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31 MAR-18 APR: contemporary take on sex, Touching down for a three- love and lust amidst the lives week layover only at the of those working in the skies, Jermyn Street Theatre from with sharp choreography 31 March to 18 April, new and an excellent original musical Jet Set Go! will be score from rising talent Pippa premiering in London after Cleary. With no worries about its sell-out showing at last airplane food or the inevitable year’s Edinburgh Festival. lack of legroom, Jet Set Go! The story of a tantalisingly is a delightful fl ight of fancy tuneful and adorable team and a journey you won’t easily of fun-loving cabin crew on forget. Fasten your seatbelts a transatlantic fl ight and and pay attention to the cabin stopover, the production crew please! provides a light-hearted and www.jetsetgolondon.co.uk

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12 FEB-16 JULY: Running for a strictly limited season until 16 May at the Duchess Theatre, Plague Over England tells the story of the actor Sir John Gielgud’s very public 1953 conviction for cottaging whilst starring in a touring production, as well as the surrounding media circus in a very homophobic political climate. Starring Michael Beard as Sir John and Celia Imrie as his co-star Dame Sybil Thorndike, the play – by famed theatre critic Nicholas De Jongh –weaves together its characters’ lives, stories and love aff airs to provide a poignant and relevant commentary on a particularly oppressive time in gay history. www.duchesstheatre.co.uk

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12-13 APR: David Byrne fans can catch their hero at the Royal Festival Hall for David Byrne Presents The Songs Of David Bryrne And Brian Eno. Part of the ongoing Ether Festival, the former Talking Heads frontman will be performing songs and discussing his relationship with producer Brian Eno. www.rfh.org.uk PHOTO © CHRIS BUCK

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cheap, healthy Japanese delights Trendy, chic, gay-friendly café culinary haven near Old Street. Upmarket and stylish restaurant, – great gyoza and… well, for Crouch Hill crowd, serving British/French menu. www. bar and late-night haunt. EATING OUT noodles! £16 per head. Check snacks, main meals and fab loungelover.co.uk Classic British dishes and lots of OUR FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS AND website for other branches cappuccinos. cocktails. Approx. £40 per head. GAY-FRIENDLY DINING OPTIONS - www.wagamama.com Saf, 152-154 Curtain Road, www.theloft-clapham.co.uk EAST Shoreditch, EC2. 020 7613 NORTH 0007. A stylish and upmarket The Riverside, 5 Hamilton CENTRAL community info and fl yers. Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson vegan and raw food restaurant House, 5 St George Wharf, www.fi rstoutcafebar.com Gilgamesh, Camden View, Street, Bethnal Green, E2. – popular with London’s health- Vauxhall, SW8. Great pub food Amato, 14 Old Compton Street, Camden Stables Market, Chalk Modern, contemporary classy conscious and conscientious in upmarket, riverside gastropub Soho, W1. 020-7734 5733. Busy Floridita, 100 Wardour Street, Farm Road, NW1. Huge, ornate restaurant with basement bar diners. Approx. £24 per head. that boasts terrifi c views of the café and patisserie, off ering W1. 020-7314 4000. Large, and lavish pan-Asian restaurant and cabaret room, and fi ne www.safrestaurant.co.uk Thames. pasta dishes and a huge array glamorous Cuban-themed with one of London’s most dining upstairs – modern British of cakes. Very popular with gay restaurant and bar, with regular stunning interiors. Food good cuisine and French bistro dishes Tinseltown, 44-46 St John Roxy Bar and Screen, Soho. www.amato.co.uk music acts and even occasional rather than outstanding, but – approx. £35 per head. www. Street, Farringdon, EC1. Want a 128-132 Borough High drag. Approx. £36 per head. worth a visit for the décor. bistrotheque.com double cheeseburger and Mars Street, SE1. 020 7407 4057. Balans, 60 Old Compton Street, www.fl oridita.co.uk Cheaper at lunchtime than the Bar Milkshake at 5am? Then London’s unique, gay-friendly W1. 020-7439 2183. The nearest evening. www.gilgameshbar.com The Easton, 22 Easton Street, 24-hour, subterranean American cinema restaurant. Free fi lm Soho has to a gay restaurant, The Landau, Langham Hotel, WC1. 020-7278 7609. Cool diner Tinseltown is the place screenings – everything busy throughout the week and Portland Place, W1. 020 7965 from recent blockbusters to open throughout the day and 0165. Grand and glamorous arthouse documentaries. www. night. Traditional British dishes hotel restaurant, off ering a roxybarandscreen.com with Meditteranean and Asian pricey but imaginative modern fl ourishes. Approx. £28 per head. European menu. Approx. £60 per Royal Teas, 76 Royal Hill, See also the nearby Balans Café head. www.thelandau.com Greenwich, SE10. 020-8691 PICASSO © RMN / JEAN-GILLES BERIZZI / SUCCESSION PICASSO / DACS 2009 / DACS PICASSO / SUCCESSION BERIZZI / JEAN-GILLES © RMN PICASSO at 34 Old Compton Street. www. 7240. Delightfully charming café balans.co.uk L’Autre Pied, 5-7 Blandford off ering tea, scones, cakes and Street, Marylebone Village, W1. other delights for an eclectic Bocca di Lupo, 12 Archer 020 7486 9696. Chic, stylish, crowd. Brit camp fabulousness. Street, W1. 020 7734 2223. Gay- upmarket restaurant from the www.royalteascafe.co.uk run, upmarket Italian restaurant, same team that created the opened November 2008 and Michelin-starred Pied-à-Terre The Stonhouse, 165 running Monday-Saturday. on Charlotte Street. Winner of Stonhouse Street, SW4. Lovely Approx. £29 per head. www. the BMW Square Meal Award Clapham gastropub with great boccadilupo.com for Best New Restaurant Spring steaks, burgers, salads and 2008. Approx. £40 per head (or NATIONAL CAFÉ sandwiches. Approx. £22 a head. The National Café at the National Gallery is celebrating the current Bodeans, 10 Poland Street, take advantage of the lunch and ‘Picasso: Challenging the Past’ exhibition by off ering two limited-edition www.renaissancepubs.co.uk/SH W1. 020-7287 0506. Cheap and pre-theatre fi xed-price deals). Iberian menus and a £10 off er on selected bottles of Spanish wine (that’s cheerful barbecue restaurant, www.lautrepied.co.uk a 50% discount on certain Riojas!). The menus off er such delights as Upstairs Bar and Restaurant, with counter service upstairs and Andalusian almond soup ajo blanco, salt cod croquetas with smoked paprika aioli, and crisp 89b Acre Lane, SW2. Hidden restaurant down below. Popular Ristorante Biagio, 189 pork belly with morcilla and broad bean purée. The Spanish set menu is £18.50 and £21.50 for gem and local secret. Critically with visiting Americans, plus the Piccadilly, W1. 020-7434-1921. two and three courses respectively, while there’s also a £10 Spanish charcuterie and cheese acclaimed, eclectic European menu. The menus are available until 7 June. The National Café, East Wing, The National Gallery, odd bear from the nearby Kings Great, authentic Italian food Trafalgar Square, London WC2. www.thenationalcafe.com menu, with emphasis on French Arms! Branches also in Clapham, in contemporary and smart cuisine. Limited choice but menu Fulham and Westbourne Grove. surroundings, spread over four La Porchetta, 141-142 Upper gastropub just off Exmouth to head. Round the clock diner changes daily. Open Tue-Sat. www.bodeansbbq.com fl oors. Approx. £32 per head. Street, N1. 020-7288 2488. Market. Sunday lunch is packed (24/7) popular with late-night www.upstairslondon.com www.ristorantebiagio.co.uk Great value pizza and pasta with Clerkenwell-istas and clubbers – very near Fabric. Cha Cha Moon, 15-21 restaurant, with possibly some the food is top notch. www. Cool when quiet but avoid if WEST Ganton Street, Soho, W1. 020 Stef’s, 3 Berners Street, W1 020- of the biggest pizzas in London! theeaston.co.uk there’s a queue for entry. www. 7297 9800. Newly-opened 3073 1041. Huge, gay-friendly Sister branches in Finsbury Park tinseltown.co.uk Balans Chiswick, 214 Chiswick noodle restaurant from Hong Italian – formerly Linda’s Pasta and Bloomsbury. Approx. £17 Green and Red, 51 Bethnal High Road, W4. 020 8742 1435. Kong-born restaurateur Alan Yau Bar on Poland Street – moved to per head. Green Road, E1. 020 7749 9670. SOUTH Balans heads further out west (Hakkasan). Great selection of the other side of Oxford Street in Fiesta-style restaurant with – gay-friendly service and British soup-based dishes, wok-fried 2007. Pizza and pasta heaven. Little Bay, 228 Belsize Road, Mexican food and a huge tequila Bonnington Café, 11 Vauxhall and Meditrerranean dishes. noodles and sides. NW6. Wonderfully down-to- selection - with basement Grove, SW8. Cheap, cheerful www.balans.co.uk St Pancras Grand, Upper earth and charming restaurant bar and dancefl oor area for and very gay-friendly co- Ed’s Diner, 12 Moor Street, W1. Concourse, St Pancras serving Modern European afterwards. www.greenred.co.uk operatively run vegetarian café Balans Knightsbridge, 239 020 7434 4439. Delightfully International, NW1. 020 7870 cuisine at very reasonable prices in Bonnington Square. Pig out Old Brompton Road, SW5. 020- kitsch, American-style 50s diner, 9900. Old-fashioned, art-deco (particularly at lunchtime). Kenza, 10a Devonshire Square, on three courses for £10! http:// 7244 8838. Very gay-friendly at the Shaftesbury Avenue end glamour at this stunning, all-day Excellent value for money. EC2. 020-7929 5533. Delightful s208303316.websitehome.co.uk restaurant, off ering British and of Old Compton Street, great restaurant from Searcys (who and sumptuous subterranean Mediterranean dishes. Approx. for burgers and milkshakes. also operate the neighbouring Spotted Dick, 292 Caledonian Middle Eastern restaurant a El Panzon @ The Dogstar, £28 per head. www.balans.co.uk Check website for details of Champagne Bar). Well worth a Road, Islington, N1. 020 7607 stone’s throw from Liverpool 389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9. other central London branches trip to St Pancras, whether you’re 5577. Gay-friendly café/bar/ Street station. Arabic interior and Authentic Mexican and Tex-mex The Fat Badger, 310 – www.edseasydiner.co.uk catching the Eurostar or not. restaurant off ering modern and mezza menu – approx. £35 per restaurant and fantastic prices Portobello Road, W10. Upmarket Approx. £40 per head. www. traditional British grub (great head. www.kenza-restaurant.co.uk in the trendy Dogstar bar. Don’t and classy gastropub, serving First Out, 52 St Giles High searcys.co.uk Sundays roasts!). Open from miss the burritos or the taco fi ne British cuisine. Good Sunday Street, WC2. 020-7240 8042. breakfast till late throughout the Les Trois Garcons, 1 Club Row, plate to share. Approx. £14 per roast. www.thefatbadger.com Long-running, gay-run café Wagamama, 10a Lexington week. www.spotted-dick.co.uk Whitechapel, E1. 020-7613 head. www.elpanzon.co.uk and bar, serving homemade Street, Soho, W1. 020-7292 1924. A former Victorian boozer, vegetarian dishes, coff ee and 0990. 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Revenge has been providing resident DJs Stewart T and Smiff y late-night club action for spinning the sounds on level one, Brighton’s gay boys and girls for and Dulcie Danger and Jonny M well over a decade. It’s got a loyal laying down the funky house tunes following from both inside the city upstairs. The night was nose-to- and further afi eld – often being the nipple with club kids, who were fi rst port of call for any gay travellers throwing themselves into the party to the south coast’s pinkest resort. with wild abandon – we hope they The club was particularly busy with didn’t oversleep and miss the next fresh faces on Saturday 7 March. day’s Pride activities! National Student Pride was taking Club Revenge has a full roster of place on Sunday 8 March, so the city event running throughout the week, was awash with gay youth. Revenge and some big dates lined up for April threw a special party to welcome all – including a PA from The Saturdays the students to town, and when we on 11 April (Easter Weekend), and a arrived at 11pm, the place was already guest DJ slot from the Freemasons rammed (no doubt helped by the at the Women On Top session on fact that entry is free before 11pm at Thursday 9 April. Check www. weekends!). Saturday nights go under revenge.co.uk for details.

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TrailerTrash turns fi ve years young this month, and will be celebrating MENAGE A TROIS with a massive Shoreditch birthday bonanza on Saturday 4 April. Putting With three massive events in one weekend, Matinee and Evolved Events will on a ‘Warehouse Rave’ in what they endeavour to make Easter 2009 the most memorable yet, with over 25 of London and tell us is an “amazing new East Spain’s best DJs and over 40 performance artists and stage dancers, and the most amazing End space”, top guests will include in sound, laser and light installations the capital has to off er. underground favourite Jojo De Freq (in On Saturday 11 April from 11pm until 9am, Club Colosseum will play host to the offi cial her fi rst 2009 London appearance no pre-party for the Circuit Festival, with an all-star DJ line up including Oliver M, Pagano, less), along with red hot production Paul Heron and Brent Nicholls. duo Idiotproof, plus the fi rst lady The weekender continues the following night (April 12), when Matinee hosts La Leche of bass, Hannah Holland, techno at Koko – one of London’s most renowned clubbing venues. This white-themed Easter and electronic masters Mikki Most Sunday party will feature special guest DJs G-Martin and Enrico, plus resident DJs Guy (pictured left) and Ian Robinson. Williams, Paul Heron, Pier Morocco, Alessandro and Oliver M, plus the best Spanish dancers The new space will include bars, and London performers. It will run from 9pm until 5am. plenty of toilets, a large smoking area, a second room, and the best sound systems To top things off , the morning of Monday 13th April will see the party return toClub – and if you’re lucky, you might be in for a slice of birthday cake or two. A stone’s throw Colosseum as it overspills into Bank Holiday territory and well into the afternoon for BPM from Old Street Tube Station, tickets are priced at £8 in advance and £12 on the door afterhours – 6am until 2pm. With many DJs zipping over from Koko for a second sitting on and the night will run from 9.30pm until 6am. 73-75 Scrutton Street, EC2. the decks, additional slots will see the likes of Micky Galliano and Steven Thomas adding to www.clubtrailertrash.com the weekend’s soundtrack.

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Traditional MADAME JO JO’S, 8-10 Brewer Street) on 31 March with Saturday night gay Latin and salsa atmosphere, pool table upstairs Street, W1. Long-running, late her infamous BABE party, night. Open 10pm till 3am. www. and BearHug each Friday. night gig venue, nightclub still going strong after nine exilio.co.uk and cabaret bar - open to very years. With all night long KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2. mixed crowd. Home to popular free entry and drinks from FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles 020 7379 4573. Charing Cross Wednesday nighter Trannyshack. £2, your wallet can breathe High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042. tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm, www.madamejojos.com. a well overdue sigh of relief, Tottenham Court Road tube. Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and with DJs including DJP and 10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over stylish café bar (great food!), with PROFILE, 56 Frith Street, Soho, Brenton Harper, plus Dusty 20 years old and still going strong. clubbier vibe and video screens in W1. Tottenham Court Road tube. herself, spinning the best Long-running community café bar. the basement. Popular with Asian Stylish, big gay bar – spread over in pop – both past and crowd. Weekend jazz sessions in three floors, with food, drink and present. You’ll find Escape FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street, the basement. internet access. – and its multitude of video W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly v screens – at 10a Brewer Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec Street, W1. late-night club promotions for a Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303. Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159. www.myspace.com/ mixed, metrosexual crowd. Leicester Square tube. Large, Marble Arch tube. Long-running missdustyo www.freedombarsoho.com award-winning, upmarket gay and huge pub, on two floors, bar spread over three floors, open attracting an older crowd. Open till FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour till 3am daily and always busy 3am at weekends. Off the beaten Street, WC1. Trendy and unique, throughout the week. www. Soho track but well worth checking muscle queens. Frequent intimate basement bar with ku-bar.co.uk out. www.thequebec.co.uk VENUES: exhibitions on the walls and quirky decor and fun atmosphere CENTRAL LONDON great food. – attracts a mixed crowd. KU BAR SOHO, 25 Frith Street, RETRO BAR, 2 George Court, W1. Leicester Square tube. New, WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing 79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road, CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1. G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton smaller sister venue to Lisle Street Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester 020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court Street, W1. 020 7494 2756. Ku Bar, with entrances on Old 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm. Square tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am, Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm. Fri Leicester Square tube. 12pm- Compton Street and Frith Street A traditional boozer for the gay Sun 1pm-10.30pm. Cover charge & Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm. Long- 12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar, - open till 11pm daily.. www. scene’s indie, alternative and after 11pm. Large, cruisy, late-night running and famed lesbian bar. with a multitude of video screens, ku-bar.co.uk student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz bar - always busy after 10.30pm pop tunes and drinks promotions. is an institution. with those who don’t want to head COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton www.g-a-y.co.uk LO-PROFILE, The Basement, home too early. Street, W1. 020 7479 7961. 84-85 Wardour Street, W1. Swanky, RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm. G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard, sophisticated, 400-capacity Street, W1. 020 7292 7141. ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old A Soho institution. Large, traditional off Charing Cross Road, WC2. late-night basement bar and club Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Sun Compton Street, W1. 020 7437 gay boozer on two floors, attracting Tottenham Court Road tube. space – from the people that bring 10.30pm. Large, designer style bar, 5300. Leicester Square tube. a butch and manly crowd. www. 11pm-3am. Late-night sister you gaydar.co.uk. Open 10pm-4am popular with professional gay boyz. Friendly, traditional gay pub - just comptons-of-soho.co.uk venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video on Fridays and Saturdays. www. look out for the purple and pink screens, camp pop fun and cheap exterior! THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, drinks.Gets very busy most nights GUTTER 77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439 of the week. GEISHAS BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street, 1274. Piccadilly Circus tube. Gutterslut is all W1. 020 7734 3342. www. Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat THE GREEN CARNATION, set to return to bar-code.co.uk. Piccadilly Circus noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm 4-5 Greek Street, Soho, W1. East London club tube. Mon-Sat 4pm-1.30am. Sun on Sun. Traditional and fun gay 020-7434 3323. Stylish, Images on Saturday until 10.30pm. Dance bar on three pub over two floors, attracting a three-floored late night gay 28 March, for a PHOTO © RALF © PHOTO OBERGFELL floors, with club-style basement. good cross-section from across venue, with bar, dancefloor “mental, mental, all Comedy Camp stand-up night the scene. and nightly promotions. very oriental” party each Tuesday, and more dance- Attracts a mixed crowd. www. – and attendees oriented sessions at weekends. THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, W1. greencarnationsoho.co.uk who arrive dressed 020 7439 1313. Tottenham Court as a “GutterGaySha” THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun 2pm- HALFWAY TO HEAVEN, will receive a very Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar 7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020 special surprise on 7240 5828. Leicester Square tube. spread over four intimate floors, 7321 2791. Charing Cross tube. the door! DJs include 11am-11pm. Stylish and with regular nights from top DJs, Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat Elliott J Brown, Nic Fisher and Ralf O, plus special guest award-winning gay café regular piano bar and tasty food 12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub Paul Burston spinning the sounds in the DiscoSlut room. bar popular with menu. spread over two floors. Tickets are £6 before midnight and £8 after, and the scene and party will begin at 11pm and storm right through until THE ENCLAVE, 25-27 Brewer HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers 5am. The nearest tube is Bethnal Green. You’ll find Street, W1. Intimate, lounge bar Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road Images at 483 Hackney Road, E2. and basement club, offering tube. Huge, world-famous gay www.myspace.com/gutterslut members-bar atmosphere but club, which is now home to

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SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer gay café bar, spread over four fl oors, Street, W1. 020-7287 7988. and now with basement dancefl oor Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous, and discos. Popular with a youngish late-night bar and club for A-list crowd of boys and girls. gays and celeb-spotters. Open from late each evening. THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1. www.theshadowlounge.com 020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri SWEATBOX, 1-2 Ramillies & Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm- Street, Soho, W1. 020-3214 6014. 1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar with Exclusively gay gym (ground fl oor) hugely popular courtyard area, and sauna (fi rst fl oor), which now outdoor balcony and cosy loft bar. hosts occasional late-night parties LO-PROFILE PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM with a late-night alcohol licence. NORTH LONDON The current Profi le bar in Soho is set to close at the end of April. The bar, which opened Open Sun-Thurs noon-midnight, with much fanfare in March 2007, was originally a joint partnership between QSoft and till 5am Friday and Saturday. THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden Consulting Ltd, owners of the Gaydar brand and Vince Power Music Group (VPMG). It www.sweatboxsoho.com. High Street, NW1. 020 7485 0538. was followed by the launch of sister venue Lo-Profi le later in the same year. However, Camden Town tube. Shuffl ewick the two companies have now decided to split the venues, with QSoft retaining Lo-Profi le. VAULT 139, 139 Whitfi eld Street, Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat VPMG will apparently keep the Profi le venue but it will cease trading as Profi le at the end W1. 020-7388 5500. Newly- 12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm. of April. At the time of going to press, VPMG had not announced their plans for the Frith opened, central, daytime intimate Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat Street venue, but it might well remain as a gay establishment. A spokesman for QSoft said, cruise club, for a men-only crowd. 10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. “Lo-Profi le remains open and is now wholly owned by QSoft Consulting Ltd. Details of a Open 1pm-1am seven days a Long-running, famed gay pub new Gaydar venue will follow soon.” The Wardour Street club is currently open every Friday week. www.vault139.com – probably the most famous and Saturday night – more details at www.gaydarprofi le.com cabaret pub in London, with nightly VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1. DJs and entertainment. www. 020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus theblackcap.com KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfi eld booze. www.londonplaypit.co.uk crowd – hosting various monthly tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745. promotions such as Bootylicious, night door charge. Soho’s original CENTRAL STATION, Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon- SOUTH LONDON Matinee and Megawoof. 37 Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am, 7278 3294. Kings Cross tube. Mon- Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment, THE EAGLE, 349 Kennington Wed 5pm-2am, Thur 5pm-3am, long-running gay pub, with ‘local’ SE1. Gorgeously-designed, hard Lane, SE11. 020 7793 0903. Mon, Fri 5pm-4am, Sat 1pm-4am, Sun atmosphere and character, plus dance club and cabaret rooms, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 9pm-late, Tue 1pm-12am. Big gay bar on three popular beer garden. with eclectic roster of diff erent gay 7.30-10.30pm, Sun 4pm-2am. fl oors, with ground fl oor cabaret nights, one-off promotions, plus Vauxhall tube. Large, club-bar and infamously cruisy cruise nights KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street, cruise nights like Rude Boyz. www. with nightly promotions. Tonker in basement. Upstairs restaurant NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cosy, areaclub.info (Fridays), Berlin (Saturdays) and off ering gastropub menu. www. traditional old gay pub, with regular Horse Meat Disco (Sundays) centralstation.co.uk entertainment, beer garden and BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69, are particularly popular. www. food. One of London’s longest- Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207 eaglelondon.com CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1 running gay establishments. www. 734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, kw4.co.uk days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, EGO, 82 Norwood High Street, N19. World’s biggest lesbian and Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Very popular SE27. 020 8761 5200. West gay Asian music night, running THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner club bar, with dancefl oor and Norwood BR. Sun-Thu 8pm-late, every third Friday of the month. Road, Watford, 01923-441113. mezzanine chill-out space - gets 7pm-4am. Door charge on Always busy and rather unique. Watford‚s only gay pub, with busy at weekends. weekend. Large, popular bar and www.clubkali.com big beer garden and regular club, attracting big crowds at entertainment! www.loadofhay. CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine weekends. COSMO LOUNGE, 43 Essex Road, co.uk Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge, www.ego-southernpride.co.uk N1. Tel: 020 7688 0051. Angel tube. late-night venue for after-hours Sun-Wed 2pm-Midnight, Thu-Sat THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes, 2pm-1am. Long, narrow, intimate N16. 020-7354 2791. ORANGE gay bar popular with locals girls Manor House tube. Friendly, TRADE and boys. diverse gay bar with late-night Three notable gay club promotions, and open ‘til 3am institutions will FAIR ENOUGH EGG, 200 York Way, Kings Cross, at weekends. Very popular with be joining forces Gorgeous and charismatic venue Volupte is to play N7. Tel: 020 7609 8364. Kings Cross lesbians and male friends. www. for an Easter Sunday (12 April) spectacular this month: host to Fair, a new off ering fromNathan Evans (of tube. Bespoke club space on three oakbar.com the legendary Vauxhall venue Fire plays host as Monday Vauxhallville) this April. Expect song, dance, art, comedy, fl oors, hosting occasional gay club morning phenomena Orange collides with after hour’s history and puppetry at this one of a kind production that nights and after-hours sessions ON THE ROCKS, 25 Kingsland prodigy Trade for an epic event that’s not to be missed. promises to off er “a rollercoaster ride through London’s (mixed afterhours every Saturday Road, E2. Underground Shoreditch Fire itself will be unveiling a brand new chill-out area, back passages.” Supported by the talents such as Dusty night). venue that hosts the weekly Trailer while Orange and Trade will take residence in competing Limits, Fancy Chance and Michael Roulston, and having Trash club night each Friday – the rooms in a show down to end all showdowns. Expect the already attracted positive comment from the likes of The THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street, ‘Dirty Eastend Gay Ravebox!’ www. biggest sounds, the fi ercest production values and the Telegraph, The Guardian and Time Out magazine, the show N1. 020-7704 0713. Angel tube. clubtrailertrash.com hottest go-go dancers. starts at 8pm with a DJs and dancing to follow. Standing London’s fi rst ‘gay gay-stropub!’ DJs confi rmed includePete Wardman, Steve Pitron, The tickets are £5, with seated beginning at £10, and dinner Stylish, Islington bar, serving full PLAYPIT, 76 Caledonian Road, Sharp Boys, Steve Thomas, Malcolm Duff y, Gonzalo and is also available. Fair runs on 1-3 April and 1-3 July 2009. food menu and wide range of N1. Intimate, King’s Cross sleaze Dave Cross, with more to be revealed. To book dial 020 7831 6622 or email bookings@volupte- cocktails. Mixed, chilled crowd club – basically a basement The event runs from 2am Sunday night/Monday morning lounge.com - now run by the same team as The darkroom. Open Thur-Sat and will pump straight through until the following Volupte can be found at 9 Norwich Street, EC4. Edge in Soho. 9pm-3am, Sun 3pm-7pm and afternoon. 8pm-1am. Take your own

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TAVERNTRADE Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a men and admirers, on Saturday Whitechapel tube. Recently Performance powerhouse the Royal Vauxhall week. Small, traditional gay boozer and Wednesday. Pulls in 1,000+ refurbished, Moroccan style Tavern has a jam-packed April planned, providing for local gay boys and girls - open customers each Saturday with – friendly, local gay bar. unrivalled live entertainment pretty much every till 1.30am Fri-Sat. uplifting dance anthems and night of the week. Woteva Sex runs each Thursday occasional guest DJs. GHETTO OLD STREET, 58 Old until 9 April, showcasing some of the most unique PLAY PIT SOUTH, 64 Tyres Street, Street, EC1. 020-7287 3726. Trend- queer burlesque performers sharing their deepest Vauxhall, SE11. Sleazy, late-night EAST LONDON setting gay club venue - now in secrets, fantasies and feelings on sex and gender. Of cruise club - no DJ and bring your a new Old Street home! Spread the countless events throughout the weeks of April, own booze! Open Fri-Sat 9pm- THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street, over two floors, with Trash Palace highlights include appearances by Julian Clary and 2am, Sun 3pm-midnight (£8). E15. Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford bar upstairs (open from 5pm) and Ken Livingstone on April 21 for the last of Scott www.londonplaypit.co.uk BR and tube. Big gay pub, always late night club downstairs. Nightly Capurro’s Position, a live comedy chat show. Scott popular at weekends, with regular alternative promotions, such as Kill will also be chatting to Brian Paddick (31 Mar), ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, cabaret, DJs and disco nights. Your Pets (Fri) and Wig Out (Sat). Phil Jupitus and Paul Foot (7 Apr) and Times journalist Tim Teeman (14 April). Also 372 Kennington Lane, SE11. www.ghetto-london.co.uk well worth checking out is regular Wednesday night stand-up comedy night BrouHaHa. 020 7840 0596. Opening times THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth Guests over the coming weeks include Shazia Mirza (pictured –25 March) and Matt vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge. Mews, off Burdett Road, E3. THE JOINERS ARMS, 116 Barnard (8 April). The night takes a break for a couple of weeks in mid-April, but returns for Huge, traditional and historic gay 020-8980 8557. Over 24 years Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739 another run from 29 April onwards. The glamorous Timberlina will host be hosting the pub, with long history of hosting old – small but legendary East 9854. Debauched decadence regular bingo night on Mondays (£1 a game and free entry). Bingo nirvana is assured from cabaret. Packed to rafters on End dress code leather club, open – old-skool boozer popular with 7pm until midnight. The S.L.A.G.S/Chill-out team are sure to be particularly packed out Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday Thur-Sun. Very strict rubber and post-club crowd at weekends. Gets for the Easter Bank Holiday Sunday (12 April), and also throw an extra party on the Easter (S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out). Check www. leather dresscode, ensuring a busy later in the evenings. Bank Holiday Monday (13 April). You can catch more vocal tributes to classic female rvt.org.uk or the facebook group RV wide and loyal following. www. singers from yesteryear at Viva La Divas on Thursday 16 April (with Gill Manly singing Taverners for information. thebackstreet.com KINGS HEAD, 11 Church Babs Streisand, Jemoke Fashola singing Billy Holiday and Miss Kimberley singing Etta Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197 James), while acclaimed performer David Benson will be performing his tribute to Frankie THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place, BISTROTHEQUE, 23-27 Wadeson Stratford BR and tube. Intimate Howard on 28 April. A brand new season of performances from David Hoyle commences SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900. and welcoming East End gay pub on 30 April (till 4 June) – full details next month. Finally, be sure to take note of Frank tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight, Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed, – regular cabaret. Open till late Sanazi’s Extremeist Cabaret (23 April). Tickets for all midweek shows are now available in Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm- gay/straight crowd of trendy throughout the week. advance from through lastminute.com and ticketweb.com - for further details, check the 2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark and metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant, venue’s comprehensive website at: www.theroyalvauxhalltavern.co.uk/ atmospheric gay bar in Victoria, plus separate cabaret room. www. LAST DAYS OF DECADENCE, with occasional cabaret and DJs bistrotheque.com 145 Shoreditch High Street, E1. at weekends, and now an upstairs Old Street tube. Recently opened FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11. theatre space. CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe designer bar and club, decked Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue, HIDDEN, 100 Timworth Street, Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007. out in retro 1920. Host to mixed hosting occasional dance and SE11. Railway arch venue, home 286, 286 Lewisham High Street, cruise nights. to infamous Hard On night once a SE14. 020-8690 7648. Large, month (www.hardonclub.co.uk). late-opening gay pub and club, THE FORT, 131 Grange Road, with regular entertainment, DJs and SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise THE HOIST, Arch 47c, South cabaret. Open till 2am Sun-Thur club, open till 11pm throughout Lambeth Road, SW8. 020 7735 and till 4am Fri-Sat. www.two8six. week, with regular boots-only and 9972. 10pm-late. Door charge and co.uk underwear parties. strict dress code. One of London’s www.thefortlondon.com most famous dress-code and cruise THE TRAFALGAR ARMS, clubs - busy with a men-only 148 Tooting High Street, SW17. FIRE, South Lambeth Road, crowd. Open Friday-Sunday and 020-8767 6059. A spacious, lively, Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube. occasional Thursdays (SM Gays attitude-free pub. Excellent food Infamous, late-night gay venue every third Thursday of the month served all day. Weekly DJs on Friday beneath the Vauxhall railway - www.smgays.org). www. and Saturday nights. Karaoke on arches, host to the likes of Orange, thehoist.co.uk Wednesdays. A:M, Horizon and Gravity. Open around the clock at weekends. JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli THE TWO BREWERS, www.allthingsorange.com or Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road, 114 Clapham High Street, SW4. www.fireclub.co.uk SE4. First Saturday of the 020 7819 9539. Clapham Common month, 7pm-midnight (£7). tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat MEGA MALES! THE FRIDGE, Town Hall Parade, Gay ballroom and Latin dancing 5pm-4am. South London’s most Megawoof! looks set to pull out all the stops as it kicks Brixton, SW9. 020 7326 5100. night, attracting up to 300 famed gay cabaret venue. Large off April at the Colosseum in Vauxhall with its Porn Star Brixton tube. Large and legendary dancers a month to the glam bar and separate dancefloor room. Party (Saturday 4 April). Teaming up with film producers venue - formerly a theatre. Now 1950s-style Rivoli Ballroom. It’s been pulling in the punters for AlphaMale, special guests will include many of the stars home to occasional gay club Crofton Park BR. www.therivoli. over 20 years. of AlphaMales adult films, plus they’ll be handing out nights such as Love Muscle and co.uk www.the2brewers.com exclusive AlphaMale T-shorts, DVDs and gifts. Revolver. www.fridge.co.uk and Not convinced? The night will also feature a “live” show, www.lovemusclexx.co.uk KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street, UNION, 66 Albert Embankment, plus the chance for punters to try out as a model for SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham SE1. 020-7793 9262. Cruisy dance AlphaMale’s HairyHunx brand! THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2 North tube. Mon-Thu 4pm- club which hosts monthly parties Expect the usual credit-crunching prices (with half price BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10. midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon- such as Growl and afterhours party beers and spirits until 1am), plus DJs including Daz, Diddy, 020 8691 3764. Deptford Bridge 1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham Menergy. Plays areas and hot go- Pagano and DavidEph. The night begins at 10.30 pm, DLR. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Fri & video bar, popular throughout the go’s. www.clubunion.co.uk continuing for almost eight hours, before ending at 6am. Sat 4pm-4am, Sun 4pm-2am. week, with DJs at weekends. It’s £10 for members, £14 for guests, or £13 with a flyer Late-night pub with nightly XXL, The Arches, 51-53 Southwark before 11.30pm. Advance queue-jump tickets are also entertainment and cabaret. www. LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington Street, SE1. www.xxl-london. available at £12. Club Colosseum, Vauxhall, 9 Elms gandd.org.uk Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039. com. London Bridge tube. Huge Lane, SW8 5NQ www.megawoof.com world-famous club for bears, big

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