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HUDSON’S LETTER
I love J Alexander. His
all-too-brief appearances
on America’s Next Top
Model are one of the best
reasons for watching the
show. Rarely has a gay man
strutted across our scenes
seemingly caring less what
anyone thinks about him.
Even in the often ridiculous
world of fashion, he is,
simply, unique. Growing
up in a poor suburb of New
York, he decided to reinvent
himself as a Paris couture
model… and wasn’t
going to allow the fact
that he was a 6’4” black
man hold him back from
realising his ambitions. You
have to admire that sort of
determination.
There’s a lot of talk about
good and bad role models
on the gay scene, with
many complaining that
mainstream TV only likes to
promote camp guys as the
acceptable face of gayness.
J Alexander hasn’t set out
to represent anyone but
himself, but his simple and
dignified decision to live
life on his own terms is an
inspiration to us all. It was
a pleasure to chat with him
for Out In The City.
Elsewhere this issue,
we catch up with Annie
Lennox, preview a whole
heap of exciting events
coming to the capital this
April, and bring you a taster
of this year’s biggest Pride
festivals. Enjoy.
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J ALEXANDER
CONTENTS
PAGE 04
LETTERS
Send your
correspondence to
[email protected]
PAGE 06
MY LONDON
Stand-up comic Scott
Capurro
PAGE 09
DIARY
April’s cultural
highlights in and
around London
PAGE 16
SHOPPING
Soho’s new G-Star store
and Toshiba’s pocketsized HD camcorder
PAGE 20
J ALEXANDER
The catwalk coach
and America’s Next
Top Model judge talks
exclusively to Out In
The City
PAGE 26
COLUMNIST
Den Maloney ponders
the Shoreditch/
Vauxhall divide
PAGE 28
MUSIC
New albums from The
Kooks, Mariah Carey
and The Breeders
PAGE 30
ANNIE LENNOX
As she launched a new
documentary about
the AIDS epidemic in
Africa, we share an
exclusive chat with the
iconic singer
PAGE 32
FILM
Son of Rambow,
Forgetting Sarah
Marshall, Funny Games
and Awake reviewed
PAGE 36
THEATRE
Plague Over England
reviewed plus the
latest theatre news
PAGE 38
JERSEY BOY
We catch up with
Simon Adkins from hot
new musical Jersey
Boys
PAGE 58
PETE BURNS AND
DUSTY ‘O’ AT CIRCUS
PAGE 75
OUTREACH
Ever considered
volunteering?
We suggest some
worthwhile
community projects
that could fill your
time
PAGE 78
OUTNEWS
Gay stories from home
and abroad
PAGE 40
FOOD
Acorn House reviewed
PAGE 45
OUT THERE
Upcoming scene
highlights for April,
plus coverage of
Trade last’s dance at
Turnmills, the relaunch
of Area, Heaven, Work, PAGE 50
AREA
Circus and the Royal
Vauxhall Tavern
PAGE 82
PROPERTY
Living in Covent
Garden and the latest
home-ownership
schemes
PAGE 104
MOTORING
We test drive the new
Mazda CX-7
PAGE 106
TRAVEL
This year’s big Pride
festivals, both at home
and abroad, plus travel
news
PAGE 110
HOROSCOPES
PAGE 113
HEALTH
Micro-dermabrasion at
Renew Medica, reader
offers at dental-Spa,
plus the dangers of
taking party drugs and
unsafe sex
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ON FIRE
THE TING TINGS
GAVIN & STACEY
OK, we’re late converts,
having only discovered this
gem as the second series
made its debut on BBC3. If
you’ve still not caught it,
look out for the repeats.
THE AREA REVAMP
How could Orange top the
Lightbox room at Fire? With
a main floor at Area than
rains lasers!
WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT
THIS MONTH’S RISE AND FALL
HEATHER MILLS
MCCARTNEY
© FAMOUS
In the words of the judge in
her divorce case, she’s ‘her
own worst enemy.’ Still,
that £23million should help
cushion the criticism…
BEIJING 2008
This year’s Olympics are
already becoming bogged
down in politics concerning
China’s stance towards
Darfur and Tibet. Expect
plenty more protests in the
run up to the summer…
THE US ECONOMY
Going down, down,
down… dragging the
global markets down with
it and sending the world
into recession. Great.
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TICK THE BOX
Elections for Mayor and the Greater London Assembley
are only a few weeks away, but why is it that so few gay
men are interested in politics these days? I was out with
some friends recently – smokers one and all – who were
complaining about being outside in the cold. I suggested
they take some of the blame for not voting at all and so
having no voice. It does not matter who you vote for, but
what is critical is that you vote, as the history of suffrage is
littered with bruised and bloodied heroes and heroines who
paved the way for the freedoms we enjoy today. Get down
the polling station and exercise your right to vote!
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APRIL 2008
14, 17 & 20 APRIL
One of the pop’s most
beguiling and avant garde
performers, Björk plays three
headlining shows at the
Hammersmith Apollo in April,
following the release of last
year’s Volta album.
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capital over the next fortnight, with screenings on the South
Bank and at various screens around the West End. Centrepiece
screenings include the London-set romantic comedy Love And
Other Disasters, starring Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys and
Catherine Tate, and the closing night screening of Germanproduction Vivere. Gay followers of Islam are explored in the
groundbreaking documentary A Jihad For Love, and the life
and works of Derek Jarman are remembered in Isaac Julien’s
Derek. The festival features dozens of films and shorts from
all over the world, with something to suit all tastes. For a full
programme and booking details, check out the website at
www.bfi.org.uk/llgff - box office 020-7928 3232.
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With the release of their new album on 14 April – their first
since 1997 – Portishead are well and truly back. They perform
their first London show in over a decade at the Hammersmith
Apollo on Thursday 10 April. www.portishead.co.uk
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CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS//APRIL 2008
04-20 APR:
Exactitudes in the name of a novel
photography exhibition that’s been running
in the lower ground floor UltraLounge in
Selfridges since February. Held in conjunction
with the Photographer’s Gallery, the
show features work by Rotterdam-based
photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie
Uyttenbroek, who have been working
together since 1994. Exactitudes is inspired
by the energy and diversity of street life in
different cities across the world, with each
‘exactitude’ comprising of a group of 12
individual images. Portrayed in an identical
frame and in the same pose, the initial
uniformity and striking similarities between
people are heightened, presenting an almost
scientific and anthropological record. The
project so far includes group pictures from
Beijing, Bordeaux, Cape Verde, Casablanca,
New York and Rio de Janeiro. Now they’re
adding London to list. They’ll be showing
88 of their pieces during the exhibition, but
during their three-week in-house residency,
they’ve shot a selection of images from
our own capital city… and we’re reliably
informed that one of the new works could be
a selection of bears recruited via the Kings
Arms on Poland Street!
The new works will go on display on 4 April,
with the whole exhibition running until 20
April. Check it out at Selfridge’s, 400 Oxford
Street, W1.
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to the stage of the Hammersmith Apollo to showcase songs
from his recently released Another Side album of covers. www.
johnbarrowman.com
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groundbreaking company’s latest show, Delirium , has sold
out in 55 cities across the world, and this month comes
to the O2 on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th April. Expect
holograms, virtual reality, multi-media sound and visuals,
plus a troupe of international dancers and acrobats.
Tickets are priced at £45 and £55 (subject to booking fee) – call
Live Nation Ticket Line (0844 576 5483) or 02 box office (0844
858 0202) - www.livenation.co.uk
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HIGHLIGHT EVENTS//APRIL 2008
28 APRIL-10 MAY
Sacred is the title of an innovative live art festival coming
to the Chelsea Theatre this spring. The only London venue
now dedicated to live art performances and installations,
the theatre’s Sacred season will bring together some of the
capital’s best performers and up’n’coming artists. Highlights
of the two-week festival include Marcella Puppini, of the
internationally-acclaimed Puppini Sisters, showing you her
dark side with a fusion of music and performance exploring
“love, loss and Lacroix.” Lois Weaver (known for her work with
Gay Sweatshop), will debut new show What Tammy Needs To
Know About Growing Old And Having Sex, while controversial
artist and activist Richard DeDomenici wants to scrap the 2012
Olympics and build a multi-million pound tube line to link
out-of-the-way arts centres – join him to hear how he intends
to do it!
Outside the building, the season will sprawl across London,
with Brazilian dancers leading groups of the general public
bound in knicker elastic to discover anew a city they thought
they understood. Dr Robert’s Infamous Magic Bus (pictured
left) will also be swinging into town with a pile of “freeloaders,
artists, winos, opportunists, surrealists and chancers” on
board to celebrate spring’s Bank Holiday weekend. And,
while ticket prices in the West End continue to soar, Chelsea
Theatre wants you to pay in blood. Literally. The international
collection of artists Leibniz are curating a whole day of events,
performances and activities, and in return they want a drop of
your blood to help them pen their own declaration of human
rights using human blood as ink!
Sacred runs 28 April until 10 May 2008, and for more details,
check www.chelseatheatre.org.uk. Chelsea Theatre, World’s
End Place, King’s Road London, SW10.
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One of our favourite new indie acts – thanks largely to the
brilliant ‘Great DJ’ single and video, the Ting Tings play the
University Of London Union on Malet Street (W1). www.
myspace.com/thetingtings
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a screening of the classic comedy Some Like It Hot at the BFI,
followed directly afterwards by an interview with one of the
film’s surviving stars, Tony Curtis! www.bfi.org.uk
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GOLD FINGERS
If you want a mobile that will turn heads,
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this – the new MotoRAZR2 V8 Luxury
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Besides the flashy design, there’s
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How’s this for a dinky little
camcorder? The new Toshiba
Camileo Pro HD is small enough to fit
in your pocket but capable of recording stunning
1280 x 720p high-definition (HD) footage. It boasts
128MB of storage space, and can also be used as a stills camera,
voice recorder, MP3 player or high-quality webcam if linked up to a
computer. It has a 2.5 inch screen for viewing purposes, or can be connected to a
HD-ready TV for playback with no loss of detail. Surprisingly, it’s suggested retail price is
just £149.99. Considering we’ve spent similar sums on MP3 players alone, we think that’s
something of a bargain! www.toshiba.co.uk
STAR PEOPLE
G-Star is definitely one of our favourite clothing brands, and
not just for its jeans. The brand has just unveiled a new London
flagship store on London’s Carnaby Street, selling its full range
of jeans, jackets, shirts and accessories. We’re loving the 3301
Originals, with their ridiculously high turn-ups, and the
Mitch leather jacket. Hell, we quite like the whole
current G-Star Raw collection…
G-Star, 11-12 Carnaby Street,
W1. www.g-star.
com
MAN-SIZED
New from gay-friendly publishers teNeues
comes the gorgeous Men by Stefan
May. A large-scale version of this book
has already been published, but this
smaller version is easier on your
wallet and to store on your shelves.
You’ll find 126 pages of beautiful
photographs or stunning nudes
that you’ll want to return to
again and again. Yummy!
Available from all good
bookshops priced £14.95, or
check www.teneues.com
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As for the album itself, you’ll either be pleased or
disinterested to learn that it’s pretty much Mariah-bynumbers. Having reclaimed her crown as the world’s
best-selling female artist with the global success of
…Mimi, Mariah’s not going to risk losing it again. There
are 15 highly-polished tracks here, most of which have
been shone to perfection by a choice selection of producers.
Jermaine Dupri offers up the more syrupy, mid-tempo
numbers, best exemplified by ‘Thanx For Nothing’. More
groovy, disco bounce is provided by DJ Toomp (‘Loving You
Long Time’) and Stargate (‘That Chick’), while guest vocalist
T Pain adds hip hop drama to ‘Migrate’, which features
some deliciously bonkers lyrics from the mouth of Mariah:
‘So I’m on my way home, cause my jeans yeah they fit, but
it might benefit me to throw something on to my hips’.
The heartfelt ‘Side Effects’ is a swipe at an early, formative
relationship that finds Mariah reflecting ‘I was a girl, you
was a man, I was too young to understand, I was naïve, I
just believed everything that you told me…’ (hmmm….
we wonder who that could be about). The the piano’n’beats
formula of ‘Bye Bye’ is destined to make it a funeral
favourite: ‘This is for my people who just lost somebody, ya
best friend, ya lady, ya man or ya baby.’
