Nicole - Our favourite lady!

Tonight was the last episode of our favourite show on TV at the moment Aussie Ladettes to Ladies! We were in tears and thrilled to pieces last week when our favourite, Nicole, was crowned winner and a "lady". Whilst we are not sure that many of the British aristocracy featured as guests on the show are something to aspire to, Nicole did a great job and flowered a lot over the course of the show.

The show tonight was a catch up on what the girls have been up to. It was nice to see Zoe not so booze addled and we giggled with glee when we discovered Skye was still in touch with one of the young English gentlemen she met on the show. Best of all was to hear Nicole has stopped being a stripper, is about to study and looked FABULOUS! And of course any chance to see the principal Mrs Harbord in action is an opportunity not to me missed - she is an honorary Drag Queen of Death.

As an added bonus the show is followed by Bridezillas. Watch a couple of episodes of that show if you want to learn how to be a Drag Queen of Death!

Drag Photo of the Week - Number 8

Back to work at last with a nice easy post. This is a photo from our "Frock Up or Dress Up party" back in 2006. In the back row are Lara Lush, Sylvia Sonter, Neil, Pru Dish and then in the front is the gorgeous Miss Lee showing off her lovely tanned pins.

Classic Movie Review - Kingdom of the Spiders

Inspired by the cobwebs growing on our blog, we have decided to fill the void in your lives with a review of one our all-time favourite movies - Kingdom of the Spiders.
KotS tells the story of a small town somewhere in mid-America that begins to lose cattle, and then people, to a gathering horde of tarantual-like spiders. The Sheriff (played by William Shatner of Captain Kirk fame) and the love-interest vet lead a few hopefuls in their fight against the spiders, but can they survive when the whole town is covered in cobwebs?
KotS is one of those fantastically kitsch 70's disaster movies, where people pay the price of their follies; this time it appears to be the overuse of insecticide that has caused mother earth to fight back with hairy eight legged horror.
It's hard to know which is more fun, the Shat's over-acting or those 70's shirts with the giant collars. But the real stars of the movies are the spiders that fall out or crawl from unexpected places and keep you cheering on to take out those b-grade stars!

Coming soon.......something

The cobwebs have truly been gathering on our blog site of late, a combination of too much happening and plain laziness. We'll start updating again soon, or may spiders come and take over our apartment and use our bodies as hatching sites.

Goddess Grace

We were lucky enough to get to see Grace Jones live at the Enmore Theatre last week. We had seen her once before in Rome in 2000 and knew we were in for something special. We weren't disappointed at all!
Contrary to the common opinion expressed to us before hand, Miss Jones was on time, professional, chatty, tantrum free and, most important of all, utterly F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!!
Grace perfomed many of her classics as well as songs from her new album Hurricane. The concert was fantastic, a true performance that had the whole audience screaming for more.
Grace performed in a corset and g-string, leaving the stage at the end of each song to come out in new hat/mask and/or jacket. Highlights of the performance included Grace singing Slave to the Rhythmn (and then walking around the stage introducing the band) whilst hula-hooping, using a shiny hat to turn herself into a human mirrorball and a true performance piece for the title song Hurricane from her album which took our breath away.
She may be in her 60's but Grace Jones is still fierce and still can rock the world!

Nigel's World of Cruising

Nigel came along on our recent cruise with us and put together this special edition video extolling the wonders of cruising.

Happy 2009!

OK, so it's a little bleated, but we still want to wish our many many many readers a fabulous year for 2009. We spent New Year's Eve at a friend's place in Sydney (thank you Janet). The fireworks were spectacular and the view in general was fantastic.
Our new year resolution? Well it probably should have been to update our blog more often, but I'm afraid we just had too much champagne to think of any at the time!

Drag Photo of the Week - Number 7

No, it's not one of Charlie's Angels; it is in fact the delectable Lara Lush having a 70's acid flashback caused by eating too many cocktail frankfurts. Lara is always the epitome of cutting edge style and here is shown wearing the new black: brown.

Viva Australia!

We went and saw Australia at the movies the other day. Besides being fabulous because we saw it in Gold Class in Sydney whilst having Long Island Ice Teas, champagne and food, the movie itself was fantastic!
The cinematography was beautiful, the acting was great and of course Hugh Jackman took his shirt off which didn't hurt our eyes at all.
It was great to see a movie which had a real "Australian feel" to it, and to see something like the bombing of Darwin depicted on the big screen.
Go see it, or maybe come and see it with us at the stadium at Gosford in the coming weeks.
5/5 Wigs!

Paris' Christmas warning: Don't eat too much!

Paris Hilton sent us a photo so we could warn everybody about the dangers of eating too much over the Christmas break. Take it easy on the turkey everybody!

K-Y-L-I-E, Kylie, you rock!

