The Vertical Rhythm Club
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Check out this video montage of the Vertical Rhythm Club show in the Spiegel Tent for the Absolut Fringe 2009. The Vertical Rhythm Club was nominated for best Spiegel Tent show for Absolut Fringe.
Are you hep to the jive? Take the A Train and head for Harlem! Experience the glamour and charm of the Jazz Era. Speakeasies were swinging. The depression took a back seat to the rhythm and beat. A decadent night with colourful interludes from a variety of performers. So, put on your vintage gear and join the Zoot Suit Riot! Music from the jazz era guaranteed to get you rockin in rhythm.
Loose yourself in the decadent romance of the swing era. Allow the exuberant energy and oscillating rhythms of big band, swing and rat pack music to touch your soul. The DJs will keep the floor pumping and your heart thumping. Show off your exuberant dance steps.
Will you be retro, ravishing or refined? Pick a vintage decade and dress to impress. Remember, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!
Hep Cats, Jitterbuggers and Jive Bunnies will party at a killer diller evening of music, dance, glamour and mischief. It's a wonderful celebration of the jazz age not to be missed!
Check out this montage of the Vertical Rhythm Club showing our night of delight in the Spiegel Tent as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2007.
What to wear?
You don't have to dress up - but you know that you want to! Looking for ideas on how to perfect Swing Era style........?
Think of the films Bugsy Malone, Cabaret, The Sting, Chicago, think 1920's flapper girls, think Speakeasies, think gangsters and molls, think show-girls, think 1930's Hollywood glamour, think burlesque, think peep show, thing 1940's land girls, think World War Two soldiers/sailors/airmen. Or into the 1950's - think Grease, think Rock n Roll, think Happy Days. Or just look on Google Images for ideas.
Shops to facilitate your search are Harlequins (near Grogans), Jenny Vander, Wild Child (now in Temple Bar), and A Star Is Born on Clarendon Row, only open on Saturdays, down an alley near Market Bar.
What the papers say...
Daily Mail, February 2007 - "one of the most fun nights out I've had in ages....SwingTime, which encapsulates those 1930's and 1940's days of decadence, is making a comeback, and with it the velvet tones and glamour of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Ella Fitzgerald. After years of formulaic and tacky night clubbing, there's really no better way to party...... Swing dancing is a dance of craziness and beauty.....After the class finished and the club started, the real fun began. The bar transformed into something resembling the Savoy Ballroom circa 1947, as the young, gorgeous and glamorous, clad in vintage gear, flooded the dancefloor.....It's easy to see the appeal of Swing dancing - the physical energy, the old world glamour and the heady romance of the dancefloor!"
The Sunday Independent, March 2007 – “girls dressed up like glamorous pre-war pin-ups .. men looked fabulous in sharp suits and spats….This is so hot…watching a tall, sexy man jitterbug across the dance floor, spinning his flexible partner with abandon. Outside on the cobblestones we danced our own version of swing … it’s about being able to just let yourself go.”
Babel, September 2006 – “There are so many types of jazz, but this is the kind that will definitely have your ass on the dance floor…..the closest thing I’ve ever seen to a jazz moshpit.”
Cork Evening Echo, July 2006 – “an interesting concept [that] goes a long way.”
The Independent, October 2005 – “the bar takes on the atmosphere of the ballrooms of America in the 1950’s…..it’s addictive …..the happy dancers take to the floor to swing the night away.”
Liberty, Christmas 2005 – “folk down here are havin’ a ball, that off-beat jazz can keep the feet movin all night. All you gotta do is make is up as you go along and have a good time doing it.”