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NEW PUMA We’ve always been rather partial to the Puma brand, so were immediately taken by the new spring/summer additions to its range of trainers. We’re loving the re-issued Sky II Hi Neo in grey and purple – a classic Puma basketball shoe that was fi rst introduced back in 1980. The boots are beautifully cushioned for those wishing to jump around on a basketball court or, indeed, a dancefl oor. They cost £70.www.asos.com
SPRING SPRUNG Welcome the spring by adding a dash of colour to your accessories range. Watchshop is a new discovery for us – a website off ering hundreds of diff erent timepieces, from the formal and luxurious through the cheap and cheerful. Vibrant additions to its collection include this Adidas Originals Green Chronograph (£39) – also available in purple and blue. There’s a bright yellow Timex Expedition WS4 (£134), and, at the more pricey end of the spectrum, the electric blue Technomarine (£350). Check the full range at www.watchshop.com
KEY TO LIFE Sony Ericsson are releasing half a dozen new mobile units to the market this spring. Our favourite is this one – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz™ pro. A sister phone to its successful Vivaz™, the pro version comes with a slide- out QWERTY keyboard (perfect for messaging and other social networking T-SHIRT LOTTO sites), HD video recorder and a full touchscreen. For those who regard André Lorens Stock is an 18-year-old from Sweden who is behind the hyped T-shirt label small as beautiful, also look out for Sony Ericsson’s new Xperia™ X10 mini Black Book. André started the label after he printed a T-shirt he’d bought at H&M with his – a technologically advanced phone that’s smaller than a credit card, but own design. Now, H&M is celebrating his entrepreneurial spirit with an collaboration through also comes with a slide-out keyboard for easy messaging. hm.com. André will choose and customize his favourite prints that are sent in from customers to www.sonyericsson.com hm.com from January, with the resulting T-shirts appearing in-store from April. www.hm.com
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24 FEB-04 MAY: Best each other are immediately known for her role as rekindled, but there’s a minor Samantha Jones in Sex and obstacle – both are on honey- the City, Kim Cattrall returns moon with their new spouses to the stage to act opposite and their inability to quench Matthew Macfadyen (Tom their feelings for each other Quinn from Spooks) for an leads them down a predict- extended production of able path of turmoil and Private Lives. Playing a long- deceit. A comedic tale that’s divorced couple, Elyot and bound to draw crowds due to Amanda, the characters are Cattrall’s enduring popularity, unexpectedly reunited when the play is now running at they happen upon each other London’s Vaudeville Theatre in the south of France. Still until 4 May. glamorous, rich and reckless, www.vaudeville-theatre.
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19 FEB-27 MAR: The Sprüth Magers gallery Anger’s seminal 1969 fi lm is now hosting an exhibition Invocation of My Demon by cult artist, fi lmmaker and Brother – a hypnotic montage writer Kenneth Anger – his of jarringly edited images fi rst solo show in London with a repetitive synthesised in over fi ve years. Making soundtrack by none other fi lms continuously since the than Mick Jagger. Other works late 1940s and considered a dwell upon Anger’s fascination countercultural icon, Kenneth with Hollywood’s sordid Anger is widely acclaimed as underbelly, pagan magick and a pioneering and infl uential demonology. force in avant-garde and Sprüth Magers, 7a Grafton queer cinema. The exhibition Street, Green Park, W1. will feature, amongst others, www.spruethmagers.com
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10-27 MARCH: One in a production described man/woman-show Memoirs by Total Theatre as: “A of a Hermaphrodite at the captivating performance; Oval House Theatre is inspired full of atmosphere, vivid and by the remarkable life of fast moving, laced together 19th Century French fi gure with particularly beautiful Herculine Barbin. Written and writing.” Tickets cost £12 (£6 performed by Sarah Leaver, concessions) and it is playing this monologue tells a story Wednesdays to Saturdays at of joy, shame and humour 8pm. www.ovalhouse.com
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" =C ;CA71 b\]e singer-songwriters before her but, ELLIE remarkably, manages to carve out her ALBUMS OUT own little niche. Highlights include the GOULDING singles ‘Starry Eyed’ and ‘Under The Sheets’, IN MARCH which would force even the most reluctant Lights (Polydor) of toes to tap. ‘This Love (Will Be Your Downfall)’ outguns them both, and must Remarkably, Ellie Goulding already secured surely be lined up for future release – it’s a Guardian Weekend magazine cover and a a synth-driven, slice of 80s-themed pop, Brit award before releasing her first single. but with Goulding’s acoustic guitar adding The buzz around her ensured that she swept an earthiness and warmth to proceedings to victory in the BBC’s influential Sound Of – as it does on most of these tracks. There 2010 poll at NewYear – a reputable survey are nods towards Kate Bush, KT Tunstall, of music biz insiders and tipsters. It all Natasha Bedingfield and Alanis Morrissette kick-started following an impressive debut throughout, but perhaps the artist that on Later With Jools Holland last autumn, Goulding most resembles (and perhaps and the hype has now reached a level hopes to emulate) is Dido – although her that threatens to actually overshadow the sound is more stripped down. Goulding’s music… about which many people remain vocal style is a bit of an acquired taste, largely ignorant. It’s not bad going for a 22- and it sometimes gets lost in the electro year-old woman from Hereford with a nice pulses and beats. She’s also a little too line in folky, electro pop. fond of feeding it through the vocal So, just how good is effects programme – almost to the point she?Well, if you can of Cher/’Believe’ levels on ‘Your Biggest set aside the tsunami Mistake’ –a habit that she might want to of superlatives thrown keep in check. However, that aside, this in her direction, what album, which is full of radio-friendly fare, you’re presented with on should sell by the bucketload. Just don’t Lights is an accomplished, expect anything too edgy or revolutionary. fully-formed musical She’s a talented young lass, not the Second debut. Goulding conjures Coming. DH up comparisons with Out: 1 March a multitude of female +++++ TURIN BRAKES SHARLEEN SPITERI GABRIELLA CILMI Outbursts The Movie Songbook Ten (Island) (Cooking Vinyl) (Mercury) You may not recall having Turin Brakes’ last album, Dark We do love Sharleen Spiteri, heard of Australian Gabriella On Fire, was easily one of but even as fans, we have Cilmi but you’ve definitely 2007’s best offerings. You won’t have heard of it though wondered whether she’s now a little past her creative peak. heard her. Her debut album Lessons To Be Learned spawned because, despite being crammed with radio-friendly Everything she produces is always slick and well-polished, the worldwide hit ‘Sweet About Me’, which was played anthems, it was barely promoted by record label Source, but debut solo album Melody didn’t exactly offer up any on radios and dancefloors – some would say overplayed who gave every impression of releasing it merely to fulfil classic additions to her back catalogue, and before that, the - throughout the 37 consecutive weeks it spent in the UK a contractual obligation to do so. It subsequently charted last couple of Texas albums were a bit… well, meh. singles chart. Now 18, Cilmi releases her second album, for one week at 36 before – criminally – disappearing for How exactly is one supposed to approach solo album Ten, with the assertion that she’s embraced adulthood good. Not surprisingly, the band – Olly Knights and Gale number two, The Movie Songbook, in which Sharleen and her “inner diva” in order to produce a more mature, Paridjanian – parted ways with Source soon afterwards. has trotted out covers of her favourite songs from film sophisticated work. And first impressions are promising. Unfortunately, Dark On Fire’s lack of success finds them now soundtracks? Is she desperate for a hit, or did she just fancy Opening track and first single ‘On a Mission’ is energetic scurrying ‘back to their roots’ for their debut on Cooking indulging an artistic whim? Produced by the legendary and upbeat, with a catchy chorus and inspired ‘80s-style Vinyl. Written, produced and performed almost entirely by Phil Ramone, and recorded in eight days at the legendary production that indicates Climi has drawn inspiration from the boys, Outbursts is their most folky offering since they Capital Studios, these are largely faithful cover versions. different genres in order to create a sound that’s fresh and first appeared on the music scene at the end of the 90s. Disappointingly so. It makes the whole exercise a bit too original. That said, when you remember that the girl was This may please their dwindling fanbase, but it’s unlikely to close to karaoke for comfort. However, in its favour is Ms born in 1992 it’s debatable as to how much influence she trouble the charts or airwaves. At its best, they channel the Spiteri’s impeccable musical taste. This is as fine a mix tape wielded in the track’s production… and that’s a suspicion spirit of Simon & Garfunkel on the eco-awareness raising of movie classics as you’re likely to find, with her deep and that continues from thereon in. Having worked with lead single ‘The Sea Change’ and the pleasantly intoxicating soulful vocals sounding perfectly at home on a slightly producers Xenomania (Girls Aloud); Dallas Austin (TLC, ‘Rocket Song’. However, despite this largely being an jazz-ified ‘Cat People’ (by Bowie), ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’ (Roy Gwen Stefani) and Greg Kursten (Lily Allen, Little Boots), acoustic guitar affair, it’s difficult to make out what the Orbinson’s classic given a same-sex twist) and Olivia it’s obvious that significant effort and expense has been boys are harmonising about on most of the other tracks, Newton John’s ‘Xanadu’. ‘Take My Breath Away’ is another invested in making Ten a successful pop album, but often some of which seem laboured while others are so slight as highlight, while duffest track on offer is probably ‘What’s Cilmi’s voice seems indistinct and overpowered when to completely slip under the radar. Only the penultimate New Pussycat’, which doesn’t come close to the original. compared to the instrumentation injected into each track. number, ‘Radio Silence’, attempts to add a little rock to the Also included are the likes of ‘The Windmills OfYour Mind’ While other tracks, such as ‘What if You Knew’ and ‘Robots’, mix, but it’s a case of too little, too late. Naming such a and ‘Take Me With U’ by Prince. seem to function entirely as filler, passing by pleasantly world-weary and pedestrian collection Outbursts might Will it give her a big hit single? Probably not. A guilty enough but disappearing from memory after being played. surely get them into trouble with the Advertising Standards pleasure? Absolutely. All in all, a passable attempt, but whether it produces a hit Agency. DH Out: 1 March DH to match ‘Sweet About Me’ is doubtful. 