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Friday July 8th

Carnivolution
8:30 am
The Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum
3819 Hamilton St.
Philadelphia, PA
$10

Jelly Boy the Clown has been injured in a fire, but this performance will go on as a benefit for him.

Unusual Sword Swallowing, mind boggling stunts upon beds of nails and broken glass with anvils, sledge hammers and a see-saw! Enjoy the Hula Hooper, be mesmerized by the Belly Dancer! Become lost in the visuals of Tiberino’s living murals. The Squidling Bros. are masters of “The Human Block Head” one of the oldest sideshow stunts around. Large nails, paint brushes, ice picks and power drills up the nose and out without a scratch. Extreme pierced weight lifting! Hooks in the eyes and flesh. See a man bend steel with his hands!

Live music by Play Boy Bunny Savage, Mary Squeeze Box, Captain Space Dock and The Shit Rocks and The Radarmen.Featuring: The Illustrated Penguin, Matterz Squidling, The Baron Von Geiger, Alpha Mouse McDonald, Miss Rose, and more! Aerialists, Geeks, Human Pin Cushions and Burlesque dancers!

The Squidling Bros. Circus

Saturday July 9th

Peek-A-Boo Revue presents Carnivalesque
6:00 pm & 10:30 pm
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

2 SHOWS Doors at 6pm and 10pm Show at 7pm and 10:30. Dinner Service available for the early show (18+) Cocktail service only for late show (21+)

Join Philadelphia’s Award winning Peek-A-Boo Revue as they dance, sing, and laugh through the grit and dust storms of the old carnival. Enjoy the beautiful cooch dancers, fortune tellers and our special guest, David Smith “the one man side show”. Peek-A-Boo Revue has not one, not two, not three, but 6 beautiful girls that will make you blush while they shimmy and shake their way into you heart backed by the musical stylings of Buzz Mouthpiece and the Striptease Orchestra

Peek-A-Boo Revue

Sunday July 10th

Rocks Off!
9:00 pm
Barbary  (2nd floorBarbarella)
951 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, Pa

DJed by three dudes who live it every day and know it like no other, spinning classic punk, power pop, hardcore, street punk. mod, oi!, thrash, d-beat, uk 82 and more.

Eric Kohlhofer of the classic but now defunct street punk heroes The Ghouls and currently of boogie rock n rollers El Feguo.Daniel Kishbaugh of the proto punk/ power pop band The Midnight Beat and d-beat grinders Fucked Forever. Bill Coburn of the power pop band Mean Streets. Hosted and bartended by Edward B. Gieda of An Albatross fame and soul brother for the Turnaround Vs. Immediate Parties.

Drinks Specials, Open Bars, Guest DJs, Tribute nights, raffles and more!

Barbary

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How is this for a Poster Child?

Swellco & Swellco has been around for a whooping 10 months and the Hard Times  Dance Party Benefit for Jessie Lee is going to be our 5th event. We get constant press coverage and lines out the door. We’ve hit Philadelphia hard and fast like some kind of barbarian blitzkrieg and are already expanding into other cities. The haters are left baffled by how easy we make it look, the best and the brightest are jumping on board because they know Swellco & Swellco isn’t some group, it isn’t some trend,  it’s a state of mind, and one that just makes sense.

You want to know why we are are rock n’ roll royalty? Here are 10 reasons.

Reason 1. & 2.  This is who it’s for:

The launch party is a benefit for Bombshell Jessie Lee & it’s co-sponsored by Burning Angel

Reason 3 & 4. These are our hosts:

Staff Members Keycifer Black & Louise LaTease are both Peek A Boo Revue Alumni.

Reason 5 & 6. These are our Djs:

New staff DJ duo Kishbaugh & Kohlhofer of Rocks Off infamy are spinning the sick shit.

Reasons 7 & 8. This is who is performing:

Employee of the month Raff (stage name Morrigahan) & Nikki Malicious, both of Rigor Mortis Revue fame will be fucking up your world.

Reason 9 & 10. This is the “Talent” Contest:

At Baphomet’s Birthday the winner let us carve SWELLCO in his back. The prize is $100 in cold cash. Can you do better?

Then there’s this guy.

Just kidding, we fed Mo Mo to our hogs.

Over the next week leading up to this pedigree party, we are going to write in depth about each of these 10 reasons. But you already know you want to go.

Hard Times Circus Cult Rock & Roll Dance Party, “Talent” Contest & Indoctrination Seminar
2nd floor of the Khyber Pass
Friday, January 21st
Doors open at 9:30pm
$8.00 donation to a suffering pornstar

The best, the brightest, the beautiful, or the freakish, the awkward, the weird; everyone comes to our party. So hop on the team and come on in for the big win or get the fuck out of the way.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.

Turn that frown upside down

Suspension of disbelief can be applied to all aspects of life.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.

So they want me to write a post for “Where we go.” Honestly, ever since the 5 Spot burned down here in Philadelphia I would have to say, I go anywhere the Peek a Boo Revue is playing. It’s no secret that some of the girls working with the Video Circus are past or presently affiliated with the Peek a Boo, so this may seem like a shameless plug, but it’s not. They are widely considered one of the best neo-burlesque troupes in the country. They are also one of the most authentic and true to classic form troupes operating out there. They generally stick with the whole variety mix; with comics, singers and the occasional circus or vaudeville act.

I got into a HUGE debate with a Swellco writer whose name will go unmentioned. His stance was that the whole burlesque revival was a response to a subconscious urge for both the audience and the dancers to experience “vice” and justify their voyeur/exhibitionist sexuality without having to get dirty; because this old form of smut is seen now as artistic and clean. My response is “Duh, so what?” His complaint was that these people should drop the pretense and just embrace that they really want to be in a strip club. But I think that’s bullshit. I like sex, A LOT. But that doesn’t mean that it has to be dirty and skanky to be hot. Just like it was back in the day, watching a group like the Peek a Boo is really more about the naked girls than it’s about the art or the comedy. But I would rather see Ginger Leigh or Lulu Lollypop all made up in feathers and beautiful costumes than some pussy smelling stripper named Lexus or Desire rubbing their fake tits on me so they can get another dollar for meth. Just because something is unspoken, doesn’t mean it’s bad, and no matter what your motivations are for going to see the Peek a Boo, you should.

-Felicia Jackson
Swellco & Swellco 22397b

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Bestiality has long been a serious and unspoken issue, and has become the pet cause for Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus. Join us at Bob & Barbara’s Lounge March 9th at 10:00 for an evening of cocktails, hot dogs, live entertainment, music, dancing and insightful education as we strive to make the yelping stop.

We are asking for a $3 donation at the door which will go towards helping pay the needy bar tabs for the evenings talent.

Our current line up for the evening includes
Philadelphia’s greatest star Dirty Diamond
Living Legend Needles Jones
And three of the most beautiful dancing girls on the East Coast
Peek a Boo Revue Alumnus, Louise LaTease
Peek a Boo Revue member, Key
Bravissimo Burlesque host, Miss Rose

R.E. Brown will be there with video crews filming all the madness as video fodder.  Swellco & Swellco staff members Uncle Wheat Toast, Acid Squid and The Machine will all be there with a whole posse of Circus Girls to meet, greet and get out the word that bestiality is NOT a victimless crime.

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Suspension of disbelief can be applied to all aspects of life.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.

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Suspension of disbelief can be applied to all aspects of life.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.