Karl has 6 years experience in Burlesque and has been a performer, DJ and musical Director for the Tassel Club, Resident DJ for the Dublin Burlesque Ball and has worked with Gypsy Hotel Ireland and The Pigalle Club in London on numerous occasions.
Karl has been broadcasting the Speakeasy Radio Show for over 2 years, bringing the best in Classic and Neo Swing, jive, Jump Blues, Rockabilly and more, including regular interviews with bands, performers and information on upcoming events. Karl presents on a voluntary basis for Liffey Sound FM and can be heard in the locale of west Dublin on 96.4fm and further afield at www.liffeysoundfm.ie every Tuesday from 10pm.

Lord Talbot is the sometime host of the Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club, usually when he has gambling debts to pay off. This former aristocrat likes to surround himself with burlesque, gin and most importantly, diddies. Where better to do that than at the BCSC every month!
Some have described him as a comedian – usually people who have never seen a comedian.

Lolita Lush made her performing debut at Crash Test Cabaret during the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2009. Since then she has been ripping stages up with her unique brand of Neo-Burlesque and Grotesque Burlesque. She has perfomed at the BCSC, Sideshow (with the Pony Girls), Crash Test Cabaret and Boutique Burlesque. Not only is she a BCSC regular, but she is also the House Madam for the Lush Puppies who look after the BCSC front of house.

Baby Vegas are former Las Vegas and Hollywood mega-stars Ricky Roulette, Dolores Diamonte and Freddie Le Flash. Cryogenically frozen in 1962, these once household names were thawed out in 2009 to be the saviours of Irish cabaret and political satire. As Baby Vegas, their muscial parodies leave no politician or celebrity unharmed. Mary Harney, Brian Cowen and Brittney Spears amoungst others have all felt their wrath.

Known under many names around the world, Truly DiVine has been singing her heart away since she discovered her voice at age 13. In her teens, this Dutch lady dipped her toes in pop, rock and musicals. Truly finally found her jazz niche when she moved to Dublin in 2004. She had been playing gigs around Dublin with a variety of musicians for four years when she found her musical match: Mr. Burl Esquire. Since Truly’s birth, Burl and herself have been roaming, charming and hugging the Dublin Burlesque Scene. Their sassy, sexy jazz and blues tunes have swayed people’s hearts at charity gigs, the first Burlesque and Cabaret Social Clubs in the Sycamore Club, their regular Thursday residential gig in Dame Street's Le Cirk, and now at the Sugar Club. If you want some dark, theatrical, sexy music to thrill your mind and body, give Truly DiVine and her Indulgents the free reign to dazzle you.

Having been on the scene for the last 3 years and still going strong, Miss Bella A Go Go continues to dazzle and amaze everyone with her charming, funny and sexy shows. A professional bellydancer, burlesque queen, blues singer and performance artist, Miss Bella loves to push peoples's buttons and make them think. She has worked with most of the big burlesque and cabaret venues in Ireland and also works abroad. Highlights to date include headlining the Poptopia tent at the Electric Picnic, performances at the Dublin Fringe Festival, the Amsterdam Beat Club in the Westport Arts Festival, headline singer at the Burlesque & Cabaret Social Club. She has also been a burlesque performer with Charlie Gracie & the Runaway Boys Rock n Roll show in Enniscorthy and with the Dublin Vintage Ball. A performer not to be missed!

Roxy studied for a masters in drama and theatre in UCC before moving to Dublin in 2005 to attend the Gaiety school of acting. Within days she discovered the burlesque scene there, starting out as an usherette at first but was soon owning the stage with her first burlesque strip tease involving helium balloons! Four years later and Roxy is still reigning high on the Irish burlesque scene, having performed all around the country including Belfast and Jersey. Roxy merges classical and neo burlesque from simple fan dances, to drawing from icons of pop culture including Wonder Woman, Snow White and Pulp Fiction. She is always working on new material and you can expect anything from her next performance!

bigchiefrandomchaos was born out of the 90's Dublin Dance Scene. His own brand of freak out visual weirdness and slap stick humor has both thrilled and dismayed audiences for the past twenty years. He has danced on broken glass in the Sugar Club and has appeared on the Podge and Rodge Show with a bed of nails. He is a gorgeous half man, half woman half fish - other credits include Elevator, Powderbubble, Oxygen, Vicar Street, Olympia Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Art Glasgow, Irish Museum of Modern Art to name a few. Expect anything from her next performance!

Sapphira Swann is an actress and burlesque performer based in Dublin. A graduate of the Irish School of Burlesque, Sapphira won second place in the Ireland’s Next Top Burlesque Star 2009 on her debut performance. Since then, Sapphira has made quite a name for herself on the Irish Burlesque scene with her unique and sexy style and has become a firm audience favourite. We can expect big things from this gal!

