Hellfire Gk set Manchester oct 14th

After a nightmare drive from newcastle on only 2 and a half hours sleep we get back to manchester around 8pm, quick dash to mine to get my show stuff and wait for denim to arrive who looks less than impressed with me and sarah for not being ready and probably looking slightly rough after last night! We head to the hellfire club which is not far from mine so a nice change not having to travel too far. Scarlet is already there but the club is pretty quiet this rainy tuesday night! We get ready and cut the set short for the small intimate crowd which the venue film for future footage to play on screens in the venue. After the gig we have a couple of drinks and talk to management about how we can team up the glitter kittens with hellfire for events and a kind of on going thing. We get treated to some great fire and card tricks which freaked us out, especially sarah who we could hear screaming across the building! They very nicely gave us some great food, including the best roast potatoes ever-i missed out on the chilli cos im veggie :( and after sitting in there chatting and being entertained until late we decided to call it a night. sarah was wasted as she wasnt working but i was and was back with vamps the next day with a home show at the palace theatre manchester where my mum and all my family were coming so we headed back to mine, had a pint of cider in front of the tv then off to bed, my own bed at last for the first time since last wednesday night! lush..

outside hellfire club

me at hellfire

denim and scarlet

oct 9-14th party time!!

A couple of days free from GK and vamps gigs so what better way to fill that time than with partying and going on the road with pritch and the guys!! Had an absolutely awesome time,thanks to the guys for letting me tag along and join the craziness! Lots of booze, lots of new people to meet and fun to be had i loved every minute, in fact between the time i set off from manchester thurs morning to the time i arrived in bournemouth for the next vamps gig i had been to 4 major cities in between including birmigham where we went to gatecrasher, ive never been before but it was awesome what i got to see of it and london which was good fun and i got to chat to nikole lowe a wicked tattooist who said she would do my next tattoo an angel on my back so if that happens il be well chuffed!! All in all it was a great weekend, nice to not be working and be able to chill and have a laugh so by the time i arrived in bournemouth sat afternoon after a nightmare train/coach journey from cardiff (my train only took me half way and got replaced by a coach!!brilliant) i was exhausted but buzzing from the adventures of the past few days!! we stayed over in a hotel after vamps that night then headed to norwich for another show arriving back home around 5am monday morning. Everyone else was ready for a chilled day off but i had bigger plans, sarah came down and we headed to newcastle to party hard again with the guys! A brilliant night, such a good laugh which ended up back at the hotel absolutely smashed me jumping on the bed to Motley Crue while daint sang, sarah's wrestling matches and other shenanigans that resulted in the hotel threatening to involve the police! ah well rock n roll eh?! Not sure what time i went to sleep tuesday morning but had to check out by 12 and drive back to manchester for a gig at the Hellfire Club so not the liveliest start to the day, the guys left at 11 so me and sarah headed for food in a pub and sat laughing about the mad night before shattered but agreeing it was worth feeling rough for!
cheers everyone involved for looking after me and making me feel welcome!! i look forward to some more adventures in the near future!

ready to party before going out!!

how our nice room at the newcastle hilton looked pre party and a couple of drinks in!!

here we go!! 10 drinks later haha

god knows how many drinks later!

birmingham gatecrasher!! thanks to neil too for letting us stay and my fish bowl sized glass of white wine that finished me off!!

vampires rock blog!!

vampires rock

For those of you who havent heard of Vampires Rock yet it's a touring show that combines rock music with theatre, it's a great show thats been touring for 4 or 5 years i think and i was lucky enough to join the cast as a dancer last year, i absolutely loved it!! This year however is even better than the last, we have a brand new sexy rockin band that all the ladies will love as well as all the amazing main characters from last year and the legend that is Toyah Willcox is also on board for the tour so it's definately not to be missed!!
i've made this blog purely as a diary of touring with the show and behind the scenes goings on and i know there are many hardcore fans out there so hopefully this will be a little taster of the stuff you dont get to see on the tour, im going to try keep it updated though i must warn you it will probably get behind as il be touring with the show aswell as my own show The Glitter Kittens but i will do my very best!! i aim to add pix from the show from our own private collections and hopefully keep you informed on the goings on with the cast and show in general.
Below is the little press description of the show along with tour dates.