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Fusing Orton-esque anarchic gay humour and classic French farce, Robert Farrar’s play off ers seduction, sexual compulsion, mistaken identity and identical twins. Farrar is famous as the writer of the Hollywood-fi lmThe Man Who Knew Little (1997) and the gay-themed Bedrooms and Hallways (1998). Relax is directed by Phil Stern, who won the Charrington Theatre Award for Best Comedy for the production Beyond Therapy. The cast includes James Holmes, best known for his role in last year’s BBC sitcom Miranda. It opens on 12 March and is running until 4 April. Box offi ce: 020 8680 4060 PUPPY LOVE www.warehousetheatre.co.uk 32E/@25/;:7<@3D73EAB63:7BB:32=5:/C5632 PHANTOM SEQUEL The eagerly anticipated Love Never Dies by Sir Andrew µBVSc\a^SOYOPZSb`cbV]TWbWabVS]\Zg]\Sa Q][SRgO\RbVS^ObV]a]TbVSaWbcObW]\ Lloyd Webber has its world eV]QO\PSeV]SdS`bVSgeO\bb]PSO`Sc^^S` =TQ]c`aSbVW\UaR]\¸b`c\a[]]bVZg(/ZSf¸a premiere on 9 March at the [WRRZSQZOaaab`OWUVbQ]\aS`dObWdS^`]bSabO\b a]`b]TUW`ZT`WS\R3ZZS\5S[[O/`bS`b]\Wa]\ Adelphi Theatre in London. [S\ ¶ bVS^S`W^VS`gO\R/ZSf¸aQ]\TcaW]\PSbeSS\ It’s the sequel to Webber’s A]aOga;WbQVSZZO\c^O\RQ][W\UQZ]aSbQOaS PSW\U·UOgT]`^Og¸O\R`SQ]U\WaW\UVWaU`]eW\U masterpiece The Phantom of OQb]`W\2]cUZOa1O`bS`0SO\S¸aBVS:WbbZS2]U TSSZW\UaT]`;WbQVSZZ[SO\a^caVW\UVWaQZ]aSab the Opera, which – amazingly – has been running since :OcUVSR\]e^ZOgW\UObbVS5O``WQYBVSOb`S / Q][^O\W]\b]bVS]cbaWRS 2WO\S[SO\eVWZS 1986. 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The presentation for both was faultless. The dainty crab salad, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, off ered a delicate marriage of fl avours, although it was a tad over-chilled. The bread salad with tuna and lobster, however, was amazing. My colleague followed the latter with Tuscan-style beef cheek in red wine sauce (£27.50), which came served on a bed of polenta. This was a rich, stewed-style serving of beef that fell into thick fl akes when broken by a fork. It was a sublime delight. I opted for the restaurant’s signature dish – Lasagne al ragout di chianina (£17.50) – a mixed meat lasagne prepared to a 100-year-old recipe handed down from Santi’s grandmother. It was, simply, the best lasagne I can ever remember, and it packed quite a cheesy, parmesan- punch. That said, even the most perfect lasagne is, at the end of the day, lasagne, and one taste of my colleague’s beef cheek told me that he had made the better choice. If I were to return, I think I’d opt for something a bit more adventurous – for there was no lack of choice, with plenty of pasta, risotto, seafood and meat dishes. We fi nished the meal with a traditional tiramisu served with cardamom ice cream (£6) and a sweet, creamy burrata ‘Caprese-style’ (£6.50) – a fresh, soft cheese made from beginning of the autumn last year. mozzarella and cream, which we hadn’t come across before. Babbo boasts an interior that perfectly suits its well-heeled It came served with a skinned, sweet cherry tomato and address (on Albermarle Street), being a mixture of the cosy small sprig of basil. It was an unusual dessert combination COME TO DADDY and luxurious. There’s exposed brick along one wall, dark but one that worked well. The tiramisu was also top-notch, DAVID HUDSON REVIEWS BABBO, wood fl ooring, and pale olive paintwork. A multitude of and the cardamom ice cream strangely minty in fl avour. 39 Albermarle Street, W1 framed, black and white photos depicting Italian family Service throughout our meal was very attentive, although 020 3205 1099. www.babborestaurant.co.uk life add a homely feel, while ornate chandeliers and a this might have possibly been partly due to the fact that it baroque fl ower display should help attract all those ladies was extremely quiet on the Monday night of our visit. The who like to lunch after a hard morning perusing the nearby staff were keen to assure us that it does get busier at other London has enjoyed a boost in its number of upmarket boutiques of Old Bond Street. times. Italian restaurants over the last couple of years, and we have Babbo does not seek to re-invent the wheel, but rather, to Babbo is pricey and is defi nitely aimed at the Mayfair set. favourably reviewed both Bocca di Lupo in Soho and Heinz off er the very best in traditional Italian cooking courtesy of However, the food is very good indeed and the surroundings Beck’s Apsleys restaurant at the Lanesborough Hotel. chef Douglas Santi, who has worked previously under the perfectly welcoming. Other Italian restaurants may have To that number can also be added Babbo (Italian for legendary Alain Ducasse. opened with more fanfare, but Babbo defi nitely deserves its ‘daddy’), which arrived in the heart of Mayfair at the We kicked off our meal with the Babbo stone crab salad and own following. that includes some of the restaurant’s signature dishes in MAYFAIR SPICE miniature form. For JOHN O’CEALLAIGH REVIEWS BENARES starters the Cornish 12a Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, W1 crab salad, curry leaf 020 7629 8886 www.benaresrestaurant.com and tarragon-infused lobster rillet and pickled duck terrine In London’s dining lexicon, “going for a curry” doesn’t always were all excellent, immediately foster the most encouraging connotations. delicately fl avoured Reinterpreting the British conception of Indian cuisine, concoctions that however, is the recently reopened Benares in Mayfair. complemented Located on the fi rst fl oor of an imposing building by each other perfectly Berkeley Square, visitors who ascend to the main atrium despite their are greeted dually by immaculately presented staff and a alternate textures. shallow pool coated in fragrant water lilies. Less memorable Appearance, it seems, is something that’s taken seriously were the kaffi r- here and it’s a positive fi rst impression that’s further fl avoured monkfi sh consolidated by the main dining area. Spacious and elegant, tails and tandoor- the monochrome colour scheme worked well to temper the roasted rabbit dishes fi ery and colourful dishes we would later be presented with, that followed but our while the near-capacity crowd of businessmen and couples ‘mains’ of king prawns in a mint-coriander marinade, lamb saw them returned to the kitchen, although our own service showed it’s already securing a strong following. rump with rosemary chickpeas and chicken supreme with remained competent and courteous throughout. Further confi rmation of Benares’ commitment to korma were standout dishes. The quality of the meat and Finishing on a sweet note with two of Benares’ excellent showcasing the best of India was apparent through its seasoning detectable in every succulent morsel. Indeed, signature cocktails, a passable chocolate brownie and menu, which eschews conventional choices in favour of an an enthusiasm for meat seems apparent throughout the creamy, moreish lemon grass-infused cheesecake, we intricately considered journey through the country’s most surprisingly game-heavy menu and also through the may not have been entirely convinced by all the fl avours fl avoursome, impressive and intriguing cuisine. Eager to try experience of a neighbouring diner. Having explained she and combinations on off er, but Benares still off ered the as much as possible, we opted for the grazing menu. At £69 was vegetarian she was surprised to fi nd fi sh dishes still best-quality Indian we’ve ever had in London for a very per person (or £99 including wine), it’s a light, tasting menu included in her grazing menu – a curious oversight that long time. !& !' =C 4==2 bbVS`S Wagamama, 10a Lexington EAST The Luxe, 109 Commercial in Bonnington Square. 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Head London’s unique, gay-friendly Bodeans, 10 Poland Street, surroundings, with gorgeous Chef Azadur Rahman, a master in Mughal Court cooking, has created a new menu in honour of cinema restaurant. Free fi lm W1. 020-7287 0506. Cheap and yellow leather banquettes. the reopening, and as a reopening promotional off er, enjoy the two-course set lunch for £12 screenings – everything cheerful barbecue restaurant, Off ering food and drink (12-3pm) or pre- (5.30-6.30pm) and post-theatre (10-11.30pm) two-course set dinner for £16. from recent blockbusters to with counter service upstairs and from 11am till 11pm. www. The Red Fort, 77 Dean Street, Soho, W1. 020 7437 2525/2115 www.redfort.co.uk arthouse documentaries. www. restaurant down below. Popular gaydarprofi le.com roxybarandscreen.com with visiting Americans, plus the Cheaper at lunchtime than the Green and Red, 51 Bethnal Tinseltown, 44-46 St John odd bear from the nearby Kings Ristorante Biagio, 189 evening. www.gilgameshbar.com Green Road, E1. 020 7749 9670. Street, Farringdon, EC1. Want a Royal Teas, 76 Royal Hill, Arms! Branches also in Clapham, Piccadilly, W1. 020-7434-1921. Fiesta-style restaurant with double cheeseburger and Mars Greenwich, SE10. 020-8691 Fulham and Westbourne Grove. Great, authentic Italian food La Porchetta, 141-142 Upper Mexican food and a huge tequila Bar Milkshake at 5am? Then 7240. Delightfully charming café www.bodeansbbq.com in contemporary and smart Street, N1. 020-7288 2488. selection - with basement 24-hour, subterranean American off ering tea, scones, cakes and surroundings, spread over four Great value pizza and pasta bar and dancefl oor area for diner Tinseltown is the place to other delights for an eclectic Cha Cha Moon, 15-21 fl oors. Approx. £32 per head. restaurant, with possibly some afterwards. www.greenred.co.uk head. Popular with late-night crowd. Brit camp fabulousness. Ganton Street, Soho, W1. www.ristorantebiagio.co.uk of the biggest pizzas in London! clubbers – very near Fabric. www.royalteascafe.co.uk 020 7297 9800. Very popular Sister branches in Finsbury Park Kenza, 10a Devonshire Square, Cool when quiet but avoid if noodle restaurant from Hong Stef’s, 3 Berners Street, W1 020- and Bloomsbury. Approx. £17 EC2. 