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QX_1141_Cover.indd 1 17/01/2017 14:31 The who, what, why, where & when of gay London… THE INFORMER

London’s new open mic comedy night If you’ve ever been to an open mic night, you’ll know roughly 100% of comedians are straight that’s not dominated by straight men white men in chinos. Well, Sue Gives A Fuck and her sidekick Celeste, aim to put a stop to this, bringing their own madcap queer brand of comedy to the fore, in much-lauded new stand-up comedy night, Play Date! They’re showcasing the city’s most promising, hilarious, promisingly hilarious new LGBT and unconventional acts downstairs in The Glory’s glitter basment. This time around they’ve got Joe Lycett, Desiree Thursday 2nd February at 8pm sharp at The Glory, 281 Kingsland Road, E2 8AS. £5 entry. Burch and Glamrou La Denim.

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QX_1141_Informer.indd 2 17/01/2017 14:21 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 3 17/01/2017 14:22 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 4 17/01/2017 15:59 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 5 17/01/2017 15:59 The notorious, sequin-spangled WE Party boys are BACK. You must have heard of WE Party before, unless you’ve been living under Vauxhall Bridge for the last three years. Actually, bad example, if you’ve been living under Vauxhall Bridge for the last three years, you’ll deﬁnitely have heard of WE Party. Word travels fast in those parts, especially if you’re wearing hotpants. ANWYWAY, this WE Party is in the last weekend of January, so FAKEif you, unlike us and everyone we know, have actually managed to successfully navigate dry January, then it’s the perfect opportunity to have your ﬁrst blowout of the year! This time round, the theme is FAKE. WE FAKE, that’s the name of FASHUNit. FAKE FASHUN. FAKE BRANDS. FAKE HAIR. FAKE FAKE FAKE. Let’s be honest, we’ve all got a fake pair of “Plada” sunglasses or a “Versachey” bag tucked in the back of the wardrobe from that ill- advised shopping trip to Chinatown haven’t we. We love a bit of fakery FAKEhere at QX, possibly because we’re a right bunch of fake bitches ourselves. Think we like you? We probably don’t. We probably don’t even know who you are. We just nod and smile for the free drinks. KIDDING. We love everyone! BRANDSNow where’s that free drink? WE Fake is at gorgeously characterful former theatre The Coronet, located in the rapidly regenerating Elephant & Castle district. There’ll be superstar guest DJ, SR EDU, as well as London residents Steve Pitron, Michel FAKE HAIRMizrahi and Miswhite. So dye your hair FAKE blonde, throw on a FAKE Tom Ford chemise, and GET FAKE.

WE Fake is on Saturday 28th January at The Coronet, FAKE FAKE28 New Kent Road, SE1 6TJ. 11pm – 6am. Tickets available FAKE at orangenation.co.uk

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QX_1141_WE Fake.indd 6 17/01/2017 15:24 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 7 17/01/2017 16:59 They’re the unmissable, messily anarchic glamazons of any gay scene, one moment lip-syncing their way through an Ariana Grande number, the next nicking your boyfriend’s drink. You’d think they came out the womb with an intense contour and a thigh-high white leather boot, but they all First started sometime way later. We asked some famous faces from all over the London drag Time scene to tell us about their ﬁrst time they dragged up… In Drag!

The first time I did drag was reluctantly (yeah right) for a competition in Southampton that my friends wanted me to do. It was at an old pub near the docks and they had a ‘Stars In Their Eyes’ competition. I was 20 and it was a toss up between Adam Son of a Tutu Rickitt or Mariah I was a jolly drag child long before I knew what drag was. That Carey. Mariah won was until reports of my escapades reached my father who, in his obvs! I didn’t win ultra-religious fury, beat the living hell out of me. I was ten years (I came second old at the time and had no idea what I had done wrong, but as a to Elton John) but result, did not go near drag again for over thirty years. still enjoyed it! I My first official time in drag was in Drag Idol; I succumbed didn›t do it again to the nagging of a friend and my own inner-voice but only half- for over 10 years!!! heartedly due to the lingering trauma of my childhood: I wore Funnily enough, I men’s shoes and trousers, a black woman’s vest with a shrug, now do a Mariah a gele (headtie) and a face that looked like it had been painted tribute act and I will by blind elephants; the date was 19th May 2010 at the Two be doing ‘Stars In Brewers; I remember it well as it was Tutu’s birthdate and my own Your Eyes’ again personal rebirth. at Her Upstairs, For the first time in my adult life, I felt that I had found me; not but this time, I will because I was any good at it, because I wasn’t, and very quickly be impersonating crashed out of the competition (I would go back a year later), a way bigger slag, but, because despite what I looked or sounded like, I had finally Lady Lloyd! heeded the call of my own DNA and stopped running, and that is Silver the essence of self-actualisation and happiness. I would go on to many ups and downs as a professional drag queen, but even the worst lows did not matter as I was home in my own self. I wish for everybody to find that: to live in accordance of what you are built-for whether it be drag persona, nurse, accountant, gardener Summers or QX-journo (yuck lol); to find it is bliss. 8 qxmagazine.com

QX_1141_First time in drag.indd 8 17/01/2017 15:25 My ﬁrst drag performance was in September 2015 at CC Blooms in Edinburgh. I like to think I’ve improved since then, but I also thought Brexit wouldn’t happen, so what do I know? My shoes were two sizes too big, so when the music started, I ended up lobbing them

across the bar. I slit Dave Lynn my knee wide open doing something on the floor - dancing I think was what I was My first time in drag was at The Black Cap In a talent contest actually attempting hosted by Jennifer Scott. The other competitors included Mrs Ripley - and I nearly blinded Shufflewick and Marc Fleming. I was only 16 years old and I lip a punter by whipping synced to Liza Minnelli and Dusty Springfield. I asked my parents him directly in the to come and watch me, which they did. However, they didn’t eye with one of my recognise me and they thought I was a tranny trying to pick Dad tassels. To be fair up! Also in the show was the late, great Adrella. It was terrifying! he was looking at Just trying to walk in heels, but I won and I’m still here to this day! Grindr for my entire performance, so he deserved it!

