Dead Dog In Black Bag
Christmas comes around just once a year, but chances to see Antony Elvin & The Tudor Unit alongside a newly revived Dead Dog In Black Bag are even rarer! As the fawning lights encroach around every corner, and the murky fog smirks like an insinuating, co-dependent drunk, the season of
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November 13, 2017 // 0 Comments
Today marks five years since The Velvet Onion Live, and as luck would have it, we recently managed to salvage some footage previously thought lost forever from the star-studded one-off live event. On 31st May 2012, we packed 21 Velvet Onion regulars, and the disembodied voice of one other, into
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May 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
The archives of Dead Dog In Black Bag are open, and are now available to hear via Soundcloud. The band began life around 2006, as Holly Jane Shears joined forces with Amy Richardson to form a dynamic duo responsible for pure electropop filth. Together, they both appeared in the third series
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February 10, 2014 // 0 Comments
It’s that time of the year again. The big fat bloke has been, and given you all lots of lovely jubbly presents, with hopefully a few TVO related goodies amongst them! As our friends, naturally, we had to provide you with a gift or some variety, and given the runaway success of last
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December 25, 2013 // 2 Comments
At long last, here’s the latest installment in our TVO Live video series! For various boring reasons, it’s been a few weeks since we were able to bring you some footage from our inaugral live event which took place in May of last year, but now hope we can continue apace with some more
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July 16, 2013 // 0 Comments
Yes, it’s Christmas time, and as another year draws to a close, The Velvet Onion has not one, but two presents for you. Our annual TVO Calendar has sadly been delayed a little, but will be here for your perusal before 2012 runs out of gas. We’ve been working round the clock the last
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December 25, 2012 // 2 Comments
A rare chance to see Dead Dog In Black Bag arrives this weekend – and if that isn’t reason enough to attend, it may be the last chance you’ll have for quite some time to check out our favourite electropop comics. The duo, comprising Holly Jane Shears and Suzy Evelyn-Hall will
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November 5, 2012 // 1 Comment
Today marks the one month anniversary of our evening of music, comedy and downright madness at TVO Live! So what better way to celebrate the night than to give all of you a taste of what went down in our first trailer! Take a look below at the first snippets of footage from our film of the whole
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June 29, 2012 // 6 Comments
You knew it was coming – but Thursday May 31st saw The Velvet Onion put on our very first live night, at the incredible new Shepherd’s Bush venue, The Vandella. With a smattering of stars in the audience, and a VIP lounge so filled with comedy legends several people’s heads may
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June 2, 2012 // 10 Comments
The Velvet Onion is proud to announce two more names attending The Velvet Onion Live on May 31st at The Vandella, Shepherd’s Bush. Joining our star-packed line-up are two of the stars of Luxury Comedy – the incredible Dolly Wells and the inimitable Mike Fielding! Dolly, of course,
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April 30, 2012 // 1 Comment
The Velvet Onion is pleased to be able to announce several more acts for our debut live night on Thursday May 31st at The Vandella. The Velvet Onion Live! takes place on Thursday, May 31st 2012. Tickets are on sale NOW via Ticketweb, priced just £15. Please remember the venue is a licensed bar
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April 9, 2012 // 3 Comments
Tickets are now on sale for our first ever live show! We are honoured to be able to confirm a star-studded bill set to take place at THE VANDELLA in Shepherd’s Bush on Thursday, 31st May 2012. Together with James Wren & Bob Pipe, we’re putting on quite a show – with a number
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April 5, 2012 // 4 Comments
The Velvet Onion is going live! Hands up – who thought our news about a TVO gig was a great big April Fool? We just couldn’t help but tease with this one, but for the last few months we have been quietly preparing for our biggest challenge yet: Putting on our very own live show! We
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April 2, 2012 // 8 Comments
The final months of 2011 were an exciting time for the Booshniverse. Join us for now for the final instalment of our four-part retrospective as we relive it all over again. . . October October began buzzing with Booshy delights. The month’s start saw previews for the upcoming 25th series of Never
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January 8, 2012 // 1 Comment
2011 was The Velvet Onion’s second year in operation, and whaddya know – it turned out to be quite an eventful one! If you’ve joined us more recently, or if you’ve lost a few brain cells over the festive period and can’t remember much before December, here’s
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December 31, 2011 // 5 Comments
A new wonderful track by Matt Berry and electro-pop duo DeadDogInBlackBag has emerged online! The song called Kill Him is composed and written by Matt Berry and has been reproduced by DeadDogInBlackBag who also have supplied additional lyrics. This is a new old demo from 2007 but it was posted
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December 8, 2011 // 1 Comment
The forthcoming Robots In Disguise single, Chains, has been remixed by none other than Holly Jane Shears of DeadDogInBlackBag and Circulus fame. The Velvet Onion got wind of this very exciting collaboration last week, safe in the knowledge that it would be coming your way soon. We felt best to
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April 11, 2011 // 0 Comments
Last weekend saw the return of DeadDogInBlackBag to the London live scene. The electro comic duo lit up Soho with a short but sweet set, and Velveteer Lozzy was on hand to document proceedings. This is her report: St Moritz in the heart of Soho is dark, oddly shaped, and just enough below ground
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February 11, 2011 // 1 Comment
DeadDogInBlackBag are to make a rare live appearance in February. The electropop duo, featuring Holly Jane Shears and Suzy Evelyn, will appear at the Deathline event at St.Moritz club in SoHo on February 4th. Further details have yet to be announced, but the event has a facebook page in place
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January 24, 2011 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion is proud to bring you its own 2011 calendar! In lieu of an official Boosh calendar on sale this year, we decided it’d be a great idea to offer up an alternative to that rubbish one your nan got you, and make a fully fledged 12-month calendar for you to download, print off and
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December 30, 2010 // 7 Comments
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