020-7929 5533. Delightful there’s a queue for entry. www. Upstairs Bar and Restaurant, Kong-born restaurateur Alan Yau 3073 1041. Huge, gay-friendly per head. and sumptuous subterranean tinseltown.co.uk 89b Acre Lane, SW2. Hidden (Hakkasan). Great selection of Italian – formerly Linda’s Pasta Middle Eastern restaurant a gem and local secret. Critically soup-based dishes, wok-fried Bar on Poland Street – moved to Little Bay, 228 Belsize Road, stone’s throw from Liverpool Volupte, 7-9 Norwich Street, acclaimed, eclectic European noodles and sides. the other side of Oxford Street in NW6. Wonderfully down-to- Street station. Arabic interior and EC4. 020 7831 1622. Trendy, menu, with emphasis on French 2007. Pizza and pasta heaven. earth and charming restaurant mezza menu – approx. £35 per popular supper club off ering cuisine. Limited choice but menu Ed’s Diner, 12 Moor Street, W1. serving Modern European head. www.kenza-restaurant.co.uk avant-garde cabaret and changes daily. Open Tue-Sat. 020 7434 4439. Delightfully St Pancras Grand, Upper cuisine at very reasonable prices. burlesque performance. 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PAGE 50 LO-PROFILE Wardour Street's Lo-Profi le threw a Love-In for Valentine's weekend, and pulled in a club full of passion- hungry customers... PAGE 52-53 DTPM KU BAR The legendary DTPM now only returns for 4/B63D3 "# =C @3D73E bbVS`S LOVE CHILD :=D3167:2@3BC@<32B=47@37< 430@C/@G4=@/<=B63@@326=B <756B=44C::=<1:C007<5¬ Lovechild threw an amazing a dozen performers lined up to dance, party at Fire in December, so dazzle and display their wares for the expectations were high for ‘Love II crowds. Gorgeous go-go’s in skimpy Love’, the night’s February off er. Not Speedos, angels in full-sized feather only were the team – led by promoter wings, porn stars in jock straps, engorged Alex Erfan – commemorating Valentine’s strippers and many more paraded weekend, but they were also celebrating peacock-like before us on stages in their own fi rst anniversary! the main room as well as the mirrored With all three rooms of this fabulous ‘contact’ room. venue open, the line-up read like a This revamped, all new, testosterone- Who’s Who of the DJ scene and featured fuelled glossy Lovechild featured superb established names as well as fresh (and production, dazzling pyrotechnics and fi t) faces… Alessandro Londra, Brent state of the art eff ects as well as a sexy Nicholls, Craig Daniels, Gabriele Cutrano, crowd, mouth-watering performances Lee Harris, Mattias, Paul Heron, Pagano, and a naughty play room of cavorting Phil Hewson, Saki and Tony English, man-toys... what a perfect night out! presented a unique mix of everything To keep informed of future dates, keep from deep, dirty, electro and progressive checking Alex's website at www. house to funky tribal sounds. AlexErfan.com This aural smorgasbord was accompanied by plenty of visual treats, with at least www.AlexErfan.com "$ =C bbVS`S @3D73E WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM "% =C @3D73E bbVS`S 74:=D37A/:=BB3@G:=>@=47:3¸A D/:3 Weekends at Lo-Profi le are bar and comfy seating area it was renowned for off ering some diffi cult not to get sidetracked by of the best nights out in Soho the strokes, gropes and caresses and always attract a crowd of until, arriving at the far end we had sexy boys easily parted from forgotten entirely what we wanted their shirts. Valentine’s weekend and (nightmare scenario) had to was no exception, when the team ‘run the gauntlet’ again! Skimpily- threw a special ‘Love-In’ for anyone clad muscle boys danced on top of who hadn’t found a Valentine’s date podiums (courtesy of Alex Erfan’s yet. DJs Guy Williams and D’Johnny Lovechild) and provided some provided a loved-up soundtrack for dangerous eye-candy at eye level, a venue packed with Lo-Profi le’s but the night is all about the music trademark clientele …the gym and the crowd, and with superb card-carrying, buff A&F model- food upstairs at Profi le during the esque A-gays who bring the party daytime and spectacular clubbing with them and are not afraid to in Lo Profi le all night, Gaydar truly share. As we walked through the have the perfect set of venues. crowd from the bump and grind of WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM the dance fl oor to the illuminated www.profi lesoho.co.uk # @3D73E =CbbVS`S DTPM 2B>;7A;/97<5/6/07B=43<8=G7<5=<3<756B AB/<2A/BA=;3=4B631/>7B/:¸A;=AB5=@53=CA 1:C0A 430@C/@G¸A2/B3E/A<=3F13>B7=<¬ Love was certainly in the air in provided fi rst by the House Husbands central London in mid February, and then by Nick Tcherniak and Steve and in celebration the Blue Cube Thomas who, although having very crew presented a very special diff erent styles and sounds, all meshed ‘From DTPM with LOVE’ party at beautifully, taking us on an aural the gorgeous Mayfair club Jalouse. journey through soul, disco, funky Passing through the velvet ropes and house – delivering one euphoric high descending into the subterranean after another. marble and mirror interior was like The hot guys from Manhunt were on stepping back in time to the decadent hand to provide the horn-factor and 80s heyday of clubbing. From the they soon had revellers ditching their sunken dancefl oor in the middle of the shirts in favour of a tight white vest, room to the giant crystal-clad ceiling which is never a bad thing! The next that had every drag queen green with DTPM extravaganza is the birthday envy, the plush venue was the perfect on Easter Sunday 4th April. The secret location for this love-fest. With previous venue is to be announced, but like parties DTPM has let the music take Jalouse, it's sure to knock your socks off . the limelight, and this night was no exception with a superb soundtrack www.dtpmevents.co.uk WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM # =C bbVS`S @3D73E #! =C @3D73E bbVS`S B639C0/@13:30@/B327BAB67@2/<<7D3@A/@G KU BAR =<:7A:3AB@33B=<D/:3 David Hoyle It’s three years since the Ku Bar to the eager masses – a generous moved from 75 Charing Cross gesture indeed. Road and opened its doors in We caught up with an ecstatic its gorgeous new Lisle Street guv’nor Gary Henshaw over a glass location. Last month’s Valentine’s of the fi zzy stuff who said, “What night birthday party kicked off with an amazing three years for Ku… I copious amounts of champagne, am very proud and very grateful for served up by the sexy Ku Bar all the public support”. Boys wearing little more than red If this has got you in party mood Cupid-style wings and a big smile. then pop along to Ku Bar The bubbles continued to fl ow all Soho on Frith Street on Friday night long among the scrum of 5th March where they will be punters eager to toast Ku’s birthday, celebrating their fi rstst birthday, their Valentine’s co-celebrants or the and then of course we can’t Mr Right they were about to meet! forget Gary’s Irish roots as the bar Half way through the evening, and turns green for St Patrick’s Day on in a reversal of the usual birthday Wednesday 17th March. etiquette, the Ku Bar gave out 100 gifts of high-quality goodie bags www.ku-bar.co.uk WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM #" =C A13<3 bbVS`S `caV-@W\UW\UW\ObZSaabVO\ObS\\S`O^]^O\R OdOWZOPZS`WUVbOQ`]aaA]V]O\R[]abaOc\OabVSg `S[OW\eSZZeWbVW\bVS`SOQV]T[]ab^O`bgU]S`a ³SdS\WTbVSUS\S`OZQ]\aS\acaWabVObbVS\Se T]`[cZOP`O\RaR]\]b_cWbSVOdSbVSaO[SSTTSQb OabVS]ZR\]eWZZSUOZb][O\cTOQbc`SdO`WSbWSa 7¸dSa^]bbSRW\Q`SOaW\U\c[PS`a]TP]bbZSaW\ bVS[caQZSP]c\R[OgVS[]TDOcfVOZZO\R [gTSSZW\UaeS`SQ]\TW`[SReVS\7ObbS\RSRO VSbS`]aSfcOZPW`bVROgaVW\RWUObOPO`\Q]\dS`aW]\ W\<]`T]ZYO\ROP]bbZS]T·`]][]R]c`WaS`¸ GET ON THE O^^SO`SR 7TbVSab`OWUVbaO`Sa\WTTW\UWbac`SZgbVWa VOaPSQ][S[OW\ab`SO[`WUVb- #$ =C A13<3:7AB7<5A bbVS`S GUTTERSLUT HIGHLIGHTS BIRTHDAY Hugo Sanchez Those fabulous Gutterslut freaks will be celebrating their second birthday on Saturday 27 February with a big party at the Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1. The venue played host the Gutterslut’s Gutterball last year, and the team have been itching to throw another mega bash within its spacious confi nes. The night will run from 10pm till 7am and will feature special guest Larry Tee, who will spinning sounds alongside Gutterslut resident Per QX, including recent remixes that the two have done for Lady Gaga and Deadmau5. The mysterious ‘Sick Act’ will be making their debut DJ set, along with regular Elliot J Brown and Nic Fisher. Princess Julia will take care of the Discoslut Room. PAs will come from Jonny Woo, Feral and MC Crystal, plus Amsterdam’s Lipstick and Paf Paf. Admission is £12 on the door or £8 in advance (with a limited number of advance tickets from the Dalston Superstore). For more details, check the ‘Gutterslut’ page on Facebook. SAMURAI SATURDAY March at the Royal SuperMartxé will be turning all Japanese-y for its next event. Taking place on Saturday Vauxhall Tavern in 27 February at the gigantic Coronet Theatre in Elephant & Castle (26-28 New Kent Road, ROYAL Vauxhall has yet more SE1), the theme for the event will be ‘Samurai’, so expect plenty of geisha guys and girls! special events. Acclaimed Spinning the sounds will be Spanish SuperMartxé resident jock Hugo Sanchez, alongside VAUXHALL performer David Mills Steve Pitron, Tony English and Marlon K Jones (from SuperMartxé Amsterdam). Expect (pictured) will be taking live PAs and performance, plus plenty of kimono-clad glamour. Doors will be open from MARCH up a Wednesday night 10.30pm till 7am, with advance tickets (from £15) available from Profi le, Prowler, Clone residency on 3, 10, 17 Zone, DV8, SolarStation, The Box and BarCode Vauxhall. You can also buy online at www. and 24 March with his clubtickets.com new show ‘…And I Am For further details, check www.loganpresents.com Telling You’ – described as “a hilarious, vitriolic rant with pop song interludes and special SWEET ABOUT HER guests”. Expect cracking Best known for her one-liners and covers of huge hit ‘Sweet some classic pop tunes. About Me’, Australia’s The show’s at 8pm and Gabrielle Cilmi will admission is £7. kick off the March PAs The brilliant Bar at gay superclub G-A-Y Wotever runs each on Saturday 6 March. Tuesday night, welcoming She’ll be hitting the boys, girls, trans people club just before the and ‘wotevers’ with rock release of new single and pop tunes and avant ‘On A Mission’ on garde cabaret. Promoter Monday 8 March, and David Mills Ingo and her team will be new album Ten. celebrating fi ve glorious Gabriella Cilmi G-A-Y takes place at years of Bar Wotever on Heaven every Saturday Tuesday 2 March – and are promising something “mega special” on stage. Admission, as night, with its Camp Attack night on Fridays, Porn Idol on Thursdays, and the studenty always at Bar Wotever, will be free all evening, and doors will be open from 6pm-midnight. Popcorn on Mondays. Check it out at Heaven, Under The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2. If Thursday nights in March will host a variety of promotions, including The Kitsch Kittens’ you don’t want the full-on club experience, don’t also forget to visit the sister bars at 30 Carnival of Kitsch on 4 March – an eclectic and camp selection of performances to take Old Compton Street, Soho, or 5 Goslett Yard (G-A-Y Late). you back to the days of the London Palladium and vaudeville. Enjoy Madam Galina, the G-A-Y promoter Jeremy Joseph is currently busy in training for this year’s London Cubs and the Kittenette Dancers. Tickets will cost £10, with the show at 8pm. It’s followed marathon – pounding the streets of London almost daily in preparation for this grueling on Thursday 11 March by ‘Cracked Actress’, a one-off show fromMyra Dubois and Miss athletic endeavour. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Heaven as a gay nightclub, he Annabel Sings (tickets £5). is aiming to try and raise a whopping £30,000 (£1,000 for every year) for Amnesty Fridays at the venue will plays host to bi-monthly soft rock night We Built This International. At the time of going to press, he’s managed to raise just over £10,000, Speedwagon On A Prayer (5 March), Kimono Krush (12 March), Northern soul but still has some sponsorship to earn before the marathon on Saturday 25 April. stomper Shake Your Tail Feather (19 March) and Diva-lution (26 March). Duckie To sponsor him and donate money to this extremely worthy cause, go to www. continues to run each Saturday, and S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out each Sunday, with Timberlina’s justgiving.com/G-A-Y – there are also donation buckets at G-A-Y Bar, G-A-Y cult bingo pub night each Monday. Late and Heaven. For more information, check out the ‘G-A-Y/ Heaven The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11. Tickets for most London Nightclub’ page on Facebook. performance nights are available on ticketweb.co.uk and lastminute.com WORDS BY LOREM DELOREM | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAET IPSUM #& =C bbVS`S :7AB7<5A Long-running community café bar. houses a Gay Tourist Office from on Fridays noon-6pm throughout the week and Saturdays. FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street, (www.gaytouristoffice.co.uk) www.loprofile.com W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly www.ku-bar.co.uk GOING=Cb Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with LONG YANG CLUB, long-run- late-night club promotions for a KU BAR SOHO, 25 Frith Street, ning social group for East Asian SEVENTH HEAVEN mixed, metrosexual crowd. W1. Leicester Square tube. New, gay guys and friends. Regular Club MoFo celebrates its seventh www.freedombarsoho.com smaller sister venue to Lisle Street parties and social events. Check birthday this month. Joining with Ku Bar, with entrances on Old website at www.lyclondon.com for girls behind the decks will be special FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour Compton Street and Frith Street full details. guest Lady Miss Kier (of Deee- Street, WC1. Trendy and unique, - open till 11pm daily.. www. Lite/’Groove Is In The Heart’ fame), intimate basement bar with ku-bar.co.uk MADAME JO JO’S, 8-10 Brewer and there will also – as always – be quirky decor and fun atmosphere Street, W1. Long-running, late live bands and music. Expect rock, – attracts a mixed crowd. KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2. night gig venue, nightclub indie, punk, disco and electro sounds 020 7379 4573. Charing Cross and cabaret bar - open to very between the hours of 8pm and 4am, G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm, mixed crowd. Home to popular with admission £4 before 8.30pm, £4 Street, W1. 020 7494 2756. Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and Wednesday nighter Trannyshack. before 10.30pm with a flyer, or £6. It Leicester Square tube. 12pm- stylish café bar, with clubbier vibe www.madamejojos.com. all takes place in Bardens Boudoir, 12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar, and video screens in the basement. 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, N16, with a multitude of video screens, Popular with Asian crowd upstairs, MOLLY MOGG’S, 2 Old Compton on Saturday 13 March. This will be pop tunes and drinks promotions. plus a basement women’s bar. Street, W1. 020 7434 4294. the last Club MoFo for a few months, www.g-a-y.co.uk Tottenham Court Road tube. Small, but the team plan to re-convene for a LO-PROFILE, The Basement, intimate little gay pub, with regular new launch later in the year – so get G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard, 84-85 Wardour Street, W1. Swanky, drag shows attracting a mixed along for your last taste of MoFo for off Charing Cross Road, WC2. sophisticated, 400-capacity crowd of theatre folk and tourists. the foreseeable future! Tottenham Court Road tube. late-night basement bar and club www.clubmotherfucker.com Lady Miss Kier 11pm-3am. Late-night sister space – from the people that bring PENDULUM, 56 Frith Street, Soho, venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video you gaydar.co.uk. Open 10pm-4am W1. 0207 734 8300 . Tottenham screens, camp pop fun and cheap CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1. drinks.Gets very busy most nights VENUES: 020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court of the week. CENTRAL LONDON Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm. Fri & Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm. Long- THE GREEN CARNATION, 4-5 79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road, running and famed lesbian bar. Greek Street, Soho, W1. 020-7434 WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester 3323. Stylish, three-floored Square tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am, COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton late night gay venue, with Sun 1pm-10.30pm. Cover charge Street, W1. 020 7479 7961. bar, dancefloor and nightly after 11pm. Large, cruisy, late-night Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm. promotions. Attracts a mixed bar - always busy after 10.30pm A Soho institution. Large, traditional crowd. www.greencarnationsoho. with those who don’t want to head gay boozer on two floors, attracting co.uk home too early. a butch and manly crowd. www. comptons-of-soho.co.uk HALFWAY TO HEAVEN, ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old 7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020 Compton Street, W1. 020 7437 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, 7321 2791. Charing Cross tube. 5300. Leicester Square tube. 77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439 Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat Friendly, famous, traditional gay 1274. Piccadilly Circus tube. 12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub pub - just look out for the purple Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat spread over two floors. BLUE RINSE and pink exterior! noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm Eat Your Heart Out, Scottee’s monthly performance on Sun. Traditional and fun gay HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers club night, returns on Saturday 26 March – this time BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street, pub over two floors, attracting a Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road taking over the revamped Brickhouse, 152c Brick W1. 020 7734 3342. www. good cross-section from across tube. Huge, world-famous gay Lane, East London, E1. bar-code.co.uk. Piccadilly Circus the scene. club, which is now home to Ahead of the general election, and the very real tube. Mon-Sat 4pm-1.30am. Sun G-A-Y, along with mixed/studenty possibility that the Conservatives may sweep back in until 10.30pm. Dance bar on three THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, Monday nighter Popcorn. Check to power, the theme for this month’s outing is ‘The floors, with club-style basement. W1. 020 7439 1313. Tottenham www.g-a-y.co.uk for details Return of the Yuppie?’. Prompted by the fact that David Comedy Camp stand-up night Court Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun Cameron might be our next Prime Minister, Scottee each Tuesday, and more dance- 2pm-11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar THE KINGS ARMS, 23 Poland and his cohorts are wondering if that béte noire of oriented sessions at weekends. spread over four intimate floors, Street, W1. 020 7734 5907. the 80s, the yuppie, is also due to return. Expect live with regular nights from top DJs, Oxford Circus tube. Mon-Thur performances from MasumiTipsy, Ryan Styles, Nando THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth regular piano bar and tasty food. 12pm–11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am, Messias, Miss Anabel Sings, Myra Dubois, Absolut Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 Sun 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar Queer and ‘100 Margaret Thatchers’, plus host Scottee. 7240 5828. Leicester Square tube. ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1. for bears and blokes. Traditional There will be interactive elements, including a Twinset 11am-11pm. Stylish and award- 020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus atmosphere plus pool table. & Pearl Jumble sale, ‘Myra’s Career Advice’ and free milk, winning gay café bar popular with tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge after Sunday night karaoke very popular. while music will come from Alexander6 and Aman to scene and muscle queens. 