The first time we ventured out as twins was to a party of Olympic proportions at Bethnal Green Working Men’s The Twinnies Club, back in 2013. Snapped here by the fabulous Matty Beats, highlights of the night included Babes Trust giving herself an onstage abortion while lip-syncing to Britney Spears and the ‘drag race’ where the belles - and the beasts - of the ball hurtled noisily down a grimy backstreet at 2am. Our inaugural look was an impressive hot mess of feather lashes, Primark pattern mash and glittery platforms (with the backs cut out so they would fit a little better). Rookie mistakes abounded; SHINY eye shadow, oatmeal-textured brow cover and bumps made up of balled up t-shirts shoved under our wigs. It was no mere coincidence that we looked identical, save for the handlebar moustache, our ‘let’s wear the same because we have NO IDEA what we are doing’ shtick has stuck. Little did we know that this sloppy slip- n-slide blunder would be the beginning of the fun-filled amateur-hour that is The Twinnies.

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Friday 20th January

Men Inc. Mr Leather UK 2017

Men Inc. is the dead sexy Friday night at Eagle London, bringing old-school, cruisey, Faith-era- George-Michael vibes to this corner of Vauxhall. And this week, they’re looking for the Mr Leather UK 2017! If you think you look the man in tan, you can parade your stuff in front of the judges and you could walk away with the coveted title. They’re celebrating their 30th year of the competition and plenty of previous winners and current holders will be all in attendance, so there’ll be opportunity for gawping at leather-bound beasts as well if you don’t fancy competing yourself.

Men Inc. Mr Leather UK 2017 is on Friday 20th January at Eagle London, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY, 9pm-late, Free Entry.

Friday 20th January

Douchebag

Grab that shower head and swill yourself silly: it’s Sp Douchebag! Purveyors of faggy synth, wonky pop and anything even just the tiniest bit queer, Mikey XCX and Laurance Del Rey take over Dalston Superstore to get the gays of E8 shimmying like CSS are still together. You what? They’re actually still together? Don’t believe you. Anyway, electro pop sensation Ronika brings her record collection down to the basement, while Ruby Waters spins upstairs for another unmissable, kissable night!

Douchebag is on Friday 20th January at Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB, 9pm-3am, Free Before 11, £5 After.

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Friday 20th January

Blocheads

Down in East London’s sweatiest, sexiest basement, Blocheads gets your weekend off to a salacious start, always drawing in an achingly hot and up-for-it crowd. Grab a can of Red Stripe and dance your legs down to the knees to some stellar disco, house and techno from DJs Martyn Fitzgerald, Stevie B and Hiﬁ Sean, whose latest house stomper ‘Testify’ has just been EVERYWHERE recently. Maybe he’ll play it. Maybe he won’t. We’re not clued up on the etiquette of DJs playing their own music.

Blocheads is on Friday 20th January at East Bloc, 217 City Road, EC1V 1JN, 11pm-6am, £5 Before 1am, £10 After.

Saturday 21st January

XXL

Bears, cubs, otters, and all those who worship at their hairy feet: get Spencer Reed yourselves down to XXL! Why? Well, think of all the clubs you’ve been to before, and now think BIGGER. Everything’s just bigger at XXL. Big, bolshy beats. Big, cavernous dance ﬂoors. Big, burly blokes. Everything you want. Everything you need. Everything you DESERVE. Saturday night at XXL is always a scream, and if you can’t wait until the weekend to get that fuzzy ﬁx, then they also have a slightly more laid-back session on the Wednesday night.

XXL is on Saturday 21st January at Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, South Bank, SE1 9UF, 10pm-7am, £10 Members, £15 Guests XXL Midweek is on Wednesday 18th January at Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, South Bank, SE1 9UF, 9pm-3am, Members Free, Guests £5.

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Saturday 21st January

Home

* NEW NIGHT AT THE BLOC KLAXON * Home’s the brand new night to hit up Camden’s ﬁnest gay bar and will bring you the best in 90’s/ 00’s RnB, Hip- Hop and Pop all night long. It’s gonna be a twerk down memory lane, back to a time when rappers with one name reigned supreme, all Nelly, Jade, Ciara, Eve, Ashanti, that sort of thing. DJ Big John Freeman, the guy behind WORK and Bounce, is the special guest DJ tonight and students get in for free before 1am, just in case you need a break from the library. God knows you need it.

Home is on Saturday 21st January at The Bloc, 18 Kentish Town Road, NW1 9NX, 10pm-3am, Students Free Before 1am, £5.

Sunday 22nd January

Orange

Remember the phone company Orange? Getting 2-for-1 cinema tickets to go and see Music and Lyrics and no Kevin Bacon in their adverts? Well, you don’t need to, it’s irrelevant. This isn’t the same Orange. This is a way better Orange. Sunday nights down in the gritty arches of Fire with the best freshly squeezed house music from the hottest DJs, all hosted by that mad’un Glendora! Dance for 8 hours and make those Monday morning commuters contemplate their dull lives as you ﬂounce out at 7am. Only Orange could make the Sabbath this decedent.

Orange is on Sunday 22nd January at Fire, South Lambeth Road, SW8 1SP, 11pm-7am, £7 Before 1am, £11 After Adv, £13 OTD. Glendora

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QX_1141_Club News 2.indd 12 17/01/2017 15:49 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 13 17/01/2017 15:45 XXL David Bowie Retrospective 14/01/17 Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, South Bank, SE1 9UF

Photo by Joel Ryder

As well as their usual big burly weekly shenanigans, last Saturday XXL celebrated the life of glam rock icon David Bowie, who passed away almost exactly a year ago. Of course the glitter bombs were out in full force, as well as all of Bowie’s biggest hits being spun by the scene’s hottest DJs. There was also some impressive t-shirt game from XXL’s ursine patronage, with loads of George Michael and David Bowie torso tributes! Nice work boys.

“XXL CELEBRATED THE LIFE OF GLAM ROCK ICON DAVID BOWIE.”

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QX_1141_Club Reviews_New.indd 14 17/01/2017 15:27 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 15 17/01/2017 14:25 Daddy Issues 13/01/17 Tipsy, 20 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XN

Words by Nicolas Chinardet Photos by Zefrograﬁca

Everybody’s got Daddy Issues these days, it seems. This impression was conﬁrmed by the merry crew gathered in session at Tipsy in Dalston on Friday: from sensitive beardy boys to decisive girls in their bras, and even a few oedipal straight couples. One thing’s for sure though: If they have issues, those boys (some of them adorned with the branded t-shirts and badges always up for grabs on the night) have few inhibitions! It might all be due to the relaxing effects of the music therapy paternally distilled by Borja Peña and Bouffant Bouffant (you know the music is good when you spot off- duty DJs in the crowd). Or perhaps it was thanks to a few shots of brain- addling mezcal, a favoured medicine with the Daddy Issues team. The energy in the place is certainly something else. Everybody was soon swept into cathartic dancing before getting very touchy feely by the end of the night, as many a tongue seems to become acquainted with a new mouth (or two) before the bouncer eventually had to kick everyone out at 3am. They were last week’s cover girls for QX but they should be next month’s main feature for you.

“THE ENERGY IN THE PLACE IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING ELSE.”

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QX_1141_Club Reviews_New.indd 16 17/01/2017 15:31 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 17 17/01/2017 17:24 Homostash 13/01/17 Dalston Superstore, Dalston, 117 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB

Words by Maciek Groman Photos by [HAWT!]Photography

This Friday 13th, we swapped Jason for jockstraps and headed out to the hottest mustachioed party in town - Homostash Get Naked edition. We got lost in a sea of scruff, fuzz, beards and all sorts of hot taches and loved every single moment of it! If you didn’t have one - or if you couldn’t have one, there were free sticky taches up for grabs from Ted Rogers’ big, wide, bottomless bucket. It was a true smorgasboard of hot guys! We even had one gentleman take the theme very seriously by turning up STARK BOLLOCK NAKED! You go, girl! Beats were shamazing as always and guest DJ, the hunkiest sexiest of DJs and a mega-pornstar, Spencer Reed ﬁlled up the danceﬂoor to the brim. Literally cannot wait for the next one. Tafkanik, hurry the fuck up and bring us more Homostash!

“IT WAS A TRUE SMORGASBOARD OF HOT GUYS!”

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QX_1141_Club Reviews_New.indd 18 17/01/2017 15:32 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 19 17/01/2017 16:28 QX MEETS

Brew Hunter’s THE Mastery 3rd Birthday is on Saturday 21st January at The Backstreet, Wentworth Mews, MASTER Mile End E3. 10pm – 3am. We speak to leather £10 members, lothario Brew Hunter £15 guests. Strictly leather/ about the changing rubber dress code. face of the leather scene, vapes vs cigars, and Theresa May’s trousers

Mastery has quickly made a name for itself as one of the most hardcore, horny and unmissable leather nights in London, with leathermen, pigs, gimps, pups, slaves and all kinds of kinksters ﬂocking from all over the globe to experience the downright depravity. This Saturday, they’re celebrating their 3rd birthday with another party that’ll recreate the classic leather clubs of yesteryear, all no-holds-barred BDSM, cruising and gasping submission.

What have you got in store for the 3rd birthday? just starting out on your new fetish journey, I guarantee you’re going to Word really has spread like wildflire! Guys are heading from all over, meet an incredible and enthusiastic group of guys who aren’t only ready to experience this notorious event – with bootblacks, ashtray bois, to play heavy, tough and dirty, but who are also a great bunch of guys. bondage doms, flogging masters, cigar daddies, pups, pigs, gimps… What did you think of Theresa May’s leather trousers? Mastery has seen it all! It’s gonna be a crazy, busy night – not only with Loathe her or love her, I think Mrs May has definitely got a bit of kink more and more sexy, hard-playing Mastery Men who always head to going on behind No.10’s curtains. I’d be happy to share some BDSM Backstreet and make Mastery the ULTIMATE leather night in London – hints with her. but we’ll be welcoming the new Mr Leather UK 2017 for the start of the Do you think vapes will ever come anywhere close to being as year, representing the UK’s leather community. sexy as actual cigars? What are the leather clubs that inspired you to start Mastery? In a word, no. There is a formality, patience and masculinity to the As a leather boy, when I first came to London, it was leather clubs like whole preparation and lighting of a good cigar, which takes time for a The Colherne, The Bloc and The Anvil that played host to leather men. man to learn. Once lit, a blindfolded sub can smell and taste a cigar’s Then apps and the internet came along and totally changed the social smoke. Cigars can heat up tits and balls. I can work an entire evening and sexual interaction scene. So it became my ambition to recreate the on a willing and hungry bottom sub lad with the tricks and domination total raunch of the classic leather bars and clubs of the retro leather of heavy leathered smoke play. And that ain’t happening with a vape! and BDSM scene – the heavy cruising, the man-to-man action, and the Describe Mastery in one sexy sentence attitude, vibe and sleazy style. Those horny images from The Castro, Mastery has rocked the capital’s fetish scene for three solid years as the vintage leather porn and Tom Of Finland were all inspirations. hottest, hardest, horniest classic leather night for people who want sex, What do you want to see in this year’s Mr Leather UK? smoke and submission. I’m old school! I wanna see energy, enthusiasm, dedication, humour, What are the future plans for Mastery? sexiness of character; someone who embodies the leather lifestyle as We’ll be heading out of London in 2017! Spreading the Mastery we should all embrace it. message of horny, heavy, smoked up sleaze for the men and bois What would you say to someone tempted to come down for who take the world of leather and sex play seriously. We’ve had plenty the first time? of great invitations from the UK and Europe. So I just hope we can As Oscar Wilde said, “I can resist anything but temptation.” So – yes, be accept them all, and finalise the dates very soon. Keep an eye on tempted! Whether you’re an established leather daddy, or a leather lad masteryonline.co.uk for more details.

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QX_1141_Mastery.indd 20 17/01/2017 15:32 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 21 17/01/2017 14:27 RAISING THE BAR

George & Dragon 2 Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, SE10 8DE

The George & Dragon is a gorgey pub, that’s got a real sense of community! A sense of community is quite hard to come by in London. Usually you just shove a Pret in your mouth and get on the tube and ignore everyone until you get home. But the George & Dragon is different. People actually TALK to each other! Imagine West 5 that! Weird innit. Scintillating Popes Lane, South Ealing, W5 4NB conversation abounds. You can chat and flirt and bitch Look! It’s West 5! They’re a lovely gay bar/club, perched on a leafy street in sunny to your heart’s content! And South Ealing. Well, that’s a slight exaggeration. South Ealing is not sunny. Well, it when you get down to it, that’s is sometimes. But not at the moment. Anyway, West 5 is great! The building dates what gay venues are all about back to the tudor times! How lovely. Or at least it looks like it does. And y’know isn’t it! Chatting and flirting what, that’s enough for us. It’s always packed with West London’s finest, from cool and bitching. On Friday 20th, young students to discerning queens! This Saturday 21st, it’ll be a characteristically tartan-clad tartlet Mary Mac rambunctious (good word, well done us) party, with DJ Gary C! Hooray! will be in, lending her lilting highland tones to er…some Mary Mac songs. From 10pm! Ku Bar 30 Lisle Street, Soho, WC2H 7BA

KU, KU, KU! The super sexy, super modern Soho boys aren’t doing dry January, they’re doing WET January! Wet ‘n’ wild January! Assisted by queen of wet look hair, Lady Lloyd, as well as Jacqui Swallows and the ever smouldering bar boys Miss Jason who we’d like to get US wet. It wouldn’t take much. Ku’s The Old Ship always bustling, pop in for an 17 Barnes Street, Limehouse, E14 7NW Aperol Spritz! They do a mean Aperol Spritz. It’s technically a The Old Ship has been an insitution on the East London gay scene for decades, summer drink, but who cares! so if you haven’t been, hope on the DLR to Limehouse and check it out! It’s a bit You don’t need to conform to of a hidden gem actually. Unlike much of the rest of the East London scene, this conventions. This is LONDON. isn’t all busting art students and bearded drag queens – it’s just a great little no Home of punk, rock, punk rock, frills pub! Perfect for a salubrious post-work pint. They DO have drag queens and drinking Aperol Spritz in every so often though, for when you’re in the mood for a bit of a camp diversion. January! YESAAAAHH!! Don’t This Sunday 22nd from 8pm it’s the notorious Miss Jason. She puts on a right show miss Kabaret on Sundays, with dears, so she does. Camp dears! aforementioned Ms Swallows. Comptons Of Soho 51 – 53 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN

Soho boozer Comptons is OUR KINDA PLACE. We love wood panelling. We love alcohol. And we love hot men. And Comptons has ALL THREE! They’ve got positively edible bar staff, all hairy forearms and olive skin. Lovely. And their interior design really is wonderful. Dusky clandestine vibes, reminiscent of the cruisey bars of the late seventies. Retro innit! We love all that. We also love a drink. Sigh. Lovely drinks. Don’t miss Thursdays, when they’ve got scene legend Tasty Tim on the decks from 8pm. Spinning pop hits. Tasty Tim Lovely.

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QX_1141_Raising The Bar.indd 22 17/01/2017 14:40 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 23 17/01/2017 17:25 Circa 14/01/17 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1D 3JN

Photos by Joel Ryder

We love a bit of Circa! Social, sexy, and Soho-adjecent, it’s great for shimmying and sipping the night away in a bustling, glitzy setting. Circa is full of all sorts, from sexy Spanish tourists to discerning London lotharios. They’ve also got possibly the city’s campest DJ booth – it’s a massive disco ball. Doesn’t get much camper than that! They’ve got superstar DJs inside it too! International supermodel Munroe Bergdorf, and world-renowned Attack Attack Attack, spinning everything from cutting-edge remixes to your fave 90s and 00s pop classics. We miss it already! Might pop down for another drink after work today. Lovely.

“SOCIAL, SEXY, AND SOHO-ADJECENT.”

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QX_1141_Bar Reviews_New.indd 24 17/01/2017 15:34 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 25 17/01/2017 14:29 The Ten-Year Anniversary Of 2007

SO! It’s time for another LIST OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED DURING A YEAR. We know it’s not groundbreaking journalism. We know it’s not an exploration of the psychosexual implications of pseudofeminism. We know it’s not “Through The Keyhole With The Dalai Lama”. But this is QX. And we’re hungover. All the time. So if you don’t like it, piss off and buy yourselves a copy of National Geographic. The closest we get to the National Geographic is Nathalie Geographic.

Anyway, the reason for this slightly out of the blue feature, is that we were clicking and scrolling the other day, and realised, A LOT of amazing 2007 was not Britney’s year. Or maybe it was. It was certainly career- things happened in 2007. And this is the ten-year anniversary of 2007! deﬁning. And McDonalds made a lot of money out of her that year. It So let’s celebrate. We’ve decided to jump on the nostalgia bandwagon. was head-shavingly, baby-droppingly, umbrella-swingingly memorable There’s been a lot of nostalgia going around lately. Probably because for all concerned. If you want to get deep about it, it was actually quite a the world is so bleak, we’d rather just remember GOOD OLE’ TIMES. EH stark statement on the concept of celebrity, and how it can all go horribly KIDS? Bleak. Oh well, have another beer, it’s not all bad. Here’s some wrong. Remember that nail-biting VMAs performance where she literally amazing stuff that happened in 2007, TEN WHOLE YEARS AGO. looked like a bloated puppet throwing herself around on stage? Tragic. But then…THEN…Blackout arrived! Regarded by many Britney Spears had a breakdown, then released connoisseurs to be her the most iconic pop album of the century ﬁnest oeuvre, the Pharrell- produced, brooding, darkly knowing album was a SENSATION. One of those rare albums where every song is an absolute corker. Well done Brit! Shame we’ve all forgotten about Glory already.

After being convicted of throwing hitting her maid in the head with a vajazzled flip-phone (iconic in itself) part time supermodel and full time unhinged madwoman Naomi Campbell was sentenced to over 300 hours of community service. She turned up to her final trash-picking session on the The first season of backstreets of New York, wearing a gown from Dolce Gossip Girl premiered & Gabbana’s 2007 Fall collection. She was mobbed so much by the public and paparazzi, that she had to Naomi Campbell complete the session inside did community a nearby warehouse. When Yes! The CW channel gave us the gift of unparalleled arrogance and asked why she did it, she relentless glamour, with their tongue-in-cheek teen drama, Gossip service in responded “Why shouldn’t Girl. Again, it was reflective of the time – flip-phone flippancy, crop a Dolce & I? Did you expect me to top crudeness. If you’re unfamiliar with Gossip Girl, give it a watch on Gabbana gown come looking bedraggled Netflix, it’s a right laugh. It’s totally stupid and unrealistic, but that’s or something?” Quite right sort of the point. And, in a way, it was generation-defining. If Gossip Naomi. Girl hadn’t existed, it might not have influenced us to storm around London like ridiculous sluts, and QX might not exist. So there.

