Hair advice needed for party

[GingerPrince]

Hey I'm Dave, going to a slightly strange fancy dress party, in that the theme is "fancy" dress, i.e. a fashion trend from any period in time which inspired you. I've decided to mesh the glam rock styling with some electro elements, and am in a quandary as to what to do with my hair (amongst other things, but I'll post about them on the relevant forums)

Some details about my hair: it's thick, between 1.5 and 2 feet long, and ginger.

Questions
1. If I'm curling it, is it too long to just use product, and will I have to locate some heated rollers or summat.
2. If I'm teasing it and making it "big" a la 80s hair metal (think Nikki Sixx), what's the best way to go about doing that

Also feel free to offer any opinion you may have.

[harley]

backcombing and hairspray is the best way to give it a lot of oomph.
you could also get heavy duty gel and do mental spikes.
and some semi-permanent dye in a bright colour wouldn't go amiss.

[Slife]

Water and sugar. Makes great holding gel.
Only trouble being is if its for a long period of time, 12hours+ it might start going crystally.

[JadorePeace]

use hot curlers and a good hairspray, thats what works for me, and i have extremely long extremely straight hair.