Info about my recent and upcoming activity including responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Duckie latest and coverage of BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom and Bourgeois & Maurice’s Insane Animals.
Review: Bourgeois & Maurice – Insane Animals at HOME Manchester
A review of the acclaimed cabaret duo’s debut musical, based on the Epic of Gilgamesh. Loosely.
Q&A with Bourgeois & Maurice for Run Riot
Edinburgh 2016: end-of-Fringe round-up
Edinburgh 2016: mid-Fringe round-up
It’s been a busy Fringe so far. Here are some of the best cabaret (or cabaret-adjacent) shows at Edinburgh 2016.
Holly Revell on her Transformations portrait series
The London queer-performance photographer talks about her long-exposure portraits, which show artists in and out of drag in the same shot.
The spirit of Easter: ritual, rebellion and rising again
A review of Easter queer cabaret shows in London including David Hoyle at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Pussy Faggot at the Glory and Virgin Xtravangazah at the Black Cap
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
Jonny Woo tells all about his new venue The Glory, opening this week
Christmas is coming early! There’s so much bad news these days around queer and alternative venues facing the threat or reality of closure that it’s a bit of a thrill to be able to report a new one setting up shop – especially when it comes with a pedigree this strong. The Glory has been […]
Another normal: Grayson Perry, Alternative Miss World, Middle of the Road and Alan Titchmarsh
“I sometimes think the most dangerous words are ‘normal’ and ‘natural’,” Grayson Perry said this week in the first episode of his new Channel 4 series, Who Are You? During the programme, Perry interviewed and created portraits of four people whose lives have much to tell us about subjectivity – how we experience the business of […]