Carey keeps her famed vocal gymnastics in check, and
some might find some of the tracks a bit samey, but there
are more than enough classic Mariah singles to ensure
multi-million selling success. AG
MARIAH
CAREY
2
E=mc (Universal)
She likes her cryptic titles, doesn’t she? Following up the
multi-million selling The Emancipation Of Mimi, an airing
of the new Mariah Carey album gives no clues whatsoever
as to why she’s taken Einstein’s theory of relativity as a
title. One can only hazard a guess that having endured the
slings and arrows of critical appraisal and a rollercoaster
career ride, Ms Carey has grown to understand that… well,
everything is relative in the end.
Out: 14 April
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Despite the huge success
of their 2006 debut album
Inside In/Inside Out, it’s
admirable that Luke Pritchard and co. have largely resisted
the pitfalls that beset many second albums. In other words,
they’ve not gone mad in a multi-million pound recording
studio and decided to add lush string arrangements to every
second track in an effort to make their sound bigger and
grander. In fact, despite recording this in Ray Davies’ Konk
studio in north London (hence the name of the album), it
sounds for all the world like it might have been knocked
out in a Brighton bus shelter – such are the busker-friendly
credentials of most of the tunes here, which, let’s be honest,
is part of the Kooks’ charm. The opening third of the album
could all be singles, and only time will tell whether ‘See The
Sun’, ‘Always Where I Need To Be’ and ‘Do You Wanna’ will
dominate their airwaves to the same extent as past singles
‘Naïve’ and ‘She Moves In Her Own Way’ did back in 2006.
Things suffer a bit of a mid-album slump with ‘Gap’, ‘Sway’
and ‘Stormy Weather’, but pick up again for the final third,
with the twee but irresistible ‘Shine On’ and new wave kick
of ‘Down To The Market’ providing late highlights. If the boys
felt under any pressure to repeat the success of their first
album, it doesn’t show. In fact, quite the contrary. Konk is
so laid back that it rarely even breaks into a sweat… which
some might find to be one of its drawbacks. It’s got a clutch
of tunes, but a dash of drama and darkness might have
helped turned a decent album into a brilliant one. DH
Out: 14 April
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&
THE BREEDERS
Mountain Battles
(4AD)
DEAD AIR
Dead Air (Reveal)
Dead Air is the musical
guise of Rainy Orteca,
bassist in Joan As Police
Woman. Her CV boasts collaborations with Lou Reed and
Antony & the Johnsons, all ultimately more fascinating than
her own Birkenstock-gazing solo mini-album, which is so
slight, you wouldn’t dare let it out in a high wind.
Generally, the best singer-songwriters make you feel like
you want a ticket for the front row of their brain. Devoid of
the sonic pyrotechnics of pop or dance, surely their raison
d’être is to illuminate the human condition in some way?
But the six tracks here amble along like a stoned magnetic
poetry kit; soldering so-so tunes to ‘so-what?’ lyrics.
Throughout, never-sunny Rainy effects her best Velvet
Underground impersonation that emphasises each word
to make it sound more interesting than it actually is. The
sonorous ‘Tin Drum’ could have been retrieved from the Yeah
Yeah Yeahs cutting room floor, while the electro-churn of
‘Widow’ contains the decent observation that ‘You act like a
widow who’s never been married’.
Apparently, it was US comic and Britney-baiter Sarah
Silverman that coaxed Rainy out her ‘early musical
retirement’, and it’s a pity her rediscovery of her love of
music should come at the expense of the listener losing
theirs. Still, with genuinely idiosyncratic talents like Owen
Pallett and Antony Hegarty around – artistic thoroughbreds
who are taking jumps much higher than the coffee table
– Dead Air exists to prove that; despite this, sometimes,
there’s nowt more ordinary than queer-folk. GR
The Breeders formed in
1988 when Kim Deal of The
Pixies penned some songs with Tanya Donnelly of Throwing
Muses while the two bands were on tour together. Albums
Pod and Last Splash in 1990 and 1993 respectively were
critically acclaimed but earned the band little more than
a cult following. Donnelly dropped out of the project and
Deal has been the only constant member in the intervening
years. Joined by twin sister Kelley, this is the first Breeders
album since 2002, but it’s unlikely to take them any nearer
the mainstream. If Pixies were one of the main influences
on the quiet-loud template of grunge, Mountain Battles
would be best described as following a quiet-quieter
pattern. Many of these tracks, such as the lo-fi country
twang of ‘Here No More’, or the languid ‘We’re Gonna Rise’,
are just plucked guitars, whispering snare drums and the
Deal sisters’ vocal melodies. Only opener ‘Overglazed’,
in which distorted guitars fall over themselves, and the
riff-packed ‘Walk It Off’ are likely to appeal to old Pixies fans.
The sparse simplicity of tracks such as ‘Night Of Joy’ and the
drum machine coldness of ‘Bang On’, with its ‘I love no-one
and no-one loves me’, will no doubt appeal to a certain
kind of emo kid, but one can’t help but feel that even
they’re likely to overlook the Breeders in favour of younger
contenders. At its best, Mountain Battles offers hypnotic,
melancholic serenades to soundtrack a late-night chill out.
Under the harsh light of day, it’s all a bit disappointingly
anaemic. AG
Out: 28 April
Out: 7 April
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REVIEWS: DAVID HUDSON, ANTHONY GORDON AND GARY RYAN
THE KOOKS
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RESCUE DAWN
Largely overlooked at its time
of release, director Werner
Herzog’s surprisingly jingoish
Rescue Dawn is a must for any
fans of prison escape movies.
Loosely based on a true story,
Christian Bale stars as a US
fighter pilot shot down and
captured over Laos during the
Vietnam war. It boasts great performances alongside an
excellent score from Klaus Badelt.
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AMNESIA: THE JAMES
BRIGHTON ENIGMA
A hit at gay film festivals
around the world, the
low-budget Amnesia: The
James Brighton Enigma tells
the true story of an American
man who was discovered
naked in a Montreal car
park. All he could remember
about himself was his name and the fact that he was gay.
When the police and authorities are unable to clear up the
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Following a hugely successful debut last year, the
Oval House in Kennington is hosting a return run of
Confessions Of A Dance Whore throughout the month
of April. Fusing comedy, burlesque, drag and new media
performance Confessions of A Dancewhore explores the
contradictions and clichés of contemporary British queer
life.
“Politics and pop culture meet in this foul-mouthed, latenight theatrical cabaret - an accomplished and vivid solo
performance for everyone who has ever felt like an ‘other’.”
The production stars Michael Twaits, who developed the
show in conjunction with Bette Bourne, and who now
returns with a late-night version of the show that will run
at 9pm from Thursday to Saturday from 28 March to 3 May
2008.
Tickets cost £12 or £6 concessions (£6 for all seats at previews
on 26-27 March). Box office 020-7582 7680.
www.ovalhouse.com
SOME KIND OF BLISS
Concerning itself with our
apparent obsession with
celebrity culture, Bliss is
the name of a new play by
Quebec-born writer Olivier
Choinière. The debut English
translation of this wild and
slippery fantasy stars Brid Brennan, Hayley Carmichael and
Neil Dudgeon, and takes as its starting point a supermarket
cashier and her co-workers flicking through a celebrity
magazine during their break. One for any Heat and OK!
fan, you’ll find it running in the Jerwood Upstairs at the
Royal Court Theatre from 28 March to 26 April.
www.royalcourttheatre.com
SINFUL
Punk cabaret favourites
The Tiger Lillies, alongside
performers Nathan Evans
and Ophelia Bitz, bring their
new theatre cabaret show
7 Deadly Sins to the New
Players Theatre this month.
The show satirically depicts man’s fall from paradise and
puts a post-modern twist on the tale of Adam and Eve,
with same-sex puppet couple Punch and Jude representing
the original sinners in the age of civil partnership! The show
features an original new song from the Tiger Lilies for each
deadly sin, with puppetry from Evans and burlesque from
Ms Bitz.
7 Deadly Sins runs 7-26 April at the New Players Theatre, The
Arches, Villiers Street, WC2. Tickets £15-£19.50.
www.sohotheatre.com - 0870-429 6883.
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Tonight’s The Night (Rod Stewart) and – ahem – Daddy
Cool (Boney M), you’d be forgiven for thinking that the last
thing the West End needed was another musical based
on the oeuvre of a pop act. Especially when that pop act
is Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. But then, this
is not your common or garden back-catalogue musical.
Besides the fact that you’ll probably know all the songs, it
comes with all the right Tony awards from Broadway, some
of the best reviews a musical could hope for, oh, and a
bona fide same-sexualist character in the shape and form
of record producer Bob Crewe, as played by real life gay
Simon Adkins (pictured above) of The Producers and Jerry
Springer: The Opera fame. Tim Elliston cornered him in his
dressing room.
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There are certain buzz words in the world of food and drink at the moment: organic,
sustainable, local and seasonal. Add to that the fact that a restaurant offers training to
underprivileged young people and you have all the boxes ticked for being a fashionable and
feel-good 21st century eatery. Acorn House ticks all those boxes.
The venue is a joint venture between the Shoreditch Trust, the Terrence Higgins Trust (whose
HQ on Grey’s Inn Road houses the restaurant) and the Bliss Restaurant Consultancy, which is
made up of Executive Head Chef Arthur Potts Dawson and General Manager Jamie Grainger
Smith, both of whom were formally at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Restaurant. And just like
Fifteen, Acorn House offers eco-friendly restaurant training to local young adults each year.
Every aspect of the venture, from the design of the restaurant through to food and wine
itself aims to be environmentally conscious and sustainable. But what about the actual food? We started with the seared
sustainable prawns with golden salsify and chilli vinegar (£9.50). The large sweet prawns – combined with the sweetness
of the caramelized salsify (one of my favourite ingredients) – provided a suitable contrast to the sharpness of the chili
vinegar. My companion opted for the roasted duck confit, apple, prune and spring leaf (£9.50) – a classic combination of
fruit and game that worked well. For our main course, the roasted English mutton with minted pear and apple (£18.00) was
suitably rich and melted in your mouth. The minted pear and apple complimented the sweetness of the meat nicely. The
pan-fried guinea foul, with prosciutto, mascarpone and sage (£19.00), was well cooked - plump and juicy.
For dessert, the rhubarb crumble and custard (£6.50) offered large velvety pieces of rhubarb with custard on one side of the
plate with a tower of tasty crumble. When brought together the combination was comforting and more-ish, although the
crumble lacked the crunchiness that you might expect. The spiced, warm, “flourless” chocolate cake and ginger ice cream
(£6.50) was presented as a pyramid of chocolate with a dollop of ice cream at its base. The ginger ice cream is the star here,
and perfectly compliments the gooey chocolate cake.
While the prices are on the high side, the portions are large and you will certainly not leave hungry. You can also be assured
that your money is paying for ethically-produced ingredients – an example that more and more restaurants are sure to
follow over the coming years.
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AREA
The Vauxhall club has
reopened after a major
refurbishment and
laser-tastic spring clean
from the Orange team!
PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM
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TRADE
London's most
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party said a final
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home Turnmills
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CIRCUS
Want to join the Circus?
Then get your glad rags
on and get down to the
Soho Revue Bar on a
Friday night
The Charing Cross institution threw a lavish bash to celebrate Valentine's Day in February, complete with a raunchy stage
show, top DJs and plenty of heart-throbs for us to fall in love with. Check our review on pages 46-47...
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Like a well-groomed couture house,
Heaven is always changing its
look and introducing new nights
to remain at the forefront of club
fashion. In February, they held a Venetian
styled Valentino Casanova Masked Ball
that was all feathers, glitz and glitter on
the tits… and that was just the boys! A
Heavenly set of oiled-up muscle go-go’s
donned white towels only to immediately
chuck them and jump in to a bath together
where they wasted several bottles of gold
label bubbly on washing each other before
sliding behind a semi-opaque plastic sheet
and ‘showering’. Sadly, fellow performer
Natalie was left to file her nails and watch
from the sidelines while giant fans blew
rose petals across the frenzied audience!
Music in the main room came courtesy
of hot Italian duo Pagano and Severino.
Their arms-in-the-air, uplifting house was
the perfect match for the Saturday night
up-for-it crowd which, thanks to Heaven’s
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enduring popularity, continues to be an
eclectic mix of cute boys, suit boys, girly
boys and muscle boys.
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passion and seduction, and resplendent in
Westwood Pirate couture, the evening also
signalled the much-ºanticipated return of
the Dusty O residency to the Pop floor (Star
Bar), complete with trademark cheesy pop
and classic anthems heavy on the female
vocal. Accompanied by yet more boys, a
Madonna Vogue tribute was performed by
songstress Chi Chi Concarne - so what if
Madonna was out of time with some of Chi
Chi’s singing!
Continuing in the same mode, Heaven’s
spring collection looks to be fresh and
lively with new nights, new collaborations
and more boys in skimpy outfits. Thank
goodness!
www.heaven-london.com
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When Area launched in 2006 it was hailed as an innovative
space that would change the way we partied. Despite the
lack of funds to complete the refurbishment in time for
its opening, and the fact that it did always seem to be a ‘work in
progress’, some of the concepts were truly groundbreaking. There was
Toybox, with its quirkily superb mix of performance art and clubbing,
Evolve with its big name circuit DJs and big international brands like
Matinée that wanted a London venue. Sadly, after 18 months, the
numbers started to dwindle. That’s when All Things Orange (owners of
Fire) stepped up to have a go. Under their management, Area
re-opened in March to the blowing of many bells and
whistles, and we have to say, we too were blown
away by the changes. The main room is now
adorned with a mega pixel lightbox-style
ceiling and some 50 lasers that give the effect
of green rain.
DJ boxes have been moved, toilets upgraded
and the chill out bar converted into an
80’s Limelight religious-styled auditorium
complete with stained-glass window. The
launch night party was awash with muscle
boys and drag queens all eager to see the
changes, and with stage performances from
break-dancers, acrobats and just plain bizarre
performers, it truly was a spectacle. The DJ
roster contains many of the Vauxhall names we
have come to love, but for us the highlight was
the awesome funky house set from Steve Pitron
who consistently sets the floor alight with his choice
of tracks and remixes that lead revellers on an aural
journey the likes of which you’ll never see in a travel
brochure. What the future holds for Area and Depot
(formerly Crash) is anyone’s guess, but one thing’s for
certain; the Orange team sure know how to design a
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Younger readers might find it hard to believe that the
Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been pulling in a Sunday
afternoon crowd since before they were born. The
management has always known that local gay boys like to enjoy a bit
of drag on the Sabbath, and in years gone by, legends like Lily Savage
have held residencies at the bar.
Nowadays, it’s the D.E Experience who rule the roost each Sunday
afternoon, with a weekly show that nicely separates the
S.L.A.G.S and Chill-Out club promotions. The afternoon
session begins at 2pm with S.L.A.G.S, before D.E.E comes
on at 5pm to thrill the throng with some classic songs
and a little bit of comedy. After 6pm (or later depending
on how many encores the boys demand), Chill-Out takes
over, with DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty and Sean
Sirrs spinning the huge dance anthems and commercial
house. As our pictures show, the place is always absolutely
rammed for the D.E. Experience, with most lads staying on
until chucking out time at midnight. In fact, since the beginning
of March, you can now even spend even longer at your favourite
Sunday destination. New afterhours sessions Nitelife now runs
from 2.30am till 10am each Sunday morning – allowing
you just a short breather for some Sunday lunch before
you head back for the S.L.A.G.S session!
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington
Lane, Vauxhall, SE11. 020 7820 1222.
www.rvt.org.uk
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Clapham’s Two Brewers is south London’s shining
beacon on the cabaret circuit. As the southern sister to
Camden’s Black Cap, it attracts the absolute crème de la crème
of performers. Dave Lynn, Rose Garden, Sandra, Pam Ann…
all are currently treading the ’Brewers boards, but we trotted
along on a recent Wednesday evening for a bit of ‘Double
Penetration’ from the original nasty girl from Spanish Harlem,
Miss Laquisha Jonz. LJ starts her shift DJ’ing from 10pm and
plays an eclectic indie/RnB/hip hop mishmash. She takes
audience requests but be warned, if your demands are not LJ
material you will be disparaged and verbally abused on the
mic! Unless you request a track by Steps that is, then she’ll
just take you out the back and bludgeon you will her size-7
Primark slingback.
Midnight is show time at the Two Brewers, so sliding out
from behind the decks, Laquisha launches into her unique
comedy-gameshow-live singing spectacular that leaves you
gasping for breath. Her patter is topical and includes spoofs,
jokes and commentary on all the current stories of the day,
but more than that, she is a social critic, and an efficient one,
acerbic and devastating. Her video-aided gameshows include
‘Who’s arse is it anyway’, ‘Snatch the weave’, Salama’s ‘Who’s
under the burqa’ and ‘Female or shemale’ and are backed
up by powerful vocals of popular songs but with Jonzified
lyrics… we particularly like ‘Tranny Chasing’ to the tune of
Robbie Williams’ Angels and the ‘Think he’s a homo’ version
of Tiffany’s number one hit 'I Think We're Alone Now'. With a
full page profile piece in a recent issue of Time Out magazine,
Laquisha Jonz is a star in the ascendant, so we urge you to
catch her show before she goes stratospheric.
The Two Brewers, 114 Clapham High Street, SW4.
020-7498 4971. www.the2brewers.com
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Encouraging people to dress up for a club night
is never easy. They’re either inclined to make the effort
or they’re not. However, once in a while a club will come
along that practically demands a little flamboyance.
Circus is one such night. Now running for over a year
at the Soho Revue Bar, the night is the playground
for hostess Jodie Harsh and her coterie of costumed
reprobates. The night attracts a complete mix of club
kids, celebrities and freaks, and the plush grandeur of
the Soho Revue Bar provides the perfect setting for
the weekly goings-on. You can mingle at the bar, grab
yourself a booth seat, shake a leg on the pocket-sized
dancefloor, or even throw yourself around one of the
poles if you’re really feeling like showing off. And, given
the amount of effort that some regulars make with their
attire, showing-off is usually pretty high on the agenda!
Jodie usually manages to secure a special guest celebrity
DJ each week, and on the night of our visit it turned out
to be Pete Burns of Dead Or Alive fame.
“Pete Burns turned out to be a bit of a secret bedroom DJ
at Circus,” Jodie told us afterwards. “He was really good.
He looked amazing and there wasn’t a diva strop in sight.
The night was jam packed and Circus is beginning to get
quite hard to get in to unless you either know one of my
door bitches or you dress to the nines in a silly outfit!”
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It is not often that one
looks forward to a party
with the same enthusiasm
that one once had for
their fifth birthday but
Trade has had that affect
on many. Trade is a club that
changed London’s party scene
and put gay clubbing on the
map.
The buzz around this Final
Dance – the night’s final soiree
at Turnmills before the venue’s
closure - was huge.
Arriving at 10am, we were
relieved to find no queue and
familiar faces smiling from
the smoking coop erected
next to the café doors. It was
predictably odd to leave the
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normality of Clerkenwell Road
and enter the platform for,
to quote promoter Laurence
Malice (pictured left), his
“madness!”
What a beautiful sea of muscle,
bears, twinks, straights, drag
queens, celebrities, dykes and
everyone in between! The
vibe in the venue was electric.
Despite the obvious challenges
of moving around a packed
building, all were smiling
and impromptu conversation
between strangers seemed to
be the order of the day.
The Lite lounge was heaving
and sweating with the finest
funky tunes, and when Fat Tony
spun his signature track, ‘The
Boss’, the room went berserk
with the crowd chanting Tony’s
name. The main room was
truly out of this world. Gonzalo
stole the show with a vintage
Trade set that he must have
known we all wanted. Fergie
deserves a mention too for
his brilliant techno set in the
backroom. You would’ve been
hard pushed to have heard
any tougher in a warehouse in
Holland!
It was with a spring in our step
that we headed back home. As
Laurence Malice once said; ‘It’s
only a disco dear.’ Oh my, what
a disco that was Laurence.
We look forward to your next
creation!
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Heaven has been at the forefront of clubbing in
London for over 25 years, and the only way to stay
there is constant evolution and re-development. One of
their flagship nights for the past 17 of those years has been
Fruit Machine on a Wednesday, which has gone through
several incarnations from dance to drag to cabaret and
more recently to urban. In keeping with its current set
of clothes, and to reflect the growing trend for all thing
‘street’ and 80s, the whole night has been re-branded
and re-positioned in the market and is now called WORK!
Note precise use of the exclamation mark, it’s not ‘work’, its
‘WORK!’ as in ‘you’d better...’
The music policy of the club reflects this new identity and
includes hip hop and r’n’b in the Star Bar, disco and cabaret
with Studio 54 legend Tallulah in the Departure Lounge
and 80s/electro with Dennis Da Silva in the Dakota Bar. The
main room was presided over by Freddie Thomas whose
‘dance party’ set was a major success and had the floor full
until curtain down with an eclectic track list that included
disco, pop, house and even a little cheese, and finishing the
night on Ru Paul’s ‘Supermodel – you betta work’ was a
stroke of pure genius, especially as she is billed to appear at
the club is a few weeks’ time.
With cabaret shows every half an hour and a massive
vogue dance-off on the main runway, visitors to the club
could be forgiven for thinking it was the weekend, as
nearly all the rooms were packed until the lights came on
– clearly the scene was ready for WORK!
WORK! At Heaven every Wednesday evening from
11pm till 4am. Under the Arches, Villiers Street,
Charing Cross, WC2.
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at Heaven, and Wednesdays at Trannyshack, again at the Soho Revue Bar, amongst many other
bookings. She DJs alongside Tasty Tim at Trannyshack, and there are open-house drag shows each
week at 1am… “just bring a CD and get up there!”
Richard Tonks is away
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HIGHLIGHTS
XTREME FRIDAYS
The boys down at XXL have announced that they’re moving their XXL Xtreme session
from Thursdays to Fridays. The Thursday sessions weren’t proving as popular as hoped, but
many customers said that they’d like the night to run on Fridays so that they could play
until late and not have to worry about getting up for work on the Saturday! Admission is
free before 11pm, then £5, with admission closing at 3am but there’s no end to the action
until ‘the last pig is gone’! All attending are encouraged to stick to the dress code, which is
leather, rubber, skin, military and industrial. There’s a dark and dirty soundtrack, extended
play area, heated outdoor cigar terrace and changing area.
Meanwhile, XXL’s flagship Saturday nighter continue to pull in hundreds of hunky fellas
every weekend, with its smaller midweek night providing cruise action each Wednesday.
If you haven’t already signed up for membership, then now’s the time to do so as the
management have introduced a new scheme whereby members are entitled to free
admission on the first Saturday of the month to coincide with their birthday. In other
words, any members with a birthday in April will be allowed free admission on Saturday 5
April, and so on. Don’t also forget that this year’s Bear Pride is coming - stick the 23-25
May in your diary and we’ll bring you full details next month .
XXL and XXL Extreme take place at the Arches, 51-53 Southwark Street, SE1.
VAUXHALL
VICTOR
Now that the Orange
office has staked a major
claim in the running of
Area and Depot, the team
are busier than ever down
in Vauxhall.
The weekend at flagship
venue Fire (South Lambeth Road, SW8) kicks off on Thursday nights with Gravity,
followed on Fridays by A:M. Horizon is now running every Saturday night, offering
12 hours of hardcore partying, followed immediately at 11am on Sunday morning by
Later. Sunday nights play host to their original all-nighter, Orange, which runs from
11pm till 11am Monday morning. Keeping up that after-hours vibe is Open, which runs
Tuesday mornings from 3.30am till 10am. Check www.fireclub.co.uk or www.myspace.
com/firelondon
Juicy has now left Fire but promoter Andrew Harris has taken it across to the other side
of Kennington Lane, and it’s now running as a weekly Saturday night party each week at
the revamped Area (67 Albert Embankment, SE1 - see out pictures on page 48) between
11pm and 8am. Admission to both Juicy and Horizon is £15, £12 with a flyer, or £12 with
an advance ticket from Trax, Prowler or Clone Zone.
The venue that was formerly Crash is now known as Depot (66 Albert Embankment, SE1),
and it offers a steamy selection of cruise nights. Launching on Saturday 29 March is the
new monthly party Rent, in conjunction with online agency rentboy.com and featuring
DJ David Hernandez from Cockring in Amsterdam. Another monthly party is Manhunt,
which is again in conjunction with a cruise site (www.manhunt.net), and which run on
the second Saturday of the month. Saturday 5 April will also see the launch of monthly
Saturday nighter Prowler, which will kick off with an after-party for the new Bruce La
Bruce movie premiere.
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DTPM
RETURNS
DTPM is back… for a one-off
birthday special. Promoter Lee
Freeman and the rest of the Blue
Cube team will be throwing DTPM’s
13th birthday party on Sunday 13
April at The End (home of Thursday
nighter Discotec). The main floor
will offer underground house, with
residents Miguel Pellitero, Steve
Thomas, Guy Williams and Gabriele
Cutrano on the main floor. The Lounge
will offer a special ‘mash-up room’,
with very special guest Boy George
joining Kris Di Angelis and Ben Jamin
in spinning a party-flavoured, eclectic
mix of mashed-up tunes. Early bird tickets for this unmissable spring date cost just £10
from www.dtpmevents.co.uk. After they’ve sold out, advance tickets will cost £13 from
the website or Trax, Clone Zone, Prowler or www.ticketweb.co.uk - or more on the door.
Members can pick up advance tickets for £10 from www.dtpmevents.co.uk
You’ll find The End at 18 West Central Street, W1, and the doors are open from 6pm till
super late.
ST DAVID
One of the Spring
highlights at the Royal
Vauxhall Tavern
is undoubtedly the
return of David Hoyle
for another limited
run of Tuesday night
shows. His ‘Magazine’
club session will run
each week from 7pm
onwards, with Mr
Hoyle on stage at 8pm
to discuss a different
weekly topic. Issues
covered in April will
include ‘Debt’ (Tuesday
1 April), the ‘Trade
Union Movement’ (8
April), ‘the Arts Council’
(15 April), ‘Lauren
Harries Sober’ (22 April) and ‘Botany’ (29 April). To check out what you might have already
missed, pick up a copy of the new David Hoyle DVD that the Duckie team have produced
to commemorate this new season of performances. It’s available priced £10 from www.
thisisunbound.co.uk or on the door at RVT on the David Hoyle nights.
Other highlights at the RVT during April include the new Saturday night/Sunday morning
afterhours session Nitelife, from promoter Spike Rhodes and DJs Alan X and Jon Butler.
That runs every Sunday morning from 2.30am till 10am, with admission £6.
Topping & Butch are going to be taking on a Wednesday night residency with their weekly
School Gang night, which will feature stand-up comedy, songs, a Tuck Shop and free
entry for anyone in a school tie. DJ Eddie K will spin the sounds.
Vauxhallville takes a break during April but the venue will remain open on Thursday
nights, with DJ Dawn Right Nasty spinning the tunes. Duckie runs each Saturday and
S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out offers big dance anthems on Sundays. There’s a rotating line-up
of nights on Fridays, with alternative bears session Ursus London (4 April), Gill Manly’s
jazz session Diversion (11 April), ‘dirty hardcore fagrock’ at Guns (18 April), and
Weimar-esque entertainment at Kabarett (25 April).
For more details, check the website at www.rvt.org.uk
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SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Saturday nights at Heaven continue to
be rammed to the rafters. The team at
the venue have recently revamped the
Departure Lounge, making it one of the
most desirable VIP hangouts in the West
End. DJs Pagano and Nick Tcherniak rule
the main floor, and the former will be
celebrating his birthday at the club on
Saturday 26 April with no less than eight
guest DJs joining him behind the decks!
Promoter Wilmien Bos will be celebrating
her own birthday at the club on 19 April,
when the club will unveil its new ‘Nearly
Really Rude Show’ with sexy go-go’s
and dancers on the main stage providing another classic
Heaven show. The Pop Room continues to offer one of the
most unpretentious nights out, with DJs Dusty O and Manny
spinning the chart sounds and Chi Chi Con Carne entertaining
the throng. With five distinct rooms, Heaven on Saturdays
offers five times the fun as other nightspots!
www.heaven-london.com
VENUES:
CENTRAL LONDON
79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road,
WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester
Square tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am,
Sun 1pm-10.30pm. Cover charge
after 11pm. Large, cruisy, late-night
bar.
ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old
Compton Street, W1. 020 7437
5300. Leicester Square tube.
Friendly, traditional gay pub.
ASTORIA, 157 Charing Cross
Road, WC2. 020-7734 6963.
Tottenham Courtg Road tube.
Huge, former theatre, with 2,000
capacity. Now home to G-A-Y club
nights. www.g-a-y.co.uk
YOU
BETTER WORK
BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street,
W1. 020 7734 3342. www.
Drag legend RuPaul will be
bar-code.co.uk. Piccadilly
making a very rare and exclusive
Circus tube.
UK appearance when he hits the
Mon-Sat
stage at G-A-Y on Saturday 5 April. Expect
4pm-
renditions of past hits such as ‘Supermodel’ and ‘It’s
Raining Men’. Besides the flagship Saturday night event,
G-A-Y hosts its Porn Idol contest every Monday night,
and throws open its doors for the G-A-Y Music Factory
each Thursday and the G-A-Y Camp Attack each Friday.
All four nights offer a giddy mix of the best in commercial
dance, classic pop and hi-nrg cheese. There’s also the
G-A-Y Bar on Old Compton Street, which has happy
hours between noon and 8pm, when double vodkas cost
just £3 and Smirnoff Ice just £2 a bottle. For a late-night
alternative, there’s also the G-A-Y Late Bar on Goslett
Yard, off Charing Cross Road. www.g-a-y.co.uk
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1.30am. Sun until 10.30pm. Dance
bar on two floors, with club-style
basement.
Comedy Camp stand-up night each
Tuesday.
THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth
Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 7240
5828. Leicester Square tube. 11am11pm. Stylish and award-winning
gay café bar popular with scene and
muscle queens.
CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1.
020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court
Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm.
Fri & Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm.
Long-running and famed lesbian
bar.
Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun 2pm11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar
spread over four intimate floors,
with regular nights from top DJs.
THE ENCLAVE, 25-27 Brewer
Street, W1. Intimate, lounge bar
and basement club, offering
members-bar atmosphere but
open to all. www.enclavesoho.com
ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1.
020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus
tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge after
11pm. Every night’s a party at this
late-night video dance bar.
EXILIO, LSE Underground,
Houghton Street (off Kingsway),
Aldwych, WC2. Saturday night gay
Latin and salsa night.
FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles
High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042.
Tottenham Court Road tube.
10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over
20 years old and still going strong.
Long-running community café bar.
FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street,
W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly v
Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with
late-night club promotions for a
metorsexual crowd.
www.freedombarsoho.com
FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour
Street, WC1. Trendy and unique,
intimate basement bar, which
attracts a mixed crowd.
G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton
Street, W1. 020 7494 2756.
Leicester Square tube. 12pm12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar,
with a multitude of video screens,
pop tunes and drinks promotions.
www.g-a-y.co.uk
THE GREEN CARNATION,
4-5 Greek Street, Soho,
W1. 020-7434 3323. New,
three-floored late night gay
venue, with bar, dancefloor
and nightly promotions. www.
greencarnationsoho.co.uk
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN,
7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020
7321 2791. Charing Cross tube.
Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat
12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub
spread over two floors.
HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers
Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road
tube. Huge, world-famous gay
club. www.heaven-london.com
THE KINGS ARMS, 23 Poland
Street, W1. 020 7734 5907.
Oxford Circus tube. Mon-Thur
12pm–11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am,
Sun 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar
for bears and blokes. Traditional
atmosphere, pool table upstairs
and BearHug each Friday.
KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2.
020 7379 4573. Charing Cross
tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm,
Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and
stylish café bar (great food!), with
clubbier vibe and video screens
in the basement. Popular with
Asian crowd.
KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester
Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303.
Leicester Square tube. Large,
upmarket gay bar spread over three
floors, open till 3am daily.
www.ku-bar.com
LO-PROFILE, The Basement,
84-85
Wardour Street,
W1. Swanky,
sophisticated, 400-capacity
late-night basement bar and
club space – from the people that
bring you gaydar.co.uk. Open till
2am midweek, 4am weekends,
and 10.30pm Sundays. www.
gaydarprofile.com
LONG YANG CLUB, long-running
social group for East Asian gay
guys and friends. They host a
regular Sunday evening social in
the basement of Village Soho (81
Wardour Street, W1) from 7pm
onwards. Check website at www.
lyclondon.com
PROFILE, 56 Frith Street, Soho,
W1. Tottenham Court Road tube.
Stylish, big gay bar, owned by the
team at Gaydar.co.uk - spread over
three floors, with internet access
and Gaydar radio.
THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec
Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159.
Marble Arch tube. Huge pub, on
two floors, attracting an older
crowd. www.thequebec.co.uk
RETRO BAR, 2 George Court,
WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing
Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat
5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm.
A traditional boozer for the gay
scene’s indie, alternative and
student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz
is an institution.
RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert
Street, W1. 020 7292 7141.
Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Sun
10.30pm. Large, designer style bar,
GEISHA GAYS
COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton
Street, W1. 020 7479 7961.
Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm.
A Soho institution. Large, traditional
gay boozer on two floors.
DISCOTEC, The End, 18 West
Central Street, WC1. 020-7419
9199. Famed and long-running
Thursday nighter, running at
gorgeous, designer, two-roomed
venue The End.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON,
77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439
1274. Piccadilly Circus tube.
Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat
noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm on
Sun. Traditional and fun gay pub
over two floors.
THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, W1.
020 7439 1313. Tottenham Court
G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard,
off Charing Cross Road, WC2.
Tottenham Court Road tube.
11pm-3am. Late-night sister
venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video
screens, camp pop fun and cheap
drinks.
GEISHA, 75 Charing Cross Road,
WC2. 020-7734 6887. Recentlylaunched, designer gay bar – a
riot of pink and oriental chic! Open
noon-midnight seven days a week,
with DJs nightly. www.geisha-bar.
co.uk
GHETTO, 5-6 Falconberg
Mews, W1. 020-7287 3726.
Subterranean, trend-setting gay
club venue, with nightly alternative
promotions.
The gorgeous Geisha (75 Charing
Cross Road, WC2) continues
to build its following down on
Charing Cross Road. The weekly
rundown of nights kicks off on
Tuesdays with Plastic Princess,
which is hosted by ‘The Blondies’
and resident DJ Heidi Licious
spinning unadulterated pop tunes.
The dress code is ‘glam and girlie!’
It’s followed on Wednesdays by
Geisha Girls, with DJ Lil Jo, while
Philip Normal and Dan Disco Bloodbath play mutant power pop at
Thursday nights Shoot Your Shot. Expect free entry and free shots
throughout the evening. Friday night plays host to the Super Poof
session, with Jonny Woo and Russella hosting their tongue-in-cheek
search for Britain’s biggest poof and poke fun at other beauty contests
in the process. Saturday nights are simply titled Tasty, with DJ Tasty
Tim spinning the mashed up pop and electro beats until the early
hours, while Sunday offers Oklahomo, with Timberlina, Le Gateau
Chocolat and DJ Heybaylen offering showtunes and West
End classics to wind down the weekend.
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and post-work crowd.
SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer
Street, W1. 020-7287 7988.
Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous,
late-night bar and club for A-list
gays and celeb-spotters.
www.theshadowlounge.com
SOHO REVUE BAR, 11 Walkers
Court (off Brewer Street), W1.
020-7734 0377. Legendary Soho
cabaret club, attracting very gay
crowd with nightly cabaret, gigs
and burlesque.
VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1.
020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus
tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late
night door charge. Soho’s original
gay café bar, spread over four floors,
and now with basement dancefloor
and discos.
THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1.
020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus
tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri
& Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar with
hugely popular courtyard area,
outdoor balcony and loft bar.
NORTH LONDON
TRASH PALACE, 11 Wardour
Street, W1. 020 7734 0522.
Piccadilly Circus tube. Sun-Thu
5pm-midnight. Fri & Sat 5pm-3am.
Indie, rock and trash fun on two
floors – very popular with students
and alternative club freaks.
SOHO STYLE
One of Soho’s best-loved bars, Barcode Soho has recently been
undergoing the biggest re-fit in its 11-year history. After closing
for a couple of weeks, the ground floor reopened last week, along
with the all-new first floor space! It’s still sporting a sexy, masculine
and industrial feel, but the gleaming new look brings it bang up to
date. The first floor also provides additional toilets and an express
coat-check space. Now that the ground floor and first floor has been
completed, the team have closed the basement bar in order to give
that a makeover too – expect new seating, state-of-the-art lighting
and DJ boxes. The whole venue will be unveiled with a VIP party on
Wednesday 23 April, followed by the weekly Homosocial session
on Thursday 24 April.
“Barcode has always been known for an attitude free, friendly vibe,
the best DJ’s on the scene and well priced drinks,” says owner Troy
Wear. “None of that will change except that we are bringing the bar
bang up to date – we feel it will be one of best gay bars in London.”
When we pressed him on the changes that customers will notice,
he told us, “We have brought the first floor, which is dedicated
entirely to ancillaries - i.e. toilets and coat check - which should
make things more convenient and comfortable for our customers. We
have repositioned the bar and DJ box on the ground floor and added
seating areas. We are also moving the DJ box in the basement and
putting in seating. It will feel bigger and a much more inviting space.
Obviously the decor is all totally new.”
Now running for over ten years, we asked him what factors were
behind Barcode’s success.
“I think we are a trusted brand. We are consistent, well-priced and
we attract an attitude-free, sexy crowd. I’d like to think that opening
a second branch in Vauxhall showed innovation, as will Soho when
people see what we have done to it.”
Check out the new look Barcode Soho at 3-4 Archer Street,
Soho, W1. www.bar-code.co.uk
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THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden
High Street, NW1. 020 7428
2721. www.theblackcap.com.
Camden Town tube. Shufflewick
Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat
12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm.
Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat
10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. Longrunning, famed gay pub – probably
the most famous cabaret pub
in London, with nightly DJs and
entertainment.
CENTRAL STATION, 37
Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 7278
3294. Kings Cross tube. Mon-Wed
5pm-2am, Thur 5pm-3am, Fri
5pm-4am, Sat 1pm-4am, Sun
1pm-12am. Big gay bar on three
floors, with ground floor cabaret
and infamously cruisy cruise nights
in basement.
CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1
Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park,
N19. World’s biggest lesbian and
gay Asian music night, running
every third Friday of the month.
www.clubkali.com
COSMO LOUNGE, 43 Essex Road,
N1. Tel: 020 7688 0051. Angel tube.
Sun-Wed 2pm-Midnight, Thu-Sat
2pm-1am. Long, narrow, intimate
gay bar popular with locals girls
and boys.
KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfield
Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745.
Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am,
Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very
long-running gay pub, with ‘local’
atmosphere and character, plus
popular beer garden.
KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street,
NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cost,
traditional old gay pub, with regular
entertainment, beer garden and
food. www.kw4.co.uk
THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner
FLYING HIGH
Eagle London continues to pull
in a testosterone-fuelled crowd of hunks
throughout the week, thanks in no small
part to the constant improvements that the
management are making to the venue. They’ve
recently overhauled the drinks cooling system
and increased the range of draught beers
available. The garden area has been revamped
in time for the spring, with new decking, seating and mood lighting. Nights include the
12-hour marathon that is Eagle Saturdays, when ‘cum-and-go’ passes are available for
those that want to pop out and return at a later hour in the day. Spinning the sound of the
Vauxhall underground, DJs on rotation include Jim Stanton, Mark Loverush, Severino and
HiFi Sean. Get along on Saturday 29 March for Eagle Semi-Hard, which is the official
pre-party for Hard On.
Other regular sessions include DLF each Wednesday with DJ Peter X, and Eagle Black ‘n’
Blue each Thursday, when there’s free entry for anyone in leather, denim or rubber gear.
There’s Tonker each Friday for the muscle boys, bears and furry hunks (www.tonker.co.uk),
while Horse Meat Disco (www.horsemeatdisco.co.uk) is the Sunday session, pulling in a
completely mixed crowd from all over London with the classic and alternative electro-disco
sounds. Finally, completing the weekly line up are the Monday cruise chill-out sessions and
Tuesday’s Bootcamp, which raises money for Positiveline/The Eddie Surman Trust. Both offer
plenty of dark corners to explore and filthy films on the screens.
You’ll find the Eagle at 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall SE11. www.eaglelondon.com.
Road, Watford, 01923-441113.
Watford‚s only gay pub, with
big beer garden and regular
entertainment! www.loadofhay.
co.uk
Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Recently opened
and very popular club bar, with
dancefloor and mezzanine chill-out
space.
popular.
EGO, 82 Norwood High Street,
SE27. 020 8761 5200. West
Norwood BR. Sun-Thu 8pm-late,
7pm-4am. Door charge on
weekend. Large, popular bar and
club, attracting big crowds at
weekends.
MA1 BAR, Central Station, 37
Wharfdale Road, King’s Cross, N1.
Intimate, sleazy men-only cruise
bar, open throughout the week.
www.ma1.co.uk
CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine
Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge,
late-night venue for after-hours
crowd – hosting various one-off
promotions such as the monthly
Future.
THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes,
N16. 020-7354 2791. Manor
House tube. Friendly, divere gay bar
with late-night club promotions,
open ‘til 3am at weekends. www.
oakbar.com
DEPOT, 66 Albert Embankment,
SE1. 020-7793 9262. Cruisy dance
club which hosts monthly parties
such as Rent, Manhunt and Prowler
on Saturday nights, plus Cruise on
Friday nights.
ON THE ROCKS, 25 Kingsland
Road, E2. Underground Shoreditch
venue that hosts the weekly
Trailer Trash club night each Friday
– the ‘Dirty Eastend Gay Ravebox
for trucker boyz, roller grrls and
assorted fabulous fashion kids!’
www.clubtrailertrash.com
THE EAGLE, 349 Kennington
Lane, SE11. 020 7793 0903. Mon,
Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 9pm-late, Tue
7.30-10.30pm, Sun 4pm-2am.
Vauxhall tube. Large, club-bar with
nightly promotions. Horse Meat
Disco (Sundays) is particularly
PLAYPIT, 76 Caledonian Road,
There have been a couple of
little changes down at Central
Station in King’s Cross. The
DCD session each Monday
has now closed, but instead
you’ll find all-day cruising at
Pants (1-6pm), In Yer Face
(6-9pm) and Meatpackers
(9pm till late). There’s plenty
of other cruising opportunities
throughout the week, plus weekend cabaret throughout the month of
April. Catch singer Kelly (Friday 4 April), dragster Pat Cruise (Saturday 5
April), Earl Grey (11 April), Dolly Diamond (12 April), Wilma Fingerdoo
(18 April), Sandra (19 April), Lizzy Drip (25 April) and Kandi Kane (26
April). This gay scene institution is spread over three floors, with the
basement disco, ground floor pub and cabaret space, and the upstairs
MA1 cruise bar which has its own roster of men-only sessions. All this
plus the outdoors smoking terrace. Check it out at 32 Wharfdale Road,
N1 – just five minutes from King’s Cross station.
FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11.
Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue,
hosting occasional dance and
cruise nights.
THE FORT, 131 Grange Road,
SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise
club, open till 11pm throughout
week, with regular boots-only and
underwear parties.
www.thefortlondon.com
FIRE, South Lambeth Road,
Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube.
Infamous, late-night gay venue
beneath the Vauxhall railway
CENTRAL SPRING
N1. Intimate, King’s Cross sleaze
club. Open Thur-Sat 9pm-3am,
Sun 3pm-7pm and 8pm-1am.
www.londonplaypit.co.uk
SOUTH LONDON
AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment,
SE1. Gorgeously-designed, hard
dance club and cabaret rooms, with
eclectic roster of different gay nights
(Juicy on Saturdays) and one-off
promotions. www.areaclub.info
BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69,
Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207
734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7
days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am,
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– old-skool boozer popular with
post-club crowd at weekends.
286, 286 Lewisham High Street,
SE14. 020-8690 7648. Large, lateopening gay pub and club, with
regular entertainment and cabaret.
Open till 2am Sun-Thur and till 4am
Fri-Sat. www.two8six.co.uk
KINGS HEAD, 11 Church
Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197
Stratford BR and tube. Intimate
and welcoming East End gay pub
– regular cabaret.
THE TRAFALGAR ARMS,
148 Tooting High Street, SW17.
020-8767 6059. A spacious, lively,
attitude-free pub. Excellent food
served all day. Weekly DJs on Friday
and Saturday nights. Karaoke on
Wednesdays.
arches, host to the likes of Orange,
A:M, Horizon and Gravity. Open
around the clock at weekends.
www.allthingsorange.com or
www.fireclub.co.uk
THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2
BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10.
020 8691 3764. www.gandd.org.
uk. Deptford Bridge DLR. Mon-Thu
4pm-1am, Fri & Sat 4pm-4am, Sun
4pm-2am. Late-night pub with
nightly entertainment and popular
cabaret nights.
HIDDEN, 100 Timworth Street,
SE11. Railway arch venue, home
to infamous Hard On night once a
month (www.hardonclub.co.uk).
THE HOIST, Arch 47c, South
Lambeth Road, SW8. 020 7735
9972. 10pm-late. Door charge and
strict dress code. One of London’s
most famous dress-code and cruise
clubs and packed with men-only
crowd. Open Friday-Sunday and
occasional Thursdays (SM Gays).
JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli
Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road,
SE4. First Saturday of the
month, 7pm-midnight (£7).
Gay ballroom and Latin dancing
night, attracting up to 300
dancers a month to the delightful
and glamorous 1950s-style Rivoli
Ballroom in Brockley. Crofton Park
THE TWO BREWERS,
114 Clapham High Street, SW4.
020 7498 4971. Clapham Common
tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat
5pm-4am. South London’s most
famed gay cabaret venue. Large
bar and separate dancefloor room.
www.the2brewers.com
XXL, The Arches, 53 Southwark
Street, SE1. www.xxl-london.com.
London Bridge tube. Huge club for
bears, big men and admirers, on
Saturday and Wednesday, plus the
Friday XXL Extreme party.
BR. www.therivoli.co.uk
EAST LONDON
KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street,
SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham
North tube. Mon-Thu 4pmmidnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham
video bar, popular throughout the
week and DJs at weekends.
LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington
Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039.
Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a
week. Small, traditional gay boozer
for local gay boys and girls.
MANBAR, 82 Great Suffolk Street,
SE1. 020-7928 3223. London
Bridge tube. Late-night cruise bar
(with showers!) for men-only.
www.manbar.info
ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN,
372 Kennington Lane, SE11.
020 7840 0596. Opening times
vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge.
Huge, traditional and historic gay
pub, with long history of hosting
cabaret. Packed to rafters on
Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday
(Chill-Out). www.rvt.org.uk
THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place,
SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria
tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight,
Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark
THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street,
E15. Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford
BR and tube. Big gay pub, always
popular at weekends, with regular
cabaret, DJs and disco nights.
THE OLD SHIP, 17 Barnes
Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082.
Limehouse DLR. Open from 7pm
Mon & Tue, from 6pm Wed-Sat,
from 4pm on Sun. Small, local,
traditional pub, with regular
cabaret.
BJ’s WHITE SWAN,
556 Commercial Road, E1. Tel: 020
7780 9870. Limehouse DLR. Mon
9pm-1am Tue-Thu 9pm-2am,
Fri-Sat 9pm-3am, Sun 5.30pmmidnight. A large, long-running
gay pub and club, open throughout
the week and legendary across
London! Fun, friendly, and loaded
with East End charm. Wednesday’s
Amateur Strip is an institution.
www.bjswhiteswan.com
WEST LONDON
BROMPTONS, 294 Old Brompton
Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 7370
1344. Earls Court tube. Big, longrunning gay pub and club, open
late throughout week. Regular
cabaret and club nights.
COLEHERNE, 261 Old Brompton
Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 7244
5951. Earls Court tube. Noon-
midnight. Larfge and legendary
pub. The spit’n’sawdust feel has
gone, but still popular with mixed
crowd of male drinkers.
THE CULVERT, 54 Cowley Mill
Road, Uxbridge. 01895 256 690.
Uxbridge tube. Mon-Wed 4pm-1am,
Thu noon-2am, Fri & Sat noon-3am,
Sun 3pm-1am. Regular discos, cabaret,
karaoke and one-off events.
www.theculvert.com
THE HOPE & ANCHOR, 20
Macbeth Street, Hammersmith,
W6. (contact mobile
- 07858281995). New gay pub
for Hammersmith and Chiswick.
Traditional boozer with nightly
entertainment – open noon11pm throughout week.
THE RICHMOND ARMS, 20
The Square, off Princes Street,
Richmond. 020-8940 2118. Longrunning local gay pub, regular
cabaret and entertainment.
TED’S PLACE, 305a North End
Road, West Brompton, W14. 0207
385 9359. Earls Court or West
Brompton tube. Mon-Fri from
7pm-late, closed Sat & Sun. West
London cruise club. Sleazy… but
that’s why the regulars love it!
WEST 5, Popes Lane, South
Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Large,
popular gay pub with Piano Room
and cabaret bar, open till late at
weekends with entertainment
and DJs.
THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth
Mews, off Burdett Road, E3.
020-8980 8557. Over 20 years old
– small but legendary dress code
leather club, open Thur-Sun.
THE BLACK HORSE, 168 Mile
End Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790
1684. Mile End tube. Mon-Thurs
8pm-1am, Fri-Sat 8pm-3am, Sun
8pm-1am. Late-opening,East End
cabaret bar and disco.
BISTROTHEQUE, 23-27 Wadeson
St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900.
Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed,
gay/straight crowd of trendy
metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant,
plus separate cabaret room.
CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe
Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007.
Whitechapel tube. Recently
refurbished, Moroccan style
– friendly, local gay bar.
THE JOINERS ARMS, 116
Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739
9854. Debauched decadence
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PROFILE PEOPLE
Sister venues Profile Bar and Lo-Profile both have a busy roster of promotional nights
arranged for this April. Down at Profile on Frith Street you’ll find extended happy hours all
night from Sundays to Wednesdays, and between 4 and 9pm on Thursdays to Saturdays.
Typical offers includes bottles of Becks and Corona at £2.50, Kronenbourg at £2 a pint and
£9 for a bottle of wine.
DJ Cupcake presides over the new Tuesday night Cupcakes session for girls, while Johnny
Hooley hosts his own Hooley’s Hopefuls each Wednesday night. Shy of saying hello to the
man you fancy? Get along to this fun singles night and let Johnny make the introductions.
Lo-Profile on Wardour Street hosts Plastique every Wednesday from 9pm till 2am, hosted by
the legendary Miss Kimberley. She’ll be introducing cutting-edge cabaret and performance
pieces, while DJs Nick Evans, Craig Daniels, Ben Parkes and Nick Tcherniak spin the uplifting,
vocal house sounds. It’s followed each Thursday by Club Couture (9pm till 3am), while
the flagship Friday and Saturday nightclub sessions run from 10pm through till 4am, with
residents on rotation including Paul Heron, Mikey D, Jamie Head, Brent Nicholls, Alessandro,
Kris Di Angelis, Guy Williams, Oliver M and Hugh Stevenson.
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and atmospheric gay bar in Victoria
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MEGA DEALS
Megawoof, which was formerly at Crash, has now moved
lock, stock and barrel across to the other side of Vauxhall.
You’ll now find it running every first Saturday of the month
at Club Colosseum. The next session for ‘hunks who
funk’ will take place on Saturday 5 April from 10.30pm till
6am. The venue boasts two dancefloors, three bars, a roof
garden and state-of-the-art lights and sound system. DJs
on the night include Diddy, Daz Saund, Paul Coals, David
Eph, Sugabear, Jo Public and David Junior. Admission is
£10 for members, £14 for guests or £13 with a flyer before
midnight. Advance queue-jump tickets cost £12.
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POM POM INTERNATIONAL
Join Amy Lamé as she
proves yarny art is back
in fashion during the
London Lesbian and Gay
Film Festival. Pom Pom
International, the fantastic
global phenomenon, comes
to BFI Southbank’s Foyer
on Saturday 5 April at 4pm.
www.bfi.org.uk
GROUPS//ORGS
Albert Kennedy Trust: 020
7831 6562 (London). Housing
advice for under 21s.
Antidote: 020 7437 3523.
Counselling, support groups,
Thurs drop-in, complementary
therapies around alcohol & drug
issues.
BKY - Alternative Jewish
Community: www.bkylondon.
org.uk Regular services and
events
ELOP: 020 8509 3898. Support
and community events in
Walthamstow. Youth, advice,
counselling and groups.
Gay and Lesbian Humanist
Association, (GALHA): 01926
858450, www.galha.org.
Regular London events.
Outrage!: 020 8240 0222.
Political group. Regular
meetings.
Lesbian Gay Christian
Movement: 020 7739 1249,
[email protected]/www.lgcm.
org.uk.
Lesbian and Gay
Immigration Group: 020
7922 7811, www.uklgig.org.uk.
meetings once a month.
LGBT Choir: 07980 023578. Call
Michael for more information.
slago.org.uk/slg. A friendly group
with a range of social activities.
Stonewall: 020 7593 1850.
Campaign group for LGBT rights.
HATECRIME
Gay Police Association:
Action Line 07092 700 000
(24hrs), [email protected].
Galop: 020 7704 2040. www.
galop.org.uk. For victims of
hate crime
HIV//AIDS
London Friend: 020 7837
3337. Groups in Islington.
Quaker London Lesbian &
Gay Fellowship: 020 8675
6740.
Metro Centre: 020 8265 3311,
www.metrocentreonline.org.
Regular groups in Greenwich.
Mosaic: 07931 336668. www.
mosaicyouth.org.uk. Youth
group, every Wednesday.
One-Up: LGBT under-18 youth
group, meets every Monday
4-7pm (based in Hendon - North
West London) - contact Theresa
(PACE) 07504226793 (mobile).
PACE: 020 7700 1323. Groups
promoting lesbian and gay
health and well-being.
Quest LGB Catholics: 0808
808 0234.
Regard: Regard, BM REGARD,
London WC1N 3XX, secretary@
regard.org.uk/www.regard.org.
uk. Disabled LGBT.
Islington LGB Forum:
Rachael: 07989 747824. An
initiative between local police,
the council & victim support.
Step Out Tower Hamlets:
Social & support group for
gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans
& questioning young people.
5-8pm Tues 079 4633 7160
Jewish Gay and Lesbian
Group: 020 8952 0137.
South London Gays: 020 8672
5268/020 8674 5191. www.
Crusaid: 020 7539 3880,
www.crusaid.org.uk.
GAY SUNDAY WALKING GROUP
GMFA: 020 7738 6872. The gay
men’s health charity.
Call it walking, hiking or rambling… the Gay Sunday Walking group does it in and
around London and the Home Counties twice a month. One of the walks is always an allNational AIDS Trust: 020 7814 day affair, spanning 8-15 miles, starting and finishing at a railway station within an hour’s
travel from a London terminus, and includes a pub lunch. The other is always a half-day
6767, www.nat.org.uk.
jaunt, covering 3-6 miles – also normally involving a pub! Some years there are even weeks
Terence Higgins Trust: 07090 or weekends away, even overseas - most recently to Majorca. Membership costs just £5 a
year and is open to all gay men, lesbians and their friends. There are currently around 160
422 828. Counselling Services.
members – mostly gay men – and between 15 and 40 people tend to join any given walk
– which is planned and overseen by a volunteer walk leader. The group started in 1972,
SPORTS
formally as a social club within the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, and is now affiliated
Cruisers basketball: 020 8960 to the Ramblers’ Association. Members’ ideas for new walks and walking activities are
always welcomed, as are new members and their guests.
0750 (Debbie)/ 020 7582 7009,
www.gswg.org.uk
www.cruisers.org.uk (Jordi).
Mixed basketball.
Frontrunners: 07092 346340,
www.londonfrontrunners.org.
Running group.
Goslings Swimming: 07814
258 055. Gay social (non
competitive) swimming group,
Thur 8.30pm-9.30pm. www.
goslingssportsclub.com
Irons: www.ironsgolf.org.uk .
Gay golfing, events for all levels.
King’s Cross Steelers Rugby
Football Club: 07090 421 367,
www.kxsrfc.com. Gay men’s
rugby.
London Amateur Wrestling:
www.law-wrestling.org
London Guns ‘N’ Roses
Hockey Team: Mixed hockey
for all levels. www.pinkhockey.
com or email: iainkimmins115@
hotmail.com
National Domestic Violence
Helpline. 08452 60 44 60 (Mon
and Thurs, 2-8pm/Weds, 10am1pm). www.broken-rainbow.
org.uk.
on Saturdays, 1-3pm.
Out to Swim: 07090 422
526, www.outtoswim.org. Gay
swimming group.
Dazz-elle: 020 8257 3068.
London drug/alcohol support.
eddiesurmantrust.org.uk
Raiders Softball Club: 07931
721 377, www.rainbowraiders.
com. Mixed baseball in Regents
Park / Primrose Hill area.
Stonewall Football Club:
07090 422 390. Sunday soccer.
Lesbian & Gay Immigration
Group: 020 7922 7811. Every
Mon 12-5pm and Wed 6-8pm.
London Lesbian & Gay
Switchboard: 020 7837 7324
HIV info and counselling
(weekdays: 11am-10pm and
weekends: 4pm -10pm). www.
Stonewall Housing Advice:
020 7359 5767.
Unison: 0845 355 0845/0800
0967 968 (minicom). Works with
LGBT community about work
and employment problems.
London Friend: 020 7837
3337. Counselling service.
HELPLINES
Broken Rainbow: LGBT
POSITIVELINE: 0800-1696806.
PACE: 020 7700 1323. Health
and well-being. Tel info/support
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UK NEWS
PAISLEY DUO: GOING AND GONE…
Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland’s First Minister – once
famous for his “Save Ulster from Sodomy” campaign – has
announced his intention to stand down in May, also quitting as
DUP leader. Aged 81, he claims, “it would be a very appropriate
time for me to bow out”. That said, some commentators
have drawn links between his imminent departure, and the
resignation in February of his homophobic son, Ian Paisley Jnr,
who recently said he was “repulsed by gays and lesbians” and
who resigned following criticism over his links to a property
developer and controversy over lobbying activity . Paisley Jnr
strongly denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
GAY TORY TO TIE KNOT
Shadow Secretary of State for Enterprise, Business & Regulatory
Reform, Alan Duncan, will form a civil partnership with his
other half, 39-year old City press officer James Dunseath, in
the summer – thereby becoming the first Tory MP to so do.
The pair met 14 months ago, with 50-year old Duncan popping
the question while they were holidaying on Valentine’s Day.
Rumours are even circulating that Duncan’s old chum, Baroness
Thatcher, might even attend the ceremony.
LITTLE BRITAIN HELPS
MAKE THT £200K AT
AUCTION
A walk-on part in Little Britain USA raised £9,000
at the 12th Lighthouse Gala Auction at Christie’s in
London on 10 March. Tracey Emin’s neon artwork, I
Promise To Love You, raised £26,000, Tony Blair’s last
party conference speech as Prime Minister made
£4,200, and a shopping trip with Joan Collins went
for £3,500. The evening, which was attended by
celebs including Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate,
Brian Paddick (right), pictured here with the Terrence
Higgins Trust’s chief executive Nick Partridge (left)
- raised over £200,000 for THT.
10K CRUSAID WALK’S NEW LONDON ROUTE
The organisers of Crusaid’s Walk For Life – set to take place
on Sunday 1 June – have announced a new, improved route
for this year’s event. Europe’s largest fundraising walk for HIV
raised a whopping £375k last year, and is again set to support
marginalised individuals affected by HIV and AIDS in both the
UK and Africa. It kicks off at the Event Village, based at Potters
Fields Park, on the southern side of the Thames between Tower
Bridge and City Hall. The new route will snake through London,
taking in landmarks such as Tower Bridge, St Paul’s, the Old
Bailey and the Millennium Bridge. To take part, register by
visiting www.walkforlife.co.uk or call 0845 367 0180.
STONEWALL’S NEW “INFO HOTLINE”
Stonewall has launched a new freephone info hotline - 08000
50 20 20 - supported by the National Lottery, and offering
information and referrals on a wide range of topics including
hate crime, parenting and discrimination in the provision of
goods and services.
“HOMO HUSTINGS” TO HELP DECIDE LONDON
MAYOR
The leading candidates for Mayor of London – Ken Livingstone
(Labour), Boris Johnson (Tory), Brian Paddick (Lib Dem) and
Sian Berry (Green) – will take part in a “homo hustings”,
organised by Stonewall, at the BFI Southbank on Saturday 19
April, ahead of the actual mayor elections on Thursday 1 May.
The hustings will take place between 11am and 12.30pm. To
register to attend, email [email protected]
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Matthew Hodson of gay men’s health charity
GMFA, responding to a BBC Newsnight report
about porn models who apparently became
infected whilst performing without condoms.
