when tuesday is the new friday...

Every year the Fat Tuesday tent at the Big Chill festival is the bit that rocks the most, by far.
 
And after a string of successful events and festival appearances in 2005, Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday returns on the 5th May (this Friday, not Tuesday!) to showcase the best of underground New Orleans at a secret central London location... oooooh.

Legendary author and social commentator Nik Cohn will be performing a spoken word account of life   in New Orleans following Katrina. He'll be sharing the live stage with the strangely-named New Orleans rappers Shorty Brown Hustle, Snoop and Chicken. What were their mothers thinking??? Also in the main room, alongside the New Orleans showcase will performances from Crazy P, Sunday Best/Bestival creator and Radio 1, DJ Rob da Bank, one-man-band and human beatboxer Son of Dave, and hotly-tipped covers band Barefoot.

Amongst other stuff, something that sounds REALLY COOL is the interactive theatre company Gideon Reeling, who'll create a surreal parallel party of seedy jazz and speakeasy ambience, where, apparently, the line between performer and audience is blurred to invisibility. Come, don a mask and navigate your way through a labyrinth of themed rooms, where dark corridors, mysterious secret rooms and unexpected fun are all part of the evening's offering.

Sounds pretty fab right? For more information and tickets click here