11pm. Every night’s a party at this Pet. Doors will be open from 10pm till 3am, with the Frequent exhibitions late-night video dance bar. KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester first show at 10.30pm. Admission costs £7 or £5 NUS. on the walls and Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303. Advanced bookings can be made by emailing eyho@ great food. FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles Leicester Square tube. Large, scottee.co.uk, or table bookings via getmeaseat@ High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042. award-winning, upmarket gay scottee.co.uk Tottenham Court Road tube. bar spread over three floors, open For more details, check the Facebook page ‘Eat 10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over till 3am daily and always busy Your Heart Out’ 20 years old and still going strong. throughout the week. The first floor #' =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S Court Road tube. Stylish, big gay PROFILE, 84-84 Wardour Street, SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer bar – spread over three floors, W1. 020 734 3444. Piccadilly Circus Street, W1. 020-7287 7988. SAUNAS SAUNABAR COVENT GARDEN with food, drink, art displays tube. Upstairs bar above Lo-Profile, Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous, 29 Endell Street, Covent Garden, and pre-club promotions. www. owned and run by the team behind late-night bar and club for A-list CHARIOTS WATERLOO WC2. 020 7836 2236. Covent pendulumsoho.co.uk Gaydar. Stylish gay bar/diner, gays and celeb-spotters. Open from 101 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1. Garden tube. Basement sauna with open for food and drink from early late each evening. 020 7401 8484. Waterloo tube. pool, sauna and rest rooms. Check morning through till 11pm – when www.theshadowlounge.com Well-presented, popular sauna, website for discount entry. www. the action moves downstairs. open 24/7. www.gaysauna.co.uk thesaunabar.co.uk www.profilesoho.com SWEATBOX, 1-2 Ramillies Street, Soho, W1. 020-3214 6014. PLEASUREDROME SWEATBOX SOHO THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec Exclusively gay gym (ground 124 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, SE1. Ramillies House, 1-2 Ramillies Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159. floor) and sauna (first floor), with Waterloo tube. Big venue with Street, Soho, W1. 020 3214 6014. Marble Arch tube. Long-running occasional late-night parties. Open lots of different areas – open 24 Oxford Circus tube. Gay-owned and and huge pub, on two floors, Sun-Thurs noon-2am, and till hours, 365 days of year. www. run gym and basement sauna. attracting an older crowd. Open till 7am Friday and Saturday. www. pleasuredrome.com www.sweatboxsoho.com 3am at weekends. Off the beaten sweatboxsoho.com. Soho track but well worth checking SAUNABAR PORTSEA NORTH LONDON out. www.thequebec.co.uk VAULT 139, 139 Whitfield Street, 2 Portsea Place, Marble Arch, W2. W1. 020-7388 5500. Central, 020 7402 3385. Marble Arch tube. THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden THE QUEEN’S HEAD, 25 Tryon daytime and evening intimate Small and friendly gay sauna with High Street, NW1. 020 7485 0538. Street, SW3. 020-7589 0262. cruise club, for a men-only crowd. masseurs. www.gaysaunabar.com Camden Town tube. Shufflewick Sloane Square tube. Popular, very Open 4pm-1am seven days a long-running, cosy gay pub –a week. www.vault139.com Chelsea institution. FEELING BULLISH WALTHAMSTOW LICKED VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1. From promoter Oliver Gay Lick is the name of a new twice-monthly promotion RETRO BAR, 2 George Court, 020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus M and Manu Garcia bringing some much-needed gay life to Walthamstow in WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late (Ursus), Matador is north east London. The event is currently running every Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat night door charge. Soho’s original a new Spanish and first and third Friday of the month from 9pm till 4am 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm. gay café bar, spread over four floors, Balearic-themed monthly at Club Lick, 58 Hoe Street, E17 4PG. It was launched A traditional boozer for the gay and now with basement dancefloor club session coming to last September, but has been attracting an increasing scene’s indie, alternative and and discos. Popular with a youngish BarCode Vauxhall on following – so much so that promoters Paul and Switch student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz crowd of boys and girls. Friday 5 March (and every are thinking of setting up a weekly event in the near is an institution. first Friday of the month future. You can expect three floors of fun and frolics in a THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1. thereafter). The music rather unique venue, with DJs spinning unpretentious RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert 020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus policy promises upfront Oliver M dance sounds, club classics and remixes of retro sounds Street, W1. 020 7292 7141. tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri house sounds from some of the best jocks from London from the 80s to the noughties. Entry is £4 before Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Sun & Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm- and beyond. These will include, on rotation, Oliver M, midnight, then £7 after, with a free coat check. 10.30pm. Large, designer style bar, 1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar with Gonzalo, Micky Galiano, Steven Artis, Jonny M, Leonardo More details and pictures at the website at popular with professional gay boyz hugely popular courtyard area, Glovibes and Saki, amongst others. Doors will open from www.gaylicke17.co.uk and post-work drinkers. outdoor balcony and cosy loft bar. 11pm till 6am on Saturday morning. $ =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S long-running gay pub, with ‘local’ Lane, SE11. 020 7793 0903. Mon, Infamous, late-night gay venue atmosphere and character, plus Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 9pm-late, beneath the Vauxhall railway popular beer garden. Tue 9pm-2am, Sun 9pm-late. arches, host to the likes of Orange, Vauxhall tube. Large, club-bar A:M, Later and Juicy. Open KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street, with nightly promotions. Tonker around the clock at weekends. NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cosy, (Fridays) and Horse Meat Disco www.allthingsorange.com or traditional old gay pub, with regular (Sundays) are particularly popular. www.myspace.com/firelondon or entertainment, beer garden and www.eaglelondon.com www.clubtickets.com food. One of London’s longest- running gay establishments. www. EXILIO, Bar Rez, Club Colosseum, THE FRIDGE, Town Hall Parade, kw4.co.uk 1 Nine Elms Lane, SW8. Vauxhall Brixton, SW9. 020 7326 5100. tube. Long-running, Friday night Brixton tube. Large and legendary THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner gay Latin and salsa night. Open venue - formerly a theatre. Now Road, Watford, 01923-441113. 11pm till 4am. www.exilio.co.uk home to occasional gay club nights Watford’s only gay pub, with such as Love Muscle. www.fridge. big beer garden and regular FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11. co.uk and www.lovemusclexx.co.uk entertainment. www.loadofhay. Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue, co.uk hosting occasional dance and THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2 cruise nights. BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10. THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes, 020 8691 3764. Deptford Bridge N16. 020-7354 2791. THE FORT, 131 Grange Road, DLR. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Fri & Manor House tube. Friendly, SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise Sat 4pm-4am, Sun 4pm-2am. diverse gay bar with late-night club, open till 11pm throughout Late-night pub with nightly club promotions, and open ‘til 3am week, with regular boots-only entertainment and cabaret. www. at weekends. Very popular with and underwear parties. Check gandd.org.uk lesbians and male friends. www. website for full listings. www. oakbar.com thefortlondon.com HIDDEN, 100 Tinworth Street, SE11. Railway arch venue, home PLAYPIT, 357 Caledonian Road, FIRE, South Lambeth Road, to infamous Hard On night once N7. Caledonian Road tube. 0333 Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube. a month (www.hardonclub.co.uk), 700 1231. Intimate, King’s Cross sleaze club – basically a basement darkroom. Open Thur-Sat 9pm- 3am, Sun 3pm-1am. Take your own booze. www.londonplaypit. Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat and infamously cruisy cruise nights co.uk 12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm. in basement. Upstairs restaurant Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat offering gastropub menu, plus SOUTH LONDON 10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. Long- B&B accommodation. www. running, famed gay pub – probably centralstation.co.uk AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment, the most famous cabaret pub in SE1. Gorgeously-designed, hard London. www.theblackcap.com CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1 dance club and cabaret rooms, with Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, eclectic roster of different gay nights CENTRAL STATION, N19. World’s biggest lesbian and and one-off promotions, including 37 Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 gay Southern Asian music night, Jason’s Jukebox on Thursdays, 7278 3294. Kings Cross tube.Robert Big, running every third Friday of the and Friday nighter Onyx, amongst late-opening gay bar on Owensthree month. Always busy and rather others. www.areaclub.info floors, with ground floor cabaret unique. www.clubkali.com BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69, DJ Nikki Lucas EGG, 200 York Way, King’s Cross, Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207 THOROUGHLY MODERN MUSIC HALL N7. 