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T]`bVS^`WdWZSUS]T eS`SV]b aS\aSZSaaO\Rabc^WR We know it’s wrong but we a^S\RW\U[]\SgW\O David, N15 ES[WUVbVOdS[ORS can’t get debut single ‘We R UOgSabOPZWaV[S\b- ORdO\QSaW\UOg`WUVba One’ out of our heads. 7¸[OZZT]`ac^^]`bW\U PcbeSabWZZVOdSOZ]\U UOg`c\PcaW\SaaSa eOgb]U]W\QVO\UW\U PcbZWYS[]ab^S]^ZS ObbWbcRSaO[]\U 7Y\]e7TSSZ`SaS\bTcZ WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT b]eO`RaO\gPcaW\Saa THIS MONTH’S RISE AND FALL bVObeO\bab]Sf^Z]Wb bVSTOQb7¸[UOg eVSbVS`Wb¸a]dS` THE COLEHERNE ^`WQSRR`W\YaV]ZWROga It may never have been 2D2a]`eVObSdS` BVS quite the same after the 7\bS`\SbVOa[ORSWb refurbishment that turned it [cQVQVSO^S`b]TW\R from a spit’n’sawdust drinking bVSQVSO^Sab^]aaWPZS den into a disco bar, but we’ll ]^bW]\O\RaORZgWb¸a WIN! a][S^S]^ZSeV]eWZZ still miss this Earl’s Court cacOZZg\]bbVSUOg BVSe`WbS`]T2SQS[PS`¸aAbO`:SbbS`eWZZ aSS[W\UZgT]`SdS`^WQY institution. ]\S eW\2D2Q]^WSa]T\SeB:/@SZSOaW\UTWZ[a ]\bV]aSbVSg^S`QSWdS Derrick, Parsons Green 0]gab]e\O\RA]`RWR:WdSa /QQZOW[SRA^O\WaV Oa·RWTTS`S\b¸ MADGE AND GUY Q][SRg0]gab]e\VOaPSS\OVWbObUOgTWZ[ Anon Putting aside the pickings BREAKFAST TSabWdOZaO`]c\RbVSe]`ZRO\RWaQO[^PZOQY over their finances, were we Vc[]c`ObWbadS`gPSab A]`RWR:WdSaeWbV=ZWdWO MYSTERY MAN the only ones to feel quite sad CLUB PHOTO © FAMOUS PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON &K]\UOgV]ZWROga B]PSW\eWbVOQVO\QS]TeW\\W\UOQ]^g^ZSOaS a]c\ROZWbbZSPWbZWYS O\R00¸a BVS PSac`Sb]W\QZcRSg]c`TcZZ\O[SO\R^]abOZ OU`c[^g]ZR[O\ MAN FLU ·dSUSbO`WO\P`SOYTOab¸ ORR`SaaeWbVbVSZSbbS`g]caS\Rca 3[OWZ Q][^ZOW\W\UbVOb·Wb¸a It’s not a cold… it’s man flu, bVObQ]\aWabSRa]ZSZg [email protected] \]bZWYSbVSU]]R]ZR and we’re all going down with ]TbW\\SRb][Ob]Sa ROga¸ 2]SaVSOZa] it! 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The new Flip Mino is one of the smallest Earning themselves a cult following on E4 at the moment, the fi rst series of high-quality camcorders to hit the market, which – with its own fl ip-out USB arm, allows Rick & Steve – The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World comes to you to instantly view, edit and upload videos to the internet sharing sites such as YouTube DVD this month. The DVD features all six episodes, plus a raft of extras such and MySpace. It also boasts a rechargeable battery that powers up automatically while a making-of features and cast interviews. If you’ve not caught in on TV, this plugged into a computer – a bit like an iPod. It has an internal memory of 2GB (about 60 stop-motion animation irreverently follows the lives of three gay couples minutes of shooting time), and is available in either black or white. – Rick and Steve, Chuck and Evan and Dana and Kirsten – who all live in the www.thefl ip.com fi ctional gay ghetto of West Lahunga Beach. Cute, crass, off ensive yet funny, the DVD is on sale from 27 October priced £19.99. BENCH PRESS PALETTE OF PANTS If you’re still looking to boost Many happy returns to the your winter wardrobe, do check Jockey Y-Front! The company is out the brand new fl agship celebrating the anniversary of its Bench store, which has just iconic underwear with the launch thrown open its doors in of some fabulously technicolour Covent Garden. The shop new designs! The number one boasts the label’s full range selling underwear brand in of functional and well- the world, look out for new priced urban clobber, with the designs in ‘Pistachio’, ‘Ginger’, basement styled along the lines ‘Powder Pink’ and ‘Azure’, all of an underground tube station available in sport brief (£8), – complete with tube train short trunk (£10) and boxer changing rooms. Check it out at (£10) as well as matching 37 Shelton Street, WC2. coloured vests (£12). www.bench.co.uk www.jockeyuk.com & =C baV]^ >@=2C1BA ' =C bT`]\b 27/@G CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS// NOVEMBER 2008 17 NOV-12 DEC: The brilliant Eddie Izzard brings his brand new show, Stripped, to the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue for a four-week run. This is his fi rst show since 2003’s Sexie. MON 03 NOV:/caaWS aW\US`5OP`WSZZO1WZ[W ^WQbc`SRPSZ]e ³`Sa^]\aWPZST]`]\S ]TbVSgSO`¸a[]ab W\TSQbW]caVWbaW\bVS T]`[]T·AeSSb/P]cb ;S¸³^S`T]`[abVS :]\R]\RObS]TVS` C9b]c`ObbVSW\bW[ObS THUR-FRI 06-07 NOV: AVS^VS`Ra0caV :ObSabOZPc[;ORS7\ 3[^W`S^`][]bW\U BVS2O`YVOaPSS\]\S RSPcbOZPc[:Saa]\a ]T]c`TOd]c`WbSa]TbVS ES:SO`\SR gSO` 1ObQV6]^1VW^ ^WQbc`SROP]dSW\ OZZbVSW``Sb`]`OdSO\R Z]TWSZSQb`]UZ]`geVS\ TUE 04 NOV bVSg^ZOgbe]\WUVbaOb What’s gone wrong with The Feeling? Second album Join MON 03 NOV bVS1O`ZW\U/QORS[g With Us has inexplicably yielded only one top forty hit single, If early reports are true, and new album Day & Age fi nds them 0`Wfb]\ eee V]bQVW^ despite the title track’s use on an omnipresent car advert. returning to the 80s synth sounds of their debut (Hot Fuss), Q] cY Hopefully, their UK tour might drum up a few more sales we’ll be getting very excited to catch The Killers play a headline – catch them for one night only at the Hammersmith Apollo on show at the Royal Albert Hall. www.thekillersmusic.com THUR 06:=\S]TbVS Tuesday 4 November. www.thefeeling.com []abUZWbbS`W\U\WUVba =C 27/@G bT`]\b CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS// NOVEMBER 2008 28-30 OCT: World-famous performer classics such as ‘People’, Steven Brinberg is Barbra ‘Evergreen’ and ‘Close To Streisand tribute Simply You’. Expect ‘an appearance Barbra, presenting ‘her’ from very special guest election manifesto in Barbra Barack Obama’, as well as for President: Improving performances from Steven’s America. Barbra discusses her divas Cher, Cleo Laine and hilarious hopes and dreams Ethel Merman. for America if she is voted Tickets £15-£25 www. in to the White House, and theshawtheatre.com performs an array of Barbra W\bVS:]\R]\UOg SAT 08:@Sa^]\aWPZS SUN-MON 09-10 NOV: eee U]ZRT`O^^ Q][ QOZS\RO`bVSO\\cOZ T]`]\S]TbVS[]ab 5]ZRT`O^^`]c\R]TT Ab]\SeOZZ/eO`Ra O``SabW\URSPcba]T O\]bVS`acQQSaaTcZ 13-15 NOV: AQ]bb bOYS^ZOQSbVWaSdS\W\U bVSgSO`5ZOadSUOa gSO`eWbVbe]VSORZW\S EOZYS`TO\aeWZZ ObbVSD/eWbV YWQY]TTbVS:WbbZS<]WaS aV]eaOb1O`ZW\U PSTZ]QYW\Ub]bVS QObSU]`WSaacQVOa ASaaW]\aObbVSC\W]\ 0`Wfb]\/QORS[g 0O`PWQO\T]`2`WTbW\U 3\bS`bOW\S`=TBVS 1VO^SZ]\C^^S` GSO`O\R8]c`\OZWab Ab`SSb7aZW\Ub]\ BVWa =TBVSGSO` =cb7\ aS`WSa]TW\bW[ObS BVS1WbgWa\][W\ObSR OQ]cabWQUWUaeWZZ`OWaS W\bVSQObSU]`g []\SgT]`;S\QO^ ·>cPZWQObW]\=TBVS eee UZOadSUOa GSO`¸ 1VSQYeee \SbO\Reee ab]\SeOZZ ]`U cYT]` [S\QO^[caWQ ]`U cY bWQYSbW\T]`[ObW]\O\R Tc`bVS`RSbOWZa 08 NOV-05 DEC: 4]ZZ]eW\UWba`c\ObbVS 07-16 NOV:BVS1c`h]\ @]gOZ=^S`O6]caSW\ A]V]OZ]\UeWbV 8cZg2O[]\/ZPO`\ OVO\RTcZ]T]bVS` O\R8O[WS6SeZSbb¸a FRI 07 :]\R]\aQ`SS\a QW`QcaabgZS]^S`O Dr Who fans will want to catch producer and writer Russell eWZZPS^ZOgW\UV]ab ;]\YSg(8]c`\SgB] T Davies in conversation with journalist Benjamin Cook, b]bVS:]\R]\ BVSESabbOYSac^O discussing his book, Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale, at the :ObW\/[S`WQO\ T]c`eSSY`SaWRS\Qg WED 05 & MON 10 Lyttleton, National Theatre, SE1. www.nationaltheatre.org. 4WZ[4SabWdOZ 4]` ObbVS;S`WRWO\ Baroque American indie rockers Fleet Foxes bring their TWZ[RSbOWZaQVSQY 5O`RS\aA3 eee particular brand of folksy, harmonic rock to the Shepherd’s ZObW\O[S`WQO\TWZ[ []\YSgX]c`\Sgb]bVS Bush Empire, following the chart success of their eponymous TSabWdOZ Q][ eSab Q][ debut album. =C bT`]\b 27/@G ! =C 27/@G bT`]\b HIGHLIGHT EVENTS// NOVENBER 2008 THUR 06 NOV: What better way to get into the festive mood than to go ice-skating? As is now traditional, several outdoor rinks will be opening across London this winter, with one of the most picturesque and enticing being the one outside the Natural History Museum (pictured), which opens for business on Thursday 6 November. It’s followed by the launch of the Somerset House Ice Rink on the 18 November: www.nhm.ac.uk and www. somersethouseicerink.org.uk 14-16 NOV: BVSO\\cOZ `]QYS`aAWUc`@a FRI-SUN 21-23 NOV: 0015]]R4]]R P`W\UbVSW`W\W[WbOPZS BVSe]`ZR¸aZO`USab AV]eQ][Sab] P`O\R]TOb[]a^VS`WQ ORcZbZWTSabgZSaV]e =Zg[^WOW\:]\R]\ a]c\RaQO^Sab] ³bVSO\\cOZ3`]bWQO eWbVVc\R`SRa]T /ZSfO\R`O>OZOQST]` TSabWdOZ³`Sbc`\ab] abOZZaT]`OZZT]]RO\R be]\WUVba eee bVS5`O\R6OZZOb Q]]YS`gZ]dS`a^Zca aWUc``]a Q][ :]\R]\¸a=Zg[^WOT]` QSZSP`WbgO^^SO`O\QSa OeSSYS\R]T T`][bVSZWYSa]T " =C 27/@G bT`]\b HIGHLIGHT EVENTS// NOVEMBER 2008 20 NOV-10 JAN: Wig Out is a major new Nina is wooing the delectable production coming to Eric as Wilson, a de-camped, the Royal Court Theatre make-up free ‘straight’ gay this winter. Leon Lopez man. How can Nina/Wilson stars in this new musical strut the thorny divide from acclaimed 27-year between opposite genders old American playwright and diff ering worlds?’ Tarell Alvin McCraney. It’s A must for all gender-bending set in the House Of Light, fans, the show is produced a hyper glamorous and in a club cabaret setting, über-competitive drag queen with sassy songs and killer refuge. ‘While the House are costumes guaranteed. Tickets primping and preening for a cost £12-£25, or just £10 on catwalk showdown with the Mondays (bargain!). other houses, drag queen www.royalcourttheatre.com aSfbVS[SRTc\ O\RaV]^^W\U eee S`]bWQOcY Q][ FRI 21 NOV: BVS P`WZZWO\b:ORgb`]\^ZOg OaV]eObbVSW\bW[ObS AVS^VS`Ra0caV 3[^W`ST]ZZ]eW\U bVS`SZSOaS]TT]c`bV OZPc[DSZ]QWTS`] SO`ZWS`bVWagSO` eee ZORgb`]\ Q][ 21 NOV-20 DEC: BVS>`WRSWaO\Se ^`]RcQbW]\ObbVS IMAGE © ROCKARCHIVE.COM @]gOZ1]c`bBVSOb`S bVObSf^Z]`SaQVO\UW\U 17 NOV ObbWbcRSab]eO`Ra Carnaby – the name now given to the from the collection of RockArchive – the photo aSfcOZWbg]dS`bVSZOab shopping district centred around Carnaby library set up by acclaimed photographer Jill 13-14 NOV # gSO`aQ]\b`OabW\U Street – plays host to a unique rock and roll Furmanovsky, which now handles some of the Given that he’s made some truly duff fi lms over the years, QZ]aSbSRQVO`OQbS` photographic exhibition this month, featuring world’s fi nest rock photographers. Admission it’s easy to forget that Robin Williams was fi rst and foremost >VWZW^W\ '#&eWbV rare and iconic photographs of such rock is free, and those attending can even claim a one of the best stand-ups comics to emerge from the 1970s. aSfORRWQbSR=ZWdS`W\ legends at the Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob 10% discount in selected local stores. Check out Returning to those roots, he’s bringing his Weapons Of Self & BWQYSba #]` Marley, U2, Amy Winehouse, Razorlight and the exhibition in a temporary gallery space at Destruction tour to the UK this autumn, with two nights at the ]\;]\ROga eee the Sex Pistols (pictured). The pictures come 65–67 Broadwick Street, Carnaby, W1. Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. www.robin-williams.net `]gOZQ]c`bbVSOb`S Q][ $ =C bT`]\b 27/@G % =C 27/@G bT`]\b HIGHLIGHT EVENTS// NOVEMBER 2008 10-28 NOV: take place from 10-28 November at the Mackenzie Pavillion Marcus Reeves in Three Zero, James Howell in Lay Down And The annual Gfest – GayWise Arts Festival returns to London Gallery in Finsbury Park (next to the café), and will include work Love Me Again, and Lucy Ellinson’s Drag Prince William, amongst between 10 and 28 November. This year’s festival will be by Christopher Lucas Furminger, Joerg Brusendorf, Matthew many others. Finally, you can explore your own creativity and a showcase for short fi lms screenings, exhibitions and Stradling, Simon Phillips, Beldan Sezen and Robert Off ord. critical response at various workshops taking place during the performance events. Short fi lm screenings take place on Performance evenings, which include several short pieces from festival, such as a theatre workshop at the Bernie Grant Arts 13-14 November at the Rich Mix Centre (35-47 Bethnal Green diff erent artists, take place at the aforementioned Rich Mix and Centre in Tottenham (Town Hall Approach Road, N15), and a Road, E1), with highlights including Filthy, Early One Summer, Holborn’s Cochrane Theatre (Southampton Row, W1) on 20-23 Creative Writing Workshop, also at the Bernie Grant Centre, on Smalltown Boy and Romeo’s Kiss. Visual arts exhibitions will November. Highlights include Craig Jenkins in Gay In Da Ghetto, Wednesday 12 November. 