OUR NEXT EVENT... 

THE HUNGAMUNGA FESTIVAL 2008 - 27th-28th September

We're aiming high for this one... bigger than ever before.. our first festival... over two days and nights at two very different venues in Bethnal Green... with The Wave Pictures and Nizlopi headlining as well as some very special guests...

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PAST EVENTS

THE HUNGAMUNGA MENAGERIE - Sunday 10th August

at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, with the most amazing music from the eclectic ensemble Gabby Young and Other Animals, the incredible soundscapers from California - Oso, and down from Manchester, the lovely songs of Lucy and the Caterpillar... 

possibly our best line-up ever... animal arts and creature crafts with those musical beasts, with three great musical acts: people came as an animal or made a costume on the night... prizes were awarded for the best costume and the best animal creation... 
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HUNGAMUNGA at The Secret Garden Party

from 24th-27th July, we'll be at The Secret Garden Party for all four days in our very special Playtent, a retreat for all those who want to come and make stuff, make friends and make a mess at the most beautiful festival of the season...

on the Friday evening from 5pm we'll be hosting our very own HungaMunga party featuring some of our favourite acts: Gabby Young and Other Animals (crazy jazzy eclectic collective), You&Me (sweet and amazing acoustic duo), Off Ground Touch (founding members of HungaMunga with their own unique mix of percussion and guitar) and the astounding Budda Cakes (customized keyboards, tape loops and infectious songs)... there'll also be performance art, a paintathon, a bit of gameshow and some surprises... all this while arts and crafts, painting, drawing, collage and some massive sculpture pieces get made to the music in the SGP's creative hub, The Centre Camp... get there early and see our show... it will be fantastic!

buy tickets here: http://www.secretgardenparty.com

THE HUNGAMUNGA EXPERIMENT -  Sunday 13th July

our regular HungaMunga nights got back on track... at our original home, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club our laboratory for the evening! with live music from the extraordinary Man and The Vertebrates and Jim'll's Brain... DJs and dancing and loads of arts and crafts materials... woohoo!
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SCONES IN THE PARK 2008  - Sunday 22nd June

HUNGAMUNGA at The Art Car Boot Fair

on Saturday June 8th from 12 midday... in Brick Lane for arty fun and music with Thinguma*jigsaw and lots of fun courtesy of the BGWMC... loads of new artists selling work and live performance art too... 

www.artcarbootfair.com

Sunday May 11th
HungaMunga
at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, Pollard Row
from 6pm - midnight

our second birthday party with live music from our favourite band, Anti-folk-heroes DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, the delightful MISS SILLS and the mournful ramblings of THEE INTOLERABLE KIDD, a special performance from a very special guest and party fun with Mr Croaky, the extremely grumpy party entertainer.... with drawing, painting and making stuff as well as a drawathon, a paint jam, a raffle, more performance and lots of cake, and of course scones...

Sunday 27th April
HungaMunga's Natural Selection at The Bedroom Bar, Rivington St.
from 4pm
step into our garden of dreams.... our wonderful spin-off night of live and acoustic musical appreciation, drawing and natural crafts has a new home... from April 27th we'll be at the gorgeous Bedroom Bar above The Comedy Cafe in Rivington Street from 4pm we'll have a little bazaar where you can buy or sell arts and crafts treats such as jewellery, prints, badges, small paintings, artists products, toys etc then from 7pm in the Bedouin chamber that is the sumptuous chillout bar, live music from the finest there is... quirky, folky loveliness from Australian singer Emaline Delapaix and her band performing their only UK date on their European tour, and our old friends Off Ground Touch return to gigland with inspiring and heartbreaking songs about life and love... with poetry, performance and some interactive drawing contests... all that and lots more that we'll reveal nearer the time... It'll be free to get into the bazaar and £6 for the evening show (although there may be a cheap list if you email us nicely)

HungaMunga's Spring Breakout

with live music, arts and crafts, gameshow, raffle, scones, and lots of other fun stuff... 

on April 13th at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club from 6pm... see you there...

On Sunday the 9th of March... HungaMunga's Cartoon Time with live music from the fantastic KateGoes and Slapper

all the usual arts and crafts shenanigans with a fancy dress theme: of cartoons and comic books.. come dressed as your favourite character... with DJs, competitions, gameshow and all the art materials included... come and play with us... make stuff, make friends, make a mess!

at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club from 4 in the afternoon with cartoons and cakes.... then the show starts at 7pm

just £5 before 7 and £6 after... enjoy!!!!

22nd NOVEMBER at Melange Social Club, Kingsland Road



Our next event is a spin-off from our regular nights which we are calling HUNGAMUNGA's NATURAL SELECTION.

We'll be turning the lovely setting of Melange into a veritable garden of eden for your artistic and musical delight... Mixing the best in acoustic music and songwriters with natural arts and crafts... making stuff from found natural objects, twigs, shells and stones, collaging leaves and flowers, still-life, life-drawing, watercolours, clay, as well as knitting and sewing etc...

Playing at our first one are Brody and Quint, Russell Joslin and Nadine Khouri... come along from 7pm... only £5 (all art materials included but feel free to bring along any natural materials too)...

Our Christmas Special is our amazing 'X-MAS FACTOR' Night at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on 9th December from 4pm till late.

We all have a fantastic time at Hungamungas! Thanks to all that make them so much fun.

HOLY HUNGAMUNGA! at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

SUNDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2007
4PM TIL 12

Our last HungaMunga party was HOLY HUNGAMUNGA! on Sunday the 11th of November from 4pm ... with live music from DEAD DOG IN BLACK BAG and ANTONY ELVIN...
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club,42 Pollard Row, E2.
Tube- Bethnal Green, Buses- 8,388,D6



Our third Halloween party was our fantastic Monster Mash-Up on the 25th of October... again at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club from 8pm til late... with live music from David Cronenberg's Wife and the bewitching dances of Miss Glory von Hathor... spooky life-drawing and lots more.... with all the usual arts and crafts, painting etc....dancing all night ... and scones!
see you at the next one...
MAKE STUFF, MAKE FRIENDS, MAKE A MESS!!!



This was on 14th October from 2pm in the afternoon
With arts and crafts, party games, free tea and cakes, Mr Croaky will provide marvelously miserable magic and balloon-modelling, and a wonderful Paint Jam Paintathon... and lots more...
With live music from THE BUDDA CAKES and a special DJ set from Suz from Robots In Disguise... and it was Ally's Birthday so we had cake!!! MAKE STUFF, MAKE FRIENDS, MAKE A MESS!!!



We were at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on the 30th September as part of the Big Knees Up... there was lots going on from 4.30pm til late..., Pearly Kings and Queens, magical animation, mural painting and of course US...



Our last HungaMunga Recycled Art Party was at Favela Chic, Great Eastern St. on the 18th of September. Thanks for bringing along your junk and scraps to make wonderful sculptures, collages and paintings... it's so much fun!!!... with great music from Tim Goalen and The Tremors as well as birthday boy Nathan Persad and our fabulous DJs getting you dancing... from 7pm til 1am

for more information visit our MySpace page: www.myspace.com/hungamunga or join our group on FaceBook...here: www.facebook.com

Our last HungaMunga Recycled Art Party at Favela Chic was on the 29th of August. with great music from The Budda Cakes, Miranda Mahalo and our fabulous DJs Pigsnoots...
thank you all for coming...



We had a great PlayYour Cards Night at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, Special thanks to The Bikinis, Chloe, Mr Croaky and our wonderful hostess Dolly the Pusher... check myspace and facebook for photos... more coming soon here...



Our last RECYCLED ART PARTY at Favela Chic was onthe 17th of July... we had live music from the delicious MOSS BEYNON JUCKES and the delirious ANTHONY ELVIN and our fabulous DJs... at the next one we'll have the usual raffle and lashings of lovely scones... bring along a bit of recycling and we'll help you turn it into works of art... we'll be painting, sticking, knitting, sewing, face-painting, papier-mache-ing (?)... Come and dance and drink and dress to get messed... there'll also be more than a few surprises... all for £5!!!

Before that we had a very special HUNGAMUNGA MAKEY DAY at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane on SUNDAY the 1st OF JULY as part of the SECRET GARDEN PARTY PRE-FESTIVAL EXTRAVAGANZA... with all the usual painting, sculpture, collage, papier mache, knitting and sewing... as we'll be holding a special Festival HungaMunga at this year's Secret Garden Festival, we thought we'd get together with them and hold a great party to get people ready for the excitement that is the SGP... with solo acoustic sets from THEE INTOLERABLE KIDD and HORSEBOX's Will Vaughan amongst others... from 7pm, we'll had live music inside from festival bands... MOSS, OFF GROUND TOUCH, THE SLIDING RULE and lots lots more... festival performers, arts and crafts outside and party games inside and it was all absolutely FREE!!!!checkout http://www.secretgardenparty.com.. for more details of the festival...