020 7609 8364. King’s Cross 734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7 A one-off special to tie in with LGBT History Month, tube. Bespoke club space on three days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, HABIBI LAUNCHES Film Launch and Camden LGBT Forum present Modern floors, hosting occasional gay club Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Very popular DJ Nikki Lucas will be presiding over a new monthly Music Hall III at the Conway Hall in Holborn on nights and after-hours sessions club bar, with dancefloor and gay night being launched this month. Habibi aims to Saturday 27 February. The highlight of the evening will (mixed afterhours every Saturday mezzanine chill-out space - gets showcase a diverse mixture of world music, specialising be the showing of an anti-bullying film made by the night/Sunday morning). www. busy at weekends. in “Rai’n’B, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Urban, Desi and Balkan aforementioned organisations and Queer Youth Network. egglondon.net flavas.” If the music doesn’t have you rushing to the floor, The Emmanuel Vincent Harris Trust has funded the film, CABLE, 33a Bermondsey Street, there will be belly dancers and traditional darkbuka which examines the problems of homophobic and THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street, SE1 2EG. 020 7403 7730. London players to help lose those inhibitions, and to bring a transphobic bullying. However, the evening won’t just N1. 020-7226 8895. Angel tube. Bridge tube. Huge, purpose-built touch of Istanbul to the proceedings (a city currently be about the film viewing – there will be plenty of live London’s first ‘gay gay-stropub!’ clubbing venue in railway arches. in the headlines for being the new European Capital entertainment. Expect some high leg-kicking fun from Stylish, Islington bar, serving full Host to occasional one-offs and of Culture). The night also aims to help support LGBT The Dream Bears, blues singer Tricity Vogue, Mzz food menu and wide range of monthly promotions such as activists in Iraq – a country where the LGBT community Kimberly, Amphibia and Dickie Beau, performing cocktails. Mixed, chilled crowd Matinee. www.cable-london.com face consistent persecution. Ten percent of door takings a special Judy Garland-inspired show. The whole event - now run by the same team as The at Habibi will be going to the LGBT Iraqi Solidarity Group has been organised by queer arts organisation Wotever Edge in Soho. CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine (check SOS: Support Iraqi LGBT on Facebook for more World, who are promising free refreshments in the Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge, details). interval and at the end of the night. KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfield late-night venue for after-hours Habibi will run every second Saturday of the month from Tickets are £5 and £3 for concessions. Email your name Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745. crowd – hosting various monthly 9pm till 3am at the Oak Bar, 76 Green Lanes, N17. Entry to [email protected] and collect Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon- promotions. £4 before 10pm, £6 before midnight and £7 after. your tickets on the evening. 12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am, www.habibiclublondon.com Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very THE EAGLE, 349 Kennington $ $! =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S and now also Megawoof (www. for local gay boys and girls - open and Wednesday. Pulls in 1,000+ megawoof.com) and popular urban till 1.30am Fri-Sat. customers each Saturday with night Work on Wednesdays. uplifting dance anthems and PARIS GYM occasional guest DJs. THE HOIST, Arch 47c, South 73 Goding Street, Vauxhall, SE11. Lambeth Road, SW8. 020 7735 020 7735 8989. Vauxhall tube. SAUNAS 9972. 10pm-late. Door charge and Huge, well-equipped men-only strict dress code. One of London’s gym with large, devoted following. CHARIOTS STREATHAM most famous dress-code and cruise Regular classes. Tourists welcome. 292 Streatham High Road, SW16. clubs - busy with a men-only Check website for entry details and 020 8696 0929. Streatham station. crowd. Open Friday-Sunday and membership. www.parisgym.com Large sauna, with weekly theme occasional Thursdays (SM Gays nights (bears, men of colour, etc). every third Thursday of the month ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, www.gaysauna.co.uk - www.smgays.org). www. 372 Kennington Lane, SE11. thehoist.co.uk 020 7840 0596. Opening times CHARIOTS VAUXHALL vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge. 63-64 Albert Embankment, JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli Huge, traditional and historic gay Vauxhall, SE1. 020 7247 5333. Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road, pub, with long history of hosting Vauxhall tube. Large, modern SE4. First Saturday of the month, cabaret. Packed to rafters on sauna in converted railway arch. Mikey D 7pm-midnight (£7). Gay ballroom Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday www.gaysauna.co.uk and Latin dancing night, attracting (S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out). Check FIRE RAGES up to 300 dancers a month to the www.rvt.org.uk or the facebook THE LOCKER ROOM Some of the most consistently popular nights on the glam 1950s-style Rivoli Ballroom. group RV Taverners for information. 8 Cleaver Street, Kennington, London scene are those run by the Orange organisation. Crofton Park BR. www.therivoli.co.uk SE11. 020 7735 6064. Kennington The company operates events at Vauxhall superclubs THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place, tube. Long-running, intimate Area and Fire. Regular events at the latter include KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street, SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria gay-owned and run sauna. www. afterhours session Gravity, which runs on Thursday SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight, the-lockerroom.co.uk night/Friday morning from midnight till 8am in the North tube. Mon-Thu 4pm- Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm- club’s Mirror arch. Expect cool, pumping house grooves midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon- 2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark and STEAMWORKS from The Oli, Alan K and Terry Bryan for a crowd of sexy 1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham atmospheric gay bar in Victoria, 309 New Cross Road, New Cross, guys who can’t wait till Friday night for the start of their video bar, popular throughout the with occasional cabaret and DJs SE14. 020 8694 0606. New weekend. It’s £10 full price, or £5 with a flyer or advert. week, with DJs at weekends. at weekends, and now an upstairs Cross/New Cross Gate station. Sister afterhours session A:M now takes place on Friday theatre space. Small, long-running establishment. night/Saturday morning from 3am till 10.30am (perfect LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington www.steamworkslondon.co.uk for those leaving Onyx at Area). D’Johnny, Gonzalo Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039. 286, 286 Lewisham High Street, Rivas, David Jimenez and Alan K spin the sounds on the Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a SE14. 020-8690 7648. Large, late- EAST LONDON main floor, while there’s a vinyl-only policy in theBring week. Small, traditional gay boozer opening gay venue, with regular Back The Funk room, which plays host on rotation to entertainment, DJs and cabaret. THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street, Jamie Head, The Oli, Dave Cross, Terry Bryan and guests. Open till 2am Sun-Thur and 4am E15.Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford Full price admission is £12, or £8 with a flyer/advert Fri-Sat. www.two8six.co.uk BR and tube. Big gay pub, always before 5.30am. popular at weekends, with regular You’ll find a rotating line-up of Saturday night THE TRAFALGAR ARMS, cabaret, DJs and disco nights. promotions, such as Juicy and Lovechild, while on 148Tooting High Street, SW17. Sunday afternoon there’s Later (noon-7pm - £5), which 020-8767 6059. A spacious, lively, THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth offers more uplifting house for those who can’t stop attitude-free pub. Excellent food Mews, off Burdett Road, E3. dancing. It’s followed on Sunday night (11pm-9am) served all day. Weekly DJs on Friday 020-8980 8557. Over 25 years by the flagshipOrange session – an all-night bender and Saturday nights. Karaoke on old – small but legendary East for those wanting to squeeze maximum pleasure from Wednesdays. End dress code leather club, open their weekend. DJ Steven Sharp is currently in charge of Thur-Sun. Very strict rubber and promoting the night, which features The Sharp Boys, The THE TWO BREWERS, leather dresscode, ensuring a Oli, Terry Bryan and Paul Martin on the main floor, while 114 Clapham High Street, SW4. wide and loyal following. www. Feral David Jiminez and Gonzalo Rivas spin the minimal tech 020 7819 9539. Clapham Common thebackstreet.com house in the second room. Admission is £12 on the door, tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat or just £2 before midnight with a flyer/advert (£10 after). LONDON NIGHTS 5pm-4am. South London’s most BISTROTHEQUE, 23-27 Wadeson Over the road at Area, catch award-winning Friday You Are Here (Not Paris) is the enigmatic name famed gay cabaret venue. Large St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900. nighter Onyx, with DJs Phil Marriot, Jamie Hammond of a new occasional session from legendary DJ Tom bar and separate dancefloor room. Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed, and guests spinning the pumping house, and Aerial and Stephan. It returns to the new East Village club, An institution for over 20 years. gay/straight crowd of trendy Lisa German offering ‘sexy tech dance’. For something 89 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2 (www. www.the2brewers.com metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant, lighter, Tuomo Fox, Jason Prince and James St James offer eastvillageclub.com) on Friday 26 February. The plus separate cabaret room. www. classic house anthems in The Black Box. Doors are 10pm promoters want those attending to stop dwelling on UNION, 66 Albert Embankment, bistrotheque.com till 5am (advance tickets £5 at www.clubtickets.com) the past or fearing and fantasizing about the future, and SE1. 020-7793 9262. Cruisy This is followed on Sunday mornings (6am till 1pm) by instead concentrate on the here and now! dance club which hosts regular CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe Beyond – London’s busiest afterhours party. Promoter “Join DJ Paulette, Leonardo Glovibes and Tom promotions. Plays areas and hot Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007. Steven Sharp offers you three rooms of house music from Stephan for an intense electronic exploration of the go-go’s. www.clubunion.co.uk and Whitechapel tube. Recently Steve Pitron, Mikey D (pictured), Alan K, Paul Christian, present moment featuring a live performance by the www.ma1.co.uk refurbished, Moroccan style HiFi Sean, Jamie Head, Terry Bryan and the Sharp Boys. incredible Feral. You are not at work, this is the weekend. – friendly, local gay bar. Finally, one more date for your diary is Friday 5 March, You’re not staying in, you’re going out. This is not Paris, XXL,The Arches, 51-53 Southwark when Fire will be hosting the Rudeboyz re-union – ‘Up this is east London and you are HERE!” Street, SE1. www.xxl-london. DALSTON SUPERSTORE, 117 Against The Wall’. Expect sexy sounds, the return of the Doors will be open from 10pm till 3.30am, with com. London Bridge tube. Huge Kingsland High Street, E8. 