As you can see from the pictures, Mermaid Melusine was debuting a brand new green tail and matching green-and-gold shell top, meaning that our cabaret costumes are now more co-ordinated than ever! As the guests finished up their starters, we moved on to our Valentine's-themed musical comedy act, including some saucy details about romance under the sea, and a couple of our favourite mermaid cabaret songs. It went down a treat with the audience, and hopefully we have managed to capture the set on film as well, so keep an eye on our YouTube channel for further developments!

We had a wonderful time at the Willow Tree, and hopefully we will be returning there later on this year for more mermaid fun!

We thought this topic was a fun chance not only to explore exactly what our mermaidenly guilty pleasures are, but also to find out a little bit more about what passes for a guilty pleasure in the human world!  So Mermaid Melusine and I put together a ten-minute musical comedy cabaret act with four songs on a variety of subjects including (but not limited to) human dating, capitalism, and that most mermaidy pastime: causing shipwrecks. Sadly, I can't go into further detail without revealing mermaid secrets...

The set was great (I was particularly pleased that the gold sparkly curtain matched my tail so perfectly); the other acts were both lovely and talented; we were more than delighted to be carried on- and off-stage by the charming Mr Phil InGud; the only minor mishap was that our ukelele sustained a slight knock while being brought onstage and consequently one string was a little out-of-tune! Happily the audience didn't appear to mind, and indeed seemed to enjoy our performance just as much as we did. In fact, our Guilty Pleasures act went so well that we're bound to be performing it again sometime soon (watch this space for details).

Of course, thus far you only have my word that any of this is true, so I'll finish by quoting the review by London City Nights: "It's difficult to pin down exactly what's so erotically magnetic about a pair of murderous ukelele wielding half woman half fish girls - I began to suspect it was excavating some long-buried pre-adolescent yearnings for Ariel from The Little Mermaid.  These suspicions were confirmed when they launched into a twisted cover of Part of My World mixed up with references to cut-throat capitalism and Karl Marx.  Be still my beating heart!"