"Typically you haveto train for
about 8year to become a vet.
With Last Legs Veterinary Clinic
it only takes £8"
7:50pm and the Russian and I were huddled away from the rain under a ginormous tree, in a quietrv esidential street, near an eerily quiet gated entrance to Victoria Park. No we weren't loitering with intent to burgle, we were in fact nervously (excitedly!) awaiting the doctors and nurses who would guide us to the haunted surgery that would host tonight's ghoulish party.
Traversing the streets of Hackney can be pretty scary at the best of times but we made it unscathed, if a little damp, to our destination; greeted happily with a medicinal absinthe cocktail. If that doesn't keep the cold away I don't know what will!
Further treats on the menu were Vampire Wines, Canine Conjuctivitis Cocktails with Hapsburg Absinthe, Brandy's Spiked Catnip Tea, Reconstituted Ferret Plasma and Robin's Bizzaregarita - the colour-changing cocktail that first astounded me at the Experimental Food Society event.
What to soak up all that alcohol though? Still feeling pretty delicate, we chowed down on snacks such as Evil Lamb Samosas, Unlucky Rabbits Feet and the piece de la resistance: Bleeding Jelly by Bompas & Parr.
Once properly sated, wander round the pretty extraordinary space, steel yourselves for a show of scalpel skills in the operating theatre then dance off the horror till the early hours!!
As I've come to expect, this was another thoroughly fun and imaginative event from The Robin Collective (formed by Robin Fegan, Brandy Wright and Elspeth Rae in 2010, following a year of collaborative projects).
I'll stop blithering and let the pictures speak for themselves:
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| Our hostess with the mostest: Brandy Wright |
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| Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches |
Best of all, most of the art is for sale. So if something takes your fancy dut that wallet off and take a memory from the night home!!!
You've got two more days of fun and frolicks to go - so in their own words "pain the town red...blood red!!"
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