The next Dr Sketchy is…

When: 7pm, Wednesday 5th May
Where: The Burlesque Lounge – upstairs, 267 William Street, Northbridge
Model: Celestina
Cost: $15 on the door

Dimity your beloved Bar Wench has snatched up the reigns on Dr Sketchys this year! So prepare yourself for the mayhem of talented and intriguing sirens about to grace the stage for your twitching sketch hands!

This month our sensual model Celestina is plucked from the jaw droppingly talented performance group Eccentrix.  Hailing from Melbourne she mesmerizes crowds with her sultry bellydance and captivating array of fire toys. You can look but you can’t touch the snaking limbs of this fiery beauty who is sure to haunt your dreams long after the night is over!

A good thing the bar is fully stocked to handle all your dry throats from the gasps of amazement and lip licking as this wonderous creature  bares her flawless skin and golden locks amidst the flames. Definately a Dr Sketchys to remember! Bring rembrants if you’ve got em’!

Much love always to our sponsors:

• Source Cafe on the corner of Beaufort and Brisbane Streets – our favourite purveyors of organic food

• Passchendales Accessories in London Court & Carillion Arcade – totally decadent vintage and burlesque-themed millinery, handbags and jewellery

• Kittie Chaos – glamorous, retro-inspired jewellery, clothing, homewares and more

It is time to bid farewell to your Dr Sketchy doyen, Trixi Tassels, as she prepares to make her mark on the international burlesque stage.  Trixi, A’dora Derriere and Sapphire Demure have been selected to perform in the prestigious London Burlesque Week in April, after which Trixi is going travelling and twirling around the globe!

Help send the girls off in style on Friday 9th April at The Burlesque Lounge.  This show will feature all your favourite Sugar Blue Burlesque artistes with DJ Bendog spinning ska, rocksteady and soul tunes all evening.  Note this show starts at the slightly-earlier-than-usual time of 7:30pm.

Tickets are available from Heatseeker now.

The next Dr Sketchy is…

When: 7pm, Wednesday 7th April
Where: The Burlesque Lounge – upstairs, 267 William Street, Northbridge
Model: Lorelei Lita
Cost: $15 on the door

Have you ever fantasised about that gorgeous blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, and wished you could have seen her in the flesh?  Well wish no longer!  April sees the triumphant debut to the Dr Sketchy stage of one Ms Lorelei Lita – Sugar Blue Burlesque’s own Marilyn lookalike with curves guaranteed to smack you in the face and knock you right out.  Known as the sexiest minx to ever grace a Sugar Blue stage, Lorelei Lita will be posing and peeling just for you for a whole 2.5 hours!

It also must be sadly announced that the powerhouse behind the Perth branch of Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, Trixi Tassels, is departing these fair, summery shores for the dirty streets of London and beyond.  But fear not!  The reigns will be ably taken over by fellow flame-haired beauty, Dimity the bar-wench!  So come along, have a drink and commiserate as Trixi takes over the mic to guide you through her final, scintillating Dr Sketchy session.

As an extra bonus, there will even be UNLUCKY DIPS for some unlucky punters who will win spot prizes.  What the hell is an unlucky dip?  All the leftover stuff from Trixi’s boudoir that she needs to ditch before catching her plane!

We also announce the exciting arrival of our newest sponsor, Kittie Chaos who specialise in glamorous, retro-inspired jewellery, clothing, homewares and more!  Kittie Chaos have kindly donated some super-awesome goodies for you to win on the night, so come along and be in to win some fantastic stuff.

Much love always to our sponsors:

• Source Cafe on the corner of Beaufort and Brisbane Streets – our favourite purveyors of organic food

• Passchendales Accessories in London Court & Carillion Arcade – totally decadent vintage and burlesque-themed millinery, handbags and jewellery

• Kittie Chaos – glamorous, retro-inspired jewellery, clothing, homewares and more

Here are some pics from the last session starring Lola The Vamp.  Apologies for the quality – I forgot my camera that night so had to take them on Sir Alfred Botty-Pincher’s iPhone!

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Dr Sketchy’s got an awesome little write-up in this week’s issue of online subcultural mag SixThousand.  Skip across to the website and sign up to be kept abreast of interesting and underground happenings in this great city of ours!

Check out the article here.