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Her few remaining fans probably long gave up on ever hearing anything new GRACE JONES from her, but following her storming performance at Massive Attack’s Meltdown festival this summer, Miss Jones is well and truly back. Hurricane If you’re too young to remember Grace to first time around, it might be easy to just dismiss her as that funny lady who did ‘Slave ToThe Rhythm’ and (Wall Of Sound) had a role in a James Bond film. So strong and iconic was her alien-like image, that even in the 80s it was easy to overlook her consistent output as a recording artist. She simply looked and sounded unlike anyone else, and Hurricane finds her still reassuringly out on a limb. The music is still Grace’s preferred brand of electro-reggae and dub (this could easily have been released straight after 1983’s Living My Life album), with her unmistakeable voice – so husky it could have a sledge attached to it – laying down some of her most personal lyrics. Album highlight is undoubtedly ‘Williams Blood’, easily one of the best songs of her career. It finds Grace reflecting on her childhood and her desire to escape her homeland of Jamaica – to the distress of her mother who wonders ‘why can’t you be more like your sister?’, instead of taking after grandpa Williams – a touring musician with Nat King Cole. It’s an amazing piece of work, that ends with Grace singing… er, ‘Amazing Grace’. Bonkers but genius. Nothing else on the album quite lives up to this highpoint, but there is plenty to delight old fans, from spunky, brooding opener ‘This Is’ (‘This is my voice, my weapon of choice…’) to the Massive Attack-sounding ‘I’m Crying (Mother’s Tears)’. Most tracks here are over the five-minute mark, and some do plod on a little longer than necessary – such as lead single ‘Corporate Cannibal’. That said, this remains a surprisingly confident and assured comeback, and a fine introduction to anyone unfamiliar with the legend that is Grace Jones. DH Out: 3 November +++++ THE KILLERS FLIPRON DIDO Day & Age (Vertigo) Gravity Calling Safe Trip Home WhenThe Killers announced (Tiny Dog) (Cheeky/RCA) that they had teamed up Some formulae for you, dear Following the huge global with producer Stuart Price reader. Gravitational force sales of her first two (Madonna’s Confessions On A Dancefloor) to work on new = = (G * m1 * m2) / (d2). Gravity Calling, the third album long-players, Dido decided to take a break after 2003’s Life long-player Day & Age, it prompted rumours that their third by Glastonbury noise-peddlers Flipron = Zzzzz. The worst a For Rent. Given this album’s long gestation, anticipation studio album would find them returning more convincingly record can do is inspire nothing; make you feel as if life itself around it is high. Sadly, what has emerged into the daylight to the 80s synth sounds of their debut, Hot Fuss.The band has been drained of vitality and colour, like TheWizard of is something of an anticlimax. It may be fashionable to themselves claim that their new work is a logical next step Oz in reverse. Ten listens in, and like Kate Moss sitting on a knock Dido for her particular brand of wishy-washy emotive on from second album, Sam’s Town, but in truth, it falls beanbag, this album has left no impression whatsoever. pop, but at least past hits such as ‘Here With Me’ and ‘White somewhere between the two. In all honesty, in whichever With a sound that falls somewhere between cabaret and Flag’ had a sense of depth, drama and urgency about them. direction they think they’ve taken their sound, this is still schmindie, they mix blues, 60s pysch-pop and glam-tinged Unfortunately, such qualities seem almost entirely absent unmistakeably The Killers. rock and roll into one great big shrug of the shoulders. from this follow-up. Highlights? The stirring but delicate Vocalist Brandon Flowers has honed his singing into a The titular track, ‘Gravity Calling’, is the highlight, a wry, ‘The Day Before The Day’ and ‘Look No Further’, which distinctive, echoey, yelp, that gets a tad repetitive over the Beautiful South-shaped take on morality (‘You know, the concerns itself with the pros and cons of settling down. course of the album. You know how he sung, ‘He doesn’t ground’s familiarity/reveals your point of singularity’), Track number four, ‘Grafton Street’ was co-written by Brian look a thing like Jeee-suus’ on ‘WhenYouWere Young’? while ‘Dreams of Wealth & Power’ is a towering ballad Eno and features drums by Mick Fleetwood. It’s probably Almost every line on this album sounds like that. It doesn’t reminiscent of Carter USM’s ‘The Impossible Dream’. Lead the album’s most upbeat offering, and you may almost be really matter what he’s singing… which is perhaps single ‘Book of Lies’, meanwhile, rides a ramshackle Larrikin moved to tap your feet. That is until Dido starts tootling good, given the vague and obtuse nature of his lyrics. Love gypsy-groove. Possessing a vocal that evokes Soft Cell’s into her recorder. The album closes with the effective and Thankfully, vocal quibbles aside, it’s all backed up by some Marc Almond or a thousand Britpop chancers, frontman majestic ‘Northern Skies’, but even that’s a rather hijacked by meaty, pumped-up music. These are stadium-sized indie Jesse Budd’s hyper-literate lyrics are the band’s trump card, being strung out for nine – yes, nine – minutes. As for the anthems that are keen to keep the feet moving. Opening pulling no punchlines. rest? Plaintive vocals over acoustic noodling and snare drum single ‘Human’ aims for epic melancholia. The thumping And yet, it all adds up to less than the sum of its parts. beats, with everything being delivered in the same ‘oh-well’ ‘Spaceman’ is sure to be a future single – it soars so high it’s Perhaps the production (courtesy of Rat Scabies, tone of resignation. On sub-Carpenters dirge ‘Never Want a danger to light aircraft. ‘Neon Tiger’ is the sound of Duran charmingly-named drummer of The Dammed), which is so To Say It’s Love’ we find her sighing ‘I felt the same today Duran bitch-slapping U2, while things close with the epic lo-fi, it makes The Cribs look like Timbaland. Or maybe it’s as I was feeling yesterday, it will be the same tomorrow, I long ‘Goodnight, Travel Well’. Sounding like Disintegration- because – for all the tricksy wordplay – the songs are really, know it won’t change’. It’s a sentiment that could sum up a era The Cure, it builds to a subtle but magnificent crescendo. really dull. Whatever, it’s the kind of album that you need to disappointingly monotonous album. AG A fine closer to a fine third album.DH rub amphetamines into your gums to get through. 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The 0g VWaTWZ[QO`SS`eOa^`Sbbg[cQV]dS` musical, Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, is due to launch at the 6SbV`SeW\bVSb]eSZO\ReS\b]TTb]bVS4`S\QV Palace Theatre in the West End in March 2009. /Z^ab]aYWT]`bVS`Sab]TVWaROga AV]`bZgbVS`SOT bS`VSaYWSR]TTOQZWTT BVWaV]``WTWQOQQWRS\bZSTbVW[ZOWRc^T]`aSdS`OZ gSO`a 2]Qb]`aeS`Sc\ac`SVSe]cZRZWdSZSb !$ =C b\]e ;CA71 !% =C B63/B@3 b\]e BOOK NOW PHOTOS © ROBERT DAY DRILL ALERT The Drill Hall is putting on a fi ne spread for the autumn season, and Fit, playing 15 November, is particularly topical. Tackling homophobic bullying in schools, Rikki Beadle-Blair’s play examines youngsters growing up in a culture where DOUZE POINTS everything from not liking sport to wearing the wrong trainers is derided as ‘gay’. 32E/@25/;:7<@3D73EA3C@=03/B¬ Miracle taps into a diff erent vein. The year is 1995, before gay men living with HIV and Aids have access to life-saving therapies. 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Box offi ce 0844-482 5170 Box offi ce 0870 890 0149 www.seetickets.com QZWQV{aO`SQ]dS`SRVS`S –www.EurobeatTheMusical.com www.kingsheadtheatre.org !& =Cb\]e !' =C 4==2 bbVS`S The Grand’s dining room JUST GRAND DAVID HUDSON REVIEWS ST PANCRAS GRAND Upper Concourse, St Pancras International, NW1 020-7870 9900. www.searcys.co.uk The transformation of St Pancras station has been one of the most stunning redevelopments in the capital for many years. One of the jewels in the station’s crown is undoubtedly the new St Pancras Grand. Run by Searcys – the upmarket company responsible for the St Pancras Champagne Bar and several other noted venues across the city – this latest addition to the station’s portfolio threw open its doors at the beginning of September. On the upper concourse, opposite where the Eurostar trains gracefully slide into the station, stepping inside this beautiful establishment is like stepping back in time. It’s like the dining room of a grand hotel from the 1930s, with the art deco and expanse of a classic European brasserie. The colour palette is brown and gold, with dark Britishness. Open from 7am till late, there are diff erent grain mustard butter and a drizzle of bright green olive oil parquet fl ooring, an abundance of highly polished brass and menus throughout the day, with an abundance of seafood, (£14.50). This was velvety, rich comfort food of the highest mirrors, a gold-painted ceiling and delicately etched glass soups, salads and cold meats, alongside lunches and order. My friend had slow-roast belly of pork (£15.50) with partition strips between tables and banquets. Setting out dinners. I opted for one of the day’s special – smoked eel marmalade and cloves – the marmalade providing the to combine the ‘grandeur, mysticism and exoticism of the with potato and apple salad (£8.50). The sweet crunch perfect citrus accompaniment. Orient Express and New York’s Grand Central Station’, the of the potato and apple cubes perfectly contrasted the Leave room for dessert. We had the best ever custard tart team have succeeded in creating one of the most beautiful beautifully smoky softness of the eel. It was sublime. My served with butterscotch and Garibaldi biscuits (£6.50) and dining rooms in London. companion had potted mackerel (£6), which he described an equally thick and indulgent English sherry trifl e (£6.50). The food lives up to the surroundings. Mindful of its as ‘heavenly’ – chunky fl akes, perfectly seasoned and served St Pancras International is one of Europe’s most stunning location, and that the restaurant may be the fi rst port of in a dish lined with clarifi ed butter and a side of rye bread train stations. St Pancras Grand pushes it even further ahead call for many of our European neighbours, executive chef and cucumber and dill salad. I followed this with smoked of the competition. Billy Reid has gone for a celebration of quintessential Finnan haddock with crushed potatoes, poached egg, " =C 4==2 bbVS`S worth a visit for the décor. EAST Les Trois Garcons, 1 Club Row, The Loft, 67 Clapham High Cheaper at lunchtime than the Whitechapel, E1. 020-7613 Street, SW4. 020-7627 0792. EATING OUT evening. www.gilgameshbar.com Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson 1924. A former Victorian boozer, Upmarket and stylish restaurant, OUR FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS AND Street, Bethnal Green, E2. stuff ed with baroque decor bar and late-night haunt. GAY-FRIENDLY DINING OPTIONS La Porchetta, 141-142 Upper Modern, contemporary classy and antiques, creating a camp, Classic British dishes and lots of Street, N1. 020-7288 2488. restaurant with basement bar culinary haven near Old Street. cocktails. Approx. £40 per head. Great value pizza and pasta and cabaret room, and fi ne British/French menu. www. www.theloft-clapham.co.uk restaurant, with possibly some dining upstairs – modern British loungelover.co.uk CENTRAL Street, WC2. 020-7240 8042. of the biggest pizzas in London! cuisine and French bistro dishes The Riverside, 5 Hamilton Long-running, gay-run café Sister branches in Finsbury Park – approx. £35 per head. www. Saf, 152-154 Curtain Road, House, 5 St George Wharf, Amato, 14 Old Compton Street, and bar, serving homemade and Bloomsbury. Approx. £17 bistrotheque.com Shoreditch, EC2. 020 7613 Vauxhall, SW8. Great pub food Soho, W1. 020-7734 5733. Busy vegetarian dishes, coff ee and per head. 0007. A stylish and upmarket in upmarket, riverside gastropub café and patisserie, off ering cakes. Lots of gay magazines, The Easton, 22 Easton Street, vegan and raw food restaurant that boasts terrifi c views of the pasta dishes and a huge array community info and fl yers. Little Bay, 228 Belsize Road, WC1. 020-7278 7609. Cool – popular with London’s health- Thames. of cakes. Very popular with gay www.fi rstoutcafebar.com NW6. Wonderfully down-to- gastropub just off Exmouth conscious and conscientious Soho. www.amato.co.uk Roxy Bar and Screen, Floridita, 100 Wardour Street, 128-132 Borough High Balans, 60 Old Compton Street, W1. 020-7314 4000. Large, Street, SE1. 020 7407 4057. W1. 020-7439 2183. The nearest glamorous Cuban-themed London’s unique, gay-friendly Soho has to a gay restaurant, restaurant and bar, with regular cinema restaurant. Free fi lm busy throughout the week and music acts and even occasional screenings – everything open throughout the day and drag. Approx. £36 per head. from recent blockbusters to night. Traditional British dishes www.fl oridita.co.uk arthouse documentaries. www. with Meditteranean and Asian roxybarandscreen.com fl ourishes. Approx. £28 per head. L’Autre Pied, 5-7 Blandford See also the nearby Balans Café Street, Marylebone Village, W1. Royal Teas, 76 Royal Hill, at 34 Old Compton Street. www. 020 7486 9696. Chic, stylish, Greenwich, SE10. 020-8691 balans.co.uk upmarket restaurant from the 7240. Delightfully charming café same team that created the off ering tea, scones, cakes and Bodeans, 10 Poland Street, Michelin-starred Pied-à-Terre other delights for an eclectic W1. 020-7287 0506. Cheap and on Charlotte Street. Winner of crowd. Brit camp fabulousness. cheerful barbecue restaurant, the BMW Square Meal Award www.royalteascafe.co.uk with counter service upstairs and for Best New Restaurant Spring restaurant down below. Popular 2008. Approx. £40 per head (or The Stonhouse, 165 with visiting Americans, plus the take advantage of the lunch and Stonhouse Street, SW4. Lovely odd bear from the nearby Kings pre-theatre fi xed-price deals). Clapham gastropub with great Arms! Branches also in Clapham, www.lautrepied.co.uk steaks, burgers, salads and Fulham and Westbourne Grove. sandwiches. Approx. £22 a head. Pictured here are renowned www.bodeansbbq.com Ristorante Biagio, 189 drag troupe the Globe Girls, diners. Approx. £24 per head. www.renaissancepubs.co.uk/SH Piccadilly, W1. 020-7434-1921. with celebrity fan Lorraine www.safrestaurant.co.uk Cha Cha Moon, 15-21 Great, authentic Italian food Kelly. The Globe Girls perform Upstairs Bar and Restaurant, Ganton Street, Soho, W1. 020 in contemporary and smart regular Monday night cabaret Tinseltown, 44-46 St John 89b Acre Lane, SW2. Hidden 7297 9800. Newly-opened surroundings, spread over four at the visually stunning Street, Farringdon, EC1. Want a gem and local secret. Critically noodle restaurant from Hong fl oors. Approx. £32 per head. Gilgamesh (right) in Camden. double cheeseburger and Mars acclaimed, eclectic European Enjoy a Pan-Asian three Kong-born restaurateur Alan Yau www.ristorantebiagio.co.uk course meal and cabaret show Bar Milkshake at 5am? Then menu, with emphasis on French (Hakkasan). Great selection of from as little as £20 per per- 24-hour, subterranean American cuisine. Limited choice but menu soup-based dishes, wok-fried Stef’s, 3 Berners Street, W1 020- son – for future dates check diner Tinseltown is the place changes daily. Open Tue-Sat. noodles and sides. 3073 1041. Huge, gay-friendly www.globegirls.co.uk and to head. Round the clock diner www.upstairslondon.com Italian – formerly Linda’s Pasta www.gilgameshbar.com (24/7) popular with late-night Coff ee, Cake & Kink, 61 Bar on Poland Street – moved to clubbers – very near Fabric. WEST Endell Street, Covent Garden, the other side of Oxford Street in Cool when quiet but avoid if WC2. 020-7149 2996. ‘The only 2007. 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We get along to check out Friday's O-Zone party PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM PAGE 64 REVOLVER BIG WIGS! Oliver M's uplifting dance session stormed E3D3033<B=A=;36/7@@/7A7<5>/@B73A7<=C@ the Scala ahead of its B7;30CBB63@313/@BG03/BB63;/:: new residency at the Astoria This annual fundraiser raises much-needed funds for HIV/AIDS charity CRUSAID. This year's party at the Café De Paris was the busiest yet. Check out our full review of the event on page 54... # =C @3D73E bbVS`S PHOTOS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS © PHOTOS # =C bbVS`S @3D73E =<3=4:=<2=<¸A07553ABA/BC@2/G<756B3@AFF: XXL @313 The annual XXL birthday bash ‘Space’ themed birthday bash. is always a busy aff air, and Inside, resident dancefl oor star the club’s eighth anniversary Christian M did the business on proved no exception. The world’s the main fl oor, before handing numero uno bears club has been over to the night’s special guests rocking the London Bridge arches – DJ duo Moto Blanco. Bobby since 2000, and in that time and Mikki rocked the place, has transformed the venue with raising the roof when they spun constant improvements. More Mary J Blige’s ‘Be With You’ – a were unveiled at the birthday, club favourite. with a much-needed new block The club remain packed until of gents toilets, plus a change to closing, with most of those the third arch, which has been attending being given a split into trippy dance space ‘The complimentary XXL CD of tunes Lab’ and cruise-den ‘Organic’. upon leaving as a memento of The outside smoking area had the night. Catch similar action its own stage for the birthday, every Saturday night at the which played host to NYC singer club, with the smaller midweek and host Peppermint, the truly session each Wednesday. fabulous Bearlesque, and avant- garde performance artist Scottee, XXL, The Arches, 53 who made an eff ort with some Southwark Street, SE1. Chewbacca-drag for this special www.xxl-london.com #! =C @3D73E bbVS`S B63E75>/@BG7A=<3=4B63A13<3¸A;=AB WIG PARTY 5:7BB3@7<5/< #" =C bbVS`S @3D73E The Wig Party started in the late 90’s when a group of friends just wanted to wear a wig and indulge in some high kicking glamour… fast forward almost 10 years and Wig Party 2008 was held at the prestigious Café de Paris where an almost capacity crowd donned their best glamour jungle apparel, positioned their perruques, fought their way through a huge throng of gawpers outside and descended the staircase in to a creeper-clad land of super-large vegetation. There were grass-skirted medicine men, body-painted jolly green giants, puff ball-wigged Pink Panthers, warrior princesses and camoufl aged creations. Dozens entered the pageant to walk their look down the runway while the judges looked on. It was the neck-banded, lip-plated Amazon Sisters who walked off with the Rootstein-designed trophy and a whole host of prizes including a holiday, gym membership, jewels, gift certifi cates and tea for two at the Dorchester – although how the Blue Rinse Brigade will react to two blacked-up Amazons with their tits out is anyone’s guess! Wiggy Woo and Cleo Roccos then hosted the parade of designer wigs that will be auctioned off , and with creations by Viv Westwood and Naomi Campbell included, prices should fl y. Top notch entertainment came from Beverley Knight, Brian Chambers and the Powder Puff girls with the whole show climaxing in a show of strength and muscle as aerialist Ari performed high above the dance fl oor with no safety net. It was a truly spectacular night in a sumptuous venue, and as it was all for charity we left in the chilling night air with a warm feeling inside. www.wigparty.org ## =C @3D73E bbVS`S WIG PARTY PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS JEPSON CHRIS BY PHOTOGRAPHS #$ =C @3D73E bbVS`S /4@72/G<756BB@7>B=B639C0/@4=C<2B63 KU BAR >:/130CA73@B6/<3D3@¬ The Ku Bar continually amazes us with its ability to attract the freshest faces on the scene. Maybe it’s the great drinks off ers, or the relaxed friendly atmosphere. Maybe it’s the buff bar boys (usually shirtless), the constant stream of commercial pop music and videos on a plethora of plasma screens or the variety of entertainment that’s off ered night after night in the basement bar. Whether it’s just one or all of these things, the Ku formula is a real winner. One of their busiest nights is the O-Zone on Fridays, presided over by the Queen of Pop, the Very Miss Dusty O, where a host of pretty young things get warmed up for their OMO Generations night ahead. As well as a packed basement bar (open til 3am) the Ku Bar also has a spacious ground fl oor bar and a cosy cappuccino- coloured fi rst fl oor. Other nights through the week include the new studenty Major Mondays with pop, r’n’b, indie and old skool tracks from DJ P, Ruby Tuesdays for lesbians and gay men as guests, Shinky Shonky on a Wednesday with game show shenanigans from Boogaloo Stu and Friday’s r’n’b Vibe. So you see, there really is a night for everyone… not to mention eye candy galore! The Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. www.ku-bar.co.uk JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS BY PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS #& =C @3D73E bbVS`S B63ABG:7A67A:7<5B=<0/@1= It’s been some six months ‘Pop Tarts’ every fi rst and third Thursday since Soho’s Edge bar took of the month. When we popped along, over Islington’s The Green, and the lovely Lady Lloyd was standing in for goodness… what changes there resident Prestige and cranking out the have been! Manager Chad and his team tunes while her drag coterie lit up the have pulled out all the stops to update illuminated dance fl oor. We also noticed the venue without taking away the bits several birthday groups dotted around people loved. So, although the general the venue, and indeed, if you phone layout is unchanged, the three areas of ahead, they’ll even reserve you a table. café, bar and dance are now much more As part of the new-look Green, there is easily recognisable. There is all new also a fabulously fruity new cocktail list sound, lighting, furniture and shrubbery with yummy twists on all the classics as giving the whole venue a much greener well as fairtrade and organic wines. and spacious feeling. With cute and Check it all out on their new website attitude-free bar staff , The Green has – www.thegreenislington.co.uk the vibe of a West End venue with great – or better still why not pop along and West End DJ talent, but without having grab yourself a cosmo! to schlepp in to the West End – perfect! There are new nights rolling out with The Green, 74 Upper Street, fresh new faces fronting them such as Islington, N1. 