cable for some fanny by gaslight. Maybe Phileas Fog will return from his travels and bring us some chips and dips. |
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