The pleasure principle

If I don't post again today it's because I am frantically doing some research for my appearance tonight at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Subject: hedonism.

The ICA website (see HERE) only tells the half of it. A fellow guest is Tamara Tyler, co-founder of The Whoopee Club, and the event begins with a "Whoopee maids routine in which five performers mingle with the audience, then strip from being maids into chorus girls". It ends with a "Whoopee kitsch hearts routine, with giant hearts as props" and during the interval the audience will be entertained by "the Whoopee Beaux Belles' routine to Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love with bows and arrows as props".

Meanwhile I have been sent the following email by my contact at the ICA: "By the way, I've got permission to allow smoking during the event (the ICA has been no-smoking since September). A small but very satisfying little victory!"

Update on Friday, May 11, 2007 by Simon Clark

I've just been told that tonight's event is sold out. Hedonism is alive and well!