020 7226 8895. JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS BY PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS $ =C @3D73E bbVS`S D/CF6/::A4/;=CA@ D B3<232B63 ROYAL AC;;3@E7B6/·43B3E=@A3B6/<23/B6¸ VAUXHALL TAVERN When the RVT throws a one-off accomplished turns. The amazing Ryan cabaret bash, it is usually a thing Styles always sets the bar high in the of rare beauty, packed with unique performance stakes and his Fujiyama performances and death-defying Mama was a smoldering success and makeup. And so it was in October when was followed by man of the moment, ‘A Fete Worse Than Death’ came to the Dickie Beau, with his lip-perfect Judy hallowed boards of this south London Garland deconstruction that received a establishment. Apparently in aid of an standing ovation. artistic sabbatical by Dickie Beau to the DJ Dawn Right Nasty played a selection Big Apple (bizarrely coinciding with of oldies and even older, while the next year’s January sales!), the bash punters chowed down on manager saw a collection of friends and admirers Jason’s chipolatas – spread liberally gathered to honour/ridicule/lambast along the bar. After an interval and the him through the medium of mime, obligatory raffl e the fi nale came courtesy song and music. Timberlina played the of the legendary David Hoyle who character of Emcee superbly and opened created a portrait of Mr Beau before our the show with a rendition of ‘Ring Of Fire’ very eyes. Another stupendous, not to be played live on a ukulele. Ingenue St John repeated, night at the Tavern. gave us her take on relationships with her version of ‘I Wanna Be A Housewife’ The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 (clearly she didn’t!), while Helen Noir Kennington Lane, SE11. 020 7840 and Sitron Panopoulos turned in equally 0596. www.rvt.org.uk JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS © PHOTOS $ =C bbVS`S A13<3 $! @3D73E =CbbVS`S @/>72:G>7197<5C><3E4/ We love it when a local boy makes with the best looking bunch of guys we good, so when superstar DJ Tom have seen in a long time. 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Many G-A-Y fans were ecstatic that their club Astoria. The venue seems more like a labyrinth, with at least had found a new home, while some Heaven fans were fi ve diff erent rooms to explore. Indeed, the opening night wary. However, most now recognise that the takeover is was characterised by herds of eager G-A-Y fans wandering a good thing. If G-A-Y’s Jeremy Joseph hadn’t stepped in, around the huge club, trying to decide which room they Heaven could have been sold to any Tom, Dick or Harry liked best. The main dancefl oor got busy early, while the developer, who could have closed the club or dropped smaller rooms took longer to fi ll up. However, fi ll up they its gay nights. Jeremy is sensitive to the club’s history, is did and by 1am, the club was rocking, with still more determined to maintain its international reputation, and queuing to get in. Personally, we loved being able to just hopes that by combining two such famous clubbing brands chill out in the Departure Lounge, the main fl oor for camp he can ensure the ongoing success of both. classics, and the slightly grittier vibe in the Star Bar. It’s not He is treading carefully with his plans and recognises that the same as the Astoria, but we reckon G-A-Y will stretch, he now has to go through a process of trial and error to grow and adapt to fi ll its new space. get the formula just right. He’s kept long-running night There was no PA on the launch night, but the Sugababes Popcorn on Mondays and Patrick Lilley’s Work! Each were pencilled in for the 18th October, followed by an Wednesday, but has already launched his long-running exclusive appearance from Leona Lewis on 25th October. Camp Attack on Fridays, and 11 October saw the return We even hear rumours that Jeremy has another megastar of the much missed G-A-Y Saturday night session. exclusive lined up in the coming weeks – keep checking Even with the same promoter and recognisable www.g-a-y.co.uk for the latest details! $' @3D73E =CbbVS`S 9C2=A5@33<@==;7A/<=B63@5==2@3/A=< KUDOS B=16319=CBB67AE1 3AB/0:7A6;3 Saturdays down at Kudos have taken with jazz and blues singer Elisa. on a much more accessible theme Upstairs in the main Kudos bar, an eclectic recently under the guidance of the crowd hailing from far east and far west fabulous Lady Carolle (pictured in red indulge in much social conviviality bomber jacket above). With a residency at and on Thursday nights they have The Pigalle Club and 35 years of experience the great ‘Duty Free’ night with in the music industry, promoter/manager 17.5% discount on selected drinks Carolle is perfectly placed to bring both for Q Card holders. DJs Yonnika and established artistes and new talent to Ma Butcher (of Gay Bingo fame) showcase here in the superbly refurbished play alternate Thursdays on the Green Room in the bar’s basement. The decks, and Q Cards are available eponymous Stevie Wonder track 'We’re at the bar and are eff ective Jammin! sums up Lady and her friends immediately on the night perfectly – people who have lived a life of – entitling the holder to a variety music, getting together to sing, drink and of ongoing promotions at Kudos and make merry. Expect loads of industry types its affi liated venues. Add to that the fact and guest vocals from friends such as soul that Kudos now serves light bites and a divas Angie Brown, Kelly Le Roc and Patrick select choice of main meals on Friday Alan (The Drifters), and the best of soul and and Saturday nights, and you can see Motown. there is much to love about the new Other new Green Room nights include the Kudos. 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That couldn’t from thetruth, befurther in prominence over the lastfewyears that there isabig Marc: Olly: :/AB/1B/@B7< %- A=E6/B6/D3G=C033<C>B=A7<13B63 =CBE6/BB=3F>31B¬ <=D3;03@ ;/AA7D3 3FB@/D/5/ %# =C <756BA bbVS`S DANCE YOURSELF HIGHLIGHTS DIZZY Acclaimed contemporary dance troupe The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs (pictured below) are continuing to showcase their new show – Russian Roulette – on selected evenings at the famous Royal Vauxhall Tavern. A repeating series of fi ve shows which begun in October, catch part 2 on 3, 4 and 5 November, show 3 on 10, 11, 12 & 17, 18 and 19 November, and show 4 on 24, 25 and 26 November and 1, 2 and 3 December. The fi nal part of the series takes place on 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 December. Expect a truly special evening of entertainment, complete with live music, plenty of dance and theatre, “art, cabaret and murder”! Tickets for this very special series cost £12.50 or £15 on the door (or £50 for a pass to all fi ve separate shows). Checkwww. thecholmondeleys.org for more details. The other big change for November is that the Vauxhallville REVOLVER WEEKLY is taking a break, allowing the temporary return of the Following its success as a monthly night at the Scala in be Pagano, Nick Tcherniak, Guy Williams, Paul The Cholmondeleys and King’s Cross, dance night Revolver has now taken up Heron, Micky Galliano, Pier Morocco and Faye The Featherstonehaughs a weekly residency but has moved into the very centre Lanson, while in the pop, trash and disco-fl avoured of town. Following the closure of OMO on Saturdays second room you can expect Tasty Tim, Miss Dusty O, (although OMO Generations is continuing each Friday), Severino and guests. You can also expect sexy dancers, Revolver can now be found on Saturday nights at the special guest PA’s and other surprise acts, all on the West huge Astoria on Charing Cross Road. Of course, this End’s biggest stage. move was partly prompted by G-A-Y leaving the Astoria Revolver launched at the Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, and now taking over Heaven. Revolver has now taken on WC2, on 18 October and will run weekly from 10.30pm till some of the Heaven DJs, ensuring their fans will still have late. Entry is £5 with a discount wristband or fl yer before somewhere to hear them play on a Saturday night in the midnight, £8 entry with wristband or fl yer afterwards West End. (more without). For more info and pre-sale tickets, please Mixing the uplifting dance sounds on the main fl oor will visit www.evolvedevents.co.uk BRITISH BEEF Following its hugely November for their big Also, throughout November, November, Wales on the successful eighth birthday Hallowe’en bash, DJ Joe Egg in Arch 4 15th, Ireland on the 22nd party [see pictures on page which will will be hosting and Scotland on the 29th) 52-53], XXL is storming fi nd them a celebration – check it out from 1am into winter with yet teaming up of the best onwards. more improvements and with the in British Finally, the club is already attractions. Promoter Mark squirt. Pop Music. planning its New Year’s Eve Ames has just installed a org Spanning every celebrations, and they’re brand new sound system on website. The corner of the releasing a limited number Topping & Butch School Gang each Thursday in the main fl oor, ensuring the boys always UK, Joe will spin of Early Bird tickets priced at November (and 4th December). This follows the duo’s club maintains its reputation decorate the club a 60-minute mega just £20 for members and appearance in the West End’s new Leicester Square as one of the most cutting- in a suitably spooky mix each Saturday £25 for guests. theatre, and is your chance to catch them in more intimate edge and technologically fashion for Hallowe’en, celebrating a diff erent Check www.xxl-london. surroundings. Expect witty songs and topical wordplay and advanced in the capital. so expect high production section of the country com for more details. other fun’n’games. Get along on Saturday 1 values. (England on the 8th Other dates for your diary include a Halloween special entitled Love Button – Feel The Love, on Friday 31 October, hosted by Fisch and Olga, while there’s a World AIDS Day special on the evening of Sunday 30 November TRANNY-TASTIC! at S.L.A.G.S and Chill-Out. The brilliant Duckie runs One of gay London’s most camp and colourful nights is undoubtedly Trannyshack, each Saturday night, with the Readers Wifes spinning the Wednesday night session at the Soho Revue Bar. Attracting drag queens, the sounds and diff erent guest performances each lady-boys, gender benders and general Soho reprobates, the night is presided over week, while Fridays feature a diff erent roster of monthly by Dusty O, Tasty Tim (pictured right), Glendora, Lady Lloyd, Prince Nelly, promotions. Alternative bears session Ursus takes place Ritzy and several other ‘gals’. One of the biggest dates in their calendar is the annual on Friday 7 November, followed by the newly-launched birthday bash. Get along on Wednesday 29 October for the third birthday, which Kimono Krush on 14th November. There are uplifting nrg boasts the theme ‘Viva Las Vegas’. Dress-wise, think Elvis, Tina, Cher and showgirls, and and house anthems at Cozmic on the 21st November, and expect to be entertained by London’s fi nest ‘drageratti’. A fi lm crew will also be present, neo-Weimar cabaret from host Dusty Limits at Kunst shooting footage for a new Trannyshack documentary, so do make the eff ort to dress on 28 November. up. Doors will be open from 10.30pm till 3am. You’ll fi nd the Soho Revue Bar at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, 11 Walkers Court, Soho, W1. SE11. www.rvt.org.uk %$ =CbbVS`S %% =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S Street, W1. Intimate, lounge bar venue, with bar, dancefl oor and basement club, off ering and nightly promotions. www. PROFILE, 56 members-bar atmosphere but greencarnationsoho.co.uk Frith Street, Soho, W1. GOING open to all. www.enclavesoho.com Tottenham Court Road tube. =Cb HALFWAY TO HEAVEN, Stylish, big gay bar, owned by the SEEING GREEN ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1. 7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020 team at Gaydar.co.uk – spread over Emerald City is a brand new club promotion 020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus 7321 2791. Charing Cross tube. three fl oors, with internet access coming to Lo-Profi le. It’s the brainchild tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge after Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat and Gaydar radio. of talented young promoter Terry-James 11pm. Every night’s a party at this 12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub Lynch (pictured). A night for music, fashion late-night video dance bar. spread over two fl oors. THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec and art lovers from all across the globe, it’s Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159. aiming to be off er one of the most diverse and EXILIO, LSE Underground, HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers Marble Arch tube. Huge pub, on eclectic evenings out in Soho. Houghton Street (off Kingsway), Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road two fl oors, attracting an older Starting his promoting career in the heart of Aldwych, WC2. Saturday night gay tube. Huge, world-famous gay crowd. Open till 3am at weekends. Mayfair in 2007, Terry’s ascent has been rapid. Latin and salsa night. club. www.heaven-london.com www.thequebec.co.uk He now works with the best venues in London, and is famed for bringing his “Converse Couture” brand to the Capital. Famed for his use of facepainters and drag queens, Terry FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles THE KINGS ARMS, 23 Poland RETRO BAR, 2 George Court, has brought his expertise to join forces with Lo-Profi le and create Emerald City, a new High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042. Street, W1. 020 7734 5907. WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing polysexual night every Thursday that’s set to launch on 30 October. Tottenham Court Road tube. Oxford Circus tube. Mon-Thur Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat “With a fresh new approach to nights out, watch Terry change the rules as he creates an 10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over 12pm–11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am, 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm. underground city for you to enjoy, and a sanctuary for his oddball staff to roam free. From 20 years old and still going strong. Sun 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar A traditional boozer for the gay the moment you enter the club and traverse the 40 foot catwalk into the basement venue, Long-running community café bar. for bears and blokes. Traditional scene’s indie, alternative and you’ll be feeling like Dorothy and saying ‘I don’t think we’re in Soho anymore.’” atmosphere, pool table upstairs student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz Emerald City will be showcasing new talent, so expect a diverse mix of bands, singers, FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street, and BearHug each Friday. is an institution. acrobats and surprises. Sit back and enjoy the show while sipping the special ‘Emerald W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly v Delight’ cocktail, or take to the dancefl oor whenDJ Philly steps up behind the decks to spin Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2. RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert the pop, rock, r’n’b and soft electro. She’s followed by Joshyou and his electro mash-ups late-night club promotions for a 020 7379 4573. Charing Cross Street, W1. 020 7292 7141. and ‘catwalk fashion’ tunes. metorsexual crowd. tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm, Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Emerald City will run every Thursday from 9pm till 3am, at Lo-Profi le, The Basement 84-86 www.freedombarsoho.com Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and Sun 10.30pm. Large, designer style Wardour Street, W1. Tables and guestlist contact [email protected] stylish café bar (great food!), with bar, popular with professional gay FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour clubbier vibe and video screens boyz and post-work crowd. www. Piccadilly Circus tube. Mon-Sat Street, WC1. Trendy and unique, in the basement. Popular with rupertstreet.com VENUES: 4pm-1.30am. Sun until 10.30pm. intimate basement bar, which Asian crowd. CENTRAL LONDON Dance bar on two fl oors, with club- attracts a mixed crowd. SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer style basement. Comedy Camp KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester Street, W1. 020-7287 7988. 79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road, stand-up night each Tuesday. G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303. Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous, WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester Street, W1. 020 7494 2756. Leicester Square tube. Large, late-night bar and club for A-list Square tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am, THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth Leicester Square tube. 12pm- award-winning, upmarket gay bar gays and celeb-spotters. Sun 1pm-10.30pm. Cover charge Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 7240 12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar, spread over three fl oors, open till www.theshadowlounge.com after 11pm. Large, cruisy, late-night 5828. Leicester Square tube. 11am- with a multitude of video screens, 3am daily. www.ku-bar.co.uk bar - always busy after 10.30pm. 11pm. Stylish and award-winning pop tunes and drinks promotions. SOHO REVUE BAR, 11 Walkers gay café bar popular with scene and www.g-a-y.co.uk LO-PROFILE, The Basement, Court (off Brewer Street), W1. ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old muscle queens. 84-85 Wardour Street, W1. Swanky, 020-7734 0377. Legendary Soho Compton Street, W1. 020 7437 G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard, sophisticated, 400-capacity cabaret club, attracting very gay 5300. Leicester Square tube. CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1. off Charing Cross Road, WC2. late-night basement bar and crowd with nightly cabaret, gigs Friendly, traditional gay pub. 020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court Tottenham Court Road tube. club space – from the people and burlesque. Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm. 11pm-3am. Late-night sister that bring you gaydar.co.uk. Open NEON NIGHTS ASTORIA, 157 Charing Cross Fri & Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm. venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video till 3am Thursday, 4am Fri-Sat, TRASH PALACE, 11 Wardour International gay circuit Road, WC2. 020-7734 6963. Long-running, famed lesbian bar. screens, camp pop fun and cheap and 10.30pm Sundays. www. Street, W1. 020 7734 0522. party Rapido is coming to Tottenham Courtg Road tube. drinks. gaydarprofi le.com Piccadilly Circus tube. Sun-Thu London, and is set to launch Huge, former theatre, with 2,000 COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton 5pm-midnight. Fri & Sat 5pm-3am. with a spectacular party capacity. Now home to Revolver Street, W1. 020 7479 7961. GEISHA, 75 Charing Cross Road, LONG YANG CLUB, long-running Indie, rock and trash fun on two at the gorgeous Koko in and OMO. www.omoevents.co.uk Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm. WC2. 020-7734 6887. Recently- social group for East Asian gay fl oors – very popular with students Camden on Sunday 7 A Soho institution. Large, traditional launched, designer gay bar – a guys and friends. Regular parties and alternative club freaks. December. This clubbing BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street, gay boozer on two fl oors. riot of pink and oriental chic! Open and social events. Check website at giant is the number one gay W1. 020 7734 3342. noon-midnight seven days a week, www.lyclondon.com VAULT 139, 139 Whitfi eld Street, party in Amsterdam, famous for www.bar-code. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, with DJs nightly. www.geisha-bar. its stunning club visuals, amazing light co.uk. 77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439 co.uk BOTTOMS UP shows, super sexy performers and for featuring 1274. Piccadilly Circus tube. Wino is a brand new monthly some of the best international DJ’s from across the Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat GHETTO, 5-6 Falconberg night at the Oak Bar in Stoke globe. In fact, it’s even scooped awards, picking up the noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm on Mews, W1. 020-7287 3726. Newington. Running on the accolade of “best international circuit event” in 2007 from Sun. Traditional and fun gay pub Subterranean, trend-setting gay second Friday of every month, top circuit magazine (justcircuit.com) and highly respected over two fl oors. club venue, with nightly alternative it kicks off on 14 November, USA magazine Edge. The Launch of Rapido London will promotions, such as The Cock (Fri) between 9pm and 3am. DJ Dr bring the best elements of the European Circuit Parties to THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, W1. and Wig Out (Sat). www.ghetto- Kemp (Lower The Tone, Rock the heart of the capital, and will be followed by further 020 7439 1313. Tottenham Court london.co.uk Society) and guests will be quarterly events at KOKO in 2009! Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun 2pm- spinning the electro, edgy pop, We’ll bring you details about this exciting launch in the 11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar THE GREEN CARNATION, indie and rock for a mixed crowd of boys and girls. You’ll December issue of Out In The City, but put the date in your spread over four intimate fl oors, 4-5 Greek Street, Soho, fi nd the Oak Bar at 79 Green Lanes, N16, and for more diaries now! with regular nights from top DJs. W1. 020-7434 3323. New, info on Wino check out the MySpace page at www.clubrapido.com three-fl oored late night gay www.myspace.com/club_wino THE ENCLAVE, 25-27 Brewer %& =CbbVS`S %' =C A13<3 bbVS`S W1. Newly-opened, central, 10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. WATCHTHE BIRDIE daytime intimate cruise club, for a Long-running, famed gay pub The guys down at the Eagle in Vauxhall men-only crowd. Open 1pm-1am – probably the most famous have been in touch to remind us about seven days a week. www.vault139. cabaret pub in London, with nightly all their regular weekly sessions. For com DJs and entertainment. www. a chilled midweek session, check out theblackcap.com Eagle Wednesdays from 9pm till 2am VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1. (admission £3 for non-members after 020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus CENTRAL STATION, 10pm). Thursdays are now known as tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late 37 Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 ‘Berlin’, with DJ Pistol Pete spinning night door charge. Soho’s original 7278 3294. Kings Cross tube. Mon- minimal beats and Berlin-style electro gay café bar, spread over four floors, Wed 5pm-2am, Thur 5pm-3am, house for a cruisy crowd of men. and now with basement dancefloor Fri 5pm-4am, Sat 1pm-4am, Sun There’s free admission for anyone in and discos. 1pm-12am. Big gay bar on three leather/fetish wear, or £3 for anyone floors, with ground floor cabaret else. Popular bears session Tonker runs THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1. and infamously cruisy cruise nights each Friday night, with doors open from 9pm till 3am and admission £5 after 10pm. 020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus in basement. www.centralstation. The Flagship Eagle London night runs for a whopping 10 hours each Saturday night from tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri co.uk 6pm till 4am. Expect a cruisy atmosphere in this testosterone-fuelled bar, plus cheap & Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm- admission ¬– just £4 after 10pm. 1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar with CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1 The legendary Horse Meat Disco runs on Sundays, attracting a truly mixed and hugely popular courtyard area, Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, polysexual crowd of trendsetters, but it’s back to cruise control on Mondays with the outdoor balcony and loft bar. N19. World’s biggest lesbian and weekly Eagle Monday. Bootcamp rounds the weekly line-up off each Tuesday. gay Asian music night, running Admission to this long-running night is £2 for members and £3 for guests. NORTH LONDON every third Friday of the month. Eagle London, 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11. www.clubkali.com THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden High Street, NW1. 020 7428 2721. COSMO LOUNGE, 43 Essex Road, Camden Town tube. Shufflewick N1. Tel: 020 7688 0051. Angel tube. Road, Watford, 01923-441113. CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine 7pm-4am. Door charge on Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat Sun-Wed 2pm-Midnight, Thu-Sat Watford’s only gay pub, with Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge, weekend. Large, popular bar 12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm. 2pm-1am. Long, narrow, intimate big beer garden and regular late-night venue for after-hours and club, attracting big crowds Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat gay bar popular with locals girls entertainment! www.loadofhay. crowd – hosting various monthly at weekends. www.ego- and boys. co.uk promotions such as Bootylicious southernpride.co.uk and Megawoof. EGG, 200 York Way, Kings Cross, THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes, FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11. N7. Tel: 020 7609 8364. Kings Cross N16. 020-7354 2791. Manor THE EAGLE, 349 Kennington Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue, tube. Bespoke club space on three House tube. Friendly, divere gay bar Lane, SE11. 020 7793 0903. Mon, hosting occasional dance and floors, hosting occasional gay club with late-night club promotions, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 9pm-late, Tue cruise nights. nights and after-hours sessions open ‘til 3am at weekends. www. 7.30-10.30pm, Sun 4pm-2am. (mixed afterhours every Saturday oakbar.com Vauxhall tube. Large, club-bar THE FORT, 131 Grange Road, night). with nightly promotions. Tonker SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise ON THE ROCKS, 25 Kingsland (Fridays) and Horse Meat Disco club, open till 11pm throughout THE GOLDEN LION, 2 Britannia Road, E2. Underground Shoreditch (Sundays) are particularly popular. week, with regular boots-only and Street, WC1. 020 78374734. venue that hosts the weekly Trailer www.eaglelondon.com underwear parties. Friendly, local gay pub with Trash club night each Friday – the www.thefortlondon.com regular cabaret and late opening at ‘Dirty Eastend Gay Ravebox!’ www. EGO, 82 Norwood High Street, weekends. clubtrailertrash.com SE27. 020 8761 5200. West FIRE, South Lambeth Road, Norwood BR. Sun-Thu 8pm-late, Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube. THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street, PLAYPIT, 76 Caledonian Road, TRASH PALACE RELOCATES N1. 020-7226 8895. Angel tube. N1. Intimate, King’s Cross sleaze GO BEYOND There are several big changes afoot in the Trash Palace/ London’s first ‘gay gay-stropub!’ club. Open Thur-Sat 9pm-3am, Continuing to pull in Ghetto organization. In response to rumours that Trash Stylish, Islington bar, serving full Sun 3pm-7pm and 8pm-1am. the afterhours crowd Palace is soon to close on Wardour Street, the team issued food menu and wide range of www.londonplaypit.co.uk down in Vauxhall the following press release: cocktails. Mixed, chilled crowd is Beyond, which “Is Trash Palace closing?...yes... no...kind of!” The building - now run by the same team as The SOUTH LONDON takes place every where Trash Palace currently lives is being sold and so will Edge in Soho. Saturday night/ PHOTO © CHRISJEPSON.COM be moving in December. AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment, Sunday morning at “Trash Palace will re-home atop the gorgeous new Ghetto KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfield SE1. Gorgeously-designed, hard Area on the Albert in Old Street (due to open in Dec 2008). The New Trash Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745. dance club and cabaret rooms, Embankment. This Palace will live in a bigger funkier space with more loos. Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon- with eclectic roster of different gay legendary mega- We can’t wait for you to see it, it really is amazing - there’s 12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am, nights (Juicy on Saturdays), one-off club features two a conservatory area and everything. It also means that the Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very promotions, plus cruise nights like rooms of the finest two venues can be linked for club nights giving us two long-running gay pub, with ‘local’ Rude Boyz (every Friday). www. house music from rooms of tunes and countless creative opportunities to atmosphere and character, plus areaclub.info DJs Steve Pitron, keep you kids entertained. popular beer garden. the Sharp Boys, We’re sorry to be leaving Soho, but soaring rents and BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69, Paul Christian, dwindling venues are really killing the heart of London. KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street, Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207 Mikey D, Gonzalo, Luckily London has a new exciting heart out East – where NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cost, 734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7 The Oli, Steve Geller and guests. Doors open at let’s face it – all the best stuff happens these days.” traditional old gay pub, with regular days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, 6am and the music keeps pumping until super late. So, now you know! We’ll bring you full details about the entertainment, beer garden and Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Recently opened Advance tickets cost £10 from www.clubtickets.com, launch of Ghetto Old Street in the December issue of Out food. www.kw4.co.uk and very popular club bar, with Prowler, Clone Zone and The Box, or you can pick up In The City – out 19 November. dancefloor and mezzanine chill-out a joint £20 ticket for Horizon and Beyond before 3am at www.popstarz.org THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner space. Fire on Saturday nights. & =CbbVS`S & =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S TRADE pub, with long history of hosting St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900. WEST LONDON EVOLUTION cabaret. Packed to rafters on Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed, One for all you Trade Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday gay/straight crowd of trendy THE CULVERT, 54 Cowley Mill babies… following (Chill-Out). www.rvt.org.uk metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant, Road, Uxbridge. 01895 256 690. the closure of Turnmills for plus separate cabaret room. Uxbridge tube. Mon-Wed 4pm-1am, redevelopment, the Trade crew THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place, Thu noon-2am, Fri & Sat noon-3am, were a little stuck for where to SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe Sun 3pm-1am. Regular discos, cabaret, hold their annual birthday party soirée. They’ve opted for a big one-off session entitled tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight, Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007. karaoke and one-off events. ‘Evolution’ at the London Bridge Arches (home to XXL), taking place on the Saturday Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm- Whitechapel tube. Recently www.theculvert.com night/Sunday morning of 26 October. This – the club’s 18th birthday – will feature a whole 2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark and refurbished, Moroccan style roster of Fierce Rulin’ Trade DJs, including Kamishake, Malcolm Duffy, Pagano, atmospheric gay bar in Victoria. – friendly, local gay bar. THE HOPE & ANCHOR, 20 Steve Thomas, Nick Tcherniak, Lady Bianca, Nik Denton, Fat Tony, Guy Macbeth Street, Hammersmith, Williams, Paul Heron, Brent Nicholls, Gary H and a special set from Trade legend 286, 286 Lewisham High Street, THE JOINERS ARMS, 116 W6. (contact mobile Ian M (spinning a classic set). XXL regulars will already know that the Arches features SE14. 020-8690 7648. Large, late- Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739 - 07858281995). New gay pub one of the best sound systems and lasers in London – be prepared for a mind-bending opening gay pub and club, with 9854. Debauched decadence for Hammersmith and Chiswick. meltdown in the main arch. Taking over one of the other arches – just for this birthday regular entertainment and cabaret. – old-skool boozer popular with Traditional boozer with nightly celebration – will be Gutterslut, with DJs Elliott J Brown, Nic Fisher, Cormac and Open till 2am Sun-Thur and till 4am post-club crowd at weekends. entertainment – open noon- Mikki Most (Trailertrash), spinning the sounds. Fri-Sat. www.two8six.co.uk 11pm throughout week. Doors will open at 5am on the Sunday morning and will stay open until “super late”. Also, KINGS HEAD, 11 Church bear in mind that although the clocks go back on Sunday morning, “Trade will open at 5am THE TRAFALGAR ARMS, Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197 THE RICHMOND ARMS, 20 ‘Old Time’ so don’t change your watch until you leave!” 148 Tooting High Street, SW17. Stratford BR and tube. Intimate The Square, off Princes Street, Advance tickets cost £15 online from www.ticketweb.co.uk and selected outlets (Prowler 020-8767 6059. A spacious, lively, and welcoming East End gay pub Richmond. 020-8940 2118. Long- Soho, Clone Zone Soho and The Box). www.tradeuk.net attitude-free pub. Excellent food – regular cabaret. running local gay pub, regular served all day. Weekly DJs on Friday cabaret and entertainment. and Saturday nights. Karaoke on THE OLD SHIP, 17 Barnes Infamous, late-night gay venue HIDDEN, 100 Timworth Street, Wednesdays. Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082. TED’S PLACE, 305a North End beneath the Vauxhall railway SE11. Railway arch venue, home Limehouse DLR. Open from 7pm Road, West Brompton, W14. 0207 arches, host to the likes of Orange, to infamous Hard On night once a THE TWO BREWERS, Mon & Tue, from 6pm Wed-Sat, 385 9359. Earls Court or West A:M, Horizon and Gravity. Open month (www.hardonclub.co.uk). 114 Clapham High Street, SW4. from 4pm on Sun. Small, local, Brompton tube. Mon-Fri from around the clock at weekends. 020 7498 4971. Clapham Common traditional pub, with regular 7pm-late, closed Sat & Sun. West www.allthingsorange.com or THE HOIST, Arch 47c, South tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat cabaret. London cruise club. Sleazy… but www.fireclub.co.uk Lambeth Road, SW8. 020 7735 5pm-4am. South London’s most that’s why the regulars love it! 9972. 