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QX_1141_2007.indd 26 17/01/2017 14:51 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 27 17/01/2017 14:30 Fergie’s solo career started (and ﬁnished)

From those ﬁrst few husky knells of My Humps, it was clear that Fergie was going to be a star. Those lioness eyes and insouciant lips were all she needed to launch a solo career! Well, that and Will.I.Am’s closeted millions. The Duchess, her debut album, was released in 2007, and was a critical and commercial hit. It included seminal (semenal) hits like London Bridge (OH SHIT), Glamorous (TACO BELL, ROSE HILL) and Fergalicious (I BE UP IN THE GYM, JUST WORKIN’ ON MAH FITNESS). Her music is a great snapshot of what 2007 was like as a year: Fun, tacky and a bit mad. Fergie is trying to have a solo career again as we speak, but it’s not working. Fergie’s socio-political dialogue just doesn’t work in post-Brexit Britain. We’re all too miserable for your lumps Fergie. Soz.

The ﬁrst ever iPhone was released

Yes, the first ever iPhone was released in 2007! MAD isn’t it! It feels like we’ve had iPhones Back To Black forever, but it’s only been ten became the world’s years! And most of us had to wait until 2009, because they bestselling album were too expensive when they were first out. What did we do before iPhones?! What did we look at while we were waiting for the bus?! How did we find men to sleep with?! How did we catch Pokemon?! How did we order food?! Maybe we just, like, talked to each other and engaged in real human interaction. Gross!

Lindsay Lohan

…Which leads us nicely on to Lindsay! We won’t say much because we talk about her too much, but this was the year she went to rehab three times, crashed into a fire hydrant MORE AMAZING MUSIC. In early 2007, Amy Winehouse’s introspective, whilst high on coke, dark jazz genius of an album, topped charts around the world, as trendy collapsed under a table in young kids from Camden to Columbia fell in love with her unique, Brazil, shagged Calum Best, crooning sound. Amy was another defining figure of the times, and yet Samantha Ronson and several dozen another celebrity to fall from grace spectacularly, in a year that became other people within the space of three months, and tried to drive a known for its famous breakdowns… car whilst asleep. Iconic.

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QX_1141_2007.indd 28 17/01/2017 14:51 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 29 17/01/2017 14:34 FILM REVIEW: The Love Witch is a beguilingly ridiculous feast for the eyes

This flagrantly fragrant new indie/horror satire isn’t just daring, it’s got a bloody cheek

Let’s be honest, any movie called “The Love Witch” is bound to be woman of the male gaze. She cooks flawlessly, looks flawless at least a little bit camp. And this release from daring young indie and has flawless sex on command. At one point she informs her filmmaker Anna Biller took camp to new levels. horrified best friend that “the function of women is to please In a nondescript town in Southern California, the beautiful young men.” In Elaine’s world, women need men to love them purely, Elaine – played by an instantly bewitching Samantha Robinson – is unconditionally, and in exchange for this, women offer sex. brewing up spells and potions to seduce men. She is unfulfilled and It’s an interesting and rather bleak take on the role of women restless, and before long, she of course takes things too far, leaving in society, and plays on the way women are treated not only in the behind her a titillating trail of sex, sin, and sauvignon. horror genre, but in cinema in general. Too often the pure function As things progress, it becomes apparent that this isn’t your of women in movies is sex, and The Love Witch acknowledges this average amateur B-movie. Yes, there’s bad acting, yes there’s and turns it on its head with a wry, lipstick-smeared smile. tired witchcraft horror tropes, yes there’s gratuitous nudity…but Perhaps the best thing about the pouty vagueness of the movie somehow, it all weaves together perfectly. as a whole, is that, down to Samantha Robinson’s fabulously The best way to describe this film, is it’s basically like a two hour apathetic acting, Elaine’s intentions are never properly made long Lana Del Rey music video, but with added ornate daggers, clear. We never know whether she truly seeks the company of psychosexual feminism and cucumber sandwiches. In fact, much men, or seeks to destroy them. We don’t know whether she’s a like Lana Del Rey it’s self-consciously kitsch, and wonderfully self- militant feminist, or an acutely damaged nymphomaniac. She’s assured in its own insanity. There’s a knowing cheekiness and an unreadable, beautiful blank canvas, brewing, smirking and joy to it. It’s almost as if director Biller is just happy she’s had the mincing her way through a dreamy wonderland of manipulation opportunity to make a movie, and is taking full advantage of it with and faded glamour. The result is intelligent, gripping and kaleidoscopic, technicolour abandon! sparklingly unique. The whole thing is imbued with a heavenly, pastel, cheap 70s The Love Witch’s bizarre, amateurish image is too well-thought porno sheen, which makes the wiccan scenes of Sodom and hair out and too artful to not be deliberate. To call it a spoof would tossingly dramatic death scenes all the more hilarious. It’s also got not be to do it justice. It’s a pastiche! A mad, neurotic, contrived, references to old Hollywood, the breathless melodrama of movies irresistible, wonderful pastiche. The Love Witch put a spell on us, like An Affair To Remember or Suddenly, Last Summer. and now we’re hers! Ten points to Ravenclaw! By Dylan Jones And despite its seductively superficial surface, there are deeper forces at work here. Elaine is the epitome of the ideal The Love Witch is out now on limited release.

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QX_1141_The Love Witch.indd 30 17/01/2017 15:35 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 31 17/01/2017 14:31 Artsbitching By Fraulein Sasha Selavie

