The Shellac Sisters are four glamorous retrochics who dress in all things vintage and play 78rpm records on 1920s wind-up gramophones.

We have a vast collection of 78s covering all styles of music from the twenties through to the fifties… Big band swing by Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and The Andrews Sisters, classics like Tea for Two and The Lambeth Walk, novelties by Noel Coward and cheeky music hall acts, 1920s flapper favourites, Hollywood movie classics from Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Marlene Dietrich, jumping jive by Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan, 1950s rock'n'roll from Elvis and bombshell hits from Marilyn Monroe, latin exotics by Carmen Miranda and Perez Prado… tea dancing foxtrots, quicksteps, blackbottoms and cockney knees ups!

Our list of notable credits includes:

• Victoria & Albert Museum “Mad Hatters” event
• Science Museum “women and science” evening
• National Film Theatre’s nautical summer party
• Amazon.com’s Christmas party at Fulham Palace
• Milliner Stephen Jones’ birthday party in the penthouse suite of The Dorchester Hotel
• Time Out Magazine Christmas party at Pop Nightclub
• BBC’s 1930s party at Simpsons on the Strand
• Curson Cinema Smoking Cabinet Film Festival
• Show Studio “Fashion DJ” event at Abbey Road Studios
• The Southbank Centre slow food festival
• 1940’s themed launch party at London’s National Theatre
• Zaha Hadid event at London’s Design Museum
• Milliner Stephen Jones’ 25th Anniversary party at Debenham House
• The Arts Council’s Knitted Wedding in Battersea Park
• The Spiegel Tent at the Cork Midsummer Festival
• The Secret Garden Party, Bestival and Camp Bestival music Festivals
• Plus: The Wellcome Collection, The London Transport Museum, The Old Vic Theatre, The Kings Cross Scala, The Notting Hill Arts Club, Soho House, The Pigalle Club, Gaz's Rockin Blues...

The gramophones don’t need any electricity (just lots of wind-up action!) enabling us to play in parks and gardens or just about anywhere we like!  For large events we’ve also had unique electrical attachments custom designed so that we can plug our grams into an amp and turn up the volume!

If you’d like to come and see us perform please join our mailing list and if you’d like us to play for you please do drop us a line. (Sample music tracks, press coverage and details of our next public performance can also be found on www.myspace.com/shellacsisters).

See you on the dancefloor!

Jane, Jenny, Theo and Virginia
The Shellac Sisters