10pm-late. Door charge and famed gay cabaret venue. Large BJ’s WHITE SWAN, THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2 strict dress code. One of London’s bar and separate dancefloor room. 556 Commercial Road, E1. Tel: 020 WEST 5, Popes Lane, South BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10. most famous dress-code and cruise www.the2brewers.com 7780 9870. Limehouse DLR. Mon Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Large, 020 8691 3764. Deptford Bridge clubs - busy with a men-only 9pm-1am Tue-Thu 9pm-2am, popular gay pub with Piano Room DLR. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Fri & crowd. Open Friday-Sunday and UNION, 66 Albert Embankment, Fri-Sat 9pm-3am, Sun 5.30pm- and cabaret bar, open till late at Sat 4pm-4am, Sun 4pm-2am. occasional Thursdays (SM Gays). SE1. 020-7793 9262. Cruisy dance midnight. A large, long-running weekends with entertainment and Late-night pub with nightly www.thehoist.co.uk club which hosts monthly parties gay pub and club, open throughout DJs. www.west5bar.co.uk entertainment and cabaret. www. such as Union Jack and afterhours the week and legendary across gandd.org.uk JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli party Love-Union. Plays areas and London! Wednesday’s Amateur WINDSOR CASTLE, 152 Bath Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road, hot go-go’s. Check www.clubunion. Strip is an institution. www. Road, Hounslow, TW3. 0208577 SE4. First Saturday of the co.uk for latest listings. bjswhiteswan.com 6590. Large, local gay pub with month, 7pm-midnight (£7). regular cabaret and entertainment. Gay ballroom and Latin dancing XXL, The Arches, 51-53 Southwark www.windsorcastlehounslow.co.uk night, attracting up to 300 Street, SE1. www.xxl-london.com. dancers a month to the glam London Bridge tube. Huge club for GHETTO 1950s-style Rivoli Ballroom. bears, big men and admirers, every FABULOUSNESS Crofton Park BR. www.therivoli. Saturday and Wednesday. She left to launch Pop co.uk but now she’s back EAST LONDON again. Yes, The Very KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street, Miss Dusty O has VAUXHALL POP SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street, returned to the helm of Jason’s Jukebox is the name of a brand new pop night North tube. Mon-Thu 4pm- E15. Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford the Ghetto’s Tuesday coming to Area (67 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1) midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon- BR and tube. Big gay pub, always night, Don’t Call Me in Vauxhall. It launches on Thursday 30 October, and is a 1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham popular at weekends, with regular Babe. Expect nothing joint promotion from the Orange group and South London’s video bar, popular throughout the cabaret, DJs and disco nights. but pure pop madness ‘prince of pop’ – Jason Prince. Following his successful week, with DJs at weekends. on the decks, with Dusty Pop room at Fire’s A:M, the very best in commercial dance THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth and her guests spinning and classic pop tunes will be supplied by Mr Prince and LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington Mews, off Burdett Road, E3. unadulterated classics DJ James Saint James giving you ‘Disco Fever till the Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039. 020-8980 8557. Over 20 years old from the last three decades. Entry is £3 or free with a morning light’, with cheap drinks offers and free entry Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a – small but legendary dress code wristband from one of the ‘Babe Boyz’ on Old Compton passes for Gravity at Fire for the first 50 through the week. Small, traditional gay boozer leather club, open Thur-Sun. Street – which also gets you a free shot on arrival. door. There will be guest PA’s every week, with top quality for local gay boys and girls - open The Ghetto team have been very busy over recent months. singer’s including Sam Solace, Laura Harding and till 1.30am Fri-Sat. THE BLACK HORSE, 168 Mile Not only have they launched Ghetto Brighton on the site Ella, plus surprise guests. End Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 of the former Candy Bar, but they’ve also been very busy Doors will be open from 10pm till late every Thursday, ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, 1684. Mile End tube. Mon-Thurs preparing for the launch of Ghetto Old Street. The new and entry cost is just £4 with ads or flyers. There will 372 Kennington Lane, SE11. 8pm-1am, Fri-Sat 8pm-3am, Sun venue is currently being refurbished and decorated, ahead also be special offers every week on Jason’s Facebook, 020 7840 0596. Opening times 8pm-1am. 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A friendly group Kairos: 020 7437 6063, www. with a range of social activities. kairosinsoho.org.uk. 9 Archer St, London W1D 7AZ. Stonewall: 020 7593 1850. The Wandsworth LGBT Forum Campaign group for LGBT rights. has recently been reformed. Lesbian Gay Christian Following a successful Movement: 020 7739 1249, HATECRIME meeting on 15 October at the [email protected]/www.lgcm. Battersea Arts Centre, the org.uk. Gay Police Association: forum’s next meeting will be its annual general meeting Action Line 07092 700 000 on Thursday 20 November. Lesbian and Gay (24hrs), [email protected]. This will take place at 7.30pm Immigration Group: 020 at Roehampton University, 7922 7811, www.uklgig.org.uk. Galop: 020 7704 2040. www. where a committee will be meetings once a month. galop.org.uk. For victims of hate chosen, and the group’s aims crime. and objectives for the coming months will be finalised. LGBT Choir: 07980 023578. Call PINK SINGERS For more information, email Michael for more information. HIV//AIDS The Pink Singers is a London-based lesbian and gay choir which strives to deliver exciting [email protected] or and diverse performances for the general public whilst at the same time promoting a visit www.wandsworthlgbt. London Friend: 020 7837 Crusaid: 020 7539 3880, friendly, enjoyable and inclusive environment for all. It was launched for London Pride way org.uk. 3337. Groups in Islington. www.crusaid.org.uk. back in 1983, has never missed a Pride festival in the capital since, and is now the longest- running lesbian and gay choir in Europe – having celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this GROUPS//ORGS Quaker London Lesbian & GMFA: 020 7738 6872. The gay year. “The Pinkies” have supported charities from Terrence Higgins Trust to Stonewall; sung Gay Fellowship: 020 8675 men’s health charity. at rallies, vigils and protest marches here and abroad; backed 80s electro wonders Bronski Albert Kennedy Trust: 020 6740. Beat; appeared on the BBC comedy show Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; and performed a vast 7831 6562 (London). Housing National AIDS Trust: 020 7814 repertoire ranging from Abba and Sondheim to Brahms. The group nurtures individual advice for under 21s. Metro Centre: 020 8265 3311, 6767, www.nat.org.uk. members’ skills so as to continue to improve the choir’s overall performance standard whilst www.metrocentreonline.org. playing an active role in the UK, European and global choral communities. It also provides Antidote: 020 7437 3523. Regular groups in Greenwich. Terence Higgins Trust: 020- opportunities for composers, soloists and smaller vocal groups – plus plenty of socialising. Counselling, support groups, 78121777. 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Stonewall Football Club: WANTTO GET LISTED? the council & victim support. & questioning young people. 07090 422 390. Sunday soccer. London Friend: 020 7837 Please send listings to 5-8pm Tues 079 4633 7160 3337. Counselling service. [email protected] THT SUPPER CLUB After dinner, guests will be chauffeur driven and Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester. Singer Sophie Ellis Bextor (pictured right) from their dinner venues to a fabulous party Last year’s Supper Club event raised over will be peforming at this year’s Terrence at Café de Paris, where singer Sophie will £80,000 for the HIV charity. Most of the Higgins Trust Supper Club, taking entertain guests. All the restaurants and suppers taking place are now fully booked, place on Tuesday 28 October 2008. caterers involved in the Supper Club have but anyone wanting to attend just the Café This annual fundraiser, now in its eighth donated their services free of charge to De Paris event can purchase a ticket for year, sees 50 chic dinner parties taking raise funds for THT. Some of the restaurants £50 (which includes complimentary drinks place simultaneously in the capital’s best and caterers already involved this year all night). For further information, please restaurants and private homes. Other include Nobu Berkeley St, Hakkasan, Nahm, contact Becky Harris at Terrence Higgins celebrities supporting the event include Fay Benares, Rhodes W1, Stem London, William Trust by email, [email protected] Ripley, Angus Deayton and Brian Paddick. Norris & Company, Cecconi’s, China Tang, or call 020 7812 1663. &$ &% @3>=@B =Cb`SOQV 2]g]ca][SbW[SaTW\RbVOb^S]^ZSO^^`]OQV g]ceWbVc\`SOZWabWQSf^SQbObW]\aO`]c\R OR]^bW]\- :(GSa7bVW\Ya][SbW[Sa^S]^ZSbVW\YbVObbVS`S WE ARE FAMILY O`SZ]ba]T·^S`TSQb¸ZWbbZSPOPWSaeOWbW\U]cbbVS`S PcbW\`SOZWbgQVWZR`S\eOWbW\Ub]PSOR]^bSR 2=G=CB67<9G=C6/D3E6/B7BB/93AB=03/ O`SU]W\Ub]PSObZSOab]\SgSO`]ZRPgbVS >/@3 && &' =C <3EA b\Sea NEWS FLASHES UK NEWS HYDE PARK ATTACK Police are appealing for witnesses following an attack on a man in his 50s in the Rose Gardens area of London’s Hyde Park at around 10pm on Sunday 21 September. The victim received injuries to his face and neck, and the suspect – a Mediterranean-looking white man aged about 28, wearing dark trackie bottoms, a dark T-shirt, baseball cap and trainers – made off with £1,700 in jewellery. Anyone with info should contact the Metropolitan Police Royal Parks Command on 020 7706 7272; or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111. MAN FOUND IN MANCHESTER CANAL 46-year-old Alexander Lynch was found, drowned, in a canal near a well-known cruising area in central Manchester in the early hours of Friday 3 October. Anyone with information should call the Major Incident Room at Wythenshawe on 0161-856 4721; or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111. RICHARD WILSON TO HOST STONEWALL CHRISJEPSON.COM © PHOTO AWARDS The third Stonewall Awards Pictured here are representatives from Vauxhall City Farm, ceremony takes place on VAUXHALL GMFA and Friends Of Spring Gardens, who turned up at Thursday 6 November at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern on Thursday 2 October to the V&A in London, hosted accept cheques from dragster Timberlina. The cheques by actor Richard Wilson PHOTO © CAMBRIDGEJONES.COM TAVERN covered the money raised the gay pub’s recent Vauxhall (best know for his role Sports Day on the August Bank Holiday, when several teams as Victor Meldrew) and competed in the Springs Gardens areas behind the pub in preceded by a champagne FUNDRAISER competitions such as the ‘50 metre mince’ and ‘drag relay’. reception. Simon Amstell from Never Mind the Buzzcocks is among those shortlisted for Entertainer of the Year. Politicians nominated include Labour peer Lord Alli. Out In The City has been nominated in the Publication of the Year category. PADDICK WOWS CROYDON Tickets start at £125 and are available from michaela.greene@ GAY COMMUNITY stonewall.org.uk / 020 7593 1874. Every pound from ticket sales - Former top cop and Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London, will go towards Stonewall’s key campaigns. Brian Paddick (pictured right), spoke to a packed meeting on 7 October, at the first in a series of high-profile talks under the