Wee Scary Beasties- Creepy Lullabies

Have a kid you wanna subtly morph into a knowledgable little son of a gun with good music taste and a knack for vinyl? Even if the answer is no...you hopefully love halloween, love classics like the Mekons + Devil in a Woodpile + Kelly Hogan hey? If you don't know and love these musicians, what kinda Chicagoan are you???? 

The point is, whip out your Fisher Price turntable, put your batman jammies on, and dance to the Wee Scary Beasties double 7" Creepy Lullabies (or go with the digital download if ya want) out on Carrot Top Records subsidiary WeeBeatz Records! Made up of Jon Langford + Sally Timms of the Mekons, Kelly Hogan (Neko Case, Pine Valley Cosmonauts) and Devil in a Woodpile, these songs are brilliant for any age and put you in the halloween spooker spirit with some "mighty jug band talents of front porch settin' old-timey blues ...Shangri-Las finger-popping flavor, [and] fresh seat-of-the-pants harmonies." The Wee Hairy Beasties credit kids (and their parents) for having a brain and knowing how to use it! 

Buy music from the Wee Hairy Beasties HERE or come in and get it at saki!

Scroll to the bottom to buy the 7s", the digital, or get Wee Hairy Beasties' other release Holidays Gone Crazy in time for some excellently fun holidays!

Wee Scary Beasties-Pumpkinhead by carrottoprecords

Hideout's Fifth Annual Christmas Panto

We attended our third Hideout Christmas Panto. As always it stealthily avoids my ability to adequately describe what we saw. The AV Club posted a good interview with Sally Timms about the Brit panto tradition and the liberties taken by The Hideout crew.

I may never fully recover from what I saw that night. I took pictures.

Cleopatra (Jon Langford) and Eunuch (Amy Lombardi)

The Hideout's Christmas Panto

Every year I talk about how awesome this is, and every year you ignore me to your own unhappy detriment. By popular demand, Sally Timms and pals are putting on the Fifth Annual Hideout Christmas Panto. This year's theme is Egyptian/Cosmic, with our beloved Jonboy Langford playing...

Cleopatra, Queen of DeNial “Oh No I’m not” and the Hidden Treasures of the Mummy’s Tomb. In the role of a lifetime, Pantomime Dame Jon Langford channels his inner Liz Taylor to star as the mesmerizing Queen Cleopatra. Featuring Tim Tuten as King Tuten K Moon, the Boy King, Gnat Ward as Queen Woadicea of the Ancient Britons, Mike Bulington as The Mummy, Callie Roach as Indiana Hump and a swarthy mass of yet uncast Hideout regulars as Julius Geezer, Mark Apathy, Lord Curmudgeon and other Ridiculous Romans, Smelly Early Britons and Senile Soothe Sayers.

Yep. So put on a smile, have some drinks, hiss at the villains, cheer the heroes, and take part in the long English tradition of (holiday) cross-dressing.* The first year, they built a full-on PIRATE SHIP on stage!

So what else do I gotta say to persuade you? GO.

At the first one, Jon's mum confided in me that her son seemed "to enjoy it a bit much." You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take the England out of the boy, I reckon.

A Winter Solstice Shadow Puppet Show

Since we were not being graced with another mildly debauched, but lovely panto this year, this will just have to do. :-)

The Hideout Presents: a Winter Solstice Shadow Puppet Show 

Shadow Puppets and Music for Kids and Adults

This Sunday, December 19 ONLY. 3pm sharp.

Adults $8

Kids Free or donation if you can manage it

Kathleen Judge and friends (including Sally Timms) will be performing the lovely shadow puppet plays  "Jabberwocky" and "Revontulet," this Sunday 19th December at The Hideout at 3pm. This is a kiddy friendly show and will include music from Tiny Cover Band.  Show lasts about an hour. Please spread the word, post wherever you can...buy advance tix at The Hideout website.

Hideout Annual Christmas Panto

Any excuse to see Langford and company dress up in pirate regalia in ever-increasingly less credible environments is OK by me! Throw in Christmas, zeppelins, booze, and what I assume is a tip of the cap to my favorite WKRP episode, and you've got a sure fire winner!

Thursday 12/17 7:00 & 10:00

Friday 12/18 7:00 & 10:00

The Hideout Players present

The Third Annual Hideout Christmas Panto

Ho Ho Ho; the Humanity 

Prior to his career as a purveyor of gifts, Santa Claus was a zeppelin pirate

Fancy dress encouraged

*** early family friendly show ***

*** late 21+ less friendly show ***