TOTAL TUNE DIVAS! Oakey’s initial, killer, lop-sided fringe – deeper than a particularly fetching builder’s bum-crack - wowed the nation in 1981. Along with similarly bewitching spectacles Marc Almond and Pete Burns, Oakey formed a stunningly deviant, poster-saint pink triangle, a racy, Royal Lady Sasha Family with no limits – ever - on the dashboard! No wonder colourless, current pop-stars suck by comparison. Who’d revisits glam give even the quickest, vacuum-assisted wank to a penniless Robbie legends The Williams not completely showered in multi-million dollar fairy-dust? At Human League best, he’s all low-rent, bricklayer chic, and dumb, doe-eyes pleading for flickers of pop godhood! Maybe you guys are suckers for glazed, human vegetables, but not me – frankly, I like my aural, musical sex hard, outrageous and memorable. So tonight, I’m more blessed than Mother Mary swimming in clouds of astral, Messiah-birthing spunk. Unbelievably, it’s 35 years since the Human League’s stellar Dare album ascended to secular sainthood, and fittingly, that Everest-peak of perfect pop occasions a triumphant tour. The atmosphere’s tense, expectant, the Royal Festival hall as coy and frisky as a tranny tart turning her first trick. Suddenly, everything’s red, bright, scalding claret spilling everywhichway, like gorgeous blood from Does 80s pop – surely the crème de la crème of the gayest pop a fascist’s quite properly punched-in face. Am I hallucinating? Wiping decade ever – still kick, bite and fuck like a bunny? Oh Jumping Jesus gore from my own, inexplicably beaten-up and briefly scarlet-smeared on a choir-boy’s crotch, yes! The 80s, remember, was a gorgeous, eyesight? Not quite – it’s Phil Oakey’s startling entrance, who – insanely perfect porn-storm of deviant hormones, with Princess Julia, Marilyn but very, very moreishly – comes on like a hunky apprentice Hellraiser, and Boy George – legendary Blitz-kids all – bubbling up into all moody leather smock and attitude. psychedelic, pansexual enfants terribles, revolutionising the entire Okay, his hair’s succumbed to follically-bigoted, Testosterone existing music scene. Terrorism, but the music’s truly scrumptious, morbidly obese, full-fat Wham, Pete Burns, Soft Cell and more – the hit acts kept coming like chords making your starving ears instant, junk-food junkies, helplessly a manic male slut ODing on Viagra! But, ironically, in this topsy-turvy, screaming more, more, more! It’s all textbook 80s – boxy keytars and Alice in Wonderland, delightfully bent blitzkrieg, the queerest band of clear Perspex drums- and Oakey’s superb, milking the crowd more all were straight – the Human League! smoothly than a parlour-full of parched ladyboys. He’s joined, to huge Well, why not – isn’t sexuality, like gender itself, just a psychological applause, by Susan Sulley and Joanne Catherall, beautifully slathered in performance we stage to amuse ourselves and make our lives less impeccable, supermodel slap, still apparently ageless, dancing around stunningly predictable? No, I’m not suggesting you fuck the other side invisible, metaphorical handbags. Who could ask for anything more? – which Oscar Wilde compared to cold sick after hot, spotted dick – but Well, we do - and we get it! Love Action, Open Your Heart, Don’t You please, sincerely applaud the queer-acting straight! Want Me, Mirror Man, Fascination – we’re deluged by an unstoppable Never heard the phrase? Oh, queer Satan on suppositories, where tsunami of high-camp hits. And unlike rivals ABC, Culture Club and have you been? It’s just ‘straight-acting gay’ turned right round like a Spandau Ballet, Oakey’s song-writing chops often boast serious, record, baby! See, truthfully, we live in a totally sexualised, pick ‘n’ mix socially-concerned teeth; Seconds tackles JFK’s assassination with pithy culture, and aren’t any sub-group’s mannerisms- including our own compassion, and Lebanon remains a distressingly relevant take on mincing, Polari and theatricality – up for grabs? Middle-Eastern turmoil. For sure, and Phil Oakey – canny hi-glam frontman of the Human Me, I soared sky-high on what Noel Coward, dismissively, called the League – merely jumped aboard the metrosexual boat decades earlier power of cheap music. Cheap? Maybe, but music more lean, lovely and than bovine herds of heterosexual oafs. Well, wouldn’t you? No wonder lethal than a perfect, penis-bush shave! Who could ask for anything more?

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QX_1141_Artsbitching.indd 32 17/01/2017 17:56 QX 1141 MASTER 1.indd 33 17/01/2017 14:35 as it means to go on. Homo Superior - Queer Artists, Queer Icons, Queer Anthems Party on Friday 20th sees Sina Sparrow (Debbie) and Panos Z (Songs of Praise) team up in the basement 9pm-2am with a DJ set of excellence! #JULIASAYS... Over at The Mascara Bar on by Princess Julia Saturday 21st Queer is back for its monthly outing... it’s a free entry alt night of musical rarities played You know nothing can limit you by Sam Fenn, Paul Michael except your own imagination! Bowden and special guest Michael Luckily our imaginations seem Kelly, from nights Douche Bag and limitless, and also luckily, we have Pink Glove. 9pm - 3am. the spaces in which to experiment to our heart’s content. I love the I’ve just been informed that Kings way the performative arts cross so Cross pub & club Central Station many boundaries and question will be hosting its annual Burns everything. Night festivities with artist and Shay Shay drag enthusiast Donald Urquhart I’m a great fan of these impromptu on Saturday 21st January. It’s a night that celebrates an eclectic On Wednesday 25th January, moments. Take The ShayShay real tradition, and Donald tells me mix of music we love and adore! Lobotomy Room Goes to the Show - Brave New Queer that’s it’s in it’s 8th year...A Burns supper On until 3am. Movies, the cult free monthly film on at Lime Wharf down on Vyner is planned complete with haggis, night at Fontaine’s, in the Bamboo Street, E2 on Friday 20th from 6pm. while Donald will be reading some It’s getting hard to remember a Room, 176 Stoke Newington Road Star of our underground scene provocative verse with cabaret time when weekly Saturday late is showing Beyond The Valley Of ShayShay invites friends Just May, from Mary Mac. night club Savage at Metropolis The Dolls. It’s one of my faves! Johnny Jones, Wanda Ross, Harry didn’t exist tbh! The stories of If you haven’t seen it you must... Wright and more to be part of this Dalston Superstore welcomes back Savage are wild and it’s really one prepare to be inspired. ‘lo-fi night of queer performance’. Club Vada on the 21st. DJ Hannah of the success stories of clubland... The film starts at 8.30 prompt. Holland is joined by Cormac and resident DJ’s include Jonjo Jury After a hectic night of 2nd birthday Lauren Flax downstairs, Mikki and I’ll be guest DJing on the 21st Catch up next week for more fun celebrations, The Glory continues Most, Elles and Cathal up for a in one of the bars! and frolics!

