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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 6h

Forty years ago this month: punk diva Nina Hagen graced the front cover of the November 1985 issue of German Vogue magazine. Photo by Tony Viramontes. #ninahagen #lobotomyroom #voguemagazine #germanvogue #1980sfashion #highfashion #fashionphotography #punkdiva #punkchanteuse #motherofpunk #newwave

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 2d

2/ Fontaine's bar in Dalston: just rock up from 8 pm or 9 pm until late! Can buy tickets in person. www.fontaines.bar #halloween2025 #halloweenparty #halloweencocktails #gayhalloween #songsthecrampstaughtus #gaychristmas #lobotomyroom #fontainesbarlondon #dalston #spookyseason #halloweenclubnight

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 2d

1/ I’m DJ’ing this #Halloween at Fontaine’s. BUT if you’re not London-based, you can still do the Transylvanian Twist from the comfort of your own home to my sprawling, putrid festive #LobotomyRoom Halloween playlist (put it on "shuffle" for maximum listening pleasure!). Link tinyurl.com/2s4ydm9t.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 4d

“And now ladies and gentlemen – here’s Grace!” Released forty years ago today (28 October 1985): Slave to the Rhythm, the Trevor Horn-produced seventh studio album by everyone’s favourite futuristic and androgynous dominatrix from outer space – #GraceJones! Album cover designed by Jean-Paul Goude.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 9d

Born on this day: much-loved actress, glamour queen and British cinema’s definitive bad girl (her insolent pout disrupted the prevailing stiff upper lip) – the Siren from Swindon, Diana Dors (née Diana Mary Fluck, 23 October 1931- 4 May 1984)! #lobotomyroom #dianadors #badgirl #platinumblonde

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 20d

In the countdown to #Halloween: a ghoulish 1970s punk pin-up! Dave Vanian – the suavely vampiric frontman of first-generation British punk anarcho-delinquents The Damned – was born 69 years ago today (12 October 1956)! #davevanian #punk #punkrock #thedamned #lobotomyroom #punkpinup #punkroyalty

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 21d

On Thursday 16 October the FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom film club eases you into the #Halloween spirit with a presentation of utterly berserk 1962 sci-fi horror b-movie The Brain That Wouldn’t Die! Downstairs at Fontaine’s. Email [email protected] to reserve a seat. Info: tinyurl.com/47h6hw6r

Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 21d

Premiered in Baltimore on this day (11 October 1974): John Waters’ defining meisterwerk #FemaleTrouble! Pic: leading lady Divine as anti-heroine Dawn Davenport – the role she was born to play. Sing along with me: “They say I'm insane / But I don't care / Go ahead, put me in your 'lectric chair …”

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 24d

Happy International Lesbian Day! [8 October]. #internationallesbianday #internationallesbianday2025 #lesbian #sapphic #sapphism #lgbtqia #queer #lobotomyroom #butch #prestonewall #sistersaredoingitforthemselves

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 27d

Opened 55 years ago today (5 October 1970) at Cinema II in NYC: provocative lowlife black comedy Trash, the second of the underground trilogy of films produced by spectral pop art visionary #AndyWarhol, directed by #PaulMorrissey and starring the Factory’s studly resident hunk #JoeDallesandro.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 28d

Farewell to Susan Lucas (aka Soo Catwoman) whose death aged 70 was announced by her children earlier this week. One of the original first-generation movers-and-shakers and “faces” of 1970s London’s punk epicentre, Lucas’ look was so confrontational it cemented her instant punk icon status. #punk

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 29d

For this month’s FREE #Halloween related #LobotomyRoom cinema club, we’re screening the acme of irresistibly lurid vintage b-movie drive-in fare – The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)! Thurs 16 October at Fontaine’s! Email [email protected] to reserve a seat. Info: tinyurl.com/47h6hw6r #cultmovie

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Oct 2

Born on this day: eternal grasping starlet, kitsch icon, pop culture oddity, cult figure, naïve outsider artist, iconic Los Angeleno and enthusiast of the colour pink Angelyne (née Ronia Tamar Goldberg, 2 October 1950. #angelyne #lobotomyroom #starlet #showbiz #kitsch #pinkcorvette #glamour #blonde

