Tiki Lounge and Bar will be engulfed by the smokey, risque and exotic burlesque-inspired cabaret stylings of Mz Josephine Fisher (http://www.josephinefisher.com/) as accompanied by the laidback lounge/exotica sounds of the Kahuna Daddies.  We’ve been lucky enough to host the Kahuna Daddies before at our humble bar, and Mz Josephine’s reputation preceeds her… just look at her website and try to tell me that this doesn’t sound compelling:

“Mz Josephine’s tendency to reveal more than absolutely necessary has made her a popular entertainer with her customers. Regaling them with saucy songs, anecdotes, dildo dancing, striptease, fabulist story telling and tales of love gone kinky. Mz Josephine was invented to explore the politics of pleasure and to encourage her audiences to be curious about their own.”

We’d love to see you there!  Show should kick off around 9:30pm.  No cover charge! (woo!)

Cheers,

Tiki Lounge and Bar

Hi All!

Those crazies from Tiki Robot are holding another amazing 60’s themed Mondo-a-Go-Go evening at Tiki Lounge and Bar this Saturday night (April 4th)!  Be on hand for all the beats, boots and ‘bots (robots that is) starting from around 8pm!

Here’s the low-down:

Mondo-a-Go-Go is on again at the Tiki Lounge and Bar, 327 Swan Street Richmond 8pm $8 – Amazing visuals, Yuri the Robot, Bagadelic DJ, Cage Dancers and the best music to Go-Go by. Oh and fabulous cocktails in the amazing experience that is the Tiki Bar and Lounge.

It’s come to the end of another great year for Tiki Lounge and Bar.  We’d like to thank you all for your support during the year, and invite you all to join us for an awesome 2009!   We’ll be shutting down for Christmas with our last night tonight (Dec 20th) and reopening again on January 9th.   In the new year expect some great new stuff from us – we’ve got loads of events in the pipeworks with our all new menu (which we will announce properly soon) and some great bands as well as more of the quirky cabaret you’ve come to expect from TikiLAB (someone at the bar may have even rediscovered the joy of firetwirling, so be forewarned!).

Things to look forward to in the new year include our new menu, a Bettie Page Tribute night some time in the early part of the new year (Rest in Peace) our great new air-conditioner (tropical drinks without the tropical climate), an excellent bar food menu currently being developed in the laboratory, and our new bar service night on a Thursday when we will be putting on some great events for locals and loyal regulars.

Of course we’ve had some great highlights from this year in no particular order:

Inviting a bunch of Zombies from the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle back to the bar for Cocktails and Brains

Filling the venue with Mini-skirted, knee-high-booted GoGo dancers in Cages for Mondo-a-Go-Go

The drink that “The Boss” would drink – our very own Bruce Mangosteen cocktail.

Our hilarious tribute to particle physics – the Large Hadron Colada

The schlock horror stylings of Cinema Exotica

All the great bands who played at TikiLAB throughout the year (special mention to Mariachi Los Romanticos for their efforts on Day of the Dead – both with the music they played and the lovely ladies they danced the night away with after their show!)

And who can forget Purplo’s (the honey cocktail sausage) and our short lived attempt at Cocktails and Snags.

If you have any photos of any misspent nights at the bar, please feel free to email them to photos@tikiloungeandbar.com and we’ll put them up in our gallery.

Once again we’ve all had a ball with all our customers this year and we hope to be able to see some old (and new) faces in the new year!

Merry Christmas,

The Crew at TikiLAB.

Image stolen from picture-book.com

Gig starts some time after 8 ish, and there will be a cover charge of 8 clams.

I’ve embedded a video from their last gig up at Tiki… Hope you like it!

Cheers,
Tiki LAB.

Just a reminder to those who have any photos of the Tiki Bar that you’d like to share from last night or any of the other recent events held at the bar (I KNOW I saw some photos being taken of the boys from Mariachi Los Romanticos a few weeks back!) we have an email address for guest photo submissions – photos@tikiloungeandbar.com.  We can also embed YouTube videos in the site – if you have any video of the bar on YouTube that you’d like to share, email us the link at info@tikiloungeandbar.com.

We’re looking forward to seeing some great guest snaps!

Cheers,

Kev

*The photo in this post is of the driveway of another Tiki Bar – the La Mariana Sailing Club in Honolulu – following a bit of rain.

Last week’s awesome performance by North Carolina has left us reeling with thier great funk/soul outpouring.  There was Aretha, Prince, Stevie… and was that a pinch of Salt n Pepa?!

Anyway, we’ll have barely had the time to peel the funk off the walls (in a good way) when the good folk from Mondo-a-Go-Go sweep into the bar and transform it into a hip 60s discothèque complete with mini skirts, turtlenecks and Robotic DJs (that’s exactly what it was like – trust me!  I was there!).  If last Mondo-a-Go-Go is anything to Go-Go by, the venue will become a feast for the senses with great music and tripped out visual installations.

Another event not to be missed!

Stake a claim on the dancefloor early from 8pm for an 8:30, kneehigh-booted kick off.  $8 covercharge.

327 Swan Street,

Richmond

More details at info@tikiloungeandbar.com.

Some of you may have noticed the little event Google calendar widget on the right-hand side of this website showing some upcoming event – one of which will be happening tomorrow night and is shaping up to be AWESOME!

We’ve got yet another group of talented musicians for your aural pleasure performing at our humble bar!

Magificent Melbourne funk/soul band North Carolina (http://www.myspace.com/northcarolinafunk) dropped the Tiki Bar an email a little while ago saying, and I quote, “Tiki Lounge and Bar is the bee’s knees of soul venues in Melbourne as far as we’re concerned”. Despite not believing this high praise at first, we’ve now pretty much convinced ourselves that this is a universal truth and decided in our deluded state to welcome the folk from North Carolina to Tiki on Saturday November 15th to cut loose with their wonderful female vocal led jazz grooves. These guys are not to be missed! One might even say they’re the bee’s knees…

Time: After 8pm Saturday November 15th – $8 Cover Charge.

Email info@tikiloungeandbar.com for more details or call 9428 4336.

Cheers,
Tiki Lounge and Bar

This Saturday November 1st is the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos).  Tiki Lounge and Bar has asked Melbourne’s Premier Mariachi Band “Mariachi los Romanticos” (www.mariachilosromanticos.com.au/) to help them celebrate this special day, along with our very own Cabaret tribute to this Mexican tradition.

Our Barstaff will be serving up classic Margaritas all night with fine premium Jose Cuervo Tequila and fresh lime juice, as well as the spicy tomato juice-based Mexican specialty Sangrita to be served with shots of aged 1800 Tequila at the bar.  We will also be serving a limited supply of Sol Cerveza (maybe even with a slice of lime if you ask very nicely).

Hope to see you all there!

Festivities begin around 8pm – get in quick to try our Sangrita…before the bar staff polish it all off!

Check out the following video of Mariachi Los Romanticos on “The Footy Show”!

Cheers,

Tiki Bar.

Come along dressed as your favourite Zombie!

Details below: