ROGUE presents Día de los Muertos - Day Of The Dead Mexican Halloween Party

Event information

Join Rogue Music on Saturday 29th October for a Halloween Party with a difference:

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
(the day of the dead)
a Halloween Party, Mexican Style!
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Club 85, 74 Whinbush Road, Hitchin

Saturday 29th October 2011

WITH:

BlackEye (who'll be releasing their new E.P 'Punch Drunk Blues' on the night)
The Metatrons
Billy Skins Fifth
Battery City (feat. Flo-Ella)
Mike Fallon

plus Rogue Halloween DJs

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LAST YEAR we brought you the best Halloween party known to man, with music from AGHAST and friends. Frankly, we couldn't top it. So this year we're doing things a bit differently. Dia De Los Muertos is a Halloween Party with a difference, read on:

"The Mexican Day Of The Dead can be traced back to indigenous cultures. Rituals celebrating the deaths of ancestors have been observed by these civilizations perhaps for as long as 2,500–3,000 years. In the pre-Hispanic era, it was common to keep skulls as trophies and display them during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth.

"A common symbol of the holiday is the skull (colloquially called calavera), which celebrants represent in masks, called calacas (colloquial term for "skeleton"), and foods such as sugar or chocolate skulls, which are inscribed with the name of the recipient on the forehead. Sugar skulls are gifts that can be given to both the living and the dead. Other holiday foods include pan de muerto, a sweet egg bread made in various shapes from plain rounds to skulls and rabbits, often decorated with white frosting to look like twisted bones.

"José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure that he called La Calavera de la Catrina ("calavera of the female dandy") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female. Posada's striking image of a costumed female with a skeleton face has become associated with the Day of the Dead, and Catrina figures often are a prominent part of modern Day of the Dead observances."

Dress code: Fancy Dress. Inspiration for costume etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Doors: 8pm - 1am
Limited Edition 'Voodoo Doll' Tickets: £5. Decorate your doll and the best one gets a spooky prize! Door entry is £6.

** DRINKS OFFER: TEQUILA SHOTS - 3 FOR A FIVER** ARRRRRIIIIBA!!!