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Oct 1

Thirty-five years ago this month, showbiz personified - Ms Liza Minnelli! - graced the October 1990 front cover of Vogue Italia! Photographer: Steven Meisel. Stylist: Brana Wolf. Hair: Garren. Makeup: Kevyn Aucoin. #lizaminnelli #vogueitalia #italianvogue #voguemagazine #lobotomyroom #kween #glamour

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 30

Died seventy years ago today: cinema’s bongo drum-playin’, Method actin’ quintessential doomed 1950s bad boy, #JamesDean (8 Feb 1931 - 30 Sept 1955) – one of the most lusciously photogenic actors of all time. Pic: portrait of Dean by Floyd McCarty during production of Rebel without a Cause (1955).

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 27

The FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) ushers you into the #Halloween season (or as we call it, “gay Christmas”) with a screening of insane 1962 b-movie The Brain That Wouldn’t Die! Thursday 16 October at Fontaine’s in Dalston! Info: tinyurl.com/47h6hw6r

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 26

If you’re part of Hackney’s queer community, living here, working here or connected in some way, get involved in this ambitious documentary project! Deets: www.instagram.com/onequeerdayi... #onequeerdayinhackney #lgbtqia #hackney #eastlondon #queer #queercinema #london

Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 23

Died on this day five years ago: ultimate black-clad, throaty-voiced, morbidly beautiful French beatnik chanteuse, actress, eyeliner role model and Morticia Addams lookalike #JulietteGreco (7 Feb 1927 - 23 Sept 2020). I was privileged to see Gréco perform in London twice, in 2000 and 2011. #beatnik

Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 21

Boy, am I excited to make my debut at London’s red-hot new grindhouse cinema, The Nickel on Tues 7 October when I introduce aptly titled 1977 Canadian cult classic Outrageous! Starring drag legend Craig Russell as a hairdresser with showbiz aspirations. Buy your ticket here: thenickel.co.uk #lgbtqia

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 15

Meet Grace Caldwell Tate: devoted mother … loving wife … yet a woman with a RAGE to LIVE! Join us on Thurs 18 Sept at Fontaine’s when the FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents sin-sational 1965 melodrama A Rage to Live! Deets: tinyurl.com/2t6v4rcj

Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 14

A Joey to behold! Sex-kitten-gone-berserk, Playboy magazine pinup, Vegas headliner, Serta mattress (and RC Cola) spokeswoman and kitsch icon Joey Heatherton (born 14 September 1944) turns 81 today. #joeyheatherton #lobotomyroom #lolaheatherton #starlet #sexkitten #oldshowbiz #triplethreat #lasvegas

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 13

Born 103 years ago today: wondrous operatic Peruvian High Empress of Exotica #YmaSumac (née Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri Castillo, 13 September 1922 - 1 November 2008). All these decades later, her divine superhuman voice still inspires awe! Pic: young Sumac by Peter Stackpole for LIFE magazine, 1950.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 12

BOTD: fierce American photographer #NanGoldin (née Nancy Goldin, 12 September 1953). Think of her as the bruised, worldly-wise Marianne Faithfull of modern art (or as Variety puts it, “the post-punk Diane Arbus”). I revere Goldin’s lacerating confessional photography. Pic by David Armstrong, 2000.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 7

KLAXON! Urgent update - my boyfriend went back, rescued her and she now takes pride of place on our hallway "gallery wall." If possible, she's even more violently -- um -- "striking" up close! #uglyart #outsiderart #lowbrowart #lobotomyroom #shockvalue #badtaste #kitsch #lowbrowculture #naiveart

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · Sep 7

Genuine naïve outsider art, glimpsed on the street earlier. This smiling earth mother is giving Mediterranean vibes. Was she someone's beloved nona or zia? Surely this family heirloom belongs above the mantelpiece with proper museum lighting! Why is she abandoned on the pavement? So many questions!

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