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Fancy Chance

Burlesque Terrorist!!!!

About Me



I'm the art director of BurlyQ: A Queer Cabaret here in London, burlesque comedy performer, player in the Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus, member of the can-can troupe French Kicks, singer (sometimes) and a small but very loud person. I've been performing for as long as I remember and have been doing burlesque (by definition) since 2001. I try to create funny/strange things that tickle people's funny bones until they're crying.
BurlyQ Pagent at Latitude- plus a few words from me (looking like a bitch)!(provided by Temposhark) ....
ahhh a little teaser of our synchronized swimming act. Pure class.

Upcoming Shows
12 June 08

Vauxhallville @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

14 June

The Bedlam Ballroom @ Black Box Hill Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland

19 June 08I'm judging the Male Tournament of Tease at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club!
21 July 08

Be Presents....@ The Proud Galleries in Camden

23, 24 & 26 June 08@ the Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Following the sell-out success of the RVT’s Christmas Pantomime we present our unique interpretation of Shakespeare’s ‘Dream’ to celebrate the Summer Solstice.

With Bearlesque, Fancy Chance, Sarah-Louise Young, Michael Twaits, Nathaniel De Ville, Polly Vinyl, Dusty Limits. DJ Dawn Right Nasty. Written & directed by Nathan Evans.

BEARLESQUE -’This burly, bristly troup are HOT, HOT, HOT!’ - Time Out

FANCY CHANCE ...of Burly Q & The FireTusk Pain Proof Circus

SARAH-LOUISE YOUNG -'Orgasm-inducingly original' - Three Weeks

MICHAEL TWAITS - ‘Sheer force of personality. He is an engaging and engaged presence' - Lyn Gardener, The Guardian

NATHANIEL DE VILLE - 'gobsmackingly filthy' - The Telegraph

POLLY VINYL - ‘Gorgeous’ - Time Out

DUSTY LIMITS - '...his Edinburgh show was described as making one 'feel violated, but in a good way'

For three nights only: Monday 23rd June, Tuesday 24th June, Thursday

26th June Doors 7pm : Show 8.30pm : Open ‘til midnight : Entry £6

DJ DAWN RIGHT NASTY Musical Director SIMON WALLACE Written & directed by NATHAN EVANS
27-29 June

Glastonbury Festival, Trash City Field in the Drag Strip Tent along with other insane people

5 July 08

I'm opening up for....

St. Paul’s Pavilion @ the Southbank Center

"Dirty Books"

Writers, readers and performers get down and dirty for a celebration of literary pornography presented by Rupert Smith (alias bestselling porn author James Lear), with Mathilde Madden, Suzanne Portnoy and Elizabeth Coldwell, editor of Forum magazine.

10 July 08

"Keep Fit" Vauxhallville @ the Royal Vauxhall Tavern

12 July 08

Grind a Go-Go @ the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

17-20 July 08

Latitude Festival Grind a Go-Go in the Cinema Tent on Thurs night in the cinema TentGawkagogo Freakshow Friday night in the Cabaret TentBurlyQ Presents Burly Quest Saturday night in the Cabaret TentVauxhallville "Sex Show" Sunday night in the Cabaret Tent

6 Aug 08

I will compere the UK Air Guitar Championships at the Islington Academy. Please enter the contest and feel free to ask me for advice about what you should do for it!

My Interests

I like feeling sore in the neck because of a wild rockin head banging night before, wrestling, funny ladies, kitties who speak, naps, hula hooping, eating fire (actually I can't say that I "like" to eat fire but it's funny to be scared and try to eat fire), chocolate, dressing up in animal costumes, taxis, food, London, new perspectives, bruises from wicked wild air guitar sessions, fits of laughter that make water spray from the mouth and occasionally from the nose, world news, gossip magazines, Sweden, Kim Jong Il, burlesque, survivalist stories consisting of cutting off one's arm and walking hundreds of miles, robin egg blue, ox blood red, people with big brains etc

I'd like to meet:

circus freaks, satanic wallflowers, sideshow dandies, go-go girls, philanthropists, benefactors, Mrs and Mr Potatohead

Music:

Dead Moon, the Wipers, Stars, The Hold Steady, Momus, Prince, Buzzcocks, Teddy Wilson, Rex, Birthday Party, Lucinda Williams, cocorosie, Stephin Merritt, Tindersticks, k records, Satie, Pixies, The Pretenders, In the Red Records, Rawkus, Bill Withers, Burt Bacharach, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Charles Tyler, Parker and Lily, Cocteau Twins, Aimee Mann, De La Soul, Sparklehorse, Blackalicious, Blackstar, White Stripes, Oliver Nelson, Charles Gayle, Jeff Buckley, The Dirtbombs, Archie Bronson Outfit, Jessy Sykes and the Sweethereafter, the Cramps, Blondie, the Ramones, Sonny Rollins, Peggy Lee, Roy Orbison, Sheila Jordan blah blah

Movies:

Spirited Away, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Princess Mononoke, Rubin and Ed, Seventh Seal, The Apartment, Gaslight, John Waters anything, Pootie Tang, Delicatessen, Alien, Escape from New York, City of God, The Adjuster, Akira, Zeigfeld Follies, In the Mood for Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Spellbound, Twelve Angry Men, Cabaret, Shortbus, Victor Victoria, 8man, Doomed Megalopolis, Sante Sangre, Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste and a couple pornos

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock, Strangers With Candy, Madmen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and sometimes sports.

Books:

Flannery O'Connor, Ian Banks, Robert Stone, Cormac McCarthy, Neal Stephenson, Jack Womack, Harry Crews, Noam Chomsky, Kundera, Anais Nin, William Gibson

Heroes:

Mae West, Lotte Lenya, Agnes Bernelle, Divine, Edith Piaf, Frida Kahlo Wonder Woman, Claude Cahun, Carol Burnett

My Blog

My blog is actually www.fancychance.com

I can't keep up a million blogs so please go to fancy chance's fancy blog
Posted by Fancy Chance on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:07:00 PST

almost a year since my first blog

It's nice to think that a year ago I was being a homesick insomniac and blogging my pooey existence to no one. NOW, I'm still blogging to no one BUT I'm realizing a goal that I had set for myself m...
Posted by Fancy Chance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

how does it feel to be 30?

Better.  I feel better and better as the years roll along.  The more I accept that shit happens and the less I'm willing to waste my time here in case shit happens to me on the way to a natu...
Posted by Fancy Chance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I saw the Iggy and the Stooges play to a bunch of heavymetalloid shit heads

Ok, so the words "shit" and "heads" combined is a little harsh but believe me, the crowd at the Download Festival in Donnington was hard to handle. Firstly let me qualify the reasons I was at the ...
Posted by Fancy Chance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

panic poop

EVERYTIME I leave the toilet after pooping I think to myself 'Did I flush the toilet?'.
Posted by Fancy Chance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's not 6:14 in the PM

It's more like 1:30AM and I need to sleep. Been busy; been thinkin' about lotsa things that I should have outgrown a long time ago. What am I going to do? Where do I begin? When I get there is it ...
Posted by Fancy Chance on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST