Some of the festive cabaret fare on offer in London for 2018.
How to Catch a Krampus review for Evening Standard
A wonderfully macabre festive production by Ginger Johnson, featuring Lavinia Coop, for Sink the Pink at the Pleasance.
Christmas cabaret round-up for Evening Standard
Oops. This is a bit late to be of any use but, for the record, here’s a round-up of Christmas cabaret shows I did for the Evening Standard, featuring the likes of Barb Jungr, David Hoyle, Jonny Woo, Le Gateau Chocolat, Scottee, the RVT and Excess All Areas pantos, Diane Chorley, Gary Williams, Amy Grimehouse, […]
Don’t let the RVT’s owners close it and blame the community!
The property developers who own the iconic London LGBTQ venue are trying to pin its possible closure on the campaigners fighting to save it
Inside the squatted Black Cap
An exclusive report and photos from inside the shuttered iconic LGBTQ venue the Black Cap following its occupation by squatters
#WeAreTheBlackCap recap – the campaign hits the ground running
From online mobilisation to plans for direct action, links with outside groups to finding a possible new temporary home, it’s been a fruitful first week for #WeAreTheBlackCap
Christmas cabaret reviews for the Evening Standard
Links to three Evenings Standard reviews of cabaret shows for Christmas 2014: Mrs Hudson’s Christmas Corker, The Night Before Winterval and Meow Meow: Apocalypse Meow – Crisis is Born
Time to fight back: six ways to defend London culture from property development
London’s independent cultural spaces are dropping like flies. But we can start to fight back if we come together to inform, inspire and take action
Pride in London round-up for Evening Standard
Today is Pride in London and I did a round-up of events in the capital for yesterday’s Evening Standard. I like how open the Standard is these days to LGBT and even occasionally queer content. For this round-up (which also includes a few entries written by the features desk and included under my byline), I […]
The dog ate my homework
It’s been more than a month since I lasted posted on here. This ends now! Not that I’ve been idle. Over the past month or two, I’ve been keeping BURN‘s monthly residency at Hackney Attic going (that’s the platform for moving-image work by cabaret artists I started in 2010), and doing a one-off mini-BURN […]
