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With a portfolio dressing the likes of Kylie, The Scissor Sisters and Duran Duran and an anecdotal library brimming with stories from sellotaping a gerbil to a record player to hanging out with Banksy, Fee Doran needed little prompting to reflect upon her colourful life and why she ‘Loves Clothes but hates fashion’
There are many thrills to be derived from the telling of ghost stories and the macabre; in high school, my friends and I used to spend our music lessons holding fake seances in the rehearsal rooms, in lieu of perfecting performances of Clair De Lune for the fiftieth god-forsaken week. While I'm fairly sure that if we had conjured up the spectre of choice, a lifetime of trauma would have ensued, I think we were always slightly disappointed when nothing happened, other than a teacherly lecture as to why we don't try and raise the dead on school time.
Be aware: when searching for The Zetter Townhouse, Google-Map is not your friend; it seems convinced that the emerging cocktail bar is located within a rather officious looking block of flats. Resisting clawing at someone's office door and calling for cocktails, we eventually uncovered that the bar is located in the charming unnamed building opposite.
I’ve been to a few cabaret and burlesque nights in recent weeks. The beauty of them is that even though the basic concept is the same, the way the sets are devised and performed always seems unique and never grows tired or stale. Kind of like the inverse of a Jodi Picoult novel. My latest venture took me to The Black Cat Cabaret at Café de Paris in Soho where a decadent interior expertly conjurs up the palatial atmosphere of French vaudeville. Imagine Moulin Rouge, but with more sex and the absence of an over-acting Nicole Kidman.
The Charlatans were once billed as the world’s longest surviving rock band. This may have been tied up in record company rhetoric and the tragic circumstances that surrounded the making of Tellin’ Stories but there were other reasons for their longevity.