Dublin's original Burlseque Starlet, rising from such seminal clubs as Faith and The Tassel Club, Mz deMeanour's performances are in the classic style of the 40's and 50's pin-up. Inspired by such renowned artists as Lily St Cyr, Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee and - her personal favourite - Sally Rand. Her homage to the legendary fan dancer aspires to recreate the sophisticated grace of her idol, but with a slightly more eccentric, comedic twist.

Epiphany was born around the time of 'Faith' in Dublin. Her roles have ranged from Hostess and Performer to Poster Girl. Within weeks, she was the original Usherette for the Tassel Club, quickly rising to be the 'Face Of', and managing a troupe of uniformed Usherettes, bringing tassels, cigars and other vintage style items to the audience in classic 50's Cinema Usherette style. Epiphany has graced the boards at various festivals, corporate and movie events, including the Heineken Weekender Music Festival, Electric Picnic, Castle Palooza, The Trinity Ball, The Dublin Burlesque Ball, as well as private events at Odessa and Residence.

Alexia Lace has been performing at the BCSC since 2009 after she fell into Burlesque when enlisted to perform the art form as part of a challenge in Crash Test Cabaret during the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Miss Lace is devoted to the arts and as well as being a passionate film maker she is also a very talented actress and graduate of the 2007 full time course at the Gaiety School of Acting. As an actress Alexia Lace goes under her less glamorous name of Alexina Davidson and is a regular performer in the Dublin Fringe Festival. She has worked with the likes of the Brussels Shakespeare Society Whiplash Productions and Tallismann.

Whilst her first love is Theatre, she also has a variety of short films and low budget features under her belt and has recently completed an Irish Film Board film titled 'Flatbed' due for release in June. Watch this space...

Doug made his BCSC debut in 2009 performing with Miss Epiphany deMeanour. He has since gone on to perform in many of his own Boylesque routines at the BCSC, Dublin Burlesque Ball and other cabaret events in Dublin. The Brazilian beefcake is always working on new ideas for his act and you never know what he'll come up with next.

Kristin Kapelli has been perfroming internationally since an early age. She started out in musical theatre in the U.S before coming to Ireland. She fronted the succesful Tina Turner Tribute Band "I can Tina" and was also fronting her own blues band in which they performed in numerous festivals,including the Cork Jazz festival. Kristin also fronted "The Songs of Mama Cass" produced by Bill Hughes and with Musical Director Ronan Jonston.

For 5 years, Kristin was the Voice of the Tassel Club, at that time, Dublin's foremost Burlesque club, held at the Sugar Club and the Button Factory. Kristin is part of the Katherine Lynch show in Vicar street. As well as being a Burlesque & Cabaret Social Club regular, Kristin also M.C's and performs regularly at the Dublin Burlesque Ball and Burlectro. She also has done a lot of charity gigs including the C.A.R.I ball and lunch. Miriam Ahern the face of the charity and Alan Hughes who M.C's every event, are counted as Kristin's biggest fans. She also played the part of 'Nelly" in Wild Decembers, a movie based on an Edna O'Brien novel which be shown in the autumn of 2009 on RTE. Kristin is now working with Patrick Fagan and Pav the Fiddler on the show "Baby Vegas", a show of quirky covers and hilarious parody songs.

Ricky Roulette is the alter ego of singer/actor /comedian Patrick Fagan. Patrick studied at Bull Alley performance college and the Dublin Youth Theatre. His previous work includes his role as emcee in Cabaret and as Henrik in A Little Night Music. He has performed in the Spiegeltent and the Tassel Club to name but a few and most recently the crictically acclaimed "Silver Stars" as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Also Patrick is a former "Alternative Miss Ireland". He is currently on tour with Katherine Lynch's "Diddy Diddy Dongo" tour which will play Vicar st (Dublin), Galway and Limerick.

Bonzo B Yeats is a new comer to the stage and made his Début at the first Burlesque & Cabaret Social club in June of this year. He was an instant hit and has been present at every show since, where he has continued to develop his style - think Jack L & Frank Sinatra's love child and your nearly there. He was a huge hit as a special guest at Ireland's Next Top Burlesque Star, singing while Epiphany deMeanour performed. We are proud to have discovered his talents and given him a stage to shine and hope he is an example to more people to realise their dreams. We can't wait to see what the future holds for him.

John “The Prop” has been the BCSC’s go to guy for on stage help since its beginnings. Amongst his roles, he has been Capt Hook to Sapphira  Swan’s Tinkerbell and the drunk toff to Roxy Rhinestone’s even drunker Flapper Girl. He takes on these roles not only because he’s a nice guy but also because it gets him closer to beautiful women in various states of undress. It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it!