It’s happening! With only a small delay due to a van running me over last summer, we are back for another Roulette, and this one is something to behold.
Eight cabaret stars take on the theme The Beginning, to create brand new acts and debut them on June 19th at @chatspalace in Hackney.
This lineup!
Cardboard fears him, it’s @aidenstrickland
Man Up finalist and debonair clown @cissyphus_drag
High energy? Look no further than London’s pocket rocket @itscococouture
The diva-troll-songstress herself @die.lemma
Miss Burlesque UK @evelyn.carnate.loves
The Poof Prince of Puppets @lachywerner
Dirtbag king of trash @kingloosewillis (hosting!)
Drag priest, chorister, community solidifier @sweetfa_drag
🎟️ and full info at OutSavvy
Poster by @karmaisadrag
How adorable do I look though?
My favourite photos of me last year, producing @cabaretroulette with a Wild West theme. Whilst it was the only Roulette of 2024, I’m so excited to be bringing it back on Feb 1st with a D&D theme.
Thanks to @jdwmk for capturing the cuteness, and @duanenasis for making such a mess on stage I had to get on my hands and knees with @joemorose
✨ It’s happening! ✨ that’s right everybody, get your dice ready because Cabaret Roulette is at the Pleasance Theatre for one night only as we take on the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Eight performers create new acts on a theme they find out only after agreeing to the show and this time, prepare yourself for bards, rogues, fighters, and an actual, literal, wizard!
Featuring this motley crew of heroes and villains:
@thatdosacat@fabio_lezonli_drag@good.ness.gracious@kingloosewillis@lustivlife@neilkelso@puf.piece@velvetcaveat
and @mx.imus as your humble dungeon master.
Saturday February 1st, 7pm-10pm. Full info on OutSavvy ✨
Poster design by @karmaisadrag
Souvenirs of Buenos Aires pt.2: La Greco
On the north of San Telmo, a couple of blocks from my apartment, I found a home away from home in @espaciogrecobar - a queer bar and home of some of the best cabaret talent in the city. A weekly cabaret @cabarieteshow and a weekly tango evening @radiolandiatango became the tent poles of my week.
1. Life goal: My first time holding a bandoneón, with the look of absolute confusion as I discovered how impenetrably random the buttons are ordered.
2. La Greco in all its glory
3. The fantastic @marika_escandalosa with notes longer than a whale can hold their breath
4. Myself and mi amor @unbandoneon playing some Piazzolla (after locating an accordion only a few hours before). Muchas gracias Santi for pushing me to do this!
5. The immortal @titadesantelmo (seen here at a different venue) who did not let an appendectomy get in the way of putting on a show, and who is responsible for producing everything I saw at La Greco.
6. The beautiful @fedra.dasso and her casa de las muñecas furiosas
7. The remarkable @dollykent_ who I saw do everything from magic to ventriloquism to burlesque to tango.
8. A waltz on accordion and bandoneon ❤️
9. Opera at 11pm atop a bar in Buenos Aires was the perfect welcome to the city. Brava @annandasamarine !
10. The after party
Postcards from Buenos Aires, part one.
I can’t quite put into words how special my month in Buenos Aires was, so have some snapshots of my time there instead.
1. Hello from my apartment in San Telmo, a little loft space in a secluded courtyard.
2. Said courtyard, a marble floored hallway with a perpetual cool breeze taking you from the bustle of San Telmo to a sun drenched oasis.
3. At La Casa Rosada, home of Argentina’s fathers. Currently housing an absolute HORROR show of a human.
4. So I was advised to use Western Union to send money to myself. This is what Western Union gives you when you transfer money to yourself. Argentina’s economy is labyrinthine and inscrutable, and with previously mentioned president plunging over half the country into poverty, understanding the cost of living was a hopeless task.
5. One of many beautiful courtyards in San Telmo. The aristocrats lived here until a yellow fever outbreak, at which point they abandoned their mansions and moved up to what is now the fancy part of town, leaving these places to be turned into tenements for the working classes.
6. They also do excellent façades. One of many that litter the streets.
7. They also do excellent wine and twinks. This is the wine cellar of Don Julio, home to 1500 bottles going back to the 1920s. Was the steak worth the money? Maybe. But the service was overall experience was exquisite.
8. Portion size in this city was something I never acclimatised to.
9. It’s always nice to bump into old friends where you least expect them.
10. Fit check in my foyer.
11. Another gratuitous photo of where my washing would be put out and dried within 30 minutes in the outrageous sunshine they have.
MY EYES ARE UP HERE. Very pleased to have brought the eye-conic Beholder to the audience of the D&D themed @slaystationexp last week! I may have come second place in the costume contest, but in my (many) eyes, I'm a winner. Beauty truly is in the eye of the Beholder. #dnd
📸 @matti_arti
🥳 It's my BIRTHDAY! 🥳
That's right, I've reached the giddying heights of 36. Who knew?! Still firmly in that liminal space between stern dad and indefatigable buffoon.
This year I have only one ask of you, yes YOU! Other than the usual validation/nudes/attention: come to the show I'm producing at the RVT on March 16th. But for real, please come to my show. Save the date, buy tickets, think of it as a birthday present to me that you're really getting for yourself.
I'm beyond proud of the legendary lineup I've got, and I'm so excited to be taking over the producer duties for such an iconic show as @cabaretroulette . It will be great. The link is in my bio, and I want to pack the place out with people I love, so we can all have an amazing night.
P.S. if you don't live in London, the usual validation/nudes/attention will, of course, be welcome as ever 🥰
"The first dead body you see should not be someone you love." This week's lunchbreaks are being spent in my local cemetery, reading a beautiful, highly recommended book by @hayleycampbelly not about dying, nor of grief, but that bit in between we pretend isn't there. The dead, and the living who make their living working with them. Human stories, filled with humanity, told to the writer by those in “the impermanent and unlikely state of being alive."