020 infamous Scally Ally, plus plenty of cruising between admission £6 before 11pm and £8 after. world-famous club for bears, big 7254 2273. Highbury & Islington 10pm and 4am. www.tomstephan.com men and admirers, on Saturday tube. New, two-floor mixed www.myspace.com/firelondon $" :7AB7<5A =CbbVS`S gay-straight venue - café by day CHARIOTS SHOREDITCH and fashionable performance 1 Fairchild Street, Shoreditch, EC2. space and club promotions at 020 7247 5333. Liverpool Street BRIGHTON night. Open noon-2am seven days station. Biggest gay sauna in UK, a week. with a maze of rest rooms. www. gaysauna.co.uk DANDY BOYS, Visage, 442 Cranbrook Road, Gants Hill, IG2. E15 CLUB 020 8554 003. www.Visage80sBar. 6 Leytonstone Road, Stratford, E15. co.uk. Gay club night running 020 8555 5455. Stratford tube. every Wednesday night at a fab Deceptively large sauna behind a 80s-themed venue. Open 8pm- discreet facade. www.londonnoise. 1am. Regular entertainment. Email com/e15 [email protected] WEST LONDON EASTERN BLOC, 58 Old Street, EC1. 020-7287 3726. Trend-setting THE CULVERT, 54 Cowley Mill gay club venue, spread over two Road, Uxbridge. 01895 256 690. floors. Bar upstairs with small Uxbridge tube. Mon-Wed 4pm-1am, dancefloor, and grond floor dance Thu noon-2am, Fri & Sat noon-3am, space. Regular promotions at Sun 3pm-1am. Regular discos, weekends. cabaret, karaoke and one-off events. Established, local gay venue. GAY LICK, Club Lick, 58 Hoe www.theculvert.com Street, E17. Walthamstow tube. Twice-monthly gay promotion at ESCAPE, 184 London Road, AUDIO, Marine Parade, BN1. long hours thanks to a 24-hour QUEEN’S ARMS, 7 George a cruisy club space. Every first and Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, KT2. www.audiobrighton.com. Club licence in operation at weekends. Street, BN2. 01273 696873. third Friday from 9pm-4am. Entry 020 8549 9911. Revamped, long- venue with outdoor terrace www.queensarmsbrighton.com. £4 before midnight and £7 after. running gay club open Wednesday- – making it a summer favourite. CHARLES STREET BAR, 8 Long-running scene pub with www.gaylicke17.co.uk Sunday. www.therclub.co.uk Hosts regular club nights such Marine Parade, BN2. 01273 camp tunes and fun entertainment as Sunday Sundae (www. 624091. www.charles-street. throughout the week. THE JOINERS ARMS, 116 THE HOPE & ANCHOR, 20 aeonevents.co.uk) com. Large, stylish and popular Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739 Macbeth Street, Hammersmith, gay bar overlooking the seafront R-BAR, 7 Marine Parade, BN2. 9854. Debauched decadence W6. (020 8748 1873). New AMSTERDAM BAR, 11-12 – particularly busy with pre-club 01273 608133. www.revenge. – old-skool boozer popular with gay pub for Hammersmith and Marine Parade, BN2. www. crowds at weekends. co.uk. Sister bar to the long- post-club crowd at weekends. Gets Chiswick. Traditional boozer with amsterdam.uk.com. 01273 running and famous Revenge busy later in the evenings. nightly entertainment – open 688825. Long-running DOCTOR BRIGHTONS, 16-17 nightclub. A hip and stylish noon-11pm throughout week, establishment, with an adjoining Kings Road, BN1. 01273 208113. establishment that’s popular with KINGS HEAD, 11 Church with popular karaoke at weekends. hotel and sauna. Great outdoor www.doctorbrightons.co.uk. its own crowd of regulars. Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197 terrace for the summer months. Another long-running scene Stratford BR and tube. Intimate INFINITY, 294 Old Brompton institution, ideally placed for the REVENGE, 32-34 Old Steine, and welcoming East End gay pub Road, SW5. 020 7370 3494. AQUARIUM, 6 Steine Street, seafront, shopping on The Lanes, or BN1. 01273 606064. www. – regular cabaret. Open till late Earls Court tube. Big gay pub Brighton. 01273 605525. www. Brighton’s club life. revenge.co.uk. Brighton’s famous, throughout the week. and disco, formerly Bromptons. the-aquarium-theatre-bar. long-running, full-time gay club, Open late throughout the week, co.uk. Long-running, traditional THE HONEYCLUB, 214 Kings offering two floors of music and THE OLD SHIP, 17 Barnes with weekend cabaret. www. style pub popular with gay guys. Road Arches, BN1. 01273 202807. club promotions. Attracting a Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082. infinityclubs.com Regular entertainment. www.thehoneyclub.co.uk. wide range of customers from all Limehouse DLR. Small, local, Acclaimed club venue, which hosts sections of the city’s gay scene, and traditional gay pub, with regular THE RICHMOND ARMS, 20 BLANCH HOUSE, 17 occasional gay nights and parties. a hot spot for visitors. cabaret - five minutes’ walk from The Square, off Princes Street, Atlingworth Street, Brighton, BJ’s White Swan (see below). Richmond. 020-8940 2118. Long- BN2. 01273 603504. www. THE KING’S ARMS, 56 George VAVOOM VIDEO BAR, 31 Old running, traditional gay pub, with blanchhouse.co.uk. Plush, hip, Street, BN2. 01273 245128. Steine, BN1. 01273 603010. BJ’s WHITE SWAN, regular cabaret and entertainment. mixed hotel cocktail bar that’s www.kingsarmsbrighton.co.uk. www.vavoom.co.uk. As its name 556 Commercial Road, E1. Tel: 020 One of gay London’s better locals. popular with a cross-section of Brighton’s bar for bears and blokes, suggests, a bight and glitzy video 7780 9870. Limehouse DLR. A Brighton residents and visitors. with promotions throughout the bar, next door to Club Revenge. large, legendary, long-running gay TED’S PLACE, 305a North End Open late at weekends. week and occasional dress-code pub and club, open throughout Road, West Brompton, W14. 0207 parties. WILD FRUIT,Tru, West Street, the week. Wednesday’s Amateur 385 9359. Earls Court or West BRIGHTON TAVERN, 100 BN1. 01273 327083. The biggest Strip is an institution. www. Brompton tube. Mon-Fri from 7pm- Gloucester Road, North Laine, LEGENDS, 31-32 Marine Parade, gay night on the south coast. A bjswhiteswan.com late, closed Sat & Sun. Small, West BN1. 01273 680365. A stylish BN2. 01273 624462. www. huge, monthly party that’s been London cruise club. Dark and sleazy. but homely venue with wooden legendsbrighton.com. A true running for years – pulling in SAUNAS www.tedsplaceuk.co.uk flooring, open fire, real ales and a scene stalwart, and part of the clubbers from far and wide. Check friendly welcome. New Europe hotel complex. Long- the website at www.aeonevents. CHARIOTS LIMEHOUSE WEST 5, Popes Lane, South running bar that’s still going strong co.uk for details of upcoming dates 574 Commercial Road, E14. 020 Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Large, THE BULLDOG, 31 St. James – open late throughout the week. and ticket prices. 7791 2808. Limehouse rail station. popular gay pub with Piano Room Street, Brighton, BN2. 01273 Multi-level, well-established and cabaret bar, open till late at 696996. www.bulldogbrighton. MARINE TAVERN, 13 Broad THE ZONE, 33 St James’s Street, sauna. Themed parties such as weekends with entertainment com. Legendary scene bar Street, BN2. 01273 681284. www. Brighton, BN2. 01273 682249. ‘Big and chunky’ each Monday and DJs. Attracts a big local crowd (nearly 30 years old!), attracting marinetavern.co.uk. 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Social & support group for LGBT and questioning young people. Kairos: 020 7437 6063, www. 5-8pm Tues 079 4633 7160 kairosinsoho.org.uk. Soho project promoting health and wellbeing South London Gays: 020 8672 among LGBT community. 5268/020 8674 5191. www.slago.org.uk/slg. Friendly OUT IN SOUTH Lesbian Gay Christian social group. LONDON Movement: 020 7739 1249, Out In South London is a [email protected]/www.lgcm. Stonewall: 020 7593 1850. radio LGBT magazine show org.uk. Campaign group for LGBT rights. on www.resonancefm. com (104.4FM) hosted each Monday evening at 6.30-7pm Lesbian & Gay Immigration HATE CRIME by comedian Rosie Wilby. Group: www.uklgig.org.uk The current series features – 020 7922 7811. Every Mon Gay Police Association: different guests each week, 2-6.30pm, Tue 10am-5pm Action Line 07092 700 000 with upcoming highlights and Wed/Thur 10am-1.30pm. (24hrs), [email protected]. including journalist Tim Teeman (pictured above – 1 Helpline and meetings. March) and Time Out’s Paul Galop: 020 7704 2040. www. KB FITNESS Burston (8 March). Listen on London Friend: 020 7837 galop.org.uk. Advice and support A gay-run martial arts sports club, KB Fitness has been running for just over a decade 104.4FM or online. 