Lobotomy Room
@lobotomyroom.bsky.social
Like the Shangri-Las song, I'm good-bad, but not evil. DJ and promoter of the Lobotomy Room club at Fontaine's bar in Dalston. Faster. Further. Filthier. It’s sleazy. It’s grubby. It’s trashy. You’ll love it. My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/garussell1969
Died on this day: debauched, bourbon-saturated wild woman of American stage and screen, the inspiration for Disney villainess Cruella de Vil AND Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950), that sophisticated lady with the soul of a hillbilly - Miss #TallulahBankhead (31 Jan 1902 – 12 December 1968)!
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Died on this day: debauched, bourbon-saturated wild woman of American stage and screen, the inspiration for Disney villainess Cruella de Vil AND Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950), that sophisticated lady with the soul of a hillbilly - Miss #TallulahBankhead (31 Jan 1902 – 12 December 1968)!
Look Back in Angora! Maverick outsider American filmmaker, actor, scriptwriter, producer, director, novelist, cross-dressing angora sweater fetishist, pornographer and Poughkeepsie’s finest export Ed Wood (Edward Davis Wood Jr, 10 October 1924 – 10 December 1978) died on this day aged 54. #edwood
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Look Back in Angora! Maverick outsider American filmmaker, actor, scriptwriter, producer, director, novelist, cross-dressing angora sweater fetishist, pornographer and Poughkeepsie’s finest export Ed Wood (Edward Davis Wood Jr, 10 October 1924 – 10 December 1978) died on this day aged 54. #edwood
In the countdown to Kitschmas … chic alors! Christmas, Deneuve-style! Young Catherine Deneuve sneaking a cigarette by the tree in Jacques Demy’s Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964). Joyeux Noël! #christmas #catherinedeneuve #lobotomyroom #lesparapluiesdecherbourg #joyeuxnoel #frenchcinema #xmastree
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
In the countdown to Kitschmas … chic alors! Christmas, Deneuve-style! Young Catherine Deneuve sneaking a cigarette by the tree in Jacques Demy’s Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964). Joyeux Noël! #christmas #catherinedeneuve #lobotomyroom #lesparapluiesdecherbourg #joyeuxnoel #frenchcinema #xmastree
Died 45 years ago today: feral frontman of LA punk band the Germs, #DarbyCrash (aka Jan Paul Beahm, 26 Sept 1958 - 7 Dec 1980). Swallow a fistful of ‘ludes, give yourself a Mohawk, smear yourself in peanut butter and blast “Forming”, “Lexicon Devil” or “Media Blitz” LOUD today in Crash’s memory!
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Died 45 years ago today: feral frontman of LA punk band the Germs, #DarbyCrash (aka Jan Paul Beahm, 26 Sept 1958 - 7 Dec 1980). Swallow a fistful of ‘ludes, give yourself a Mohawk, smear yourself in peanut butter and blast “Forming”, “Lexicon Devil” or “Media Blitz” LOUD today in Crash’s memory!
For the month of December, author Matthew Kinlin is taking over editorship of Burning House Press online, focusing on the theme My Heart is Empty: Responses to the Life and Work of Nico. My short essay on Nico's first-ever Warhol film The Closet (1966) is here: tinyurl.com/5ddvzven #nico #warholfilm
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
For the month of December, author Matthew Kinlin is taking over editorship of Burning House Press online, focusing on the theme My Heart is Empty: Responses to the Life and Work of Nico. My short essay on Nico's first-ever Warhol film The Closet (1966) is here: tinyurl.com/5ddvzven #nico #warholfilm
Suddenly, I have a dreadful urge to be merry! On Sunday 30 November 2025, my boyfriend Pal put up our brand-new flocked pink Christmas tree! I did my part by staying the hell out of his way, blasting campy and abrasive retro Christmas music and heating mulled wine! #christmas #pinkchristmastree
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Suddenly, I have a dreadful urge to be merry! On Sunday 30 November 2025, my boyfriend Pal put up our brand-new flocked pink Christmas tree! I did my part by staying the hell out of his way, blasting campy and abrasive retro Christmas music and heating mulled wine! #christmas #pinkchristmastree
BOTD: the 20th century’s supreme opera diva, the woman known as “La Divina” – #MariaCallas (Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos, 2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977)! Pictured here with Pier Paolo Pasolini, presumably around the time they collaborated on his 1969 film adaptation of Medea. #diva
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
BOTD: the 20th century’s supreme opera diva, the woman known as “La Divina” – #MariaCallas (Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos, 2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977)! Pictured here with Pier Paolo Pasolini, presumably around the time they collaborated on his 1969 film adaptation of Medea. #diva
Happy Thanksgiving to American friends! Pictured: festive pin-up of young starlet on-the-ascent Marilyn Monroe in turkey-hunting pilgrim mode, 1950. #thanksgiving #happythanksgiving #marilynmonroe #lobotomyroom #thanksgiving2025 #thanksgivingturkey #pinup #retropinup #vintagepinup #kitsch
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to American friends! Pictured: festive pin-up of young starlet on-the-ascent Marilyn Monroe in turkey-hunting pilgrim mode, 1950. #thanksgiving #happythanksgiving #marilynmonroe #lobotomyroom #thanksgiving2025 #thanksgivingturkey #pinup #retropinup #vintagepinup #kitsch
BOTD: fierce bold soul sister described by both Playboy and Look magazines as “like a lioness in heat”, Nutbush, Tennessee’s finest export, personification of grit, sensuality and glamour, the Mojo Queen herself – Miss #TinaTurner (Anna Mae Bullock, 26 Nov 1939 – 24 May 2023)! Pic: Turner in 1963.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
BOTD: fierce bold soul sister described by both Playboy and Look magazines as “like a lioness in heat”, Nutbush, Tennessee’s finest export, personification of grit, sensuality and glamour, the Mojo Queen herself – Miss #TinaTurner (Anna Mae Bullock, 26 Nov 1939 – 24 May 2023)! Pic: Turner in 1963.
