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DIARY: Daughters Of The Kaos Zena

Zena Blackwell And Becky Rosoman | Sunday 3 October, 2010 18:26

Burak Cingi photo

Day One
With only a few weeks to go until the launch night of The Club Motherfucker Show at Corsica studios, things have been per-ritty per-ritty hectic. What better way to relax then a day/night out at our very first stag do. Our friends Neil and Jonny are tying the knot in a few weeks’ time so organised a pub crawl on the river culminating in karaoke at super fun queer party Unskinny Bop (still not sure that it was totally morally right to have a combined stag do though!). Do we remember getting home? Er, of course not.

Day Two
Regular meetings are a must at the moment and with a two room venue to fill, this shit needs to run like a tight ship. So tonight The Red Lion in Soho is our meeting venue of choice, and Samuel Smith’s finest lager our tipple of choice. Of course our intended one pint sipped whilst jotting down notes in our school exercise books turned into four pints and then dinner at Soho’s finest Lebanese eatery Yalla Yalla. Lush.

Day Three
For a bit of arty kultcha, we went to the opening of Fiona Tan’s new exhibition at Frith Street Gallery. Fiona spent several weeks on a Japanese Island which used to inhabit 5000 but now only 40, with an average age of 70. Her gorgeous photos capture the cute houses left behind by the deceased which the elderly neighbours still take care of. Can they come to our houses please?

Day Four
We hate it when we need photos for press stuff (we mostly manage to get away with sending a club shot but this very publication wanted one of us, for example). Our best blud Mr Burak Cingi (band photographer extraordinaire) kindly took on the impossible task of snapping Beck and I (I think in the eight years of doing Club Mofo, we have had one other picture done). We didn’t want a posey picture and we didn’t want seriousness. Easy criteria right. Luckily, he succeeded and took this shot of us on my fire escape. Okay, so it took a few bottles of Becks and 98 other tries. BUT WE GOT THERE!

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