The next Dr Sketchy is…

When: 7pm, Wednesday 3rd March
Where: The Burlesque Lounge – upstairs, 267 William Street, Northbridge
Model: Lola The Vamp
Cost: $15 on the door

Ok kids, this is it.  Dr Sketchy Perth welcomes its biggest name in burlesque yet – the international burlesque starlet Lola The Vamp.  Flying into town for The Burlesque Ball on March 5th, we are very lucky to have snaffled her up to model for us.   I know I always say, “You won’t want to miss this” – but seriously, this time you will kick yourself if you do!  We have limited seating so if you are late you’re going to have to stand!

Don’t forget to bring down your entries for the ‘Check Out My Mug’ competition which could win you free entry to Dr Sketchy for the rest of the year!

Lola The Vamp is among the world’s premier showgirls. Tease-o-rama headliner, Penthouse Pet, tabloid television scandal. She’s the star of the tease, the damsel of deshabille, the princess of boom boom!

Her sensual and stunning shows have captured the world’s imagination with even Nick Cave declaring her landmark-collectors-edition-Penthouse-spread “Beautiful” during her support shows for Grinderman and Nick Cave solo.  Lola’s acts have graced stages in Hollywood, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and many others.  This will be her first time in Perth and we are very glad to be welcoming her burlesque debut!

Much love always to our sponsors:

• Source Cafe on the corner of Beaufort and Brisbane Streets – our favourite purveyors of organic food

• Passchendales Accessories in London Court & Carillion Arcade – totally decadent vintage and burlesque-themed millinery, handbags and jewellery.

Dr Sketchy’s needs some more receptacles for your pencil shavings so we’re running a little competition whereby you make them for us in exchange for eternal gratitude, glory and free entry to Dr Sketchy’s Perth for the rest of the year.

You can decorate your mug in any way you please – you can paint directly on it, wrap a sketch or other artwork on paper around it, sculpt on it or even make the whole mug yourself if you want.  You have total creative freedom.  They won’t be getting wet so they don’t have to be water proof.

Bring your entries along to the next session at The Burlesque Lounge on 3^rd March or leave them at the Lounge if you can’t make it that night.  Don’t forget to attach a tag with your name, phone number and email address.  We will photograph all the entries and put them on the website where the public (that’s all you guys) get to vote on their favourite one.  The winner will be announced at the April session.

The only rule is there are no rules.  As long as your piece can hold pencil shavings and we can easily tip them out into the rubbish you can do what you like!

Last year saw the inaugural SketchyCon – a meeting of Dr Sketchy organisers from all around the world to network and discuss all things Sketchy!

This year there are plans afoot to make it even more exciting and to even bring over the founder of the first Dr Sketchy branch in Melbourne.  All these plans need some moolah though, and that’s where you come in!

If you want, you can pledge anything from $1 up and once you pledge $5 or more you’ll get Cool Stuff ™.  Yep, depending on how much you pledge, you will get anything from your name printed in the SketchyCon program to a signed copy of Molly Crabapple’s book, Scarlett Takes Manhattan or even free entry to Dr Sketchy for a year.  Totally worth it?  Hell yes!

I’m going to donate earnings from this Wednesday’s session so you can also help out just by turning up and sketching a beautiful lady.  Ain’t that just sweet?

xx Trixi xx

The next Dr Sketchy is…

When: 7pm, Wednesday 3rd February
Where: The Burlesque Lounge – upstairs, 267 William Street, Northbridge
Model: Brandy Savage
Cost: $15 on the door

Just as her name suggests, Brandy Savage is both sweet and intoxicating, and will leave you wanting more.  This raven-haired beauty has thrilled crowds throughout Europe and is a favourite here in Perth thanks to her sultry yet cheeky performances.  And we also welcome maestro MC Diggy Bones to guide proceedings.  The perfect start to the 2010 Burlesque Lounge sessions!

Much love always to our sponsors:

• Source Cafe on the corner of Beaufort and Brisbane Streets – our favourite purveyors of organic food

• Passchendales Accessories in London Court & Carillion Arcade – totally decadent vintage and burlesque-themed millinery, handbags and jewellery.

Here ya go!  I’ve just uploaded pics from the last session at BamBOO on 3rd January starring Mia Bella which also happened to be the first session for 2010!  What a banging start to the year.  We had 42 eager sketchers reclining in the lovely amphitheatre of BamBOO munching on woodfired pizza and sipping delicious cocktails prepared by our favourite bar tenders.

We’re back to our regularly scheduled venue of The Burlesque Lounge this year and have some super exciting models in store for you, not to mention Sugar Blue’s resident MC extraordinaire, Mr Diggy Bones.

Thanks very much to the talented Gregory Bruyer for being resident photographer on the night.  Enjoy!

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