Our last HungaMunga was on 14TH OF JUNE at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club!!!... with live music from KARI KLEIV AND HER LOVE BAND, TALL POPPIES and THE ASSASSINS...

at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB

from 8pm til 2am
all materials are included but feel free to bring along your own too...
to have a look at some pictures from our nights have a looky here:
http://www.myspace.com/hungamunga


see you soon
lots o love
Lloyd and the hungamunga posse





The previous Recycled Art Party at Favela Chic was on Wednesday the 16th of May...from 8pm... you bring along all your recyclable junk and scraps and we help you make them into great works of art, sculptures, installations and collages...
with live music from Blah Blah Blah and Alma No Fear as well as our fantastic DJs we were dancing until 1am... just £5 on the door...

We had a swinging' night of Rat Pack musical tributes and Vegas-style glam and glitter at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on the 12th of April with live music from Thee Intolerable Kidd and Nathan Persad as well as the hot kittens of Les Apaches...



After that... we had another FREE sunday HungaMunga makey day
in May
at 93 FEET EAST on Brick Lane
with our DJs spinning some fun, funky and eclectic tunes until 10.30
Rock N Roll Cinema showed short films from 4pm in the main room and then from 7pm live music. We're there in the pink bar at the back getting messy each month...




Our first party at Favela Chic was in March... taking all your recyclable junk and scraps and making them into great works of art, sculptures, installations and collages...

Before that... we had arts and crafts action
in a chilled out sunday afternoon HungaMunga makey day
from 4pm on the 4th of March
at 93 FEET EAST on Brick Lane
with our DJs spinning some fun and eclectic tunes
and lots of materials and arty goings on
including painting, papier mache, collage, knitting, sewing and lots more
while Rock N Roll Cinema showed short films before the bands in the main room and Viva Cake fed you with sweet treats in the bar, we were in the gallery bar getting messy...
hope you can come along to one of these
lots o love
moondog and the hungamunga posse
x



hope you can join us for the next one... it'll be a romantic pre-Valentines party on the 8th of February with Kari Kleiv and the Love Band, Gold Sounds and Thee Intolerable Kidd... with DJs Kisschase and Celie... and performance from Dolly The Pusher and friends... that's from 8pm til 2am at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club... £6 on the door... so come and make your Valentine's cards with us... all materials included!!




checkout our myspace page for details of the next HungaMunga at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club.



our last arty party was a wonderful fancy-dress HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR filled with painting, collage, papier mache, knitting, sewing, facepainting and of course the obligatory moondog scones...

The prize for the best costume went to Little dead Riding Hood...



we had the insane genius of THE SWAYS... the eccentric offspring of folk country blues and Spike Milligan, a band who in their own words are the musical equivalent of Marmite... in a word: psychotic

and bouncing indie fun pop from THE MICHELLES... they certainly got us all dancing and making merry... so much fun... if they're not careful they might end up famous... i warn you, they'll be huge in 2007!!!

with DJs Kisschase and Freddy playing fun stuff 'til 2am



check our myspace page for more information



Our previous HUNGAMUNGA was on September 21st at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club... with psychedelic spaced-out pop from THEY CAME FROM THE STARS, I SAW THEM and the acoustically gorgeous PAUL MOSLEY as well as some tunes from our fabulous DJ Freddy... that's as well as making everything imaginable from costumes, puppets, papier mache, dressing up costumes, etc... we'll be painting, sticking, knitting, sewing, face-painting, papier-mache-ing (?)... Plus the usual scones, competitions, inflatables and prizes. Make your own musical instruments and join me in The Invisible Orchestra, a brief moment of audience participation musical madness... Come and dance and drink and dress to get messed... there'll also be more than a few surprises...

at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB

from 8pm til 2am and it's only £5
all materials are included but feel free to bring along your own too...

see you soon
lots o love
Lloyd and the hungamunga posse

click on the flyer above for more information



Our last HUNGAMUNGA is on August 31st at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club... had David Cronenberg's Wife, Slapper and some tunes from the Bake-A-Cake DJs...

at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB

from 8pm til 2am

check out the article in Time Out here: there's even a picture of me and NHAC's David in our Wolf masks at Craft Night....

http://www.myspace.com/hungamunga

Celebrating the eclectic, the acoustic and the insane... the moondog loves you club is a place for new music, experimental sounds and a generally fun night out with art, performance, cartoons, robots, projections, drawing competitions, inflatables and of course scones...imagine a kind of "Later... with Rolf Harris" ... with more than a few surprises...


HungaMunga gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation for New Music.

