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Culture, luxuriate in some Send your Lord Of The Rings Alan is fi rst and foremost of London’s best boutique correspondence to reviewed, plus news a comedian, and resists hotels, and bring you all [email protected] about Kiki & Herb and the notion that he should the latest scene tips and Wicked be held up as any sort of news. Enjoy, and keep the PAGE 06 role model for the gay feedback coming. MY LONDON community. Perhaps he’s Queer Nation’s Patrick PAGE 61 sensitive to those in our [email protected] Lilley OUTREACH Community groups, PAGE 08 gay wrestling and SHOPPING listings EDITORIAL//ADVERTISING The new LG Viewty and the latest book from PAGE 64 Managing Editor Publisher Nigel Slater OUTNEWS David Hudson Sarah Garrett//Linda Riley Gay stories from [email protected] ISDN: 1473-6039 PAGE 11 home and abroad +44 (0)20 7258 0036 Head of Business Development DIARY Contributing Editor Linda Riley November’s cultural PAGE 68 Adrian Gillan [email protected] highlights in and PROPERTY [email protected] Group Advertising Manager around London Living in Soho, tips Design Concept Rob Harkavy PAGE 14 for landlords, and Splicer Design [email protected] PAGE 12 ALAN CARR London’s latest www.splicerdesign.com +44 (0)20 7258 1936 NOVEMBER shared-ownership Design Sales Executive HIGHLIGHT schemes Clare Willis Dean Houlahan The Soho Revue [email protected] [email protected] Bar’s fi rst birthday PAGE 86 Sub Editor +44 (0)20 7258 1997 and London’s winter MOTORING Kathryn Fox Sales//Offi ce Manager skating rinks PAGE 26 PAGE 35 The new Alfa Romeo Contributors Margaret Tapping FILM OUT THERE Spider and Ducati Simon Blake, Gabriele [email protected] PAGE 14 The Darjeeling Limited, Upcoming scene Superbike Giambrone, Adrian Foster, +44 (0)20 7258 1991 ALAN CARR The Nines and Death highlights for Douglas Mayo, Richard Tonks, The rising comic star At A Funeral November, plus PAGE 88 Michael Turnbull, Steve talks to us about life on coverage of Heaven, TRAVEL Watson, Jo Webber, Emma Square Peg Media Ltd. the road and looking PAGE 28 Bootylicious, Salvation, Our favourite Willis 27 Harewood Avenue for love FOOD Wild Fruit, XXL, Yalla boutique hotels in Photographers London NW1 6LE The new lunch menu and Trash Palace London Chris Jepson, Dick Goose, Phone +44 (0)20 7258 1777 PAGE 18 at Gilgamesh Eoin Whelan Fax +44 (0)20 7258 1787 MUSIC PAGE 90 New releases from PAGE 30 HOROSCOPES Kylie, Freemasons, Seal HOUSE OF HOMO The content of this publication, either in whole or in part may not be reproduced, stored in a data retrieval system or trasmitted in any form or by any means, and Unklejam Inside The House Of PAGE 93 electronic or otherwise, without prior permission from the publishers. Opinions Homosexual Culture HEALTH expressed in Out In The City are not neccessarily those of the publishers. © Square Peg Media Ltd 2000 - 2007. PAGE 22 Smart Lipo at the Square Peg Media Ltd t/a Out In The City magazine will not take any JOHN BARROWMAN PAGE 32 Courthouse Clinic, responsibility for any loss/claim resulting from a transaction with one of our The Torchwood star COLUMNIST PAGE 36 plus the pros and advertisers/ Media Partners. talks to us about his Steve Watson makes TRASH PALACE cons of revealing your debut album his fi rst visit to a sauna HIV positive status ! =C :3BB3@A bT`]\b PSS\Q`SObSRb]]TTS` OaOTSOZbS`\ObWdSb] OZZbV]aSeV]Pcg ON FIRE WZZSUOZ]`PZOQY[O`YSb dS`aW]\a]TbVSR`cUa ;]ab]TbVS^S]^ZS 7Y\]eeV]VOdS THE SEX AND THE CITY ^c`QVOaSRDWOU`OVOdS MOVIE R]\Sa]bV`]cUVWZZSUOZ Enough of torturing us with [SO\a BVWaaS`dWQS sneaked photos from the Wab]PSO^^ZOcRSR set… we want the movie 6]eSdS`R]bVSg now! One of 2008’s most BLACKLISTED `SOZZgbVW\YbVOb eagerly awaited fi lms. 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There is O\RZ]eS`bVSW`]\ZW\S bc\Sa]`bOZS\bbVOb always a better selection of free magazines in London than ^`WQW\UOQQ]`RW\UZg RADIOHEAD bVSgbVW\YbVSgR]- where I live and reading them makes me feel in touch with John, WC2 No longer tied to a record /\ROaT]`abO\RW\U what the boys are up to in the big smoke. label, Radiohead have c^b]V][]^V]PWO Having just entered my 30s, clubbing, clothing and bodies allowed fans to buy their V]eQ][S\]\S]T are no longer enough to keep my attention span for very new album for whatever bVS[O`SOQbcOZZg long so I was thrilled to fi nd your magazine included more price they want from their ^`S^O`SRb]Q][S interesting (and well written) articles, a sensible layout, offi cial website. Fellow ]cb-Ac`SZgabOgW\UW\ a cool property section and the great Outhouse (with superstars take note! bVSQZ]aSb[SO\abVS fabulous websites my credit card would rather you hadn’t V][]^V]PSaVOdS featured). Really great to have Out In The City available e]\- online for downloading too so that when I don’t make it WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT Derrick, Arnos Grove to London I can still get hold of a HIGH REGARD THIS MONTH’S RISE AND FALL copy and plan my weekend. 7XcabeO\bSRb]aOg Matt, Southampton eSZZR]\Sb]=cb7\ BVS1WbgT]``c\\W\UO BRITNEY SPEARS TSObc`S]\@SUO`RbVS She lost custody of her WIN! :50BRWaOPWZWbgU`]c^ kids, was involved in a GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS DVD 0SW\UUOgWaRWTTWQcZb hit and run, and her new AND EROTICA TICKETS S\]cUVeWbV]cbOZa] album’s been leaked on the The writer of December’s Star Letter VOdW\Ub]]dS`Q][S internet… can things get will win a copy of new DVD Girls Will Be Girls, a hilarious ^`SXcRWQSWU\]`O\QS any worse? drag romp starring Coco Peru and Varla Jean Merman, ]`TSO`]\bVSUOg which is being released on 26 November. For more details, aQS\SPSQOcaS]Tg]c` PHOTO © AXEL HOTEL check www.tlareleasing.co.uk. 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Designer Simon Carter has been creating menswear We know that it’s not a accessories and formal wear for almost two decades, top priority for everyone off ering his pieces for sale through the likes of Selfridges. when buying a new phone, His own fl agship store has been a long time coming, but but we personally prefer it’s fi nally here, opening last month in Covent Garden. a mobile with a decent The store will showcase his full range of casual wear and camera attached. For those formal wear, along with his famed cuffl inks and other who share our passion accessories… not to mention rotating art exhibitions and there’s the new LG Viewty, his mother’s own homemade jam! which takes, edits and We’re loving his suits and shirts, and the winter range of uploads exceptional images overcoats, while anyone who ever sports cuffl inks should with its own 5 megapixel check out his range – from the discreet to bling-tastic! camera. The touch-screen Simon Carter, 29 King Street, Covent Garden, WC2. 020-7240 phone has many functions 9456. www.simoncarter.net in common with digital cameras, including the option of manual focusing, a built-in image stabiliser LITERARY FEAST and a 3.0-inch screen. It’s We love Nigel Slater. available from this month He’s a chef and writer on all networks and from who’s obviously all major retailers. passionate about food, but who doesn’t feel the need to resort to novelties or reality TV gimmicks to spread the word. He just quietly sets about experimenting with dishes and writing about the results, in all their goo-ey and seductive glory. Following his various recipe books, and the award-winning autobiography – Toast: The Story Of A Boy’s Hunger – comes Eating For England: The Delights SHOPPING... & Eccentricities of the British at Table. It’s Slater’s personal refl ections on our SAY IT LOUD relationship with food, November’s not all just about Apple’s launch of the iPhone. Gadget geeks national dishes and our are already arguing over whether the new Serenata – from Bang & evolving food culture. Olufsen in partnership with Samsung – has not only stolen some of the Published by 4th Estate iPhone’s thunder, but is an altogether more beautifully designed and stylish and available for £16.99 proposition. It can store 4GB of music (that’s around 1,000 tracks), and can in hardback from all good play AAC, MP3 and WMA Lossless music fi le formats. Additional software bookstores. can transfer music from iTunes. It’s got excellent loudspeakers (as you’d expect from B&O), and you can listen to music uncompressed (unlike many personal music players). A tactile navigation wheel combines with touch-screen operation to make moving between options easy and intuitive. It’s available in the UK from the middle of November. Bang & Olufsen, 50 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, SW3. 020-7052 9292. Additional stores in Chelsea, Canary Wharf, Bromley, Croydon and Blackheath – for more details check www.bang-olufsen.com & =C bZ]`S[ :=@3; ' =C :=@C; bT`]\b =C bT`]\b 27/@G PHOTO © ANDREW CLOUD / HOUSTONGRAND OPERA 2007 THUR 15 NOV: `SQSWdSaWba3c`]^SO\ THUR 22-FRI 23 NOV: ^`S[WS`SOba]cbV =\S]TbVSgSO`¸a[]ab :]\R]\¸a=dOZ6]caS acQQSaaTcZO\RbOZYSR BVSOb`S BVSab]`g OP]cbO`bWab¸a/[g bSZZabVSbOZS]TUOg EW\SV]caSe`O^a ;O\VObbO\Q]c^ZS c^Obc`PcZS\bgSO` AO[O\R/\RgeV] W\bVSbOPZ]WRaeWbV b`OdSZb]EOZbS`2S be]VSORZW\W\UUWUa ;O`WO¸ae]`ZRTO[]ca ObbVS1O`ZW\U0`Wfb]\ O`bW\abOZZObW]\BVS /QORS[g eee :WUVb\W\U4WSZRW\ O[geW\SV]caS Q] cY =C 27/@G bT`]\b HIGHLIGHT EVENTS//NOVEMBER 2007 SOHO DIVAS ;O\gVO^^g`Sbc`\ab]bVSA]V]@SdcS0O` eVWQVeWZZPSQSZSP`ObW\UWbaTW`abPW`bVROgW\ Natalie Williams <]dS[PS`eWbVOab`W\U]TdS`ga^SQWOZaV]ea S\bWbZSRBVSA]V]2WdOa @SdWSe 3f^SQbO a^SQbOQcZO`SdS\W\U]T QOPO`SbTSObc`W\UOeO`R eW\\W\UabO`aT`][P]bV bVSC9O\R/[S`WQO BVSaSeWZZW\QZcRSESab 3\RabO`1O`]ZW\S =¸1]\\]`eV]VOaXcab TW\WaVSROaSOa]\W\=\ BVSB]e\O\R8W[[g 8O[Sa]\S]T/[S`WQO¸a []abOQQZOW[SRd]QOZ W[^`SaaW]\Waba BVSaS Caroline O’Connor eWZZPS8O[Sa¸TW`abC9 ^S`T]`[O\QSaO\Rg]c QO\Sf^SQbVWUVZWUVba T`][VWaQ]ZZSQbW]\]T Jimmy James W[^`SaaW]\aeVWQV W\QZcRSbVSZWYSa]T1VS` 3O`bVO9Wbb>Obag1ZW\S0SbbS2OdWaO\R8cRg aQS\SO\RW\XSQbW\Ua][S Marcella Detroit 5O`ZO\R /Za]O^^SO`W\UeWZZPS;O`QSZZO2Sb`]Wb [cQV\SSRUZO[]c`O\R eV]aQ]`SRb]^bS\acQQSaaOaO[S[PS`]T a]^VWabWQObW]\W\b]A]V] AVOYSa^SO`S¸aAWabS`VOaac\UeWbVbVSZWYSa]T 2]]`a]^S\Ob$ ! ^[ AbSdWSE]\RS`O\R2OdWR0]eWSO\RQ]e`]bS T]`RW\\S`]`% ! ^[ acQVQZOaaWQa]\UaOa3`WQ1ZO^b]\¸a·:Og2]e\ T]`c\`SaS`dSRaSObW\U AOZZg¸ 4W\OZZgbVS`S¸aaW\US` a]\Ue`WbS` ICE ICE BABY The popularity of winter skating rinks in London has grown dramatically over the last few years, with most of the seasonal outdoor rinks opening for business in November. 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Their first three singles have all pointed because at the time of going to press we’d only been sent do.” He calls System a “quintessential” Seal album, which is towards a band that revels in electro funk and pop, and a five-track sampler, andb) This is the Freemasons, the probably just a nice way of spinning the fact this – his fifth Unklejam certainly doesn’t disappoint on that front. Singles current kings of the remix. In fact, could their stock, as studio outing – is very much Seal-by-numbers. That’s not ‘Luv Ya’ and ‘What Am I Fighting For’ kick off proceedings, the world’s most in-demand remix duo, possibly be any actually a bad thing. Who doesn’t have a soft spot for either and ‘Just Like Me’ works a similarly minimal electro and higher? It’s generally acknowledged that they helped save of those aforementioned classics? Even better, he’s found a clubby vibe. ‘Go’ comes across as a bit of a low-rent ‘Toxic’, the whole Beyoncé B’Day campaign, courtesy of their like-minded soul in the shape of Stuart Price – the producer with a dash of Jamelia, while old-skool squelchy synths remixes of the ‘Beautiful Lie’ and ‘Green Light’, while they’re who co-wrote Madonna’s Confessions On A Dancefloor and mark out the atmospheric ‘Touch’. Proving they’ve got arguably responsible for one of the best tracks on the Kylie polished it to perfection. System is a similarly accomplished more strings to their bow (or more programmes on their album (‘The One’ – see above). Here they’ve remixed their set of upbeat, club-inspired ditties. Sadly, there’s still computers), ‘Cry’ goes off on a midnight jazz tangent, with own debut album, and it’s a non-stop tour de force of nothing to quite match the quality of his early global a solitary trumpet reminiscent of ‘Tomorrow’ from the Bugsy contemporary disco delights. More than anyone else, their smashes, but it’s the sort of album that you wish George Malone sountrack. ‘Luving You’ nicks the electric piano from sound dominates many gay dancefloors at the moment, Michael would ditch the weed to create; hook-laden, soulful the intro of Queen’s ‘You’re My Best Friend’, and – although and you’ll recognise plenty of these tracks, from current pop. Highlights include the naggingly irresistible ‘The Right they’d probably hate the comparison – skips along on hit ‘Uninvited’ with Bailey Tzuke to ‘Love On My Mind’ with Life’, title track ‘System’, lead single ‘Amazing’ and delicate a mellow, Mika-like pop trip. Recent single ‘Stereo’ is a Amanda Wilson. They truly do seem to have mastered the ballad ‘Rolling’. Elsewhere, things get a little too saccharine, sublime highlight, as is album closer, ‘Daddy Genes’. “I never art of capturing that intoxicating whoosh of excitement on an album that the singer admits was inspired by his wife meant to make you cry, and I never meant to say bye bye, you feel when your favourite track hits the soundsystem in and children. “I am finally in a content and happy place and I never meant to treat you badly - it’s something that your favourite club… and then mixing it to perfection and to the point where I feel like I need to sing about it,” he I learnt from daddy”, they sing, sounding a little like ‘Miss adding some wailing diva vocals for good measure. explains on the accompanying press release. Although one’s Jackson’ by Outkast. Lyrics are not their strong point, but Unmixed comes with over 150 acapella vocals, drum and glad that he’s in such a chirpy mood, you may want to skip this is one of their more heartfelt and moving numbers. If snare loops and special effects, allowing any budding DJs the plodding ‘Wedding Day’, which we’re helpfully informed this debut as a whole doesn’t quite live up to its influences, to do their own Freemasons remixes. So, expect various he wrote “the morning he wed supermodel Heidi Klum”. Unklejam are at least boldly aiming high, and this serves as versions of these songs to be swimming around the London ‘Kiss From A Rose’ it ain’t. AG a suitable mission of intent. AG scene over coming months! 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On the downside, it’s W\bVSbVW`Rab]`g@gO\eWTS;Q1O`bVgO\RbVSW` just less than three hours in [cbSROcUVbS`TW\RbVSW`QO`P`]YS\R]e\W\O duration, and the storytelling T]`Sab @gO\aSba]TT]\T]]bb]USbVSZ^]\Zgb]PS is rather incoherent and messy. Worth a gander just for the O[PcaVSRPg[gabS`W]caAO[O`WbO\2OdWa sheer spectacle. There’s some talk of a fourth movie, but EVObZW\YabVSbV`SSbOZSa-EVgR]SZS[S\ba we think it best to end this particular franchise here. T`][]\Sab]`g`SO^^SO`W\bVS]bVS`a-7a@gO\]\ OUT: 19 NOVEMBER OR`cUb`W^R`SO[W\U]`a][SV]eZWdW\UW\bV`SS +++++ ^O`OZZSZc\WdS`aSa- BVSaSO`SbVS_cSabW]\abVObR`WdSBVS SOQV]bVS`¸abV`]Oba RObSRaZWQS]TTO`QS +++++ HUDSON DAVID REVIEWS: $ =C b]TaWUVb 3 % =C 4==2 bbVS`S The stunning interior RESTAURANT at Gilgamesh HUDSON REVIEWS GILGAMESH, CAMDEN… Camden View, Camden Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, NW1. t| 0207 482 5757. www.gilgameshbar.com Although it’s been open for a good year now, I hadn’t previously had the opportunity to visit Gilgamesh. Named after the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epic poetry, this huge pan-Asian restaurant opened with some fanfare in summer 2006, and garnered plenty of press for its lavish interior. It truly is one of the more visually stunning establishments on the London restaurant scene, being decked out with ornate Persian and Babylonian-inspired wood and stone carvings. There’s a retractable roof, ornate and crispy squid and garlic chips with adjud sauce. The wooden furniture, a huge central bar with literally hundreds dumplings were a little bit rubbery, but the squid and of different liquors and spirits, while discreet white and red garlic chips were perfect, presented in a paper funnel, spotlights provide atmospheric illumination. scattered with slivers of onion and chilli and served with a Until now, the restaurant has only been open for evening sweet-sour, clear dipping sauce. I also tried a signature duck service, so the launch last month of its new lunchtime and watermelon salad, which came tossed with mint and menu provided the perfect opportunity for my first peanuts, and was suitably impressive. Gilgamesh experience. My partner also tucked into the dim sum, sampling some As I visited on the day that the menu was launched, we delicious chicken croquettes, chicken bean curd and garlic can overlook the fact that the place was largely empty. chive mushroom dumplings. A few more choices on the Given that it was a very grey and rainy Monday, even when dessert menu wouldn’t have gone amiss – there was only a empty, Gilgamesh provided a warm and cosy retreat from mediocre banana and toffee crumble and exotic fruit bowl the miserable autumn weather. The lunchtime menu is dim on offer. sum based, with three dim sum plates for £10. You can also In terms of its dim sum, Gilgamesh is neither better nor choose from the main menu, which consists of sushi, nigiri, worse than the best in Chinatown, but it sure does serve salads and curries. it up in considerably more impressive surroundings. 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CLUBS>BARS>FASHION>GOSSIP>NEWS>TRENDS>SCENES>QUEENS>FACTSA13<3> =CbbVS`S PAGE 38 TRASH PALACE Soho’s hangout for alternative kids has relaunched itself PAGE 42 XXL One of London’s busiest Saturday nighters, XXL recently celebrated its seventh birthday in SE1 PAGE 48 WILD FRUIT Miss Dolly Rocket was just one of the BOOTYLICIOUS attractions at Wild Fruit’s Pirates-themed E3¸@3<=BAC@374E31/<A33B67A:==91/B167<5 birthday bash =<0CB7BE/A8CAB=<3=4B63A756BA/B/@3/ The Vauxhall venue plays host to the monthly Bootylicious – London’s biggest night for lovers of all things hip hop, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM © CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM BY PHOTOGRAPHY dancehall, soca and r’n’b - see page 53 for our full review of the night... !# =C @3D73E bbVS`S TRASH PALACE A=6=¸A/:B3@ Launched three years ago by the late Simon Hobart, “Trash Palace was three-years-old the stylishly eclectic Trash Palace quickly established itself and needed a pick me up,” head honcho as the place for Soho’s alternative tribes and gay indie kids. Tommy Moss told us. “It was looking The intimate two-fl oored bar perfectly complemented sister tatty, and the downstairs had never been venues: Ghetto and club night Popstarz, providing an early popular. Seeing the new look go down so evening meeting point and chill-out space for those more well has been great. The downstairs now likely to be caught reading NME than Heat. has the cosiness that people liked upstairs In that time, the venue has hosted a multitude of club plus loads of extra kitsch, while the 70s Lounge nights and parties, and was beginning to show a bit of wear has transformed what was formerly a dead space.” and tear. Partly because of this, and just to shake things up To go with the new look, there are also some new a bit, the venue’s management recently decided that it was nights. These include: monthly night Fanny (“a celebration high time for a spruce up. To this end, the bar was closed for of all things female”), and the bi-monthly Club Cleavage. a couple days at the end of September, and re-opened with The 80s romo night Sweet Dreams takes place every a scene-packed party to unveil its new look. second Tuesday of the month, while the ever popular Fans will be glad to hear that there has been no radical Club Popjustice and Stardust continue each Friday and departure in direction, and Trash Palace still aims to be a Saturday night respectively. You’ll also fi nd drink promotions home for all of queer London’s alternative types. However, throughout the week, making it one of the most student- there’s been a lick of paint and wallpapering in every nook friendly bars in central London. and cranny. You’ll now fi nd the Palacesuite on the fi rst fl oor, For more details about any of these promotions or club with baroque wallpaper, kitsch paintings and furnishings, nights, check out the website at www.trashpalace.co.uk or and the living room-like 70s Lounge in the corridor to the join the Trash Palace group on Facebook. toilets. Upstairs is the Secret Society Floor, with its skull motif and leather furnishing. Trash Palace, 11 Wardour Street, W1. 020-7734 0522. www.trashpalace.co.uk !$ =C bbVS`S @3D73E !% =C @3D73E bbVS`S ROME @=;30@7<5A/4:/D=C@=47B/:7/< 1:C007<5B=B6363/@B=4B63E3AB 3<2/<2<3D3@;=@3A=B6/<4=@ 7BA@313/@BG¸¬ Rome swept into of giving a little something with how successful the London again at the end back to its punters! night had proved. of September with another The CC Club can “It’s been a great successful outing at the probably hold around success,” he told us later. CC Club in Piccadilly. This 500, and the place was “The comments and occasional club night is comfortably busy. It was feedback were just hosted by DJ Fabio White, quite a mixed crowd, and phenomenal, and and is suitably infused with we’re sure we heard a everybody loved the Italian passion. The CC Club selection of Italian accents excellent atmosphere. is one of central London’s at the bar – the night I personally loved the swankiest little nightspots, defi nitely pulls in London’s crowd, who were being found just off gay Italian contingent. If so beautiful and Piccadilly Circus and fi tted we had any complaint, it’s friendly. Through out in a minimalist, but chic, that the crowd didn’t dress our PR company, we fashion. September’s Rome up enough. Even we dug had many models outing was dubbed the ‘Red out something suitably from the London Party’, so the venue was scarlet from the back of our Fashion Weekend, swathed with metre upon wardrobe, and it would have and we were fi lmed metre of red fabric. Bunches been nice to see everyone by Fashion Music TV of red grapes and roses make the eff ort. That said, [FMTV]. A big thank adorned the bars and tables there were still plenty of you to Brent Nicholls, while leggy blondes on hunky lads in sexy red vests our Italian stylist roller skates gave away red- to keep us happy, but next Sergio Sardo, and the tinged goodies to the crowd. time, we want to see you all wonderful CC Club We picked up a fl ashing red dressing to theme! staff for the huge team love-heart pendant and a Spinning the uplifting eff ort.” Rome keyring with its own and funky house sounds laser, and thought it good to were Brent Nicholls (Crash/ For details of the next see a club not scrimping on Area) and Fabio White Rome party, check its production values, or shy himself, who was delighted www.romeinlondon.com PHOTOGRAPHY © DICK GOOSE !& =C bbVS`S @3D73E SALVATION A/:D/B7=<13:30@/B32 7BA<7 The best club nights Rokka. Afterwards, we always have a very fi rm caught her chilling in the identity, and monthly second bar “with my best extravaganza Salvation mate, Cerys from Catatonia”, quickly established its niche and asked her about the gig. within the gay dance scene “It was great, and I’m in when it fi rst launched back awe of this venue!” in 1998 at the Café De Further catwalk action Paris. It’s moved home a was provided by the club’s couple of times since then, hot totty dancers and drag but recently celebrated its queens - we particularly birthday at the beautifully like the dragster who art deco Bloomsbury performed the magic Ballroom. Each month it wig transformation in the attracts a mixed crowd of middle of her set! buff ed-up muscle boys, It was all soundtracked South American stunners, by the club’s resident DJ drag, girlfriends and curious team; Sharon O’Love, Per onlookers… with a dress QX, Elliot J Brown, Pier code that can be best Morrocco and Luke Hope, described as ‘topless’. who kept the dancefl oor It celebrated its busy all night. Oh, and anniversary with a what would a birthday cornucopia of delights, be without some cake… beginning with guest host which we gladly wolfed Su Pollard adding a dash of down between drinks! campery to the proceedings. She wasn’t the only The next Salvation celebrity in the house either, party takes place on as the star PA came from Sunday 28 October former 90s popster Betty at The Fridge in Boo, who hit the stage for Brixton. For details, an all-too-quick rendition check the new of current electro chart hit website at www. ‘Take Off ’; a collaboration salvationdanceclub. PHOTOGRAPHY © DICK GOOSE | © DAVID HUDSON DAVID © | GOOSE DICK © PHOTOGRAPHY between her and Jack com !' =C A13<3 bbVS`S " =C bbVS`S A13<3 " =C @3D73E bbVS`S XXL B63B3/;/BFF:/:E/GA5=B= 5@3/B344=@BA4=@B637@/< The XXL birthday parties the all-new slate fl ooring from the ceiling. There was are legendary, and it’s in the fi rst arch, along with free, individually-wrapped little surprise that they the brand new bar in the cakes in the outdoor areas, always attract a capacity third arch. Yes, what was and upon leaving we were crowd to the Southwark once just a darkened railway given a free goodie bag with Street arches. XXL is easily arch is now a plush lounge, a free Bearwear vest, skin the most famous bear club complete with mirrors, mag and XXL CD mixed by in the world, and besides chandeliers, leather sofas resident jock Christian M. a loyal London following, and recliners. It’s defi nitely How many other clubs are the night always attracts a great new attraction, and that generous? tourists from far and wide. is helping transform the Talking of music, All those who turned up for arches into one of the most Christian was joined for the night’s recent seventh versatile clubbing venues in the night by special guests birthday party were not the capital. K-Klass, and the dancefl oor disappointed, as once again The theme for the XXL was busy throughout the the crew managed to trump birthday party was ‘007’, night. In fact, every corner themselves with even and we noticed a general of the club was packed, with higher levels of production ‘Goldfi nger’ touch to the bears, muscle boys, jocks and special attractions. décor, with great swathes and just your ordinary bloke Promoter Mark Ames of gold material across the next door – all part of the is continually on a quest to ceiling of the fi rst arch, XXL family. improve his venue, and at and gold, glitter-encrusted the birthday party we noted Styrofoam logos hanging www.xxl-london.com CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM © PHOTOGRAPHY " =C bbVS`S @3D73E "! =C @3D73E bbVS`S HEAVEN INTERNATIONAL =<3=4B63E=@:2¸A;=AB4/;=CA 5/G1:C0A63/D3<@313 E7B6B63:/C<16=463/D3< Guest DJs Chus and Ceballos 7 It’s been quite a year The White Isle’s summer Heaven was so busy for Heaven, with the season is now over, but to and many of their fans world-famous club really carry on the good work travelled from the north making its mark on the laid down by the club, to experience them. It was international club circuit the team have decided to great!” with the opening of Heaven throw a monthly party in Of course, with this Ibiza. “The season in London entitled Heaven being Heaven, that was Ibiza was amazing,” International. Basically, but one slice of the night’s confi rmed club making use of some of the attractions. The 2,500 spokesperson new friendships they forged capacity club off ers fi ve Wilmien Bos. “We, whilst in Ibiza, they’re distinct rooms, each like many others, inviting notable names with their own fans and had our ups and from all over the globe to devotees. Besides the main downs, but for me the come and take over the fl oor, which played host to highlight was defi nitely decks. our Madrid chums and DJ the quality of talent Heaven International Pagano, the Pop Room (in at the Heaven London kicked off on Saturday 29 the Star Bar) was kept busy Tuesday night sessions September, and the special by DJs Big Al and Manny, – the sets from DJ guests were Madrid’s while Terry T Rex and Simon Pagano, Gonzalo and electro house pioneers Chus QB spun the hip hop and White Knight’s Nick and Ceballo. They took to r’n’b in the Dakota Bar. Tcherniak were really the decks at 2am and kept At the time of going to well received throughout their trademark electro press, we were still waiting the season. Ibiza sounds pumping out till for confi rmation of the knows that Tuesdays 6am, while the club’s sexy Heaven International date in is now Heaven go-go’s threw shapes on November – keep checking London night the podiums. www.heaven-london.com and they will “Chus and Ceballos’ for details. be back for music takes you on a more next journey,” reckoned Wilmien, Heaven, The Arches, off year.” “and that is exactly what Villiers Street, WC2. they did on Saturday. www.heaven-london.com WHELAN EOIN © PHOTOGRAPHY "" =C bbVS`S A13<3 "# =C @3D73E bbVS`S YALLA :=<2=<¸A=<:G5/G<756B4=@ B635@3391G>@7=B/<2BC@97A6 1=;;C<7BGB634=@B<756B:GG/::/ /BB63=/90/@6/AC We do love nights that beautiful young belly off er something a bit dancer shimmied on to the diff erent, and that’s small stage and showed off exactly what you’ll fi nd her skills. if you check out the Oak The Oak Bar is more of Bar on Green Lanes for a pub than a club venue, its fortnightly Yalla club and possesses a homely night. The event is aimed and down-to-earth feel. It’s at all those from the defi nitely got a welcoming Greek, Cypriot or Turkish and unintimidating vibe, communities, plenty and once we’d got a couple of whom reside in this of drinks down our necks, particular corner of north we really didn’t want to London. leave. Yalla off ers a really The Oak Bar is a scene unpretentious, party stalwart in this part of the atmosphere… not to world and is particularly mention a fi ne selection popular with lesbians of swarthy Mediterranean from across the capital. types for eye candy! Catch The Saturday club nights it again when it returns on tend to be mixed, with Saturday 27 October, 10 Yalla attracting a real November or 24 November. cross-section of boys and Shinky Shonky returns girls. The DJs spin a mix of to the Oak on Friday 11 Mediterranean sounds, with November, with Lower The the odd bit r’n’b or chart hit Tone (‘a club for people who thrown in for good measure. hate club nights’) runs on On the night of our visit, the the last Friday of the month. dancefl oor soon fi lled up, and we witnessed plenty of exuberant dancing, The Oak Bar, 79 Green Lanes, hand clapping and singing, N16. 020-7354 2791. www. while at midnight, a very oakbar.co.uk WHELAN EOIN © PHOTOGRAPHY "$ =C bbVS`S A13<3 "% =C @3D73E bbVS`S "& =C bbVS`S @3D73E WILD FRUIT B6383E3:=4B63A=CB61=/AB 1:C007<5A13<3;= Wild Fruit birthday to comply with the theme. Freddie Thomas kept it fruity parties are fantastic, This year, their birthday and funky in the R’n’B room. pantomime-like bash was ‘Treasure Island’ Wild Fruit is a breath spectaculars that are inspired so it was all ‘Roger of fresh sea air when awaited eagerly all year … the cabin boy’, buxom compared to the slightly and they never disappoint. wenches, pirates and sea static London scene at the If you haven’t heard of dogs. The top-notch DJs in moment. The punters have Wild Fruit (are you new the main room (Neil Duffi e, fun, the crew have fun and to the UK?), it is without Dulcie Danger and Pete the atmosphere is electric. doubt one of the biggest Haywood) spun funky vocal When the lights came up destination clubs outside of house and club anthems, at 3am the dancefl oor was the capital, although at only and this month were joined still packed, so in the style a 50-minute train journey by true superstars, The of a wedding conga we away, it’s actually more Freemasons. Currently grabbed the guy in front accessible than many clubs riding high in the charts and headed down to Digital in the capital! with their track ‘Uninvited’, (formerly the Zap) for Rebel Taking place at the they treated the crowd to Afterhours and continued huge Tru club, the team’s their own brand of superb the partying ‘til sunrise. monthly parties have remixes and progressive Happy birthday Wild Fruit! become legendary for their combinations. Divine exceptional production hostess Miss Dolly Rocket Wild Fruit takes place values and the eff ort that introduced a PA from scene monthly at Tru (formerly goes in to them, both from darling Peyton who belted Creation). It returns on 4 the promoters point of view, out hit tracks ‘I’ll Rise’ and November with a ‘Prison but also on the part of us ‘A Higher Place’ to the much Break’ party. 