A show like no other, with a twist of rock and a hint of musical theatre, and jam packed with the greatest anthems you know and love, you’re guaranteed to be on your feet!

Set in New York in the year 2030, the undead are among us and livelier than ever, none more so than in club ‘Live and Let Die’, where aspiring singer Pandora (Emily Clark) arrives to audition for the resident vocalist position.

Little does she know, that the only job on offer is to be the eternal bride of evil Baron Von Rockula! (Steve Steinman)

Cue a host of classic rock, played live by the Baron’s hand picked band, The Lost Boys, and a hint of comedy, as the Baron and his sidekick, Stringfellow (Mike Taylor), attempt to convince Pandora to lose her soul to rock and roll!

With songs made famous by the likes of AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Suzi Quatro, Queen and many more, you’ll be rocking in the aisles (or on your knees with your air guitar above your head!)

An amazing stage set, pyrotechnics to blow your mind, beautiful dancers and of course Steve Steinman’s famously powerful vocals and sense of humour, make sure this show is not to be missed!

first few shows!!

september 12th Retford

After these last couple of weeks rehearsing the time has come for us to have an audience and i cant wait!! i love it when its new enough for you to feel slightly nervous and the adrenelin is definately in full flow, its lucky for us that we get to have a rehearsal week in the theatre of the first show as we know all the entrances and exits and have had time to get used to the size of the stage and spacing and stuff. Thats the hardest thing about touring a show i think, having a different size stage every night, different dressing room, different route to get on and off and sometimes the stairs to lead us on and off the top of the crypt round the back are in different places which always makes me think one day il run off in the dark the wrong way and drop however high it is which would be not good!!
Anyway day one we potter about all day going over details, routines, setting up our costumes and generally mentally preparing.
7.30pm comes quickly enough and its show time, there is two photographer's here tonight for promo pics and the end result was awesome, the show went really well and everyone was on a high! Arthur and Henry's mum and dad came as well as Nicky's as a suprise for the lads and they said they loved it so there we go, one succesful show down god knows how many more to go but i cant wait!! Rock n roll!!

Sep 13th Milton Keynes

This theatre is amazing its like a tv studio so you can see the audience in front of you quite closely aswell as there being seats on the sides which i love, it means you cant lose your character for a second because people can see you all the time. Toyah isnt with us tonight as she had a show booked previously to joining the tour with us, a big open air show so we have had to adjust parts of the show so that it still works without her. It's a bit scary to adapt after only doing one show but it worked brilliantly. The band are absolutely wicked this year, because they get on so well and are real rock and rollers they work great together on stage and everything goes well!
It's a great show with a manic signing after, everyone was lovely and we got time to really hang out in the bar with fans and chat properly rather than be rushed in the foyer by theatre staff.
We get packed up as quick as possible to head home, me and emily had high hopes of getting back to Manchester in time to go to Sankeys for my friends night and dance the night away but sadly we dont get home til 4am so thats out of the question! Gutted, ah well off to bed we go.

Sep 17th Doncaster

I really remember this venue from last year for some reason, maybe its because my friend and ex boyfriend came last year or something but its quite an intimate stage so again a case of adapting the show and the little details in the show.
We got a bottle of wine for the girls backstage and sat there early having girly chats and bonding as we havent had much time together yet and its great because theres four of us know. We all get on really well which is lucky and really rare i imagine in a show, Chloe is the new dancer and she's really great, easy to get on with and a laugh! She already knows Emily and Shereen from the Dolly tour but we all feel like we have all known each other ages which is great!
Toyah is back and the show is back to normal, it went well although as the ceiling was quite low i kept smacking my hand on the ceiling and the light rig when we were dancing on the crypt, ah well..

