Things for me have switched from high gear to warp drive this week! But, as they say, I guess I’ll rest when I’m 6 ft deep! My schedule for March and April is starting to look ridiculous, with Lip Service sales trips 2-3 days a week throughout Southern California, then heading up to Northern Cali, and out of state to Arizona, Washington, and Oregon … all by the first week of May.

Add in shows with my band, Cold Blue Rebels, every weekend including St. Patrick’s day @ the Roxy with TSOL/DI/DR Know, Bakersfield with the Mentors/Voodoo Glow Skulls, 3 dates in Vegas, and a bunch more, plus a showcase with my other band Jetboy @ the Viper room to kick off the release of our new EP that came out on March 2nd and as I said … no rest for Mickey!! AND THIS JUST MIGHT KILL ME!! Hahaha!!

At the same time, I do love it!! I have an appointment with one of my favorite LA stores tomorrow, Forgotten Saints on Melrose. If you have not checked this store out, please do. I could spend a fortune in there and they carry a great selection of Lip Service styles!

I am super-excited to say that next week we will get a visit from Michael Monroe and Sami Yaffa of Hanoi Rocks!!! They have a new band together and are playing a couple dates in LA. Old friends of mine and Drew’s (Sami played bass in my band Jetboy), we will hook them up with new LS duds for their tour and take some photos for press.

Today I had a visit from Todd Youth (Danzig, Motorhead, etc.), who was scheduled to be in Michael Monroe’s band but, as I learned today, it didn’t work out and he is instead heading out on tour in Ace Frehely’s (Kiss) band! He hooked up some LS clothes for the tour and brightened up the girls’ day at the warehouse!

In LS news, if I have not mentioned it, we will debut a brand new lingerie line at the ILS show in Vegas in April. The group will consist of 10-15 pieces and first glimpses are Hot Hot Hot!!! Also we are happy to welcome back to the sales staff Bryn Thomas, who left us a few years back and has returned to take over the east coast and mid west territory. We worked the Vegas show with him and he is fun to work with and an asset to our team.

Big thanks again to Jim and Mich at Plastic Hassle for the great job they did producing the video for my band Cold Blue Rebels, which is now on Youtube and will be posted on the LS site as well!!! I should have some great photos next week from my band’s gig this weekend @ Universal Bar and Grill and the Mike Monroe shoot but, untill then, here’s a few fun ones from home with my girl (and LS model) Angelic and our pet Dragon Malakai, who is getting soooo big at 2 years old that she can barely hold him any more!

Till next week work hard play hard!!
FASHION+MUSIC=LIFE
Mickey Finn

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Premiering the new Lip Service costumes - see full size in gallery below

Greetings from Lippy Land,

Sorry I missed you last week but I was in Houston for the Halloween & Party Expo. The show was great and our new packaged costume line “Costume Vault” was a huge success!! We made our mark standing out with our 15 unique designs in true LS style! The line consists of Sassy Sailor, Maid of Lace, Troop 666, Gangster Vixen, Roaring Flapper, Major Mayhem, Teachers Pet, Molten Metal Devil, Night Nurse, Officer Vice, Wonderful Alice, Queen of Hearts, Black Panther, Midnight Vamp, and Captain Blackheart. Much of the Halloween industry, surprisingly, were exposed to Lip service for the first time, and it became clear that our company has a bright future in the costume world.

I mean, who knows better then the fashion freaks at LS about playing dress up in sexy style!!!

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I had the chance to walk the show a bit and made many new friends, one of which was David Running from Scarecrow Vampire Fangs. They really have the best Vamp Fangs in the world and he hooked me up with a pair of killer real silver fangs that I absolutely love! (hehe). I visited tons of booths with great props, giant fury spiders, wiggling life size zombies, special effects make up and the overall atmosphere for a Halloween baby like me was nothing short of amazing!!

I made it back home in time to head out to see DJ Sisen’s from Japan’s new project Seileen with GPKism at the Bootleg theater. The show was great with both bands decked to the T’s in elaborate wardrobes. Sisen’s vocalist with a flowing white gown, white feather plume headdress and an operatic voice that was hypnotic set the stage for the night with GPKism’s slightly heavier goth sound and vocalist dressed in black gown with a deeper voice rounded things out nicely. My only complaint about the club was the lack of club lighting with only white overhead lights that really didn’t set the vibe properly. The crowd were was good looking and myself, Angelic, and Kynt and Vyxsin, handed out Lip Service goodie bags to the best dressed of the night which included, crazy Cyber Ravers, Victorian Goths, and some kids in fuzzy animal costumes! I presented both bands with gifts from Lip Service and everyone headed down to Das Bunker to continue the party after the show.

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My Sunday was spent with Jim and Mich from Plastic Hassle Productions filming a video for my band, Cold Blue Rebels, on location at the Comedy Store, who have a great stage and generously let us come in to film. We then headed out to an industrial area to film more scenes with our Hearse and a couple bad ass hot rods with the lovely Angelic starring as our goulish hottie for the song “Cold Blue and Beautiful” her body was airbrushed blue and, with hairstylist Anita’s help, she was transformed into the psychobilly dead girl of every boy’s dreams!! Decked in Lip Service midnight blue vinyl from head to toe, we filmed all of her scenes including being laid to rest in a coffin finishing up at sunset. The video is being edited as I write and I’ll keep you posted as to when it’s online. Big thanks to all who worked a full day on Sunday to make this possible.