Here are a couple of pics we managed to take in between our dancing and screaming at the Kylie concert on Tuesday night. We saw the X2008 tour on Sunday and Tuesday night and screamed ourselves horse both times.
The concert was fabulous (of course) with most of the songs from Kylie's last album X mixed in with some of her hits and a couple of brand new songs. The sets, designs and choreography was fantastic, as is the Kylie souvenir teacup and saucer we bought.
Our only regret was that we didn't buy tickets to the Wednesday night concert too. Oh, and mabye not buying a 2nd teacup and saucer.

Easily distracted.....

Well, not only did we not get our review of Quantum of Solace up (fun but not fabulous) before we went on our cruise, but we have been distracted by life and have not posted anything else.
So just to keep the anxious hordes at bay here is a photo of us butching it up for the benefit of our fellow passengers on our cruise (which was both fun and fabulous)! We will put up some more cruise photos soon, together with our usual nonsense and our comments on KYLIE who we saw 2 nights ago and are seeing again tonight.

Chesty Bond

We are going to see the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, tonight, so we just thought we would post a little reminder of why Daniel Craig makes such a good James Bond. We will try to put up a review before we go on our cruise (!!!).

Drag Photo of the Week - Number 6

For our photo this week we have the one and only Miss Shelley Lee caught in full flight at our joint birthday party last year. We will let you guess how old we turned :(
We were truly honoured to have the fab-u-lous Miss Lee entertain us and our guests. We are hoping Miss Lee will be able to make an appearance in Nigel's next video.

Coming soon.....

What is that thing above? It's just one of the strange but fabulous items which will be featured in our upcoming new regular posting - Paul's Toy of the Week (name subject to confirmation)- in which Paul will feature one of the pieces in his toy collection. This feature will be introduced once we get back from our cruise. Oh, did we mention we're about to go on a cruise?

R.I.P. Ringo

Drag Queens of Death would like to bid a fond adieu to Ringo (named due to his likeness to a yellow submarine) who bid farewell to this mortal world, and to our fish tank, sometime between between feeding time last night and the discovery of his body this morning. Ringo was our favourite little fishy, full of personality as he zipped around the fish tank, hovering in his strange way, and nibbling on your fingers when you put them in the water.
Farewell fine fishy, may marine heaven be full of your favourite activity, feeding time.

Drag Photo of the Week - Number 5

Due to overwhelming popular demand we have published another photo of Lucy Wind, this time with her glamourous friend Sylvia Sonter. A garden party with these two is always a special occassion!

Dying Breed - Movie Review

The moment we saw the controversial movie poster above, we knew we had to go see Dying Breed.
Dying Breed is an Australian horror movie which follows a similar storyline to many American horror movies, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wrong Turn. The movie follows a group of young people who go off the beaten track in Tasmania and stumble across a group of cannibal hillbillies.
Although a bit overly familiar it is great fun to see this story in an Australian setting and the cast and crew do a great job in the acting, effects and cinemaphotography. There are some genuinely "icky moments and the movie is a lot of fun whilst still genuinely chilling. It is not recommended for the feint of heart or people who have just finished a meat pie. Featuring stars from Wolf Creek and Saw, Dying Breed is another excellent Australian contribution to the horror genre.
3.5/5 wigs.

DQOD meet Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert

Last night we went with our friends Jamie and Lyndsay (seen above with Paul enjoying radioactive cocktails) to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical at the Lyric Theatre, Star City Casino in Sydney.
It was our third time seeing the show (Jamie and Lyndsays' fifth) but the first time we had seen it since the musical returned from Melbourne. There had been a few changes since we saw it, some extra brief scences, an hilarious appearance by Bindi Irwin and a great improvement to the Alice Springs Casino performance. We were also pleased to see there is now a cast recording available.
The lead role is now being performed by Todd McKenny who did a great job. He didn't have his trousers on the whole time though, so I hope he had someone responsible looking after them. The real star of the show though is still Tony Sheldon as Bernadette.
The show is spectacular and lots of fun even the third or fifth time around. It's only on for a limited time so make sure you go see it!

Witch Queen of Death!

This photo was taken by Robert's business partner Pauline at Rose Hall in Montego Bay, the home of Annie Palmer the "White Witch of Jamaica". She was born to white parents in Haiti and after she was orphaned, her Haitian nanny brought her up. Her nanny was a voodoo and witchcraft practitioner and taught Annie all she knew. Annie then moved to Jamaica, marrying a rich white sugar plantation owner. She murdered him and two subsequent husbands. She had a number of lovers after that - all slaves on her plantation.

Eventually she was murdered by one of her lovers. She also had a nasty pastime of hanging slaves who'd displeased her in the back yard - for entertainment. After she died, the slaves burnt all of her things. All that remains of her belongings at Rose Hall are her mirror (in the photo), a bell-pull, a day bed and a chandelier. There is a painting that is said to portray her and some children (shown above). Spookily, her whole head (not just the eyes) seems to move and follow you as you walk through the room!

Apparently Annie's ghost still haunts the mansion. After being told that Annie's face sometimes appears in photos of the mirror Pauline and her husband Jiri both took photos of it. Nothing appeared in Jiri's photo, but the spooky outline of a face appeared in Pauline's. She assures me there was nothing opposite that could have caused the picture. Creepy!