Gay London Life | Oct '25 Edition - Magazine - Page 6
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Going Out
Looking for an excuse to get dressed up all devilish this
Halloween? Ku Bar will welcome you with open arms. Here,
your ghoulishly good get-up is sure to get some welldeserved attention in the main bar, which will be given a total
transformation for Halloween as always. Be sure to hit up the
basement Klub as well, which will be going bump (and grind)
in the night to the resident DJ’s pick of pop, house and RnB
sounds, all until the witching hour of 3am. Better than going
trick or treating around the backstreets of Balham, right?
7 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA
Nearest Station: Leicester Square
Quick! Name your favourite decade for music, fashion and
Greenhouse
Sauna
all-around attitude. If you said the 80s, great news — Athena
There are times in one’s life when one finds
is the club night dedicated to the period and this month, DJs
oneself in the centre of Luton with a few hours
Gareth Hackney and Joe Egg will be spinning floor-filling 80s
on one’s hands. When that happens to you,
tunes all night long. And not just the obvious hits, either. You
there’s only one thing for it — wrap yourself in a
can expect to be treated to a bit of Hi-NRG, some New Wave
town and bunker down in Greenhouse Sauna.
gems, and maybe even some early electro. If you actually
Here, you can relax in the sauna, steam room or
meant the 1880s, we can’t really help you. Maybe try a
the 20-man Jacuzzi (which may or may not have
steampunk festival or something?
20 men in when you visit). Every Wednesday is
Saturday 4th October, 9pm-4am, Eagle London,
naked day, so not one for the shrinking violets,
349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY. Nearest Station: Vauxhall
although what they’d be doing in a gay sauna in
Athena
the first place is anybody’s guess.
Roma Trans Party
23 Crawley Road, LU1 1HX
Nearest Station: Luton
After having bounced between different venues since
being launched in 2012, Roma Trans Party now has a
permanent home at Bunker Bar. On the fourth Friday of
every month, this subterranean joint fills up with trans
women dressed to thrill, along with their admirers and
allies. There’s an in-house make-up artist in case you
want a touch-up, as well as resident DJs who never fail
in setting the dance floor alight. And if you go exploring
around Bunker Bar’s dark corners, you’ll find no end of
space for getting up to no good...
Friday 24th October, 10.30pm-4.30am,
Bunker Bar, 217-221 City Road, EC1V 1JN
Nearest Station: City Road
Jukebox Disco
The Old Ship
Is your favourite part of going out actually the bit
This Limehouse local is the sort of place that Danny Dyer
getting ready while listening to your favourite
would call a propa boozer, by which we mean, it’s fun,
tunes? Jukebox Disco might just be to your liking,
unpretentious and almost guaranteed to have a packet
then. Here, every punter inside the RVT can scan
of pork scratchings for sale behind the bar. Wednesday
one of the QR codes dotted about, take their pick
nights are quiz nights, hosted by Question One and
from the huge library of music, and it’ll get played
ending with big money prizes in the weekly rollover game.
for all to enjoy. Well, you better hope everybody
But the time to really visit is on a weekend evening, as
enjoys it, or otherwise you won’t be too popular.
this is when you get drag queens galore up on stage. On
And best of all, a special guest is heading here
Friday 3rd, it’s Ophelia Payne, followed by the Whore of
this October too, the irrepressible Kelly Wilde!
Hampstead Heath herself, Sandra, the very next day.
Saturday 18th October, 10pm-4am,
17 Barnes Street, E14 7NW
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane,
Nearest Station: Limehouse
SE11 5HY. Nearest Station: Vauxhall
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