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The Button Club Invites you to
The 10th Spectacular BURNS NICHT EXTRAVAGANZA
A full Burns’ Nicht of fine dining, poetry and romance in honour of Scotland’s greatest poet and lover, Robert Burns
The 9th Spectacular BURNS NICHT EXTRAVAGANZA is being held on Saturday 29th of January 2012 at the Royal Overseas Club, St James’s.
Reception: 7.30 pm
Dinner: 8.00 pm
Carriages: 1:30 am
After Party until 3 am: DSTRKT London, 9 Rupert Street, W1D 6DG
Dress: Black tie or kilts
Dinner: Full 5 course Highland menu.
Wine: Fine and old wines have been chosen to complement the menu.
Whisky: Fine usqabae (whisky) of age and stature has been acquired in agressive quantity!!!!
All inclusive - copious wine and whisky will hae ye merry all nicht and joupin aboot ane lassie er ane'ithir.
Performance:
Poetry from speakers who know their Burns!
Fine Speakers.
Mr Rupert Bean, writer and director, will Address the Lassies!
Mr James Fairbairn, President of the Burns Club of London, (founded 1868 and first on the roll of the Robert Burns World Federation) will Toast the Immortal Memory
The Gathering Storm - Burns songs performed by Alexandra Kennedy, opera singer extraordinaire, accompanied by the Jazz pianist and impresario himself Mr John Burnett Hall, and on guitar Mr Theo Bell. Your humble servant joins the mix.
Tickets: £100 including champagne reception, 5 course sit down dinner with copious amounts of wine and whiskey.
O, My love is like the red, red rose
That’s Newly sprung in June!
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But to see her, was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met - or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted. |
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