Born on this day: fiercely glamorous, blazingly soulful and sensual rhythm and blues queen LaVern Baker (née Delores LaVern Baker, 11 November 1929 – 10 March 1997). In her prime in the fifties and early sixties, Baker’s only rivals were fellow R&B divas like Ruth Brown and Etta James. #lavernbaker
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Born on this day: fiercely glamorous, blazingly soulful and sensual rhythm and blues queen LaVern Baker (née Delores LaVern Baker, 11 November 1929 – 10 March 1997). In her prime in the fifties and early sixties, Baker’s only rivals were fellow R&B divas like Ruth Brown and Etta James. #lavernbaker
How much can you stand … before YOU go BERSERK? Find out for yourself on Thursday 20 November when the FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom cinema club (committed to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents deranged 1967 horror shocker Berserk starring #JoanCrawford. Info: tinyurl.com/3jxf85b7 #filmclub #cultfilms
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How much can you stand … before YOU go BERSERK? Find out for yourself on Thursday 20 November when the FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom cinema club (committed to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents deranged 1967 horror shocker Berserk starring #JoanCrawford. Info: tinyurl.com/3jxf85b7 #filmclub #cultfilms
The weekend starts NOW! Pictured: “Dancing in the Kitchen, Preston, Connecticut circa 1955” from the book Americans in Kodachrome 1945-1965 by Guy Stricherz. #fridayfeeling #fridayfeels #thankgoditsfriday #fridaymood #fridaymotivation #lobotomyroom #kodachrome #foundphotography #kitsch #weekend
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The weekend starts NOW! Pictured: “Dancing in the Kitchen, Preston, Connecticut circa 1955” from the book Americans in Kodachrome 1945-1965 by Guy Stricherz. #fridayfeeling #fridayfeels #thankgoditsfriday #fridaymood #fridaymotivation #lobotomyroom #kodachrome #foundphotography #kitsch #weekend
BOTD: old money American socialite (cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy), bold fashion risk-taker, raccoon and feral cat enthusiast, devoted daughter, frustrated cabaret chanteuse and genuine eccentric Edith Bouvier Beale (aka #LittleEdie, 7 Nov 1917 - 14 Jan 2002). Polaroid by #AndyWarhol, 1976.
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
BOTD: old money American socialite (cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy), bold fashion risk-taker, raccoon and feral cat enthusiast, devoted daughter, frustrated cabaret chanteuse and genuine eccentric Edith Bouvier Beale (aka #LittleEdie, 7 Nov 1917 - 14 Jan 2002). Polaroid by #AndyWarhol, 1976.
Released by Island Records on this day (2 November 1979): #BrokenEnglish, the lacerating New Wave comeback album by #MarianneFaithfull on which she reinvented herself as a world-weary black leather jacketed Marlene Dietrich of post-punk. Portrait of a pink-haired Faithfull by Ebert Roberts, 1980.
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Released by Island Records on this day (2 November 1979): #BrokenEnglish, the lacerating New Wave comeback album by #MarianneFaithfull on which she reinvented herself as a world-weary black leather jacketed Marlene Dietrich of post-punk. Portrait of a pink-haired Faithfull by Ebert Roberts, 1980.
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
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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
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.
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
“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.
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“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.
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
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
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
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
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
October 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
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 …”
October 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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 …”
Happy International Lesbian Day! [8 October]. #internationallesbianday #internationallesbianday2025 #lesbian #sapphic #sapphism #lgbtqia #queer #lobotomyroom #butch #prestonewall #sistersaredoingitforthemselves
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy International Lesbian Day! [8 October]. #internationallesbianday #internationallesbianday2025 #lesbian #sapphic #sapphism #lgbtqia #queer #lobotomyroom #butch #prestonewall #sistersaredoingitforthemselves
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.
October 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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.
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
October 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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
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
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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