Ok, she’s an old tub, a little rough around the edges with a couple of holes below deck, but nothing we can’t bail out as we go, and it’s not like we’re going to run into any unexpected icebergs or anything.

All this and more, brought forth for your pleasure as we bob around hopelessly on the Atlantic.

This is what we call an optional black tie event, meaning that if, like a good sport, you show up in a dinner jacket, or for the ladies, a pretty evening dress, you will be considered a first-class guest and will be treated to a glass of bubbly of questionable vintage and some quite horrible fawning. If you choose to come in your civvies then you’re still more than welcome of course, but you can sit in steerage with the rest of the ne’er-do-wells.

The Peryls have been recording and performing for two years and tracks from our three EPs to date have featured on BBC Radio 6. The Christmas Extraordinarium in 2009 was a drunken roaring success, testing our authentic Victorian health and safety standards to the very limit.

The Peryls’ Extraordinarium is a recurring event of no set interval with indeterminate theme. It pops up whenever it jolly well feels like it and takes place at times and venues that carefully follow a plan we haven’t written yet.

Evenings of music, mirth, and madness, no two shows are the same… because we can never remember what we did.

Also Performing will be Marmaduke Dando & Burlesque! - From aurora vixen and lady libertine of the Thrill Billies.

HMS Extraordinarium departs on Saturday 17th April at 18:30 sharp, from:

The Gipsy Hill Tavern

Upper Norwood

SE19 1QH

www.gipsyhilltavern.co.uk