Sep 29th Buxton

im just back from Ibiza and doing my own Glitter Kittens gigs so im a little worse for wear but dying to get stuck in again, we set up, soundcheck and have a quick trip to the pub to be fed and watered. My friend Sarah is coming to the show tonight and she very kindly did my make up for me backstage so i could feel like a star haha, we all do our own hair and make up and sometimes thats the only part of the day i dread, it always feel like a chore but the second im made up i feel instantly better and ready to rock and by the time the fangs go in then i cant wait to face the audience!
The show goes well for everyone but i feel exhausted after all the shows and partying in my 11 days off and feel a bit mad at myself for feeling like im not really going for it, Sarah said she loved it though and was so impressed bless her waving her Vampires Rock foam hand in the audience haha. We all head home, the show is starting to stick in my head and feel natural now, the first few dates always feel edgy for me, i have to have a set list and costume list on hand so im certain what happens next but im getting to the point where its all making sense without that which is great because thats when you can really go for it and get stuck in!

sep 28th Nottingham Rock City

Tonight theres myself, Scarlet, Sarah and Denim doing the show thats a freshers party and absolutley huge!! No expense has been spared here thanks to Nottingham uni, theres loads of bands performing including Audio Bullys, the whip and Reverend and the Makers plus loads of djs and ourselves. theres even an Alice in wonderland style chill out room with real grass on the floor and giant toadstools to sit on!! brilliant!! we get ready and get sarah and denim out as sexy hostesses with trays of sweets for the students which fly out so quick! myself and scarlet do the dancing in the downstairs room with the dj's before having a break to watch some acts, its such a good night but everyone seems so young and naive on there way to uni, bless! We do some more dancing in different pairs before finishing in time to see most of the rev's set which was absolutely awesome, we chatted to them backstage and reminised over the last time we did a show with them which was over a year and a half ago!! oh my god!! time flies. they are lovely though and such a great band so its nice there doing so well, we had a quick photoshoot with John before they headed off on there bus and let us have all there leftover rider on top of own!! thanks guys!! bonus!! we headed of with all our booze then went for a dance to finish the party before heading home satisfied after another happy night as a GK!!

john-reverend and the makers and the glitter kittens

sep 27th birmingham academy glitter kittens show!!

This is the life you want a big dressing room, a nice rider of booze and soft drinks, your own keys to the dressing room and someone to escort you to the stage! we are starting to get this sort of treatment more recently and without sounding like i fuss over things like this it does make life so much easier. we spend half the time in the car when gigging so to then be squeezed into a cupboard with two other girls and attempt to look sexy isnt always easy. We also have a camera women on hand today so when i get those pix il stick some up also. Anyway tonight is rammed and i cant wait to go onstage, were doing two 15 min sets and Dragonforce are here as they have just finished a gig here, the crowd and venue is huge and the stage is bigger than my flat so all is good. Theres also massive posters around birmingham city centre of us im told so thats a bonus too. We do our first set and its goes amazingly well, im on a proper high after i do my bits, welcome to the jungle into (s)aint, even though the stage is massive you can get really near the crowd which i love, especially in routines like these when i have a whip to play with!! I meet up with my friend Evelina and her crew and she had just missed our set by going out to smoke!! idiot,haha. We hang about and get changed into our next outfits before heading back downstairs and doing our second set! again brilliant response from the crowd and i had a great time, we stick around to party and finish off most or our rider before calling it a day to head back to Manchester, tomorrow night were in Nottingham. It's nice being back with the GK girls while im doing Vamps, i miss them, tonight it was myself, sarah and denim. Good fun, i could stay on the road forever!! Rock n roll..

