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unusual facts about The Masque



Brendan Mullen

Brendan Mullen (October 9, 1949 – October 12, 2009) was a British-American nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the seminal Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque.


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Adrian Paul

He starred in the remake of The Masque of the Red Death (1989), a re-telling of the Edgar Allan Poe tale.

Brendan's Death Song

Mullen was working with Blackie Dammett on the Chili Peppers biography, Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History when he died suddenly after suffering a stroke in 2009 and was unable to complete work on the book though it eventually was finished by Mullen's long-time companion Kateri Butler and designer/musician John Curry, who had been friends with Brendan since the Masque days and was a member of The Flyboys.

Bruce Moreland

In late 1977, Bruce and Marc became founding members of the iconic post punk group Wall of Voodoo, who did their first show in 1978 opening for The Cramps at the Save The Masque benefit show in Los Angeles.

Hugh Talbot

After leaving D'Oyly Carte, Talbot appeared with the Blanche Roosevelt English Opera Company in an unsuccessful production of B. C. Stephenson and Alfred Cellier's The Masque of Pandora in Boston in 1881.

Mary Fitton

In June 1600 Mary led a dance in the masque celebrating the fashionable wedding of Lady Anne Russell, granddaughter of the Earl of Bedford, with Henry Somerset, later created Marquess of Worcester, at Lord Cobham's residence in Blackfriars.

Masque d’Or

Established in 1982, the Masque d’Or – Grand Prix (Grand Prize) is jointly organized by the FNCTA and the Charles Dullin Association in Savoie, France.

News from the New World Discovered in the Moon

The masque refers to the discoveries of features on the Moon made by contemporaneous astronomers — Galileo Galilei most famous among them — using the earliest telescopes.

Salmacida Spolia

The masque was unique in that both Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, performed in it; the Queen's mother, Marie de' Medici, was in the audience.

The Masque of Anarchy

The Masque of Anarchy ( or 'The Mask of Anarchy') is a political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year.

The Masque of Mandragora

The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee features an energy helix that is strongly implied to be the same one featured in The Masque of Mandragora.

The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses

Daniel did well from the masque; he was made, firstly, a Groom of the Queen's Chamber and later a chamberlain; and the Queen gave him the job of licensing plays for the Children of the Chapel, the troupe of child actors that Anne had just taken into her patronage as the Children of the Queen's Revels.

Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours

Unusually, the masque was reprinted in a separate octavo edition in 1756.

William Vaughn Moody

The Fire-Bringer (1904, intended as the first member of a trilogy on the Promethean theme, of which The Masque of Judgment, already published, was the second member)