I SUSPECT THAT SO LONG
AS THERE CONTINUES
TO BE A DEMAND FOR
BAREBACK PORN, THERE
WILL CONTINUE TO
BE COMPANIES THAT
PRODUCE IT. IF GAY MEN
DON’T WANT PORN STARS
TO RISK THEIR HEALTH,
THEY SHOULD STOP
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NEWS FLASHES
INTERNATION
NEWS
AUSTRALIA:
Sydney’s 30th Mardi Gras
was the biggest ever. Over
300,000 people thronged
Sydney’s streets to enjoy
the mile-long Mardi Gras
parade in its 30th anniversary
year. The parade featured
10,000 marchers in dazzling
and outlandish costumes,
and more than 150 floats
– including a gay “Popemobile”!
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A 24-year-old policeman
is in hiding in Jamaica and
seeking asylum in Canada,
after allegedly being abused
and attacked by fellow
coppers because of his
sexuality. He also claims that
13 of his gay friends have
died in the past four years.
Sex between men is illegal in
Jamaica, and is punishable
with up to ten years in jail,
while homophobic assaults
and violence against lesbians
and gay men are common.
...AND FINALLY
BAFTAS FOR THE BOYS
Several prominent gay entertainers have scooped themselves recognition in
this year’s TV BAFTAS. The nominations for this year’s event, due to take place
on Sunday 20 April, were announced in mid-March. Battling it out in the
category of Best Entertainer are Simon Amstell (pictured), the host of Never
Mind The Buzzcocks, Alan Carr of the Friday Night Project, and Stephen Fry
of QI. Carr was nominated jointly with his TV partner, Justin Lee Collins. Gay
actor Anthony Sher also picked up a nomination in the Best Actor category
for his role in BBC4’s TV film Primo.
© ADAM LAWRENCE
BURRELL OVER BARREL OVER “GAY REVELATIONS”
New allegations have appeared in The News of the World that former royal butler Paul Burrell is a closet gay who trolls gay
saunas for men behind his wife’s back. The 49-year-old former royal aide has been in the headlines recently after he declined a
request from Lord Justice Scott Baker to return to the witness box as part of the ongoing inquiry into Princess Diana’s death. He
was requested to return after he was secretly filmed by The Sun newspaper claiming that he had thrown a couple of ‘red herrings’
into his earlier testimonial at the inquest into the late Princess’s death.
SCI FI LEGEND DIES
The legendary science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke has died at the age of 90 at his home in Sri Lanka from respiratory
complications and heart failure. The acclaimed writer wrote over 100 books, and will probably be best remembered for penning
2001: A Space Odyssey. Although he was married briefly in the 50s, it was widely rumoured that the author was gay. When
questioned later in life about this, he would usually enigmatically reply, “No, merely mildly cheerful.”
ELTON’S BACKING HILLARY
Elton John has announced that he is to play a special fundraising gig for American
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. The event, titled Elton and Hillary: One Night Only,
will take place at New York’s famous Radio City Music Hall on 9 April, with ticket prices
ranging from $125-$250.
“I’m not a politician, but I believe in the work that Hillary Clinton does,” John has been
quoted as saying. The gig follows a similar fundraiser that the Clinton camp held last
October at NYC’s Beacon Theatre with Billy Crystal and Elvis Costello, and which raised
$1.5million for the senator’s presidential bid.
OUTSPOKEN:
PHELIM MAC
CAFFERTY
ARE WE TO REMAIN
A STATISTICALLY
CLOSETED NATION?
THE MEDIA
SPOKESPERSON FOR
THE GREEN PARTY’S
LGBT GROUP SAYS THE
GOVERNMENT - AND
ITS STATS AGENCY, THE OFFICE FOR NATIONAL
STATISTICS (ONS) - SHOULD START ASKING “THE
GAY QUESTION” IN THE NEXT NATIONAL CENSUS.
The national census is due again in 2011 and - while
some will doubtless be busy using a biro to denote their
affinity with the Jedi
Order - to date, no such
census has asked people
to define or declare
their sexuality. Because
IMAGINE OUR
of this, no concrete
data exists to indicate
how many of us there CLOUT ONCE
actually are. And the
OUR HEADS ARE
Government and ONS
COUNTED.”
still seem hesitant.
We need questions
on sexuality included
in the census - not
least because, now that we have limited legal rights, our
existence should be formally acknowledged; and our access
to adequate and appropriate education, housing and health
services at long last ensured.
Information is the key to this access. Since the census is
used by numerous bodies – including local authorities – to
allocate resources for services that affect our lives, unless we
are counted and represented, how can we possibly benefit?
Name, ethnicity, religion, gender and even how many
rooms are in my house (since when has Sarah Beeny
worked for ONS?) are asked – yet still there’s nothing about
sexuality.
In the mean time, what of the disproportionate number
of LGBT people who end up homeless? Or who have
attempted to commit suicide? What about the fact that
many pre-op trans patients need support in accessing what
is rightfully theirs?
Doesn’t ONS realise that until LGBTs can prove that we exist
throughout the UK, budgets set by schools, hospitals and
councils will, due to ignorance, continue to neglect us, or
– worse – could even wilfully discriminate against us?
Imagine the clout of our community across the UK once our
heads are truly counted. Imagine how empowering it will
be, especially for young LGBT people, to know “you’re not
alone”. Imagine our ability to face both local and national
authorities and finally begin to gain fair access.
The ONS has expressed doubts that the data resulting
from a census question asking about sexuality would be
“meaningful”, with many people staying closeted. However,
the public should be reassured that household-specific data
stays confidential, by law, for 100 years after collection. And
– despite possible overall “undercounting”, not least due to
internal factors within households - we surely, as a society,
have to start counting sometime. If not now, then when?
For these reasons, the Greens back the TUC and Stonewall’s
calls for an LGBT-inclusive census. The census hasn’t
recorded us previously because, frankly, no-one has made it
do so. Now is the time to legislate to ensure it must.
For the Green Party’s LGBT-related views: www.lgbtgreens.org.
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booklet lists the
most gay-friendly
employers in
Britain, as well
as detailing
aspects of these
companies’
policies as an
example to other
employers. For
more information
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We find the most popular gay
hotspots around WC2
BOX BAR
MONMOUTH STREET
The Box, which has been
running for a decade, is a
sophisticated bar, great for
cocktails and socialising,
with DJs at the weekend.
020 7240 5828.
PLACE TO BE: COVENT GARDEN
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COVENT GARDEN
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A charming one bedroom
apartment (pictured right) in a
popular gated development in
the heart of Covent Garden, close
to the much celebrated Covent
Garden Piazza.
EA Shaw 020 7240 2255
EA Shaw 020 7240 2255
02 MARTLETT COURT, £395,950
JUBILEE HALL
MACKLIN STREET
Gay-friendly gym that is
great for pulling... and not
just weights! Gymnasium,
cardio theatre, badminton
court and basketball. www.
jubileehallclubs.co.uk
03 BROAD COURT, £795,000
A two-bedroom, first floor
apartment that is full of character
and has many original features.
The apartment has two good
sized double bedrooms and a
well proportioned living room
that looks out on to Broad Court.
There is a separate kitchen that
has enough space for dining and a
decent sized bathroom.
Chesterton 0207 262 5060
KUDOS
ADELAIDE STREET
Ground and basement
floor, busy modern bar with
fantastic menu. Features
large screen with latest
releases on video.
www.kudosgroup.com
COVENT GARDEN
MARKET
COVENT GARDEN
Live street entertainment,
restaurants and
specialist shops. www.
coventgardenmarket.co.uk
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hzone is in the final phase of FelthamONE - four
exclusive zones developed among a number
of landmark buildings as part of the newly
regenerated town centre of up-and-coming
Feltham. With modern wood and glass exteriors
mirrored by stylish interiors, all apartments boast
sleek fitted kitchens with integrated cooker and
hood, fridge freezer and washer dryer. Positioned
next to Feltham Rail station, hzone is ideally placed
for travel to central London and Heathrow. Prices
start at £90,000 for a one-bedroom apartment,
and £107,500 for a two-bedroom apartment,
based on a 50 percent share. hzone is available
from A2 Housing:
For information about all A2’s developments call 0845
408 6699 or visit www.a2g3.com.
CENTRE VIEW, CROYDON
One of the best things to come out of Croydon
is Kate Moss. Another is Tower Homes’ fabulous
new apartment development at Centre View,
comprising 12 one-bedroom apartments and 26
two bedders. Croydon is renowned for its excellent
transport links, with quick and easy access into
central London, regular train services down to the
South coast and a nifty local tram service. You’ll need
to stump up £66,000 for a 40 percent share of a
one-bedroom apartment, so you’ll need a minimum
household income of £31,000 to qualify. And if you
want to go for a two-bedroom flat, your household
income needs to be £37,000.
To find out more visit: www.housingoptions.co.uk
or call 0845 230 8099.
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Reduce your carbon footprint by buying homes
at Upton Square from Metropolitan Housing
Partnership, which also means cheaper utility bills.
The location is perfect for commuters working
in London or other cities within striking distance
of Northampton. The one, two, three and fourbedroomed eco homes include kitchens by Paula
Roza, NTL cable points, recycling waste bins and
garage or allocated parking spaces. Prices start
from £123,950 for a one-bedroom apartment,
to £239,950 for a four-bedroom townhouse. For
further information or to visit the show homes
contact: 01604 751 531 or visit uptonsquare.co.uk.
Exclusive Offer:
Metropolitan Housing Partnership are offering a
de luxe spa day for two to our readers who reserve
and complete the purchase of a new home at
Upton Square.
Call MHP for more information on 01604-751 531.
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AARON PROBYN
Faceted designs are the right on
trend this season, and these bone
china gems from the new Habitat
collection have caught our eye.
Bring a bit of spring indoors and
add flowers, or just leave them
empty and appreciate their quirky,
origami-inspired geometry
unadulterated.
01 WORLD MAP WALL STICKER | FERM DESIGN CONCEPTS
Want to spice up your walls without the mess, stress and long-term commitment of
papering? Time to take advantage of the current craze for wall stickers. With so many easilyremovable designs to choose from, the world’s literally your oyster. Speaking of which, Ferm
Design Concepts have come up trumps with this fantastic world map design.
RRP £65 (120cm x 76cm)
www.95percentdanish.co.uk
RRP £49 (small) and £69 (large)
www.habitat.co.uk
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One of the star pieces at the Milan Fair, the Femme sofa is
inviting, elegant and a definite must-have. A soft, rounded body
created from moulded polyurethane foam is set off beautifully by
conical steel feet. The piece comes from designer Chris Columbo, who
was recently singled out in Elle Decorations as “a name to watch”.
RRP £3,499
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Nottingham-based furniture company Otto not only insist
on using materials from sustainable sources – they also
ask customers to return pieces when they no longer want
them so that they can be revamped and resold. Though
it’s hard to see why anyone would stop wanting anything
as classically stylish as this European oak Pause Lounge
shelving unit.
RRP £2,347
www.ottofurniture.com
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We think this rug offers
the perfect combination
of practicality and cutting
edge style. As well as
boasting a great design,
it is also created from
heat-set polypropylene
for maximum comfort
and warmth. In case its
abstract lines throw you
off-balance, you can
choose to have anti-slip
underlay added to it too.
RRP £19.99
(195cm x 133cm)
www.ikea.co.uk
04 DINING TABLE | BO CONCEPT
Make the most of your living space with this
attractive extendable dining table from Bo Concept. A cool
brushed steel extension hides beneath your choice of a
white lacquer, oak, cherry, walnut or black-stained oak
veneer, ready to seat up to ten dinner guests.
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Swedish lighting design company
Wastberg caused quite a stir when it launched
its debut range at Stockholm Design Week. Designer
James Irvine describes his objective as the creation of
“an object which is calm”, and we think that this
simplistic, streamlined piece
achieves just that. The range
will be available to buy in
early May.
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www.boconcept.co.uk
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DEVELOPMENT PLANS
If you’re building your home from scratch, having a major extension,
remodelling your home, converting a property or just keen to integrate the
latest technology, The Homebuilding & Renovating Show is for you. The
three-day event includes free seminars, a technology zone and eco-section,
with plenty of experts on hand to answer those difficult-to-answer queries you
might have about DIY and renovation.
Homebuilding & Renovating Show, ExCeL, 19-21 September 2008.
www.homebuildingshow.co.uk
STUFF FOR YOUR HOME
This annual event, which showcases innovative designs and
concepts for the home and garden, is back. The 2008 Ideal Home
Show celebrates 100 years of inspirational ideas from designer and
bespoke brands, but also exhibits regular high street favourites such
as Canon, B&Q and Allied LG.