sep 26th Fedde Le Grande Sankeys

Get home from Wales around 8am and get on the couch in our pjamas with a baked potato as we were starved and sobering up and watch The Office on dvd, I love lazing around watching comedy dvds even though I know most of them off by heart. We got some sleep in the afternoon for a couple of hours before watching CITV and popping to the shops to buy something healthy to cook as we havent been eating very well recently and I like to try keep fit and healthy as much as possible though looking at this blog you'll find that hard to believe but true! Eat a nice veggie meal before another half snooze half watch Tenacious D Pick of Destiny before getting motivated and ready to re live Ibiza at Sankeys in Manchester as Fedde Le Grande was DJin, 'Put your hands up for Detroit' is one of my party anthems so im pretty excited. Its just me and Sarah going to get our groove on tonight,our friend Steve O'Neill was going to come but couldn't and we tried to get a gang together but noone was in the mood to party..rubbish. Ah well we had a wicked time on our own and danced on the speakers for a good few hours til 4am when we were all danced out and went home to chill with some strongbow and league of gentlemen on dvd. Im getting used to Sarah being at my house though it does scare me as i think were the femail 'Men Behaving Badly' which isnt good. Finally sleep around 6am which is starting to feel normal now happy afetr dancing the night away, Fedde Le Grande was as awesome as expected so a good wind down after Ibiza.

thursday sep 25th What the Butler Saw-Cardiff

Still feeling a bit blue on leaving Ibiza yesterday so im glad to be on the move and busy already, I hate having time off for more than a day I always feel like im wasting time or missing something. Me and Sarah had a chilled night last night eating some good food,some alcohol and some trash tv. Today were up and ready to catch the train to Cardiff which takes absolutely ages after stopping every possible station en route which sends me mad! Sarah is coming with me to keep me company and to prolongue her party basically, I have a gig at What the Butler Saw with Kitty our very own Welsh kitten. We finally get to Cardiff around 7pm and my friend Dan kindly picked us up from the staion and took us to his to chill with a giant bottle of wine while he got ready,we then went for a cocktail before getting to the venue around 9.30. Lolly (the stunning organiser and party animal) greeted us bless her with her new sexy red hair (she used to have bright pink) and looked lovely as always, it was her birthday at midnight so we were ready for a mental one! Kitty was there too looking very elegant though a little nervous about our duet as we hadnt had time to rehearse it before the show as we are just both always really busy and miles apart. We found out we were on seventh for a night that was meant to be fetish and fantasy themed but seemed to now just be fantasy which was typical as our duet was very fetish and revolved around an army major and soldier to a heavy track while everyone else was going for the cute fantasy look, ah well! We got a few drinks and mingled until it was time to get ready, the stage at minksys is really small to what im used to but i love it, its nice and high and intimate so you get a real feel from the crowd. Kitty opened the cd to give the dj only to find that the cd was missing from the case and must have still been in her player at home,aargh!! The band thank god saved the day and brilliantly accompanied us live saving our lives! It changed the whole style of the piece to something less sinister and more swingy which I think myself and Kitty didnt feel completely satisfied with but the audience didnt know any better so it was a success considering. We watched all the other great performers before heading off to Buffalo with the birthday girl and the rest of the butler crowd (except kitty who had to leave which was a shame). Myself,Sarah, Dan, Lolly and her fella Dan carried on drinking like the alcohol was about to run out and had a great time, unfortunately i thought it would be good to head home at 4am on the train and pre booked my ticket thinking I would be all partied out when I booked it before Ibiza and was absolutely gutted to tear myself away! (note to self I am never too partied out!!) Dan walked us to the station like a true gent haha well maybe not as we were all pretty smashed and took loads of photos of us being stupid in the street, I had been wearing Dan's tie and decided to stand on the railings by the side of the road on St.Mary Street and do a striptease of sorts singing the stripper theme tune, the things we do eh, dont do alcohol kids haha, its not as if I didnt look strange enough to begin with walking the streets with my Liam Gallagher parker, full burlesque make up and a cane from the show like some mix breed of drag chav and old gent. All in all a good night, great to see Dan, Lolly and Kitty and have a catch up in Cardiff. Bring on the next one..