This week finds us scrambling to get ready for the London Edge trade show, where we will debut our Summer and Fall 2010 lines. We leave for London on Thursday and return the following week. It’s cold and rainy there but, still, it should be a fun trip. What can I say … it’s a rough job but someone’s gotta do it!!

Have a great week and remember life is short so go shopping!!!
Fashion+Music=Life
Mickey Finn

Halloween & Party Expo and DJ Sisen show:

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The Cold Blue Rebels’ video shoot of “Cold Blue and Beautiful”:

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Here is the original MASSIVE stage photos gallery!

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Check out more info about Cold Blue Rebels and new tracks at their MySpace page.

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Check out the Lip Service event photos, too!

More Cold Blue Rebels show photos!

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I am blazing thru my column this week, a bit late as I was swamped with sales yesterday and had rehearsal with my new Psycho band last night “Cold Blue Rebels” featuring Danny Dangerous and Joe Normal form the Zeros and Spaz Draztik from the Glamour Punks.

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Of course there will be some free giveaways courtesy of Lip service! So break out your best ghoulish attire and come have a drink with me and the rebels!

In LS news the designers are working feverishly as always on next summer and Fall styles and we had a meeting to discus some new groups including White Fishnet, a Pirate influenced group and a new Bag/purse line!! Of course, awesome stuff!

A lot of building and expanding has been going on down here with a net upper deck above the sales office to accommodate more employees and some fresh paint here and there as well as a cool spiral staircase in our blood red sales office! We just received the new Holiday posters, which are awesome and should be available on the LS retail site soon!

Well in off now to an appointment with the Pleasure Chest in West Hollywood to sell some sexy freaky LS goodies and of course do some shopping for my baby! Sorry to be brief this week but the world waits for know one and time is my enemy, oh so much to do!!
Until next week, work hard, play harder, and sleep…………never!!!

Mickey Finn
Aka: Mickey Rebel
Aka:DJ Meilo

Cold Blue Rebels - see full size in gallery below

Hey Lippy Lovers,

So I survived another birthday!! Somehow!! After a great photo shoot with my new band “Cold Blue Rebels” early in the week I booked our first show with Tiger Mask Productions @ Bordello on Sat. 11/28 more on that next week!! And then started prepping myself for the weekend party!

I hooked up with my crew on Sat. mid-day and we began to get into our “Road Warrior” characters. I became “Wez” the mohawked mad man played by actor Vernon Wells, and yes I was serious about it! Drew, the owner of LS, and I went through a phase where we walked around in every day life dressed, and in character of the road warrior. We even ate cans of dog food (actually refried beans) like Mad Max did and, lost in our post apocaliptic world back in the 80s, the rest of my crew did their best to be inventive and did a great job of looking RAD as only fashion freaks can do!!

We piled into my girl’s ’74 Olds hearse and turned heads down the Sunset Strip to the Paladium for the Rob Zombie concert, where we hooked up with my good friend Danny Dangerous (bass player of Cold Blue Rebels) and his lady Anita, who were decked in classic day of the dead style! After a few $14.00 beers (of course I didn’t pay), we pushed our way up front to check out “Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures” from Austin, Texas, who gave a great performance of horror country twangy, cool retro spookabilly that truly warmed up the building crowd. Next was Nekromantix, my all-time favorite Psycho band, who delivered a killer set, winning over the mostly-clueless crowd and opening minds to the world of Psychobilly!!

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I almost got bounced by security for trying to start a pit when some lame chicks decided they didn’t like me bumping into them, when my 5-foot-something girlfriend was going apeshit hitting the ground a few times only to hop back up and rock even harder!! I really wasn’t that crazy; those chicks just should not have been up front for a rock show if they didn’t want to get there shoes scuffed!! Know what I mean?!?!?!

So Rob Zombie takes the stage next and clearly must be loving life!! I have seen White Zombie and Rob a few times and this tour clearly has the $$ behind it! Giant flames, huge screens with great graffix, and effects galore!! Tight band and killer drummer, his voice is what it is and out of breath from rock all over the stage. It wasn’t the “sounds just like the record” kind of show, but it was a REAL rock show and, by the end, I was satisfied and spent!!

Rolled on out of there and back to my house with the crew where ridiculous debaucherous partying went on ’til sometime Sunday afternoon, then slipped into a coma until the alarm clock snapped me back to reality and I dragged myself to LS headquarters for that job I love!! Meanwhile I have this fucked up cold for like 3 weeks that refuses to quit because I refuse to slow down and, trust me, I will beat it this week!!!

So check the new pics, and tune in next week for the exciting adventures of, Mad Mickey Finn aka: Mickey Rebel, aka: DJ Meilo and remember Music + Fashion= Life!!! Work Hard, Play Harder, and Sleep Little!!!!
Luv Ya
Mickey Finn

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