Gay London Life | Oct '25 Edition - Magazine - Page 14
Going Out
Photo: Richard Holland
< Scan for London’s latest events>
Riot of the
Living Dead
Taylor-Made Or:
How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the B*dy
The Ship Inn
Sheffield and London, and you can get a big dose
Written by Nina Fuentes and directed by Luis
if you’re just sailing through, The Ship Inn makes
of Dandy for yourself on Halloween weekend.
Hopkins, this rather long-titled play sees a trans
for a lovely stop-off. This is one of the biggest
DJs ABDT, Sugar Puff Daddy and Danny Sevigny
woman called Grace summon Elizabeth Taylor
gay pubs for miles and we promise you, it doesn’t
will be spinning their usual mix of indie bangers,
from the afterlife, as you do. Unfortunately, this
disappoint. Weekends are filled with a sprinkling
nu-rave throwbacks and disco faves, and Drag
attempt at self-validation leads to cosmic chaos,
of drag queens and the musical picks of DJ Fanny
Race UK starlet Sum Ting Wong (pictured) will
and Grace has to deal with this mess while being
Fresh, while Thursday nights are always karaoke
be up on stage for a lil’ performance. And in time-
stuck between London’s queer underworld and
— get there from 9pm onwards to make sure
honoured Dandy fashion, there’ll be pizza — that
the celestial kingdom up above. Catch the first
nobody does your famed Cher number before
should keep you going until closing time.
outing of this satirical work at the end of November.
you. Just imagine if they nailed it better than you. It
Saturday 25th October, 10pm-4am,
Tuesday 25th to Saturday 29th November,
doesn’t bear thinking about.
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane,
The Lion and Unicorn, 42-44 Gaisford Street,
347 High Street, ME1 1DA
SE11 5QY. Nearest Station: Vauxhall
NW5 2ED. Nearest Station: Kentish Town
Nearest Station: Rochester
Since 2021, this alternative club night has filled
dance floors and spread joy in Manchester,
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If you’re moored up down Rochester way or even
