Dr Sketchy Liverpool

Only a week to go until Dr Sketchy Liverpool and just time to find out all about Missy Malone.

Missy Malone is a heady cocktail of 1950’s bombshell and classic rock chick. An accomplished and sought-after performer on the UK burlesque scene who has performed internationally and has graced the cover of several publications and campaigns.

As an already established Actress and Model she also commands an impressive list of skills and talents ranging from traditional fan dance to striptease and is trained in both static trapeze and stilt walking. With her stunning trademark look and jaw dropping routines it is but a matter of time before this femme fatal make a lasting impression on the world stage! Acting (12 years exp), modelling (8 years exp), (Burlesque 6 Years exp)

Missy has shared the bill with some of burlesque’s top names including Kitten De Ville, Dirty Martini, Kitten on the Keys, Mimi Le Meaux and Immodesty Blaize. Missy appears regularly in a variety of extravaganzas including The Candy Box in Birmingham, Torture Garden Events in London and in festivals such as the “Summer Jamboree” Italy and clubs in Milan, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Rome, Helsinki, Jersey and Paris.

Missy toured extensively with “The Damned” as part of their “Twisted Cabaret” tour 2007 and is a regular on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Circuit every year. Missy also danced in a Bollywood feature film, which was filmed in Mumbai, India in Oct 2008.

Missy co-produced “The Missy Malone & Friends Burlesque Revue” at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. The four shows in Feb 2010 were a sell out success and the show is returning at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 28th Aug 2010 and for a Halloween Spectacular on 28th/29th Oct 2010 at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham.

Find out more about the sultry starlet,  on Missy Malone’s website

Parma Violet AKA Saffron Shearer-Gare began her foray into performance at the tender age of 13 when she first got up to tap dance as Columbia at a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in her home town of Glasgow. A pot of pink hair dye, a lot of sequins and some twenty years later, she discovered she had been doing Burlesque all those years without knowing it.

After an inspiring trip to TEASEORAMA in San Francisco in 2002, she and her husband Al Palooka decided Blighty needed some more Burly action, there then only being four clubs in the UK. Together they started The Candy Box Burlesque Club in Birmingham in 2006 with house gogo troupe The Candied Heels and the 13 piece Palookaville! Burlesque Orchestra with singer Imelda May. The rest is history. Despite now juggling being a mum to Tallulah Violet, working at the B’ham Hippodrome theatre and making costumes and wedding dresses, Saff still has time for Burly.

Her motto is ” Don’t Dream it, Be it” closely followed by ” Tits and Teeth, everyone!”

go visit her at www.facebook.com/parmaviolet

The first of our performers to be profiled is a rising star and local girl made good, or perhaps “local bad girl made good ”
First staggering bambi-legged and doe eyed onto the burlesque circuit in late 2009, it was immediately obvious Velma Von Bon Bon was destined for the top. Velma’s comedic style is a cheeky bottom flash at the stoics of society and her inventive antics have lit up stages across the northwest. She was awarded winner of the prestigious Tournament of Tease July heat, cementing her growing reputation while  proving what we’ve known for a while: that Velma brings something new and exciting to the burlesque world.

No wonder then that she has been shaking her booty in exotic locations as diverse as Leeds and Huddersfield!

If this pint sized pocket rocket can’t put I’ll smile on your face she’ll eat your hat!
When not burlesquing, Velma can be found fiddling on her purple fiddle with hottest all girl jazz band in town, the “Flamin’ Mamies”.

image by Dominic Foster

More performer profiles coming soon.

Sketchy people, we are now closing in on our very first event and here’s the last but not the least of our performers. The sassy Bella Besame

Bella Besame packs her  high energy  raunchy routines with stylish sass and she has a great ass.  Bella has been a lynchpin of the northwest burlesque scene for many years and is both a promoter, performer and teacher of burlesque.

When she isn’t travelling the country teaching ladies the art of the tease, running her fabulously successful Slippery Belle nights or dazzling audiences with her tassel twirling she can be found sipping chamagne and scoffing cheesecake!

Two weeks to go ladies and gentlemen, only two weeks to the first ever Dr Sketchy.

We here at Kinky Darling thought you would like to know a little more about our second performer the tattooed dream of the rockabilly scene Miss Scarlett Daggers.

A performer since 2005 and Co-Producer of Dr Sketchy Nottingham since 2009 Scarlett’s gentle ladylike elegance is matched with her red hot naughtiness and sizzling  charms.

Her stunning costumes encapsulate one of the tiniest waists in UK’s burlesque scene and with her boundless energy she whirls across the country in a flurry of glitter and broken hearts.

(Please note that kinky Darling can not be held responsible for any hearts broken patrons, our responsible for their own hearts.)

Hey there!

All our planning for the very first Dr Sketchy is sliding into place as smoothly as a Freudian allusion to sex. Tickets are flying out of the door, we have had a great surge of interest in the event and we have lots of information to share with you before the day.

So, to whet your whistle … here’s the first of our profiles of the performers you will be enjoying,  ladies, gentlemen, Sketchy People – I present …

Miss Ditzy Diamond

Ditzy is a quirky, curvy and some say insane burlesquer who has made the move from the shores of Australia to the UK stage. As an actress from a young age, Birmingham-based Ditzy is able to  blend traditional cheesecake with off-the-wall comedy.

She’s one of the fastest rising stars of the burlesque world and we are very lucky to have her!

You can find out a lot more about Ditzy on her website, that’s www.ditzydiamond.com , which is full of photos, videos and all that bloggy goodness that you need.

Or you could simply wait until you meet her in person, on the 25th of April at the Kazimier.

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Check back soon for the low down on our other Sketchy models, Scarlett Daggers and Bella Besame . We also have some info coming up about the fantastic prizes that will be given away. There are lots of them and some are simply too good!