The Ideal Home Show at Earls Court is
running from now until 6 April.
www.idealhomeshow.co.uk
Ticket hotline: 0844 415 4155
ARCHITECTURAL INSPIRATION
Grand Designs Live, the UK’s number one consumer show returns for its fourth year.
The multi award-winning event remains the only contemporary design exhibition in the
UK, offering visitors the chance to buy, build and furnish a house all under one roof. Based
on Channel 4’s hugely successful Grand Designs series, presented by design guru Kevin
McCloud, the exhibition has over 500 exhibitors and access to six inspiring show zones.
Grand Designs Live London comes to ExCeL, 3-11 May 2008.
www.granddesignslive.com
Ticket hotline: 0871 230 5577
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those looking to get away from it all. Recently we
have seen a further increase in the coast’s popularity due to a
greater focus on specific coastal regeneration. Along with this
there is a greater willingness to commute further – not just
a better quality of life, but to be financially better off. This is
especially true now that many of us have the technology to
work effectively from home. .
The commuter buzz has hit south coast towns and cities
such as Brighton because of the fast trains into London that
now take just over an hour. City bound commuters are on
the increase and it is easy to see why. With more affordable
house prices and mortgage repayments outweighing the cost
of travel, the financial aspects make sense, especially when
coupled with the increased availability of low-cost home
ownership schemes.
The social scene in and around British seaside towns has
proved an added attraction for many people, with Brighton
A HOME BY
THE SEA…
– to many of us at least – the jewel in the south coast
crown. So while the draw of London still grabs a great deal
of people, it could be said that property hot spots for 2008
may just be beside the seaside. See the Dominion advert
on page 87 of this issue to find out more about high quality
affordable homes.
For more details, give the sales team a call on 0800 783 2159.
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IF YOU HAVE A LEGAL PROBLEM AND NEED THE
ANSWERS VISIT OUR RESIDENT SOLICITOR
GABRIELE GIAMBRONE.
DISSOLUTION
DEAR GABRIELE
Two years ago I formed a Civil Partnership with
my now ex-boyfriend. Unfortunately, we are now
talking about seeking a divorce. Could you please
let me know how straight forward this is? We
didn’t do a pre- civil partnership agreement, but I
am hoping that we didn’t need one. Do I have any
financial responsibilities to him?
Steven
DEAR STEVEN
As you have been in a registered civil partnership for over
one year you are entitled to dissolution (not divorce). In
order to be able to petition for dissolution you must be
able to prove one of four facts; unreasonable behaviour,
separation for two years with consent, separation for
five years, or desertion. Please note that adultery is not a
ground for dissolution as it is with divorce, although the
fact of adultery could be used to support the ground for
unreasonable behaviour.
The actual procedure for obtaining dissolution is the same
as for divorce. You will have to complete a petition which is
filed at any civil partnership proceedings county court and
served on your civil partner. He will then have to respond
by completing an Acknowledgement of Service and once
done you can apply for a Conditional Order which is the
equivalent of the Decree Nisi and thereafter for a Final Order
which is the equivalent of the Decree Absolute.
With regard to the finances, yes you do both have financial
obligations to one another. Even if you had a pre-civil
partnership agreement it would not be binding on the
courts, although it could be persuasive.
Again the procedure for ancillary relief on dissolution is the
same as for divorce. Both of you will have to disclose all
your assets in both your sole and joint names and unless
you can come to an agreement as to how you would like
those assets to be divided between you, a court will decide
using a set of criteria established by statute. This could
mean that you are ordered to transfer certain of your assets
to him in order to achieve equality. If you do have more
assets than your civil partner you would be advised to
settle the case rather than use the court system as this is
more unpredictable.
It is always wise to seek independent legal advice even at
this early stage and the family team at Giambrone & Law
are always happy to help.
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CAR TROUBLE
Here’s a possible show for the car lover in your life.
Described as a ‘hilarious and, at times, sensitive musical
oddity’, AutoAuto! is a surreal and bizarre piece of
performance art coming to the Riverside Studios in
Hammersmith from 10 April. The principle instrument? A
Vauxhall Astra Mk2!
Turning an old car into a symphony orchestra, AutoAuto!
performs music from Bach and Tchaikovsky to the more
contemporary Benny Goodman and Motorhead, with
little more than a few mechanical tools. The body of the
car provides the sound box, the side grille is the rattle, the
windscreen wipers squeak and sing and the aerial makes
a bass guitar string. The inspiration for this production
came whilst Christian von Richthofen was teaching young
students who had recently been arrested for vandalising
cars. Christian persuaded his students to attend 100% of
his lessons in return for an old car to smash up on stage
with baseball bats. He used the experience to teach them
rhythm and the idea for AutoAuto! was created.
The shows runs Wednesday 9 April till Sunday 4 May at
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W6.
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
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One of the world’s biggest gay circuit
parties is undoubtedly the annual Love
Ball in Barcelona. This year’s event is
scheduled to take place from 1-8 August
2008, and is expected to attract something
in the region of 30,000 revelers. Events
scheduled to take place over the course of
the week include a ‘From London With Love’
party featuring DJs Guy Williams and Justin
Ballard on the 1st, and a Loveball Pool
Party on the 2nd, with Rome’s very own
Fabio White behind the decks. The main
Saturday night party (4 Aug) has scheduled
appearances from Marc Almond, Grace
Jones and Amanda Lepore, with the
likes of Tasty Tim, Sammy Jo and Peter
Rauhofer from NYC spinning the sounds.
Besides the partying, there will be arts,
cinema and associated sports events,
offering a little something for everyone.
This is gonna be one of the best gay party
weeks in Europe this summer, so start
planning your trip now. For more details,
check
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events specifically designed for the gay and
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23 AUG-22 SEP
VIRGO
Although an intelligent person,
you have a tendency to overanalyse situations, which can
cause you no end of stress. For
goodness sake, take a step back
and let yourself relax a little. Do
some more enjoyable things to
occupy your mind so you can
have a clearer perspective when
it’s really needed.
23 SEP-22 OCT
LIBRA
Indecision is starting to have an
effect on your love life Libra. It’s
not a case of choosing between
a few different guys – you can’t
even make up your mind about
what you like in a bloke! Instead
of bailing out of a relationship
too soon, persevere and don’t be
too quick to dismiss anyone in
undue haste.
22 DEC-19 JAN
Rid yourself of this current
pessimistic outlook Capricorn!
Stop moping around at home
and arrange some trips out with mates. You can be too serious and
prudent for your own good, and everyone must let their hair down
sometimes… even you bald ones! Just for once, put convention
aside, throw caution to the wind, and act on impulse.
CAPRICORN
19 FEB-20 MAR
PISCES
You need to really strengthen
your resolve Pisces. You’re being
far too weak-willed when you
should be asserting yourself
and seeing results. Don’t bite
off more than you can chew
though – that’s just an act of
self-sabotage. Keep moving in
the right direction, even if at a
slow pace.
21 MAR-19 APR
23 OCT-21 NOV
ARIES
SIR ELTON JOHN
MARCH 25TH
Happy Birthday Sir
Elton John! Like
many Aries, Elton has
a flamboyant and
enthusiastic nature, but
can be impatient and
impulsive and prone
to a short temper.
It’s made up for with
wit and an energetic
approach to life. You’ll
never be bored with an
Aries in your life!
Elton John turns 61 on
25 March
20 APR-20 MAY
ARIES
TAURUS
Being an Aries you’re the
adventurous type, so this spring,
why don’t you boldly stride
outside of your comfort zone
and try some new experiences?
You’ve been resting on your
laurels for a while and you need
to find a new challenge to boost
your confidence.
Although you’re typically a
warm person, you sometimes
risk allowing others to take
advantage of your good nature.
Instead of feeling resentful
and jealous, take the bull by
the horns and be much more
assertive. You’ll never get what
you want by trying to be what
you think others want you to be.
22 NOV-21 DEC
SCORPIO
SAGITTARIUS
Ignoring a problem that’s
looming large in your life is
going to lead you into a lot of
trouble Scorpio. That particular
issue is now coming to a
head. You need to tackle the
situation and come to some sort
of conclusion… even if the end
result is not exactly what you
want in the short-term.
Try not to be tactless when
making light with someone.
Never underestimate when you
may touch a nerve! You need
to be more mindful of what’s
coming out of your mouth,
because words can cause lasting
damage. No one thought less
of someone for showing a bit of
tact and restraint.
20 JAN-18 FEB
It’s excellent that you’re
so independent
AQUARIUS typically
Aquarius, but there is such
a thing as being too self-sufficient. Don’t be afraid to allow others
close, or to ask for help if needed. You don’t have to shoulder
everything on your own – you might be surprised by how much
easier life can be if you ask for assistance from time to time!
21 MAY-21 JUN
GEMINI
You must take the time this
month to address your money
worries Gemini. Burying your
head in the sand is just going
to exacerbate the problem. If
necessary, get in a financial
advisor to help you back
into the black… before you
find your lifestyle seriously
hampered by a lack of cash.
22 JUN-22 JUL
CANCER
Being one of the more
emotional signs of the Zodiac,
sometimes you may be
overwhelmed by your feelings
for others. This can lead to
you being over-protective.
Sometimes, you must let the
people closest to you sort
out their own problems. Stop
trying to cure everyone’s ills.
23 JUL-22 AUG
LEO
Being the larger-than-life
character that you are, you really
could do with an appropriate
platform to show off your various
skills. You’re not the type to shy
away from attention, so why not
explore ways to showcase your
talents to a wider audience?
Sadly, it’s too late to apply for
this year’s Big Brother…
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Dental-Spa, the gay owned and run
well-being centre is expanding its
horizons in keeping with the hightech approach used for the dentistry
there. IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) Laser
Therapy specialist Jessica Harrington and
Massage Therapist William Ogboke have
recently joined the team.
Every Thursday, Jessica will be offering
ILP therapy, which is ideal for permanent
hair removal for in-growing hairs, bikini,
underarms, excess facial or body hair.
Combined Facial Therapy is used to treat a
combination of vascular and pigmentation
problems. Vascular Lesion Removal can be
used for facial thread veins, rosacea and
spider naevi and Pigmentation Removal is
used for sun damage, age/liver spots and
freckles.
Further applications of IPL are for mild
to moderate acne and associated skin
discolouration and Photo Rejuvenation.
This is for the removal of fine lines to give
a smoother overall complexion. Combine
this with the Botulinum Toxin (commonly
referred to as Botox®) therapy provided by
Dr Cohan Rajan also at dental-Spa and you
will be looking like a Hollywood star!
As a massage therapist, William provides
the organic balance of the experience
by offering Indian head massage, deep
tissue, aromatherapy and holistic massage
sessions.
He feel that it is important for people
to leave a healthcare environment not
only feeling better but looking better,
whether this be on an energy level or on an
aesthetic one as they both lift our spirits,
help us feel good about ourselves and
increase our confidence; this is another
aspect of dental-Spa which adopts a
modern and holistic approach to health
and beauty that differs from the NHS
approach. DVD eye-goggles whilst having
your teeth whitened – this is the future!
People spend money to obtain a little
bit of confidence via clothes, jewellery,
designer brands and more controversially
recreational drugs and alcohol. For similar
monetary value William’s massage clients
choose to give attention to their bodies
without the side affects of some of the
‘guilty pleasures’ – and it can be lifeenhancing instead of detrimental.
William sees his service as working with his
clients as well as for them. Via consultations,
an appropriate treatment is chosen which
complements or enhances their lifestyle
and needs. Some people just need to take
some time out of their usual routine. For
instance, he suggest local workers take the
evening rush-hour slot instead of jumping
on the tube at peak times and swing by for
a massage session, then meet a friend for
an evening meal (the location on Charlotte
Street is also perfect for good restaurants)
and later travel home on a less hectic tube
and then have a restful night’s sleep.
Alternatively, a head, neck and shoulder
massage proves to be the perfect interlude
mid-way through the working day making
people more calm, productive and focused
on their return to work.
Dental-Spa, 83 Charlotte Street, London W1T
4PR – 020 7631 3199 www.dental-spa.co.uk
Reader’s offer
Out In The City readers can have a free consultation with Jessica and 25% discount on all
Skin Rejuvenation and Hair Removal Therapies
and also 25% off their first massage with William between now and the end of May 2008.
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