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Hey party people, hope you’re all enjoying a fabulous week!

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

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!!!

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.

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:

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

We just can’t enough of checking out photos from the Cold Blue Rebels show at Bar Sinister this weekend! If you’re itching for more shots of Mickey, Danny, Joe, Spazz, and the zombie coffin dancers in action, here’s just the thing for you … more fucking pictures!

You’re welcome.

Here is the original MASSIVE stage photos gallery!

Check out the Lip Service event photos, too!

This is a special edition of Mickey’s Corner, for all of you who couldn’t be there at the Cold Blue Rebels show at Bar Sinister Saturday night. Here’s a taste … There are a LOT more photos, as well as lots of video. We’ll go through them all to get them out to you as soon as we can. Keep your eye on the ‘zine this week for more updates!

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

Check out the Lip Service event photos, too!

More Cold Blue Rebels show photos!

Good morning from LS headquarters,

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.

The Rebels have our 1st show this month on Saturday the 28th @ The Bordello Bar 901 E. 1st St. LA CA 90012 downtown. We will be sharing the stage with Igor Spectre, and Experiment Perilous, and debuting our raucous brand of Psychbilly with tracks such as Worm Hole Hooker, Hellblock 13, Pumpkin King and more! The theme of the night……Spooky, and if you have not been to Bordello yet you have to check it out, great ambiance with vintage kind of Victorian, burlesque vibe (sometimes burlesque dancers) with couches and nooks and a great old school bar.

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