3337. Groups in Islington. for victims of hate crime. – offering classes in kickboxing, kung fu, self-defence, yoga and core stability. The club has also recently introduced a new discipline – Kick Fu. This new fitness trend exercises several GROUPS//ORGS Quaker London Lesbian & HIV//AIDS core muscle groups, as well as offering you the chance to “punch and kick your way into a Gay Fellowship: Religious stress-free zone!” The exercise is apparently excellent for anyone who wants to improve his Albert Kennedy Trust: 020 group – 020 8675 6740. Crusaid: 020 7539 3880, or her coordination skills and core strength. Like any exercise, it will also help you to lose 7831 6562 (London). Housing www.crusaid.org.uk. weight, as it can help burn up to 800 calories an hour. KB are offering classes catering for advice for under 21s. Metro Centre: 020 8265 3311, anyone – from beginners to more advanced levels. KB Fitness classes take place at several www.metrocentreonline.org. GMFA: 020 7738 6872. Gay venues in central London, including Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, London Bridge and Antidote: 020 7437 3523. Greenwich-based LGBT support. men’s health charity. Piccadilly. Anyone who tears out this piece of editorial and takes it along upon joining, Counselling, Thursday drop-in, will be entitled to one free self-defence class in the month of March – check the website complementary therapies Mosaic: 0800 0433 411. www. National AIDS Trust: 020 7814 for dates and locations for classes. For further information please contact KB Fitness on around alcohol and drug issues. mosaicyouth.org.uk. Youth group 6767, www.nat.org.uk. 020 7681 0114/07881957977 (mobile rates apply) or visit www.kbfitness.co.uk based in Brent. BKY - Alternative Jewish Terence Higgins Trust: 020- Irons: www.ironsgolf.org.uk . londonraiders.com and Thursday 6.30-8.30pm, Community: www.bkylondon. One-Up: LGBT under-18 youth 78121777. Counselling Services. Gay golfing, events for all levels. offering structured telephone org.uk group, meets every Monday Stonewall Football Club: counselling or 30-minute 4-7pm (based in Hendon - North SPORTS King’s Cross Steelers Rugby 07090 422 390. Sunday soccer. counseling sessions. Or email Croydon Area Gay Society: West London) - contact Theresa Football Club: 07090 421 367, [email protected] Friendly social group in Croydon. (PACE) 07504226793 (mobile). Cruisers basketball: 020 8960 www.kxsrfc.com. Gay men’s rugby. HELPLINES 020 8645 0943 - www.cags.org 0750 (Debbie)/ 020 7582 7009, POSITIVELINE: 0800-1696806. OutZone: London-based social www.cruisers.org.uk (Jordi). London Amateur Wrestling: Broken Rainbow: LGBT HIV info and counselling ELOP: 020 8509 3898. Support and support group for gay and Mixed basketball. www.law-wrestling.org Domestic Violence Helpline. (weekdays: 11am-10pm and and community events in bisexual young men under 08452 60 44 60 (Mon and Thurs, weekends: 4pm -10pm). www. Walthamstow. Youth, advice, 25. Every Friday 6.30-9.30pm Frontrunners: 07092 346340, The London Royals Hockey 2-8pm/Weds, 10am-1pm). eddiesurmantrust.org.uk counselling and groups. - [email protected] - www. www.londonfrontrunners.org. Team: Mixed hockey for all www.broken-rainbow.org.uk. outzone.org Gay running group. levels. www.pinkhockey.com Stonewall Housing Advice: Gay and Lesbian Humanist or email iainkimmins115@ Dazz-elle: 020 8257 3068. 020 7359 5767. Association, (GALHA): 01926 PACE: 020 7700 1323. Goslings Swimming: 07814 hotmail.com London drug/alcohol support. 858450, www.galha.org. Counselling and support groups. 258 055. Gay social swimming Stonewall infoline: group, Thur 8.30pm-9.30pm. Out to Swim: 07090 422 London Lesbian & Gay Information on all LGB rights Outrage!: 020 8240 0222. Quest LGB Catholics: 0808 www.goslingssportsclub.com 526, www.outtoswim.org. Gay Switchboard: 020 7837 7324 - 08000 50 20 20 (Mon- Fri Political campaiging group. 808 0234. swimming group. 9.30am- 5.30pm). Grace’s Cricket Club: The London Friend: 020 7837 Islington LGB Forum: Regard: Regard, BM REGARD, world’s only gay cricket club! London Raiders: Gay and 3337. Counselling service. Rachael: 07989 747824. An London WC1N 3XX, secretary@ www.gaycricket.org.uk or 020 lesbian softball club – both WANTTO GET LISTED? initiative between local police, regard.org.uk/www.regard.org. 8376 0630. beginners and experienced PACE: 0808 1807 223. Helpline Please send listings to the council and victim support. uk. Disabled LGBT group. players welcome. www. open Monday 9.30am-12.30pm [email protected] GALLOP FOR GALOP run in the Royal Parks Half which we also plan to offer places will get supported every step of Still managing to maintain Marathon in October 2010 and in next year. the way: from tips on fundraising some of those New Year fitness raise money for the cause. All It’s a win-win situation: our to detailed training plans and resolutions? Galop – London’s runners need to do is guarantee runners get to do something advice. However, there are only lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans to raise a minimum of £350. they love doing and Galop really five place available and they are charity for victims of hate crime Deborah Gold, Galop’s Chief benefits from the sponsorship expected to be snapped up fast or those who have experienced Executive, says, “We know there money they can raise. We provide – so if you’re interested in taking problems with the police – is are loads of LGBT people out there vital services on very low levels of part, don’t delay! offering people the chance to get who are really into running but it’s funding, and the money raised by Those interested in taking part their running shoes on to help hard for them to get their hands Team Galop can massively impact can get more details at the Galop raise funds. The anti hate-crime on an individual place in races like on our ability to do our work.” website at www.galop.org.uk. charity is offering five places to this and the London Marathon, Anyone who joins Team Galop % =C <3EA b\Sea NEWS FLASHES UK NEWS ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: 1969-2010 Internationally acclaimed LGB GENERAL ELECTION fashion designer HUSTINGS ANNOUNCED Alexander McQueen Village Drinks, the popular was found dead at social group and networking his £1million Mayfair community for gay professionals, apartment on Thursday will be hosting the National LGB 11 February. A subsequent General Election Hustings on coroner’s reported ruled the PHOTO © J.A.BALLESTEROS/FAMOUS Thursday 18 March. The evening cause of death to be suicide. His event (7-10pm) is being held in death has shocked the fashion partnership with the Diversity Careers Show and in support world, with many paying tribute of Stonewall. The evening will be chaired by Stonewall’s Ben to his astounding talent. Summerskill (pictured), while confirmed speakers include McQueen came from a humble Chris Bryant MP (Labour), Nick Herbert MP (Conservative) and background. Born Lee McQueen Lynn Featherstone MP (Lib Dem). This will be a chance to hear in 1969, he was the youngest what the three main political parties have to offer lesbian, of six children for Ronald and gay and bisexual voters, and to put your own questions to the Joyce, a cab driver and teacher politicians. Tickets, costing £10, must be purchased in advance respectively. He became an through the Village Drinks website at www.villagedrinks.co.uk apprentice on Savile Row when (which also carries venue address and details) – a donation just 16, before studying fashion from each ticket sold will go directly to Stonewall. at St Martin’s college in central London. He came to prominence GAY’S THE WORD while still a student, with his FACE RENT HIKE entire graduation show being The owners of Gay’s The snapped up by influential stylist Word bookshop – the UK’s Isabella Blow, who became a only bookshop for the LGBT close friend, confidante and community– were dismayed muse. His early acclaim led to to be hit by a demand for a job in 1996 as head designer a 25% increase in rent for Givenchy in Paris. He left the by leaseholders Camden Council. The shop’s manager, Jim fashion house five years later to MacSweeney, told Camden New Journal, that he was appalled concentrate on his own label. by the decision. The bookshop ran into financial difficulties McQueen was widely credited three years ago when its rent was last increased, but supporters for his beautiful tailoring, raised £20,000 to help keep it in business. Gay’s The Word fearless imagination, and reports that business has been doing “really well” recently, but legendary catwalk shows. it still intends to try and enter into discussion with Camden Alexandra Shulman, editor council about the propsosed changes to the rent. of British Vogue, summed up the feelings of many when MAYOR OF LAMBETH she described him simply as a RIDES THE LONDON EYE “modern-day genius”. The gay mayor of Lambeth, Christopher Wellbelove (pictured PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON left), will be hosting a fundraising charity event on 3 March 2010. Not ANNUAL SCHOOLS OUT LAUNCHES only will the event raise money for Lambeth-based charities, but it offers something of a bargain night out. For ‘THE HOMOPHOBIA PROJECT’ just £45, guests can enjoy a trip on the London Eye followed by a cruise along the Thames, with wine and buffet included. The BVSO\\cOZAQV]]Za=cb charities supported are Trinity Hospice, Lambeth Women’s Aid Q]\TS`S\QSb]]Y^ZOQSObbVS and Clapham Youth Centre. 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We would remind everybody of the inherent O^O`bg]Tg]c\U^S]^ZST`][ g]cbVU`]c^a b`O\aWaacSaW\SRcQObW]\O\R dangers of using unlicensed minicabs.” g]cbVU`]c^aW\A]cbVEOZSa A^SOYS`aObbS\RSRT`][ V]eb]caSBVS6][]^V]PWO eV]QO[Sb]:]\R]\b]aVO`S 0O`\OR]a/2Og7\6O\R >`]XSQbTWZ[ % =C b\Sea <3EA NEWS FLASHES GLOBAL NEWS OUTSPOKEN: MARK HEALEY ITALY It has been announced that MARK HEALEY, the fi rst prison devoted FOUNDER OF THE to trans inmates is being COMMEMORATIVE built in Empoli, Tuscany. FACEBOOK GROUP The institute, which was “17-24-30” EXPLAINS formerly a halfway house THE IDEA BEHIND THE for women, is due to INITIATIVE… open in late March. Trans prisoners – particularly I founded the Facebook group “17-24-30” in those transitioning from April last year to mark the 10th anniversary of male to female – have long the London Nail Bomb attacks on Brixton (17th faced diffi cult treatment in April), Brick Lane (24th April) and Soho (30th London Frontrunners present a cheque to a Switchboard representative traditional jails, and have April). I designed a window poster, and I encouraged often had to postpone their 200 of the local businesses to display it in their windows, transition process until and distributed over 2,000 mini-fl yers around Soho. Over leaving prison. 2,800 people joined the group on-line. GAY RUNNERS RAISE UNITED STATES The nail bomber of President Barack Obama has those attacks had a SOMETIMES WE used his fi rst State Of The plan. 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Members of the public are attacks, and marking the anniversaries is an opportunity able to join the expedition if they can pledge a minimum of £10,000 to the appeal. Alternatively, to raise awareness, to remind us how and why we need to simply donate, go to www.justgiving.com/brainssacaptainsclimb – or www.justgiving. to be vigilant and educate everyone how to deal with com/captainthomas to donate specifi cally to Thomas’ fundraising appeal. hate crime. FEEHILY TO HITCH It was reported in Gay Times that “There is little Westlife singer Mark Feehily has announced, via Twitter, that he has become engaged to care intuitionally for LGBT people; the act of his partner, Kevin McDaid. It’s believed that the couple (pictured left at the 2008 Stonewall remembrance can create trauma for those who Awards) became engaged on their fi fth anniversary, although, at the time of going to press, have remained quiet and private about their they had not announced the date of their civil partnership. 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