Kitten on the Keys Kitten on the Keys is a deleriously decadent one ma’am band. When not tickling the ivories, stroking the uke, or squeezing her accordion, this multi-tasking vaudeville vamp announces acts with a putty-tat panache that will stir your nethers and tickle your funnybone! With four...

‘The circus has come to town!’ Was just one of the many things we laughed at judging by the reactions as we stepped off the plane into the scorching heat of Mumbai, India last week. But just what were six burlesque ladies under the names of Kitty Bang Bang, Agent Lynch, Vicky Butterfly,...

Ava Garter is currently being discussed in every burlesque circle I know of; from Paris to New York, the hype surrounding the woman closest to Dita von Teese since college and trained by both her and Catherine D’lish gains momentum. But if you think that who she is taught by and who her best friend...

Chapter 5: Rehearsals (part 1) A woman cannot live by fish alone. And though I was settled in my job on the Selfridges fish counter, Halibut is not the stuff dreams are made of. If a Burlesque star was what I wanted to be then I would have to do more than just purchase some silky smalls and a corset…...

Episode Six: Khandie on Khorsets For some women it’s shoes, for others it’s handbags - for me it’s corsets. Corsets, corsets and more corsets! Now I am not talking some flimsy boned piece of cotton contraption bought from some dodgy lingerie shop. I am talking full steel boning, as...