PAST EVENTS

Last time on the 11th of July we certainly had unusual live music from Paul Hawkins, Dark Captain Light Captain, the amazing Ninki V and music from the Bake-A-Cake DJs. There's some photos here: www.flickr.com

here: there's also some of us in brick lane outside Cafe 1001 on sunday (the 9th) drinking and getting messy and painting and stuff at our last makey day... come along to the next one!!!



We started our new monthly nights at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club... on May the 4th...

HUNGAMUNGA... a night of painting and drawing and making stuff to the very best new and unusual musical acts that moondog could befriend... including Horsebox, Breadfoot and Stan Spencer & Kisschase.... and DJs keeping us dancing and drinking til the wee small hours... lots o' fun... at he second one we had the amzing Hafdis Huld and her band as well as little sets from Brody and Quint, Trouble Over Tokyo and Sliding Rule... sign up to www.myspace.com/hungamunga to be kept abreast of news about the next event...

and if you want to stalk me... you can find me at any number of music events each week (review section coming soon). Just check my calendar of events on my myspace page here...

Wednesday 8th February
MILK KAN
Blinging up BLANG NIGHT at THE 12 BAR CLUB
with me old mates MILK KAN enjoying their recent indie chart success (with a little of the old "one-up two down everybody gather round...") along with the wonderful SERGEANT BUZFUZ, KEVIN 2 SHEDS, PETE AND THE PIRATES and BELT MOTEL...
check out: http://www.myspace.com/milkthekan
http://www.blang.co.uk

FRIDAY 10th FEBRUARY
MODERN LOVE @ 333
Our lovely friends from Kinki and Riot Fever combined to create the dirty love disco that was Modern Love at 333 Old Street. Glorious trash pop brought to you by Riot Fever's Miss Pixi, Vic Voltaire and guests...with unbelieveably gorgeous burlesque performers and disco nymphs, and a stellar superstar line-up that was quite frankly amazing: not only DJ sets from Freeform Five and Simian Mobile Disco
but also performing live... THE MODERN launching their glorious new single 'Industry',
http://www.the-modern.co.uk/
http://www.pixipink.com
http://profile.myspace.com/2819033

SUNDAY 12th FEBRUARY
VICAR'S TEA PARTY at Notting Hill Arts Club
21 Notting Hill Gate W11 3JQ
as a precursor to the finest festival of the summer, The Secret Garden Party... Some fine young chaps and lasses played music: Indigo Moss, Supernashwan, The Big Strides, Rex Radio & The Guitar Club with Jody Thompson (6music) and the Head Gardener DJed late into the night.
There was board games, cucumber sandwiches and 'special' tea!
The vicarage will be open to visitors again this month, I'll keep you posted.
Check out: www.secretgardenparty.com and www.myspace.com/secretgardenparty



MONDAY 13th FEBRUARY
CRAFT NIGHT at Notting Hill Arts Club...
a great night this one... come along after 8 on Monday, pay £5 and get a lovely night of making stuff... with helpers at hand, all the kit you need to make a dispiriting Valentines creation along with great music from Shitmat, Mira Calix and Ned... celebrating two years of fabulous Lumin events!

It gets so bloody lonely out here sometimes... I don't know, I go out spread my little cards all over the bloody planet and help promote the best and most interesting nights out in London and when I get there I really hate being on me own... even when my club members do turn up they email me later rather than coming up to me in person and saying "HI"... so please come along to one of these thingsand keep me company... it would be great to meet new friends and catch up with old ones...

you can email me with any questions about these events ... and remember there are some pretty exciting moondog things happening in the next few months... new books, new t-shirts and new nights... and a few surprises I can't reveal for legal and health reasons cos they involve scones...

and be my friend here:
>http://www.myspace.com/moondoglovesyou


PS if you have actually read all this then can you please email me and tell me your birthday and address and I will make sure you get a very special treat from moondog... x

WELL DONE NIZLOPI!!!

well well well... it looks like moondog's favourite music act has managed to get to Number One in the charts with their amazing JCB Song but had a hard time beating the X-Factor winner to hold on to it for Christmas Day...

Nizlopi played an amazing headline set at Shepherd's Bush Empire in January...

I've created a special mini-site for them here: www.pro-nizlopi.com

It's about time this duo were recognised as the best band in Britain and it looks like it is finally happening... thanks in part to the brilliant video by monkeehub that is circulating the inboxes of the world... yeay! well done boys!!!

click here to watch the video... forward it on to your friends if you want. it's sweet, funny and musically brilliant...