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The diff erent areas polysexual guys and girls in up was 20-year-old Sadie feel like separate clubs and London and while queues Ama who was recently it’s easy to move between stretch around the block voted fourth on the BBC them. With quick and outside, inside there are website’s ‘Sound of 2007’ effi cient bars, and ample three dance areas on off er list. She performed two chill-out space, it all makes playing a range of hip hop, beautiful soul tracks – her for one superb night. r’n’b, dancehall, soca and new single ‘Fallin’ and ‘Not reggaetron, Latin house Enough’ – before handing Bootylicious returns 11 soul and disco classics over to her big sis, the November with a PA from with the accompaniment platinum selling double NaNa. It runs every second of live percussion from Joy MOBO award winner, Shola Saturday at Area, 67-68 Albert and MCs like the gorgeous Ama. At this point the Embankment, SE11. Future Brandy. crowd went wild, and Shola dates: 10 December, 29 Over the past few didn’t fail to deliver. December (extra end-of-year months they have attracted For the rest of the night date). www.Bootylicious- WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM © PHOTOS AND WORDS some of the UK’s top the friendly, young, cool and club.co.uk # =C <756BA bbVS`S HIGHLIGHTS SINFUL XXL’s Saturday session all-new chandelier-lit bar free crowds in the capital. is always a busy night, in arch 3 for chilling out Doors are open each attracting bears, chunks and from the main fl oor action. Saturday from 10pm till sexy blokes from all over The outside terraces are 6am, with admission £12 the capital and beyond. also proving popular, and for non-members and £8 Following the success of not just with the smokers for guests. XXL’s Midweek recent parties, the gang are – they’re amongst the booze and cruise session not letting the pace drop most social areas of this runs each Wednesday one iota over the coming huge mega-club! For the from 10pm till 3am, and weeks. There’s the annual Hallowe’en party, expect the admission is £3 (or free for Hallowe’en party this venue to be transformed members). The monthly MONSTERS BALL weekend (27 Oct), which into a gothic fright night for XXL Xtreme returns on It’s all change at Salvation. The next party, scheduled to take place on Sunday 28 will be a celebration of all you ghoulish guys to get Friday 26 October and October, will not be taking place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom – home to the night for the seven deadly sins… down and dirty. Friday 30 November the past few months. The next Salvation party will actually be taking place at the Fridge particularly ‘lust’! Residents It’s followed on Saturday – doors are open till 4am, in Brixton, and will be a giant Hallowe’en bash entitled ‘Gods and Monsters’. Expect the Christian M and John Byrne 3 November by another and admission is £10 (£5 glamour and production values you expect from Salvation to be taken to new heights for keep the sounds pumping session of XXL Leather, with for members). You’ll fi nd this fi rst collaboration with the Orange Group. “After a hugely successful season in Ibiza, it on the main fl oor, more sexed-up visuals and the XXL Arches at 51-53 was evident that Salvation in London needed a change of direction,” promoter Alex Erfan while there’s the one of the best attitude- Southwark Street, SE1. explains. To this end, Salvation will run less often, but the move to the Fridge means that they’re aiming to organise some truly amazing and memorable parties. DJs on the night will include Salvation regular Pier Morrocco, alongside another original Salvation jock: Gonzalo. They’ll be joined by the likes of Luke Hope, Per QX and Jeff rey Hinton. Naturally, all those attending are encouraged to dress according to the Hallowe’en theme. As always with Salvation, there will be a VIP room and Champagne Reception before the main event begins. Doors will be open from 6pm till 1am, with the VIP reception PARTY AREA at 5pm. As ever, the VIP ticket holders will have an exclusive VIP area with separate There’s another busy month cloakroom facilities and a glass of Champagne upon arrival. There will also be coming up at Area. Dates complimentary transport from the Fridge to Fire for all ticket holders, where the to look out for include party will continue after 1am. the Toybox Halloween Advance tickets cost £10 – available now from The Box, Clone Zone, Prowler, special (27 Oct), the return Profi le and Trax. On the door it will be £12 with an ad or fl yer, or £15 for advance of Queer Kandi (3 Nov), joint tickets for both Salvation and the after-party admission at Fire. It’s £15 for Bootylicious (10 Nov) and Salvation VIP tickets, or £20 for joint VIP and after-party tickets. For more details, Matinee (24 Oct). check the new website at www.salvationdanceclub.com The Toybox Halloween Ball (11pm ‘til 6am) looks like being an unmissable event, with the team working Central Street, WC1), a date is promoter Adeboi’s their socks off to come up with an unforgettable party with venue that has been at birthday, so expect the high-production values. Expect their resident sexy muscle the forefront of stylish night to be particularly boy go-go’s to be turned into fl esh-eating zombies for the London clubbing for the kicking. Luke Howard and night, along with werewolves, vampires and other creatures past decade. Discotec Jeff rey Hinton take care of the night. Wicked sounds will be provided by Paul Heron, attracts a cosmopolitan of the Lounge room on Mikey D, Brent Nicholls, Pier Morrocco, Ben Jamin and crowd with two great 15th November, with Lee special guest: Tasty Tim. The likes of Booby Tuesday, Jonny rooms of thumping music Harris in the main room, Woo, Vampira, Russella, Le Gateau Chocolat and the Darling and a rotating line-up of while the Off The Hook Scare Bears will be trick or treating. Anyone who dresses guest jocks. The line-up DJs (Sugarbear, Tyron and up for Halloween will get admittance for just £10, and DISCOTEC for Novembers includes Mr T) will be guesting on the best dressed can win themselves a holiday to Sydney! The best reason for Marianne, Fidel, Nick 22nd November. Anyone purchasing an advance ticket (£10 from Prowler, venturing out on a Tcherniak and Ariel (1 For more details, check www.areaclub.info and usual outlets) will receive on the Thursday night has got Nov), and Ben Parkes, www.discotec-club. night the new Vauxhall Express card, while there are also a to be Discotec. This Mark Westhenry, Guy com or check out www. limited number of Toybox and Trade tickets available for £20 long-running night takes Williams, Kindy D and myspace.com/ in advance. You’ll fi nd Area at 67-68 Albert Embankment, place at The End (18 West Philly (8 Nov). That latter discotec SE11. www.areaclub.info CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM © PHOTO DICOTEC # =C bbVS`S A13<3 #! =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S 9199. Famed and long-running THE GREEN CARNATION, Thursday nighter, running at 4-5 Greek Street, Soho, gorgeous, designer, two-roomed W1. 020-7434 3323. New, venue The End. three-floored late night gay GOING=Cb venue, with bar, dancefloor THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, and nightly promotions. www. TAVERN TALE 77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439 greencarnationsoho.co.uk The Royal Vauxhall 1274. Piccadilly Circus tube. Tavern has some of Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat HALFWAY TO HEAVEN, special events lined noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm on 7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020 up to commemorate Sun. Traditional and fun gay pub 7321 2791. Charing Cross tube. Hallowe’en. Get along over two floors. Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat on Friday 26 October for 12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub Fright Night at the RVT, THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, W1. spread over two floors. with the world premiere 020 7439 1313. Tottenham Court of a stage show entitled Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun 2pm- HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers ‘It’s Alive!’. Lola Lasagne is 11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road your hostess, supported spread over four intimate floors, tube. Huge, world-famous gay by Karl Stevens and Spike with regular nights from top DJs. club. www.heaven-london.com Rhodes, with DJs Dawn Right Nasty and Andy ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1. THE KINGS ARMS, 23 Poland Almighty.This is followed on Tuesday 30 October by a special 020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus Street, W1. 020 7734 5907. film screening of Carrie, introduced by gay writer Paul Burston tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge after Oxford Circus tube. Mon-Thur andTimberlina, while gay comedy night Brouhaha celebrates 11pm. Every night’s a party at this 12pm–11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am, Hallowe’en proper on Wednesday 31 October with a plethora of late-night video dance bar. Sun 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar ‘ghouls and gags’. for bears and blokes. Traditional As for November… there are more highlights than we can possibly EXILIO, LSE Underground, atmosphere, pool table upstairs squeeze in here! However, do keep an eye out for the return of Houghton Street (off Kingsway), and BearHug each Friday. Ursus London on Friday 2 November. The alternative bear night Aldwych, WC2. Saturday night gay had a hugely successful launch at the beginning of October, and its Latin and salsa night. KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2. KU BARGAINS second night is shaping up to be just as popular. Gill Manly’s jazz 020 7379 4573. Charing Cross Not only does the relaunched session Diverson will be back on Friday 9 November, followed FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm, Ku Bar have a great line-up of by Dawn Right Nasty’s Mister Sister freakshow on Friday 16 High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042. Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and promotions and entertainment, November. Dusty Limits’ Kabarett night returns on Friday 23 Tottenham Court Road tube. stylish café bar (great food!), with but it also offers some of the November. Weekly attractions include the brilliant Vauxhallville 10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over clubbier vibe and video screens cheapest drinks in the West End. and Duckie, every Friday and Saturday respectively, plus the 20 years old and still going strong. in the basement. Popular with While some gay bars in Soho Sunday chill-out and Timberlina’s Monday night Bingo. If you’ve Long-running community café bar. Asian crowd. might charge premium prices, never been to the RVT, or haven’t been in a long time, do get the Ku offers Bar £1.50 from along to check it out. It’s once again one of London’s premier gay FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street, KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester Sundays to Thursdays, with ten venues, with a constantly changing line-up of eclectic and arresting W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly v Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303. different drinks on sale for that entertainment. Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with Leicester Square tube. Large, price. You can also double up late-night club promotions for a upmarket gay bar spread over three on spirits for just an additional metorsexual crowd. floors, open till 3am daily. £1… so make ours a large one! BLOOMSBURY BALLROOM, www.freedombarsoho.com www.ku-bar.com Get down to the club on a Friday VENUES: Bloomsbury Square, WC1. Ornate for the Funk You session, when CENTRAL LONDON dance space, home to monthly FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour LONG YANG CLUB, the the basement DJs (including muscle boy dance club Salvation Street, WC1. Trendy and unique, basement, Thai Square, 21-24 the likes of Kris Di Angelis and 79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road, WC2. - check website for dates - www. intimate basement bar, which Cockspur Street, Trafalgar Square. Oliver M) aim to showcase 020 7734 0769. Leicester Square salvation-london.com attracts a mixed crowd. Sunday evening club for Asian the best in funky and uplifting tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am, Sun 1pm- men and their admirers. www. house. The partying continues 10.30pm. Cover charge after 11pm. THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton lyclondon.com till 3am on Saturday nights, with Large, cruisy, late-night bar. Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 7240 Street, W1. 020 7494 2756. DJ JC spinning the best in pop, 5828. Leicester Square tube. 11am- Leicester Square tube. 12pm- THE PHOENIX, 37 Cavendish chart, r’n’b and harder sounds. ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old 11pm. Stylish and award-winning 12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar, Square, W1 (behind Debenhams The Sunday Tea Dance runs Compton Street, W1. 020 7437 gay café bar popular with scene and with a multitude of video screens, on Oxford Street). Straight pub with from 8pm till midnight with 5300. Leicester Square tube. muscle queens. pop tunes and drinks promotions. basement club, which plays host to Dusty O and Lady Lloyd, with Friendly, traditional gay pub. www.g-a-y.co.uk gay indie night Rebel Rebel once plenty of poptastic tunes and CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1. a month (www.clubrebelrebel. free admission for all. There’s ASTORIA, 157 Charing Cross Road, 020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard, co.uk). karaoke and live singers on the WC2. 020-7734 6963. Tottenham Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm. off Charing Cross Road, WC2. Monday night, plus girls-session Courtg Road tube. Huge, former Fri & Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm. Tottenham Court Road tube. PROFILE, 56 Frith Street, Soho, Ruby Tuesday on the… theatre, with 2,000 capacity. Now Long-running and famed lesbian 11pm-3am. Late-night sister W1. Tottenham Court Road tube. well, Tuesday, obviously. Cult home to G-A-Y club nights. www. bar. venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video Stylish, big gay bar, owned by the club night Shinky Shonky g-a-y.co.uk screens, camp pop fun and cheap team at Gaydar.co.uk - spread over runs each Wednesday night COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton drinks. three floors, with internet access from 9pm, while there are film BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street, W1. Street, W1. 020 7479 7961. and Gaydar radio. screenings in the basement 020 7734 3342. www.bar-code. Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm. GHETTO, 5-6 Falconberg onThursday nights. Check out co.uk. Piccadilly Circus tube. A Soho institution. Large, traditional Mews, W1. 020-7287 3726. THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec the action at 30 Lisle Street, Mon-Sat 4pm-1.30am. Sun until gay boozer on two floors. Subterranean, trend-setting gay Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159. Leicester Square, WC2 – www. 10.30pm. Dance bar on two floors, club venue, with nightly alternative Marble Arch tube. Huge pub, on ku-bar.com with club-style basement. Comedy DISCOTEC, The End, 18 West promotions. two floors, attracting an older Camp stand-up night each Tuesday. Central Street, WC1. 020-7419 crowd. www.thequebec.co.uk #" =C bbVS`S A13<3 ## =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S RETRO BAR, 2 George Court, NORTH LONDON MA1 BAR, Central Station, 37 WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing Wharfdale Road, King’s Cross, N1. Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden Intimate, sleazy men-only cruise 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm. High Street, NW1. 020 7428 bar, open throughout the week. TRADE 17 A traditional boozer for the gay 2721. www.theblackcap.com. www.ma1.co.uk Blimey… can it really scene’s indie, alternative and Camden Town tube. Shuffl ewick be 17 years since the fi rst student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes, night of Trade? Yes, it’s is an institution. 12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm. N16. 020-7354 2791. Manor true, and the legendary Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat House tube. Friendly, divere gay bar club will be celebrating RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert 10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. Long- with late-night club promotions, its birthday with a big Street, W1. 020 7292 7141. running, famed gay pub – probably open ‘til 3am at weekends. www. ‘Neon’ themed party on Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Sun the most famous cabaret pub oakbar.com the night of Saturday/ 10.30pm. Large, designer style bar, in London, with nightly DJs and Sunday 26/27th October popular with professional gay boyz entertainment. PLAYPIT, 76 Caledonian Road, (doors will open at 5am and post-work crowd. N1. Intimate, King’s Cross sleaze on the Sunday morning). CENTRAL STATION, 37 and cruise club. Open Thur-Sat The party will take place SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 7278 9pm-3am, Sun 3pm-7pm and at the club’s original Street, W1. 020-7287 7988. 3294. Kings Cross tube. Mon-Wed 8pm-1am. home, Turnmills, and Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous, 5pm-2am, Thur 5pm-3am, Fri www.londonplaypit.co.uk at the decks will be a selection of the night’s best-loved jocks; Fat late-night bar and club for A-list 5pm-4am, Sat 1pm-4am, Sun Tony, Gonzalo, Guy Williams, Kelly Marie, Lady Bianca, Lisa German, SATURDATE gays and celeb-spotters. 1pm-12am. Big gay bar on three THE SCALA, 275-277 Pentonville Malcolm Duff y, Nik Denton, Pagano, Steve Thomas, Stevie B and Tired of cruising on line? www.theshadowlounge.com fl oors, with ground fl oor cabaret Road, N1. 020-738 2336. King’s Tyron, with vocals from Tonnic and percussion by Joy. Expect glittery Looking for Mr Right but don’t and infamously cruisy cruise nights Cross tube. Large former cinema, neon visuals, and a soundtrack that unites old and nu rave, with fancy spending all evening in a SOHO REVUE BAR, 11 Walkers in basement. now huge club and live gig venue additional entertainment being provided by Jonny Woo’s Non-Stop club shyly eyeing-up the object Court (off Brewer Street), W1. – home to Friday night indie/rock Hardcore Cabaret (featuring Jonny, Ryan Styles, Russella, Holestar and of your desire? Saturdate is 020-7734 0377. Legendary Soho CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1 club Popstarz. www.popstarz.org Lee Lee). The Trailer Trash crew will host the 3rd dancefl oor, with a new and novel promotion cabaret club, attracting very gay Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, Mikki Most, Per QX and Mr Cormac. that’s now running at The crowd with nightly cabaret, gigs N19. World’s biggest lesbian and SOUTH LONDON Trade parties might only come around two or three times a year, and Green in Islington. Basically a and burlesque. gay Asian music night, running although the night may be past its heyday, the birthday celebrations dating night for singles, each every third Friday of the month. AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment, always attract a huge crowd of faces old and new. Dress in something Saturday the lovely Timberlina SUNDAY FUSION, The Langley, www.clubkali.com SE11. Gorgeously-designed, hard that’s guaranteed to glow beneath the UV lights and get along to (pictured below) plays host Langley Street, WC2. 07872958660 dance club and cabaret rooms, Turnmills for a night of original hedonistic excess. at this ‘innovative evening of (mobile rates). Check www. COSMO LOUNGE, 43 Essex Road, with eclectic roster of diff erent gay Advance queue-jump tickets are available online from www.tradeuk. luxury cruising for gay men and thelangley.co.uk for upcoming N1. Tel: 020 7688 0051. Angel tube. club nights throughout the month. net and selected outlets, including Prowler, Clone Zone, Trax and women’. The admission charge dates. Sun-Wed 2pm-Midnight, Thu-Sat (Chunk, Matinee, Bootylicious...). The Box – these cost £15 or £12 for members (only from Prowler). of £3 gets you a free drink 2pm-1am. Long, narrow, intimate www.areaclub.info Limited tickets will be available on the door. Turnmills is at 63b and a ‘love label’ (The Green’s TRASH PALACE, 11 Wardour gay bar popular with locals girls Clerkenwell Road, EC1. answer to shag tags), and then Street, W1. 020 7734 0522. and boys. BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69, you’re all set to be introduced Piccadilly Circus tube. Sun-Thu Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207 to Islington’s most eligible 5pm-midnight. Fri & Sat 5pm-3am. THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street, N1. 734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7 THE FORT, 131 Grange Road, singletons. Leave fl irtatious Indie, rock and trash fun on two Tel: 020 7704 0713. www.the- days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise messages on the love board, fl oors – very popular with students green.co.uk. Angel tube. Mon-Wed Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Recently opened club, open till 11pm throughout or let Timberlina play cupid for and alternative club freaks. 4pm-midnight, Thu 4pm-1am, Fri and very popular club bar, with week, with regular boots-only and you, as he’ll be only too happy 12noon-2am, Sun 11am-midnight. dancefl oor and mezzanine chill-out underwear parties. POP PICKERS to make the approach or buy a VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1. London’s fi rst ‘gay-stropub!’ Stylish, space. www.thefortlondon.com Bored with all the usual Friday drink on your behalf. If it’s a ‘no’, 020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus Islington bar, serving full food nighters? Ever thought about she’ll also let you down lightly. tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late menu and wide range of drinks and CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine FIRE, South Lambeth Road, giving Popjustice a spin? The “If you do meet the love of your night door charge. Soho’s original cocktails. Mixed, chilled crowd. Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge, Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube. night is from those nice people dreams, we’ll invite you back for gay café bar, spread over four fl oors, late-night venue for after-hours Infamous, late-night gay venue that run the brilliant www. a second drink together on us and now with basement dancefl oor KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfi eld crowd – hosting various one-off beneath the Vauxhall railway popjustice.com website, and the following week!” and discos. Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745. promotions such as the monthly arches, host to the likes of Rude it takes place in the intimate The dating will run from 8pm till Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon- Future. Boyz, Orange, A:M, Juicy and surroundings of Trash Palace midnight, but the bar stays open THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1. 12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am, Gravity. Open around the clock at (11 Wardour Street, W1). As you till 2am, allowing you to stay on 020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very CRASH, 66 Albert Embankment, weekends. www.allthingsorange. may expect from the makers of later and get to know your date tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri long-running gay pub, with ‘local’ SE11. 020-7793 9262. Large hard com such a website, the soundtrack better. If you’re not in the market & Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm- atmosphere and character, plus dance club beneath railway arches or www.fi reclub.co.uk is ‘pure unadulterated pop’, with for dating, just remove your Love 1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar with popular beer garden. – hosts diff erent nights (Queer every from Rihanna and Girls Label and enjoy the laid-back hugely popular courtyard area, Nation, etc) each weekend. THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2 Aloud to The Killers and Kaiser and stylish atmosphere. outdoor balcony and KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street, BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10. Chiefs getting an airing on the You’ll fi nd it loft bar. NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cost, EGO, 82 Norwood High Street, 020 8691 3764. www.gandd.org. decks, along with plenty of new at 74 Upper traditional old gay pub, with regular SE27. 020 8761 5200. West uk. Deptford Bridge DLR. Mon-Thu tracks and upfront releases. Street, N1. entertainment, beer garden and Norwood BR. Sun-Thu 8pm-late, 4pm-1am, Fri & Sat 4pm-4am, Sun Boogaloo Stu is your host, food. www.kw4.co.uk 7pm-4am. Door charge on 4pm-2am. Late-night pub with and taking turns on the decks weekend. Large, popular bar and nightly entertainment and popular are DJ Storm, Johnnyred and THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner club, attracting big crowds at cabaret nights. Albert Twatlock, alongside the Road, Watford, 01923-441113. weekends. odd celebrity guest. Doors are Watford‚s only gay pub, with big HIDDEN, 100 Timworth Street, open from 11pm till 3am, and beer garden and regular FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11. SE11. Railway arch club venue, admission is just £3. entertainment! www. Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue, home to infamous Hard On night www.popjustice.com/club loadofhay.co.uk hosting occasional dance and once a month (www.hardonclub. cruise nights. co.uk) and now Beatwood (www. beatwoodclub.com) #$ =C bbVS`S A13<3 #% =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S THE HOIST, Arch 47c, South STONEWALLS, 286 Lewisham Sunday. Check www.blue-cube. Richmond. 020-8940 2118. Long- Lambeth Road, SW8. 020 7735 High Street, SE13. www. net for details. running local gay pub, regular 9972. 10pm-late. Door charge and stonewalls.info. Mon-Wed cabaret and entertainment. strict dress code. One of London’s 5pm-1am, Thur 5pm-2am, Fri-Sat THE JOINERS ARMS, 116 most famous dress-code and cruise 5pm-4am, Sun 5pm-12.30am. Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739 TED’S PLACE, 305a North End BONJOUR! clubs and packed with men-only Large, late-opening gay pub and 9854. Debauched decadence Road, West Brompton, W14. 0207 Central Station in King’s crowd. Open Friday-Sunday and club, with regular entertainment – old-skool boozer popular with 385 9359. Earls Court or West Cross is preparing itself for the occasional Thursdays (SM Gays). and cabaret. post-club crowd at weekends. Brompton tube. Mon-Fri from big launch of the new Eurostar 7pm-late, closed Sat & Sun. West Service from St Pancras this JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli THE TRAFALGAR ARMS, KINGS HEAD, 11 Church London cruise club. Sleazy… but month. To coincide the Eurostar Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road, 148 Tooting High Street, SW17. Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197 that’s why the regulars love it! services commencing, it’s got a SE4. First Saturday of the 020-8767 6059. A spacious, lively, Stratford BR and tube. Intimate party planned for Wednesday month, 7pm-midnight (£7). attitude-free pub. Excellent food and welcoming East End gay pub WEST 5, Popes Lane, South 14 November. They’ll be open Gay ballroom and Latin dancing served all day. Weekly DJs on Friday – regular cabaret. Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Large, all day, serving coff ee and night, attracting up to 300 and Saturday nights. Karaoke on popular gay pub with Piano Room croissants, and then hosting dancers a month to the delightful Wednesdays. THE OLD SHIP, 17 Barnes and cabaret bar, open till late at cabaret from Susan Black and glamorous 1950s-style Rivoli Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082. weekends with entertainment as Edif Piaf at 10pm in the Ballroom in Brockley. Crofton Park THE TWO BREWERS, Limehouse DLR. Open from 7pm and DJs. evening. Admission will be free BR. www.therivoli.co.uk 114 Clapham High Street, SW4. Mon & Tue, from 6pm Wed-Sat, throughout the day. 020 7498 4971. Clapham Common from 4pm on Sun. Small, local, WINDSOR CASTLE, 152 Bath Other cabaret this month KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street, tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat traditional pub, with regular Road, Hounslow, TW3. 0208577 includes: The Boy George SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham 5pm-4am. South London’s most cabaret. 6590. Large, local gay pub with Experience (2 Nov), Miss North tube. Mon-Thu 4pm- famed gay cabaret venue. Large regular cabaret and entertainment. Thunderpussy (3 Nov), Lola midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon- bar and separate dancefl oor room. BJ’s WHITE SWAN, www.windsorcastlehounslow. Lasagne (9 Nov), Dave Lynn (16 1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham Busy at weekends. 556 Commercial Road, E1. Tel: 020 co.uk Nov), Lizzy Drip (17 Nov), Crystal video bar, popular throughout the www.the2brewers.com 7780 9870. Limehouse DLR. Mon Waide (23 Nov), Earl Grey (24 week and DJs at weekends. 9pm-1am Tue-Thu 9pm-2am, Nov) and Rose Garden (30 Nov). XXL, The Arches, 53 Southwark Fri-Sat 9pm-3am, Sun 5.30pm- You’ll fi nd Central Station at 32 LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington Street, SE1. www.xxl-london.com. midnight. A large, long-running Wharfdale Road, N1. 020-7278 Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039. London Bridge tube. Huge club for gay pub and club, open throughout 3294. Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a bears, big men and admirers, on the week and legendary across week. Small, traditional gay boozer Saturday and Wednesday, plus the London! Fun, friendly, and loaded for local gay boys and girls. monthly XXL Extreme party. with East End charm. Wednesday’s Amateur Strip is an institution. MANBAR, 82 Great Suff olk Street, EAST LONDON www.bjswhiteswan.com SE1. 020-7928 3223. London Bridge tube. Late-night cruise bar THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street, WEST LONDON (with showers!) for men-only. E15. Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford NEW TONKER www.manbar.info BR and tube. Big gay pub, always BROMPTONS, 294 Old Brompton It’s all change for Tonker. Tim popular at weekends, with regular Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 7370 Jones and his team have been THE POWDER MONKEY, 1 King cabaret, DJs and disco nights. 1344. Earls Court tube. Big, long- off ered the Friday night slot William Walk, Greenwich SE10. running gay pub and club, open at the Eagle (South Central) 020 8293 5928. Greenwich BR THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth late throughout week. Regular in Vauxhall. Therefore, they and tube. Stylish, designer gay bar Mews, off Burdett Road, E3. cabaret and club nights. have decided to call it a day spread over three fl oors. 020-8980 8557. Over 20 years old at Barcode. “After four years – small but legendary dress code COLEHERNE, 261 Old Brompton working with Barcode it’s with ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, leather club, open Thur-Sun. Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 7244 a tear in our eye that we say 372 Kennington Lane, SE11. 5951. Earls Court tube. Noon- ‘Thank You’ to a fantastic venue 020 7840 0596. Opening times THE BLACK HORSE, 168 Mile midnight. Larfge and legendary and their staff for all the support vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge. End Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 pub. The spit’n’sawdust feel has and fun we have had. Tonker Lite Huge, traditional and historic gay 1684. Mile End tube. Mon-Thurs gone, but still popular with mixed is moving its fantastic Thursday pub, with long history of hosting 8pm-1am, Fri-Sat 8pm-3am, Sun crowd of male drinkers. G-A-Y AWARDS Nights to a new night and cabaret. Packed to rafters on 8pm-1am. Late-opening,East End There are a couple of very special events lined up at G.A.Y (The venue, to bring you the party Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday (the cabaret bar and disco. THE CULVERT, 54 Cowley Mill Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, WC2) this month. For a start, you night everyone has been asking post-club Chill-Out). Road, Uxbridge. 01895 256 690. can catch PAs from McFly (pictured) and Girls Aloud. McFly will us for!” BISTROTHEQUE, 23-27 Wadeson Uxbridge tube. Mon-Wed 4pm-1am, be performing on Saturday 3 November, ahead of the release of their So, goodbye to Tonker Lite on SOUTH CENTRAL, 349 St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900. Thu noon-2am, Fri & Sat noon-3am, Greatest Hits DVD, so expect a set packed with chart smashes. They’re Thursdays and Bearcode on Kennington Lane, SE11. 020 7793 Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed, Sun 3pm-1am. Regular discos, cabaret, followed on Saturday 17 November by Girls Aloud, who always put on Mondays, and hello to Tonker 0903. Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat gay/straight crowd of trendy karaoke and one-off events. a great show for the G-A-Y hordes. Fridays at The Eagle. 9pm-late, Tue 7.30-10.30pm, Sun metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant, www.theculvert.com The really big event at the club though will be the inaugural G-A-Y This new Tonker session will be 4pm-2am. Vauxhall tube. Large, plus separate cabaret room. Awards, which will be taking place on Thursday-Friday 29-30 launched on Friday 2 November, club-bar with nightly promotions. THE HOPE & ANCHOR, 20 November, and will subsequently be screened on Sky One on with goodie bags, prizes and Horse Meat Disco (Sundays) is CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe Macbeth Street, Hammersmith, Saturday1 December. The awards are to commemorate the 15th porn star guests. Doors will be particularly popular. Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007. W6. (contact mobile anniversary of the club and the 20th anniversary of World AIDS open from 9pm till 3am, with Whitechapel tube. Recently - 07858281995). New gay pub Day. They will be voted for by fans of the club – check out www. admission free before 10pm. THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place, refurbished, Moroccan style for Hammersmith and Chiswick. g-a-yawards.co.uk for more details and the chance to vote. With You’ll fi nd The Eagle at 349 SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria – friendly, local gay bar. Traditional boozer with nightly award winners expected to turn up on the nights, you can expect Kennington Lane, SE11. For tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight, entertainment – open noon- some stellar appearances and PAs. At the time of going to press, more details, www.tonker.co.uk Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm- FABRIC, 77a Charterhouse Street, 11pm throughout week. return performances from Sugababes and Sophie Ellis Bextor had 2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark EC1. 020-7749 1199. Big, trendy already been confi rmed! 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An hate crime initiative between local police, the council & victim support. Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group: 020 8952 0137. THT SUPPER FUNDRAISER RECEIVES Kairos: 020 7437 6063, www. GLAM APPEAL FROM PUPPINI SISTERS kairosinsoho.org.uk. 9 Archer St, London W1D 7AZ. The annual Terrence Higgins Trust Supper Club, on Tuesday 6 November, sees 50 chic dinner parties taking place simultaneously in the capital’s best restaurants and private homes. After dinner, guests will be chauff eur driven to Lesbian Gay Christian a fabulous party at Café de Paris for Grey Goose vodka cocktails, champagne and an exclusive performance by the Movement: 020 7739 1249, 1940s inspired group, the Puppini Sisters. Star chef Angela Hartnett said “I’ve been supporting the Supper Club for [email protected]/www.lgcm. several years now. It’s a great event and THT does fantastic work, so I’m happy to get involved. It’s wonderful to org.uk. see so many great London restaurants pulling together for a good cause.” In previous years, hosts and guests at the Supper Club have included Ewan McGregor, Erin O’Connor, Jodie and Jemma Kidd, Lily Cole, Jasmine Guinness, Lesbian and Gay Jacquetta Wheeler, June Sarpong and Tracey Emin (pictured left). Immigration Group: 020 7922 7811, www.uklgig.org.uk. All restaurants and caterers involved have donated their services free of charge to raise funds for THT. For tickets meetings once a month. and info, contact Becky Harris at THT on [email protected]; or call 020 7812 1663. $ =C b`SOQV 1=;;C<7BG $! =C <3EA b\Sea NEWS FLASHES UK NEWS DAYS NUMBERED FOR HOMO-HATEMONGERS The Government has announced its intention to include the criminal off ence of ‘incitement to homophobic hatred’ in the new Criminal Justice & Immigration Bill. 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Meantime, the Government minutes with delegates, campaigners and party workers at has published pioneering new guidance for teachers, ‘Prevent- the queer do – perhaps some consolation for the solitary ing and Responding to Homophobic Bullying in Schools’ - also fl eeting reference to sexuality in his main platform speech. commissioned from Stonewall. Pictured (left to right): Christine Farnish, Public Policy Director, Barclays; Ben Summerskill, Stonewall; PM Gordon THT PROMOTES DRUGFUCKED; AND STARTS Brown; Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour TESTING IN SAUNAS Party and Equality Secretary; and Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust has launched “Drugfucked” - a new drive new Commission for Equality and Human Rights. Stonewall to explain how diff erent drugs infl uence health and risky sexual hosted similar events and receptions at the Lib Dem and behaviour, and may impact on HIV medications. 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This particular selection by Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell, are 1960s inspired and thus seemingly retro without WILLIS EMMA WORDS: being overly kitsch: the perfect combination if you ask us. RRP £116 www.kartell.it REUSABLE BAG | STUFF SOFA | MODUS Also featured at 100% Design London were these Like this Pleats Sofa, all the goods on off er handy little Stuff bags, which fold fl at for easy at Modus Furniture epitomize contemporary transportation when not in use. They’re fun, colourful, urban furniture design; it’s versatile, durable, strong and multi-purpose claim the manufacturer desirable and one of many reasons why the – which we can vouch for – but they’re also a bit company’s been shortlisted for ‘Best British Design cool, hence the spot on this month’s shopping list! Brand’ in the Elle Decoration Design Awards 2007. 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RRP £ on request www.zero.se CHAT CHAIR | CHAIR BALTIC The work of Danish designer Jakob Wagner, Chat is made from a single piece of folded plywood to ensure the welcoming round shape of the chair, which is both fashionable and extremely comfortable. Although pricey, Chat’s unique form will put an individual stamp on just about any interior theme. RRP £ on request FABRIC SELECTION | BUTE www.chairbaltic.com Designed and manufactured on the Scottish Isle of Bute, this highly desirable selection of dobby woven specialty fabrics are ideal for upholstery and furnishings. Whether you’re looking to revamp an old sofa or make your own curtains, the choice on off er here is fi rst class. RRP £ various depending on fabric choice and length www.butefabrics.co.uk DESK LAMP | BRADSHAW ANGLEPOISE This fl at Fifty lamp by Anthony Dickens is the latest off ering from visionary lighting architects Anglepoise, and was created to carve out a slice of the younger market for the brand. 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The an hour, and the side sophisticated Blue&Me 2.2 JTS-engined Spider THE RIDE OF YOU LIFE – FROM view is made all the more hands-free infotelematic handles well and the £200 A MONTH dynamic by the concave system; a bi-zone automatic lightweight four-cylinder surfaces and muscular climate control; a Connect unit pulls lustily but does 02DUCATI IS PULLING OUT THE STOPS SO wheel arches. Unlike NAV+ with 6.5” display and not feel especially sporting THAT RIDERS IN THE UK HAVE NO REASON Aailable on-the-road from £25,995. For further previous versions, the new bird-view function and a in character, possibly NOT TO BUY THE EXCITING NEW 1098 MODEL. information visit www.alfaromeo.co.uk Alfa’s tail end lives up to gutsy Bose® sound system. blunted by the car’s Not only has the Bologna-based factory the rest of the car’s styling The system allows drivers considerable weight. The increased supplies of the Superbike with brooding rear lights, with a Bluetooth® mobile absence of the customary, in the UK, Ducati Finance has also fat rear tyres, four paired phone to use the telephone crisp Alfa exhaust note is announced a Personal Contract Purchase exhaust pipes and the word even if it is in a jacket or a also sadly lacking, although (PCP) scheme that makes acquiring a Spider scrawled confidently bag, automatically lowering theV6-engined Spider more 1098 more affordable. across the middle of the the radio volume (when than makes up for this with Ducati’s PCP scheme means you can boot. this is on) and routing the the most exquisitely blood- own the sexy ride from £200 per month. In the best Italian tradition user’s voice through the curling wail you’ll ever hear All dealers currently have a 1098 on the styling of the new stereo speakers. Clever. outside of a Ferrari! their demo fleets for customers to ‘try Spider includes some before they buy’ ,and test riding any ‘romantic’ elements such as Ducati will allow you to enter a draw to the fold-away lightweight OUR VERDICT win a hospitality day at the final round hood, languid, of the British Superbike season and heavy-lidded headlamp Looks are a big deciding factor for convertible buyers, but ultimately a chance to win a Monster ‘eyes’, the chic and they are not the only attribute we look for when making S2R in Airwaves colours. So, what are sporty interior and those a decision. The Spider holds a lot of promise, thanks to a you waiting for? curvaceous wheel arches small, but interesting, range of engines including one of Alfa For information visit: www.ducatiuk.com borrowed from the famous Romeo’s charismatic V6 units. Only time will tell if this latest Giulietta Spider. Spider will be another classic Alfa. 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Dubbed the “Florida of Europe” for its year-round sun and vast, spotless beaches – many of them gay or naked or both – the sizable queer quarter has evolved in the cute Old Town. Where else? GRAN CANARIA All year round sun-drenched Gran Canaria emerges from the Atlantic’s warm currents just west of southern Morocco and a mere four hour flight from Blighty. This Spanish island’s two most popular gay resorts are Playa del Ingles, with its famous Yumbo Centre - a multi-story gay bar/club/shop multiplex like no other, and Maspalomas, with its infamous nude and cruisy Sahara-style dunes and beaches - where sand gets everywhere. Both offer hot weather, even hotter guys and a shopping bonanza. 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Like other Scorpios, be snooty or dismissive. irreversible damage he is driven by 23 OCT-21 NOV Although work at the moment strong passions 22 NOV-21 DEC It’s so easy for you to get SCORPIO seems to be a maze without and instinctive SAGITTARIUS bored Sagittarius, but rather a map, you can guide yourself urges. On the than fi lling your nights with through the politics and problems using your intuition and a little downside, Scorpios pointless television shows, why not use your intellectual powers to do sneaky intelligence. Try to see the bigger picture and use every but can sometimes something more interesting and challenging? Even if it’s just doing a resource available. You’re not selling out if you play the game – look be secretive or quick to pub quiz or a trip to the theatre – get off the couch and start making upon it as just using your head to better your life. hide their feelings. use of your brain this autumn! 22 DEC-19 JAN 20 JAN-18 FEB 19 FEB-20 MAR 21 MAR-19 APR 20 APR-20 MAY 21 MAY-21 JUN CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES ARIES TAURUS GEMINI A project you’re working on If you feel uncomfortable at There’s a real boost to your You may desire a degree of input Instead of being suspicious of Your exceptional powers of may seem to be going nowhere the thought of staying in your self-confi dence just around into some creative endeavour new people, maybe you should communication may be put to Capricorn, but instead of walking current relationship, then the corner Pisces. You’ve been you’ve recently embarked upon, get to know them and possibly the test when you meet someone away and complaining about maybe you need to closely down for a little while, so a jolt but try not to be too hurt if welcome them into your circle of as cunning and eloquent as how unfair it all is, just step back examine what it is that you is something you could really do you don’t receive the accolades friends. As the old saying goes, yourself, Gemini. Rather than from it and give yourself some get from it. Maybe it’s time to with just now. Instead of over- you’ve been expecting. Be ready you can never have too many spurning or fi ghting them it may time to think it over. A diff erent request some changes, or to cut stretching yourself, concentrate for opinions from some that may friends. It might also open up be benefi cial to each of you if approach may be just what your losses and move on. Don’t on just keeping your head above sting your pride a little. Don’t opportunities for romance… your pool your resources to meet you need to solve a previously stay put just because it’s easy water and fate will take care of ignore the good advice that will which could now be closer than a common goal. This could be the unworkable problem. and convenient. the rest. be among the barbs. you imagine. start of a beautiful friendship. ' =C bTWb :743ABG:3 ' :743ABG:3 =CbTWb ' =Cb TWb /2D3@B=@7/: SMART LIPO :=<2=<¸A1=C@B6=CA31:7<71<=E=443@A/:3AA 7 laser under the skin. When the tummy area had been fi nished, the Doctor put small plasters over the incision marks, which were actually hardly bleeding at all. He then moved onto the love handles on my sides and exactly the same sensations were felt. Just one tiny incision either side just above my waist line and he repeated the treatment working on my sides moving towards my ‘fat back’ area! On a scale of 1-10 I’d rate the pain factor during the infi ltration of the anesthetic stage maybe 5 and afterwards 2 or 3. The procedure took around 2-3 hours. AFTER THE TREATMENT I relaxed in the clinic for around an hour and had a cup of tea and then left to go home. The clinic staff wanted to book me a taxi to go home but I actually left the clinic to walk for a cab and actually ended up jumping on bus home! I really felt that fi ne. An hour later, a member of the medical team called me on my phone to check I was feeling OK and the following day I also received a call from them. I only really felt a tugging-type pain when I twisted or reached up high – it was actually fi ne and I worked from home, sat upright in chair working on computer with no pain at all. I could see an immediate reduction. My partner noticed straight away, although initially I was swollen from the µ7VOdSOZeOgab`WSRVO`Rb]SObQO`STcZZgO\R THE TREATMENT surgery. This only really lasted for a day or so. The area of `SUcZO`Zge]`YSR]cbObbVSUg[ 6]eSdS`7 skin on my tummy felt a little loose and ‘sloshy’ but I was OZeOgaVOROabcPP]`\O`SO]TTOb]\[gbc[[g assured this was normal, as the collagen ‘kicks in’ and the O\ReVOb7bV]cUVb]TOa·aWRSaORRZSa¸eVWQV I was relaxed, but started to feel nervous when I saw the area tightened up as the fat was starting to be expelled. aSS[b]`c\W\[gTO[WZg /a[gX]PPSQO[S operating table in the treatment room. Dr Andre and his The fat is broken down and expelled via the liver (like a PcaWS`O\R7a^S\b[]`SbW[Sb`OdSZZW\UWbPSQO[S nurse explained everything they were going to do, which normal waste product) then my wee was a little cloudy []`SRWTTWQcZbb]TW\RbW[Sb]e]`Y]cbObbVS put me at ease. They were brilliant, and very easy and for a few days afterwards – but I certainly did not notice Ug[O\RUS\S`OZZgSfS`QWaS ;gRWSbPSQO[S friendly to talk to. I talked throughout my treatment and I anything unpleasant though. S``ObWQRcSb]OZZbVSb`OdSZ 7e]cZRbVW\YOP]cb was told what to expect at every stage. My waist size has dropped from 33” to 30” and I can wear WbQ]\abO\bZgO\RTSSZUcWZbgbVOb7Q]cZR\]bTW\R Dr Andre prepared me for surgery by injecting me with fi tted shirts and tops without any ‘stretching’ at the sides! I bW[Sb]SfS`QWaS a local anesthetic in the areas where he made the tiny have more body confi dence now. ;gT`WS\Rae]cZRbSZZ[S\]bb]e]``gO\R incisions (the only pain was felt at this stage but more I don’t regret my decision on any level. I was very happy to bVObbVS^`]PZS[eOaOaWRSSTTSQb]TUSbbW\U of a scratch as the anesthetic was injected and certainly have such an innovative treatment and I my only regret is ]ZRS`Pcb7e]cZRZ]]YObT`WS\Ra[gOUSbVObVOR tolerable). I felt relaxed and confi rmed the areas were that this treatment hadn’t been available years ago! U`SObP]RWSaO\RY\]ebVObeOa\]bS\bW`SZgb`cS numb. EVS\7T]c\R]cbOP]cbA[O`b:W^]Wba]c\RSR As soon as the anesthetic had taken hold, Dr Andre fi rstly OZ[]abb]]U]]Rb]PSb`cS³dW`bcOZZg\]^OW\ made two tiny incisions (1.5mm I was informed) inside FINANCIAL [W\W[OZPZSSRW\UO\RaQO``W\UO\RbVS[OX]` my belly button on either side. He was then able to inject W\QS\bWdSeOa\]R]e\bW[SO\R\]V]a^WbOZabOg deeper parts of my stomach with the anesthetic and so OaWbRWR\]b`S_cW`SOUS\S`OZO\SabVSbWQ 7VOdS make sure it was evenly distributed in the areas that he How much did the treatment cost? In total it was £3,500. OdS`gPcagX]PO\RQO\\]bOTT]`Rb]bOYSbe] would work on with the laser. It was a strange sensation One area cost £2,000 (upper/lower tummy) and additional eSSYa]TTe]`Yb]`SQ]dS` that felt like a pulling and pushing motion. The laser sides (love handles) were £1,500 as I had both areas treated 7`SaSO`QVSRbVS^`]QSRc`SbV]`]cUVZgO\R was then inserted, which again felt strange, and a warm on same day. I was going to have to save but CHC have eOa[ORSb]TSSZQ][T]`bOPZSO\R`SOaac`SR – sometimes hot – sensation could be felt as the laser a great arrangement with a Medical Loans Company so I OP]cbWbObbVSQ]\acZbObW]\abOUSeWbV2` broke down the fat cells with a faint dull pain. When I actually paid on interest free credit. /\R`SOb1]c`b6]caS1ZW\WQW\EW[^]ZSAb`SSb winced slightly the Doctor and nurse noticed immediately =PdW]caZgO\g[SRWQOZ^`]QSRc`S^`]RcQSa and either slowed down or added slightly more anesthetic, TSSZW\Ua]TO\fWSbgPcb7eOaW\T]`[SR]TOZZbVS which was very comforting. Dr Andre moved the laser in For more details, call Courthouse on 0845 5555 050. ^]bS\bWOZaWRSSTTSQbaO\RVO^^gb]^`]QSSR rapid steady motions and you could see the light from the www.courthouseclinic.com '! 63/:B6 =CbTWb BETTER OUT Sugar man Sean gets to work! THAN IN? GORDON MUNDIE FROM TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST DISCUSSES THE PROS AND CONS OF BEING OPENLY +VE IN THE UK IN 2007. IS IT TO BENEFIT ONESELF, OR MAINLY OTHERS? 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