MOB MAULS GAY MEN IN NORTHERN IRELAND banner “The Brief Encounter”, promoted by Croydon Area Gay Up to a dozen men and women carried out a sustained verbal Society (CAGS) at The Brief in George Street, Croydon. Paddick said and physical assault on two men near the village of Maghera in that the country needed more positive gay role models, adding County Londonderry in mid-September in an incident described that he would be marrying his partner, Petter Belsvik, in Oslo on 9 by local police as homophobic. The gang even subsequently January 2009, under Norwegian same-sex marriage laws. went to the home of one of the victims to attack his mother. More at www.cags.org.uk. FIRST GAY APPEAL COURT JUDGE Sir Terence Etherton has become the first openly gay judge LONDON ZOO HOSTS ANNUAL GAY SUNDAY ever sworn in as a Lord Justice of Appeal. The 58-year-old London Zoo hosted its 4th annual Gay Sunday in mid September – offering a “day out with a Olympic Gold medallist fencer-cum-lawman takes up his new difference”: a chance to get up close and personal with the animals, whilst sipping a cocktail on role after a stint as chair of the Law Commission. One of just 38 the famous Mappin Terrace or savouring a picnic on the lawn. Visitors also enjoyed a bar, plus face such Appeal Court judges, Sir Terence – who took part in a civil painting, live music and cabaret – all followed by after-parties at G-A-Y Bar and G-A-Y Late. For partnership in 2006, the first High Court judge to so do – said: more information about London Zoo, check the website at: www.zsl.org “My appointment shows that diversity in sexuality is not a bar to preferment up to the highest levels of the judiciary.” The only other openly gay High Court judge is Sir Adrian Fulford, GEORGE MICHAEL ARRESTED appointed in 2002. (AGAIN!) GAYS MORE PRONE TO DEPRESSION George Michael (pictured right) has expressed regret for, LGB people are 50% more likely than heterosexuals to have in his own words, “screwing up again” after being arrested for suffered depression or anxiety disorders – according to research possession of drugs on Hampstead Heath’s cruising grounds, published in the journal, BMC Psychiatry, based on an analysis not far from the mansion he shares with Texan partner Kenny of over two dozen past studies into links between sexuality and Goss. The 45-year old crooner was cautioned for possessing mental health. Lesbians and gays are also more susceptible class C and class A drugs, including crack cocaine. to substance abuse and attempted suicide, authors claim “I apologise to my fans and promise them I’ll sort myself out,” – suggesting that stress from social and familial stigma may be George said in a statement. “Sorry to everybody else, just for a major cause. boring them.” ' =C b\Sea <3EA BALKANS: BOSNIAN GAY FEST SHUTS, OUTSPOKEN: SERBIAN QUEERS ALLAN HORSFALL DEFIANT IMMIGRATION Organisers of Bosnia’s fi rst FORTY-FIVE YEARS ever queer festival, in capital AFTER ITS FIRST Sarajevo, claim they were MANIFESTATION GROUP PRAISED forced to prematurely shut – AS THE NORTH-WEST the event after participants HOMOSEXUAL LAW were assaulted by an angry REFORM COMMITTEE B63C9:3A07/</<25/G7;;75@/B7=< mob of around 70 men, – THE CAMPAIGN 5@=C>E/A8CAB=<3=4B63 throwing stones and lobbing FOR HOMOSEXUAL EQUALITY (CHE) IS STILL A E7<<3@A/BB67AG3/@A0:/19:50B anti-gay jibes. Meanwhile, CREDIBLE FIGHTING FORCE, SAYS ITS HONORARY around 25 Serbians were LIFE-PRESIDENT. 1=;;C<7BG/E/@2A attacked by neo-fascists after attending the 5th The CHE is still very much relevant today, actively Queerbeograd festival, in tackling a range of issues – despite us having thought, Serb capital Belgrade. Both more than once, that it had reached the end of the road countries are supposedly in that it had helped achieve every reform that seemed keen to enter the EU. possible at the time. We worked for three years from 1964 to help convince IRAQ: GAY “SAVIOUR” provincial MPs that gay law reform was not just the concern ASSASSINATED of the metropolitan, chattering classes and that the sky A leading gay Iraqi activist would not fall and organiser of “safe houses” in if they voted for gay men, a 27-year old for it, which simply known as Bashar, they eventually has been assassinated in the famously did I SOMETIMES FEEL Iraqi capital, Baghdad. It’s – albeit only in a believed that he was gunned diluted form. WE WOULD BE down by militia whilst in a The progress barbershop. Said veteran subsequently BETTER OFF IF GAY UK activist, Peter Tatchell: made since CASES WERE HEARD “Bashar was a kind, generous 1967 was quite The UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (www.uklgig.org.uk) was amongst those honoured and extremely brave young unthinkable BY JUDGES SITTING at the second Black LGBT Community Awards in London in late September - organised by the man – a true hero who put at the time, as ALONE Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group (www.bgmag.org.uk). Other winners – judged to have made his life on the line to save the the faint-hearts a diff erence to the lives of black LGBTs – included health promotion group Big Up; and lesbian lives of others.” then warned: rapper, Mz Fontaine. More details can be found at www.blgbt.com. “An equal age of consent? Forget it. Reform in Scotland? Not likely. Northern Ireland? With Paisley running his Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign! Civil Partnerships? AND FINALLY… Mad!” PENN PUCKERS UP Indeed, gays could hardly believe that anything much had Actor Sean Penn allegedly texted his ex-wife Madonna after his fi rst on-screen gay kiss. changed in 1967. There was no rash of gay clubs opening, Penn, 48, is taking the lead role in Gus Van Sant’s new movie Milk (pictured right), a biopic no dancing in the streets, no Pride marches. It was fi ve years about Harvey Milk, California’s fi rst openly gay elected offi cial. He shared an on-screen kiss before the Gay Liberation Front appeared, and 12 before we with co-star James Franco, and Franco later said in an interview: “After our kiss, Sean texted saw the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights. Madonna and said, ‘I just popped my cherry kissing a guy. I thought of you. I don’t know why.’” Harvey Milk was elected a city supervisor of San Francisco in 1977, but only served 11 months However, it was nice to have allies at last, and, before being assassinated. There is already Academy Award speculation for Sean Penn’s eventually, all the things we hardly dreamed of, and performance in the fi lm, which is due to be released in the UK in January. more, were achieved. We have equality before the law now, don’t we? Well, not quite! LUCAS IN WONDERLAND The law is equal in its enactment, but far from equal in Little Britain star Matt Lucas has told BBC News that he and comedy partner David Walliams its enforcement. For example, public prejudice leads to are currently working on the script of their fi rst feature fi lm, which will fi nd the duo playing constant pressure on the police to deal with outdoor multiple characters. “The two of us will play fi ve or six characters that will go around together, so manifestations of gay sex, whereas more blatant straight it’ll be technically very challenging… We looked at people like Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy sexual activity is accepted with equanimity. Moreover, this and how they appear as lots of diff erent characters.” The movie is being developed with US public prejudice is well represented on juries to the extent studio Dreamworks, and will be produced by Ben Stiller’s production company, Red Hour. Before that I sometimes feel we’d be better off if gay cases were that, Lucas will portray the roles of Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton’s forthcoming heard by judges sitting alone, like the old Diplock system in adaptation of Alice In Wonderland – due for release in 2010. Northern Ireland! These are just a couple of the very real issues impacting on CURRY WEDDING gay lives that will be occupying some of us, as CHE soldiers Former Blue Peter presenter Mark Curry, 47, has entered into a civil partnership with his long-term partner, Jeremy Sandle. The on - despite a lack of resources or even a suitable offi ce two, who have been together ten years, tied the knot at Marble Hill Mansion in Twickenham, in front of guests, which included space in London. Sandle’s daughter and ex-wife. Curry presented Blue Peter from 1986 to 1989, but only talked publicly about his sexuality for the fi rst time in the run up to the civil partnership. “Jeremy and I are both mature people who care deeply for each other and decided For more on the Campaign for Homosexual Equality’s work, to formalise our union simply for legal purposes,” Curry told The Daily Mail. “Our families are 100 per cent supportive. and to see how you might help: www.c-h-e.org.uk “I’ve known that I was gay since my late teens, but I was advised early in the 80s, by a seasoned ex-presenter, that it was best to keep quiet… thankfully, times have changed and today no one is penalised for being who they are.” ' =C <3EA b\Sea NEWS FLASHES MANCHESTER CHARITYWINDFALL ABSOLUT PRIDE This year’s Manchester Pride, which took place on the August Bank Holiday weekend, raised an impressive £105,000 for charity. The money – raised from the 18th Manchester Pride celebrations – will be used to support various groups and projects within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community across Greater Manchester via the Manchester Pride Community Fund and the Manchester Pride HIV/AIDS Fund. It will also support the Lesbian & Gay Foundation’s ‘Free Condom and Lube’ scheme and the George House Trust HIV Welfare Fund, who will each receive a grant of just over £26,000. For more information about the work of Manchester Pride and a financial overview of the 2008 event, visit: www.manchesterpride.com GAY TRAVEL COMPANIES FOLD Two well-known gay UK travel operators - Respect Holidays and Throb Holidays – have both ceased trading in recent weeks: casualties of the ongoing global economic downturn, a tightening of purses and higher fuel prices. Gran Canaria also faces the closure of several gay-only resorts. GAYS SHOULD BETATTOOED The chaplain of the London Stock Exchange has prompted condemnation with comments he made on an internet blog. The Rev Dr Peter Mullen claimed that homosexuality was “clearly unnatural, a perversion and corruption of natural instincts” and the “cause of fatal disease”. He went on to say that homosexual should bear warnings, like those found on cigarette packets. “Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH”. 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Instead, the RADIOGA-GAY Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that A podcast-based gay radio service has just launched a new series of shows produced by it will issue regulations to “streamline” the waiver application and aimed at LGBT youth. FYI Radio launched its FYI New Generation series with a live process for HIV-positive short-term visitors. Campaigners claim recording in front of an audience of 60 at the Edge Bar on Soho Square on Tuesday 30 that under the new rules, a short-term traveller must meet 12 September. The venue was packed with a host of special guests and supporters, and the stringent criteria, “that impose unnecessary burdens on HIV+ FYI team kicked off the new series with discussions about what pride travellers and continue to stigmatise those living with HIV. means to young LGBT people today, as well as interviews recorded at Some criteria are inconsistent with current medical knowledge Pride London and Pride Youth Games 2008. 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