"The animation is by one of the guys whoês done animation for Radiohead. I really really really like it. I like the visual style, I love the way that they sound, and I love the way that [it references that] if youêre a kid, you worship your dad. Even if heês just a driver of a truck, you invent myth and lore around how cool he is."
Neil Young, Vice President, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles

With moondog's friends doing so well at the moment (Nizlopi, Misty's, Milk Kan and the Mink Troubadour Kamikaze Squadron have all been played on Radio One in recent weeks) on the 13th of December we tried find the stars of the future with a special X-Factor type night at The Spread Eagle once again on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch. A few moondog regulars performed covers and christmas songs for your entertainment in front of a live audience... then we voted on the best one. You decided that Monica Harkin should win with ther beautiful cover of Feeling' Good... Artists who performed were Polly Maclean and Joe Murphy with an admirable version of Fairytale of New York, Paul Hawkins (whose incredible Santa Baby deserves an honorable mention), JJ Crash, Iain Dootson, Stan Spencer and Kiss Chase... and I was tempted to perform myself ... yes really... Maxwell's Silver Hammer in the style of Bjork and Driftwood in the style of Johnny Cash... It really was such a laugh... We also had amazing live performances from moondog favourites Emaline Delapaix and Toph... as well as lots of scones, drawing stuff and lots of hot young lovely people... so if you came along I hope you enjoyed it and will come to the next one.




KINKI, our favourite club night for debauched and glittery starlets will be returned for its massive second birthday bash on Saturday the 12th of November at the beautiful Boudoir, 47 Chiswell Street, EC1. The Billion Dollar Babes in Toyland Party with help from Coco De Mer, Poste Mistress, Beyond Retro, Toni&Guy, and a Stila twisted lingerie show. With performance artists and alternative art exhibitions, bunny girls, circus boyz, cigarette dollz, glam electro, glitter rock and glorious trash pop brought to us by Riot Fever's Miss Pixi, Vic Voltaire and very special surprise guests. This beautiful desecration will be televised. There'll be more Kinki parties in 2006. Be there next time or else!!!. check the site here for more details: KINKI...





our VICTORIAN HALLOWEEN party was on the 25th of october at the splendiferous venue of dirty delight The Spread Eagle in Hoxton, a haunted olde creaking inn (formally a house of ill-repute) in the heart of London's East End... where Jack the Ripper once stalked the fog-bound streets, where around every corner lurks a shadow, a secret, a nightmare...the moondog loves you club returned for a triumphant Victorian Halloween fancy dress party at which we had great live music from some insane and ghoulish creatures of the night... as usual we were making stuff, drawing and creating a hell of a mess and of course there were scones... thanks to everyone who came and made it such a wonderful night....



Especially wonderful was the headline act for our little gathering... The Irrepressibles... hard to describe but amazingly unforgettable... they gave us a night to remember...



There's some wicked photos from the party here by Alex...

and there's more photos here by Shelley and me.

"The Irrepressibles ride on the cusp of danger" (Flux) "Incredibly moving" (Playlouder) "Fantastically theatrical"(BBC Collective) "Refreshingly disturbing" (ManchesterMusic)
check them out at myspace

and also we had funky noisy fun from the lovely National Snack... as MiniSnack they blew us away at the picnic so we invited them along to help kick off the party spirit... lovely!!!
listen here

thanks again to everyone...
lots o love
yours (with cackling madness)
Professor Geppetto H. Blowfinger
(Master of Ceremonies)
moondog loves you
x


new stuff coming soon... including moondog's toy shop, the new book, new t-shirts and a very special nizlopi night in november



For pictures and stuff from our 2005 moondog loves you mini-festival musical-picnic SCONES IN THE PARK... click here...

MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE, the world's greatest gonzo-toyshop-ska 8-piece band, were back in London for John Peel Day at The Elbow Rooms on the 13th of October... also playing was Emmy The Great, the Bishops, Rumble Strips and Action Plan...
www.mistysbigadventure.co.uk

and by the way... Misty's Big Adventure's new CD album The Black Hole is out in the shops now... please get it... it's our album of the year... no question!! they are good friends of moondog and we love them very much... go here for a free preview: myspace

my new t-shirt is done for Emaline Delapaix's North American tour... you'll be able to buy them from here soon, but email me if you're interested in one... they are available in blue, pink and yellow.
have a look here: emstshirt.jpg

also THE SMELLY BALL was postponed from the 1st of September date and we will be announcing a new date soon.. sorry...


Thanks to everyone who comes to the club nights and helps make them a success... everyone has a great time and the music and scones are wonderful...

more photos from the moondog loves you club here>>>>

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