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17 January - 24 January MUSTS & MAYBES

WEDNESDAY 18TH JANUARY Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. cabaret haunt just off Trafalgar BARS & CABARET CLUBS & EVENTS 12pm-11.30pm. Super social pub Square TONIGHT: Miss Penny’s Cocktails & Dreams at West 5: Pope’s XXL at Pulse: 1 Invicta Plaza, downstairs, chilled club lounge Play Your Cards Right Lane, South Ealing, W5 4NB. Southwark, SE1 9UF. 9pm-3am. upstairs. Le Chien Noir: A Cabaret Fundraiser Open from 8pm. Drinks and £5 guests, Free for Members. The Light Lounge: 1 Newport Place, for Mental Health at Royal Vauxhall dancing at Ealing’s premier gay Midweek grizzly fun for bears and WC2H 7JR. 5pm-11:30pm. Enjoy Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, establishment! their admirers. the Ku Group’s newest venue; SE11 5HY, Doors 7pm, Shows New Bloomsbury Set: 76 Marchmont Uncontrollable Urge at Dalston a boutique cocktail bar. 2-4-1 8pm-10.30pm Annual cabaret Street, WC1N 1AG. 4pm – Superstore: 117 Kingsland High cocktails 5-8pm all week. fundraiser for Rethink Mental 11:30pm. Gorgeous cocktail bar St, E8 2PB. 9pm-2:30am. Free. The Old Ship: 17 Barnes Street, Illness, Donation for tickets in the heart of Central London. Superstore’s late-night midweek Limehouse, E14 7NW. Quiz from Happy hour 4-8pm daily. dose of sleaze! Eccentric 9.30pm. Local gay bar in East THURSDAY 19TH JANUARY Karaoke @ Halfway 2 Heaven: 7 electronica and weirdo-disco! London’s Limehouse. CLUBS & EVENTS Duncannon Street, Charing Cross, Bombshell at Muse: 23 Frith Two Brewers: 114 Clapham High Eagle Bar at Eagle London at 349 WC2N 4JF – Take the mic and Street, W1D 4RR. 10pm – 3am. Street, SW4 7UJ. Bar open 4pm- Kennington Lane SE11 5QY. 8pm- holler along to a classic, with Unapologetically insane night 2am. FREE b4 10pm, £3 after. 3am. Free until midnight, £3 after. Kevin Walsh for TV/TS girls and their pals! Popular South London cabaret/ Cruise, booze and tunes, with Comptons of Soho: 51-53 Old With DJs Lady Lloyd and Silver club spot, with Kara Van-Park’s £2.50 drinks until 10pm Compton Street, Soho, W1D Summers. LOCK UP YOUR SONS. Quiz Night Happy Endings at Dalston 6HN. 12pm-11.30pm. Thursdays KlubKu Bar at Lisle Street: 30 Lisle The Voice of The Village at The Superstore: 117 Kingsland High at Comptons only mean one St, WC2H 7BA. 10pm-3am. FREE. Village: 81 Wardour Street, W1V Street, E8 2PB. 9pm – 2:30am. thing – Tasty Tim’s takeover! From The party continues ‘til late in the 3TG, 5pm-1am. Karaoke with the Free entry. A happy beginnig for 8:30pm. Ku basement. outrageous Robyn Banks from a Happy Ending! New Thursday Circa: 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1. Eagle Bar at Eagle London 349 9pm. Win a £50 bar tab. night at DS, with Athlete Whippet, 4pm-4am. Thursdays are the new Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 West 5: Pope’s Lane, South Ealing, Just Ella and The Prince of Fridays at Soho’s intimate bar/club 5QY, 8pm-2am, Free Before W5 4NB. Open from 8pm. FREE. Deptford. spot with the most amazing DJ Midnight, £3 After Cruise, booze Ealing’s hugely popular club, bar FUCKING GOOD TIME at Klub: 30 booth in town. and tunes with £2.50 drinks until and cabaret spot. Lisle St, WC2H 7BA. 10pm-3am, City of Quebec: 12 Old Quebec 10pm Admiral Duncan: 54 Old Compton £3 b4 12am, £5 after. A sexy fun Street, Marble Arch, W1H 7AF, BARS & CABARET Street, W1D 4UB Infamous night with good music from the 12pm-3am. The newly refurbished Duke Of Wellington: 77 Wardour cabaret pub in the heart of Soho. SexShooters, cheap booze, bar venerable institution of the gay Street, W1D 6QA. 12pm – 12am. TONIGHT: LoUis CYfer sluts and people ready to leave scene rocks out some pop classics Free entry. Irresistibly popular The Hippodrome: Comedy at The their shit at the door for a fucking for an evening of fun. central London gay boozer. It’s the Hippodrome, Cranbourn Street, good time! G-A-Y Bar: 30 Old Compton Street. weekly quiz with Martha D’Arthur Leicester Square, WC2H 7JH Hard-Up Thursdays at Sweatbox: 1-2 12pm-2am. Free entry. Popular and Topsie Redfern on rotation. Comedy magician and vaudeville Ramilies Street, Soho, W1F 7LN. pop music bar with non-stop hits Wednesday Naughties at Central impresario Christian Lee invites 24 hours. Under 25s FREE all day, on the screens and a fun, ﬂirty Station: 37 Wharfdale Road, Kings fellow comedians for a night of £16 others. Start the weekend atmosphere. Cross, N1 9SD. Open ‘til 4am. laughs. early and relieve the pressure with Candy at The Village: 81 Wardour FREE b4 10pm. Cabaret then DJs The Fabulettes at Freedom Bar. this discounted day for under 25s Street, W1V 3TG, 9pm-2am. A ‘til late, starring Sandra 60-66 Wardour Street, Soho, W1F (ID required) at Soho’s only gay night full of all things sweet and Circa: 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1D 0TA, 4pm-3am, Free Fabulous sauna. tasty! With Heidi Liscious on the 3JN. Open ‘til 1am. Soho’s drag girl group, The Fabulettes, G-A-Y Porn Idol at G-A-Y Heaven: decks, joined by gorgeous gogos. intimate but packed-out bar/club are on stage at 11pm, hosted by Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG. 10pm The Light Lounge: 1 Newport Place, spot with the most amazing DJ Carl Mullaney – 5am. Amateur strip night with WC2H 7JR. 5pm-11:30pm. Enjoy booth in town. Halfway 2 Heaven 7 Duncannon £100 prize money, To enter email the Ku Group’s newest venue; Comptons of Soho: 51-53 Old Street, WC2N 4JF Notorious [email protected] a boutique cocktail bar. 2-4-1

