Salon Obscura: Tainted Love
14.02.25
A celebration of love & all its complications.
Salon Obscura, The Groucho’s literary salon meets variety show returns for an alternative Valentine’s Day special hosted by
@izabella.z.scott &
@w0rms.w0rld .
Offering an alternative take on Valentine’s Day, Tainted Love presents a female & queer-led line up of writers, performers and musicians to interpret love in all its messiness.
Expect an eclectic Soho evening centred around a subversive cabaret performance set in a brothel about unruly desire, invention & women’s pleasure by
@izabella.z.scott &
@_lukilukiluki plus readings from a selection of writers from female-led literary magazine Worms Magazine, a live performance by
@_nickymusic of their recent breakup EP With, DJ sets of alt-love songs by actor & writer
@florencekeithroach &
@nickhadfield_ & some heartache sing-alongs around the piano.
‘A Valentine Cabaret’ takes as its starting point Thomas Nashe’s notorious Renaissance poem, The Choosing of Valentines, Or the Merry Ballad of Nash and His Dildo (1592): a witty, subversive Valentine’s day tale, set in a brothel, about unruly desire, invention and women’s pleasure – widely recognised as the poem that introduced the word ‘dildo’ into English.
The adapted version features six original songs with live vocals, live keyboard, costumes that evoke decadent pleasure houses and experimental instrumentation, channeling the theatrical excess of Renaissance music and the sly camp of contemporary cabaret
Salon Obscura was conceived by
@nickhadfield_ for The Groucho Club.
RSVP Only - DM for guestlist
@izabella.z.scott
@w0rms.w0rld
@_lukilukiluki
@_nickymusic
@florencekeithroach
@wavefield_
@nickhadfield_
@cirocvodka 
