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the lava lounge

a night of sleazy, greasy and cheesy sounds

About Me

The Lava Lounge , Firebug bar, Leicester. 3rd weekend of every other month.NEXT ONE:Saturday 19th July: LAVA LOUNGE SURFING BEACH PARTY SPECIAL!It's Summer! It's the lava lounge's second birthday party! So get your bikini on and get ready to twist to some wild surfin', garage, exotica and rock and roll sounds!with sleazy instrumental combo THE NUKES and psychedelic surf merchants THURSTON LAVA TUBE live!Kicks off at 9.00pm Also featuring trashed out surf and exploitation filmshow, cake, cheap cocktails, and dancing 'till 3am! All for a bargainous £1.99!More dates for your diary:Saturday 9th August: the Lava Lounge presents Spanish wildmenLOS CHICOS and the return of masked wrestling mayhem merchantsTHE COYOTEMEN! at BAMBU, 21 Welford Road, LeicesterSaturday 16th August: Back at the Firebug for a Lava Lounge swingin' dance party with THE HANGEE V! All the way from Sardinia!Saturday 20th September: Lava Lounge garage-a-go-go night with THEE EXCITERS, THE HIGH PLANE DRIFTERS and THE EVILTONES live!Saturday 18th October: BiffBangPowSaturday 15th November: Lava Lounge swingin' dance party!Saturday 20th December: BiffBangPowWhere else in Leicester can you can hear the wildest, sickest rock and roll, the most luscious lounge, ethereal exotica, raw 60s garage, swinging surf, greasy soul, sleazy grind, explosive soundtracks, wailing hammond, sneaky spy themes, spaceage pop and everything else that is trashy, swanky and fun? All in one action packed evening a month, upstairs at the Firebug, Millstone Lane.

My Interests

Coming up at the Lava Lounge:

I'd like to meet:

Z man

Music:

Starting the evening with: a gentle selection of vintage exotica, kooky cocktail musak, mambo madness, humpin' hammond and other sounds fit for a space age batchelor pad, swiftly moving on to a frenzied mix of: Honkin' Grind, Greasy R&B, Go-Go, Garage, sleazy soundtracks, swinging soul, surfing monster madness, trashy instros, rock and roll pounders, crazed dance craze music and the odd monkey themed novelty song thrown in for good measure.

Movies:

Mothra

Books:

"A girls guide to dating etiquette and going steady" by Tom McGuiness "A confederacy of dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

My Blog

Elvis found in cheese!

Yes, rub your eyes and look again - it's a visitation from THE KING nestled in the blue veins of a stilton cheese! And in our home county too. Its the lava lounge's favourite kind of miracle! .. Well?...
Posted by the lava lounge on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:19:00 PST

Lava Lounge Leukaemia Luau update

Well Folks, Our luau went swingingly and we raised £325 for the Leukaemia Research Fund and Cancer Research UK! Cheers everyone!...
Posted by the lava lounge on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:44:00 PST

The Strides Jan 08

We had another fantastic night, Thanks to the Strides for their wonderful set. It was great to see lots of new faces too, check out the pics here:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/melissa_lava/sets...
Posted by the lava lounge on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:40:00 PST

Lava Lounge in Leicester Bands award nomination fiasco!

Hello everyone, hope this works! I'm not very good at html. I don't know why but we've been nominated for best Leicester club night!  so it would be great if you want to give us some support so m...
Posted by the lava lounge on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:46:00 PST

Photos

The Lava Lounge has made it to 1 year old! You can view the shameful evidence here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/melissa_lava/sets/7215760038302 4306/ So thanks to all the revellers who have made ...
Posted by the lava lounge on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:31:00 PST

A sad farewell...

As many of you already know, we're not going to see Andy, our bar manager, at the lava lounge any more since he passed away two weeks ago. He'll be missed for his energy, enthusiasm, encouragemen...
Posted by the lava lounge on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:30:00 PST

Ideal cocktail recipe for the new year

One to make that post-christmas feeling even worse! Suffering bastard ingredients: 1 oz lime juice 4 oz ginger ale dash of angostura bitters 1 oz bourbon 1 oz gin Pour everything into a glas...
Posted by the lava lounge on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:34:00 PST

Our Dee Jays Top Picks!

If you want to know more about what music we like, here are some of our DJ's favorites: Antony (All the way from Bristol - the worlds rudest man): The Five Blobs  The Blob  Contains much sage adv...
Posted by the lava lounge on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:40:00 PST

A very dangerous cocktail recipe

Ok boozehounds, here's a very simple recipe for our most lethal cocktail yet. Not only is it nearly all alcohol, it's also guaranteed to give you high blood pressure and fatal heart attacks if you dri...
Posted by the lava lounge on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:58:00 PST

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who came on saturday for making it a great night! Our next night is at the same place on Saturday 15th of july. Hope you can all make it. In the meantime, here's a cockta...
Posted by the lava lounge on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:58:00 PST