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cocktails 5-8pm all week. Camden’s hottest new night! the decks and Fabulous Russella 5LB. Open till midnight. In the heart Two Brewers: 114 Clapham High Douchebag at Dalston Superstore: performing, and queer music of Soho, Ku Bar stretches across two Street, SW4 7UJ. Bar open 6pm- 117 Kingsland High Street, E8 night Homo Superior downstairs, floors for that perfect Soho warm- 2am. FREE b4 10pm, £3 after. 2PB. 9pm – 3am. Free before with Sina Sparrow and Panos Z. up drinking session and a little Popular South London cabaret/ 11pm, £5 after. Mikey XCX and Comptons of Soho: 51-53 Old dance with downstairs DJs. club spot. TONIGHT: Tanya Hide Laurence Del Rey play a messy Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. West 5: South Ealing, Pope’s Lane, Admiral Duncan: 54 Old Compton mix of wonky pop, faggy synth 12pm-midnight. Super social pub W5 4NB. Open from 8pm, FREE. Street, W1D 4UB Infamous and red hot remixes. They’re downstairs, chilled club lounge The popular West London club, cabaret pub in the heart of Soho, joined by Ruby Waters and pop upstairs, MisWhite on from 9pm bar and cabaret spot. THIS WEEK: TONIGHT: Sandra Thursday starlet Ronika. The Light Lounge: 1 Newport Place, DJ Robbie D Dunky from 9.30pm Men Inc at Eagle London: 349 WC2H 7JR. 5pm-12am. Enjoy The Yard: 57 Rupert Street, Soho, Another 50 Years of Queer at Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, the Ku Group’s newest venue; W1D 7PL. Open till 1am. FREE. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 SE11 5QY. 10pm - 5am., £5 a boutique cocktail bar. 2-4-1 Renowned as one of Soho’s most Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY. after. Men Inc hosts Mr Leather cocktails 5-8pm all week. unique and popular destination Doors 7pm, Panel 8pm. Free UK, in association with London New Bloomsbury Set: 76 venues, with terrific outdoor space. entry. To celebrate 50 years Leathermen, with heats and DJs Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AG. Admiral Duncan: 54 Old Compton since decriminalization of Beefmince at The Royal Vauxhall 4pm-11:30pm. Gorgeous cocktail Street, W1D 4UB Infamous homosexuality, a panel discussion Tavern: 372 Kennington Lane, bar in the heart of London. Happy cabaret pub in the heart of Soho. with Amy Lamé and Cllr Jack Vauxhall, SE11 5HY. 9pm–4am. hour 4-8pm daily. TONIGHT: ‘Footloose Friday’ with Hopkins Tickets £5 adv, £7 OTD. A year of Bridge Bar: 8 Voltaire Road, SW8 Son of a Tutu The Hippodrome: Just like that! The Beefmince at the RVT! Bears, cubs, 6DH, 4pm-12am. Free. Snug gay Two Brewers: 114 Clapham High Tommy Cooper Show, Cranbourn chubs abound, with Silverhook bar in a railway arch, offering Street, SW4 7UJ. Bar open 6pm- Street, Leicester Square, WC2H and Cactushead on the decks cocktails, wines and light meals, 2am. FREE b4 10pm, £7 after. 7JH A tribute night to the comedy Dollar Baby at Metropolis: 234 plus outdoor seating. Popular South London cabaret/ legend. Cambridge Heath Road, E2. Old Ship: 17 Barnes Street, club spot. TONIGHT: Danny Halfway 2 Heaven 7 Duncannon 10pm – 5am. Jodie Harsh’s Limehouse, E14 7NW. 8pm- Beard Street, WC2N 4JF Notorious supercool new night has caused a 12am. Free. Local gay bar in East The Hippodrome: Burlesque Idol, cabaret haunt just off Trafalgar splash on the scene, and keeps on London’s Limehouse, with DJ Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square TONIGHT: Karaoke with splashing! With Jonathan Bestley, Matty B. Square, WC2H 7JH Europe’s most Kevin Walsh Tete Bang and Mark-Ashley Dupe. Karaoke at Central Station: 37 prestigious Burlesque competition Ku Bar Lisle Street: 30 Lisle St, Wharfdale Road, Kings Cross, N1 in it’s 8th year, hosted by Miss FRIDAY 20TH JANUARY WC2H 7BA. 8pm-3am. FREE b4 9SD. Open from 6pm ‘til 3am or Tempest Rose CLUBS & EVENTS 10:30pm, £5 after. Pop perfection later... FREE The super-friendly Vauxhall Cocktails at BackCOUNTER: A:M Afterhours at Protocol: Protocol, and hot floor fillers as Ku’s hot Kings Cross bar. DJs ‘til late. 50 South Lambeth Place, SW8 6A South Lambeth Place SW8 1RT, 3 spin the tunes in its downstairs Hosted by DJ Chris Reardon 1SP, 5pm-late Happy hours 11pm – 11am. £4 before 1am basement club spot. Circa: 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1D 5-7pm, Livia Carron on the with flyer/ad. £8 after ‘til 6am. G-A-Y Camp Attack at Heaven, Villiers 3JN. 4pm-1am. Soho’s intimate piano, a sophisticated start to the 12 hours of hard-hitting partying Street, WC2N 6NG. 10pm – 4am but packed-out bar/club spot weekend at London’s most notorious after The palace of pop welcomes watches Munroe Bergdorf and Halfway 2 Heaven 7 Duncannon hours destination, with Tony English, you for an evening of camptastic friends werq the floor! Street, WC2N 4JF Notorious Gonzalo, D’Johnny, Lee Harris, dancing and twirling twinks City of Quebec: 12 Old Quebec cabaret haunt just off Trafalgar Terry Bryan and Richard Jones. Funky Friday at BJs White Swan: Street, Marble Arch, W1H 7AF. Square TONIGHT: Sandra Blocheads at East Bloc: 217 City 556 Commercial Road, E14 7JD. 12pm-3am. The newly refurbished Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. 8pm – 5am. Free entry b4 10pm. venerable institution of the gay SATURDAY 21ST JANUARY 11pm-6am. £5 b4 midnight, Friday night clubbing with DJ scene rocks out some pop classics CLUBS AND EVENTS £10 after. Blocheads is now on Aaran Bader for an evening of fun. XXL at Pulse: 1 Invicta Plaza, Friday nights weekly! This week George and Dragon: 2 Blackheath Southwark, SE1 9UF. 10pm-7am. with special guest DJs HiFi Sean, BARS & CABARET Hill, SE10. 8pm-4am, free £15 guests, £10 members. A Martyn Fitzgerald and Stevie B. Super Friday at The Glory: 281 entry before 11pm. The friendly super-furry, super-charged club Fitladz at The Bloc: 18 Kentish Town Kingsland Road, E2 8AS. 8pm Greenwich local. THIS WEEK: night for bears and their friends. Road, NW1 9NX. 9pm – 3am. – 2am. Upstairs, Friday night Mary Mac on stage at 11pm. Now That’s What I Call a 90’s Night! Cruisey lads and big beats at pub night, with Princess Julia on Ku Bar Soho: 25 Frith Street, WC1D at East Bloc: 217 City Road, EC1V

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