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7<A723¬ /<<73:3<<=F 83@A3G0=GA >3B3@6C8/@ A1=BB 1/>C@@= A13<3 B6347</:B@/23 /BBC@<;7::A 63/D3<¸A<3E <756BE=@9 B63@3:/C<16 =4/@3/ 8/:3F/<23@ 97<5=4B631/BE/:9 EEE=Cb;/51=C9 7AAC3A7FB33<"& 4@33 B63C:B7;/B35C723B=5/G:=<2=< WORDS BY LOREM DELOREM | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAET IPSUM :=@3; =CbZ]`S[ =CbT`]\b 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. hudson@outmag.co.uk EDITORIAL//ADVERTISING Managing Editor David Hudson hudson@outmag.co.uk +44 (0)20 7258 1943 Contributing Editor Adrian Gillan adrian@outmag.co.uk Design Concept Splicer Design www.splicerdesign.com Design Markus Scheef design@outmag.co.uk Sub Editor Kathryn Fox Contributors Simon Blake, Polly Coldwell, Charlotte Dingle, Adrian Foster, Gabriele Giambrone, Anthony Gordon, Cary James, Den Maloney, Laura McCaffrey, Dusty O, Steve Watson Photographers Chris Jepson, Deborah Anderson Publisher Sarah Garrett//Linda Riley ISDN: 1473-6039 Head of Business Development Linda Riley linda@outmag.co.uk Group Advertising Manager Rob Harkavy rob@g3magazine.co.uk +44 (0)20 7258 1936 Sales Executive Dan Goodban dan@g3mag.co.uk +44 (0)20 7258 1832 Sales Executive Faye Hodge faye@g3mag.co.uk +44 (0)20 7258 1991 Square Peg Media Ltd. 27 Harewood Avenue London NW1 6LE Phone +44 (0)20 7258 1777 Fax +44 (0)20 7258 1787 The content of this publication, either in whole or in part may not be reproduced, stored in a data retrieval system or trasmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior permission from the publishers. Opinions expressed in Out In The City are not neccessarily those of the publishers. © Square Peg Media Ltd 2000 - 2008. Square Peg Media Ltd t/a Out In The City magazine will not take any responsibility for any loss/claim resulting from a transaction with one of our advertisers/ Media Partners. Cover image: Deborah Anderson - www.deborahandersonphoto.com PAGE 20 J ALEXANDER CONTENTS PAGE 04 LETTERS Send your correspondence to letters@outmag.co.uk 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 ! =CbT`]\b :3BB3@A 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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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! John, E3 BEEFCAKE BVO\Yg]cT]`bVS U]`US]caQ]dS` W[OUSO\R^V]b]a]T 1ZW\b]\4]`RI=7B1 ³;O`QV&K7VOdSb] aOg7QO\¸b`SOZZgaSS VWaQ`O^^gRWaQ]^]^ b`]cPZW\UbVSQVO`ba PcbVS¸ZZOZeOgaPS eSZQ][Sb]aVOYSVWa P]]bg]\[g[]\Wb]` /\R`SeDOcfVOZZA3 WIN! The writer of May’s Star Letter will win a top-of-the-range laptop bag from French design brand Be-ez. The company produces a range of funky and stylish laptop bags, including this gorgeous LAbesace model, just perfect for a MacBook 13”. The bag combines fashionable and colourful design with practical, rainproof security and convenient storage features. The bag retails for £49.95, and for stockists check www.be-ez.com/where.html Please be sure to include your full name and postal address with your letter if you want to be in with a chance of winning. Email editorial@outmag.co.uk ab`OWUVbQ]c^ZSb]PS []\]UO[]caRcSb] bVS`OWaW\U]TQVWZR`S\ PcbSdS\bVS\bVSµbWZZ RSObVR]ca^O`b¶eOa \]bW\bS\RSRb]PSO ZWTSZ]\UQ][[Wb[S\b UWdS\bVS`WaYaO\R ^S`WZa]TQVWZRPW`bV eO`RWSb^ZOUcSSbQ AV]cZRUOga`SOZZg V]^W\Ub][W[WQbVS \O``]e`SZObW]\aVW^ QV]WQSabVObO`S OdOWZOPZSb]ab`OWUVb Q]c^ZSa- 5`SU9W\U¸a1`]aa< ONE ON ONE 7dS`g[cQVS\X]gSR g]c`^WSQS]\ []\]UO[gda]^S\ `SZObW]\aVW^aO\R bVO\Yg]cT]`_c]bW\U @WQVO`R7aOg³ObZOab a][S]\Sa^SOYW\U a][SQ][[]\aS\aS OP]cb[]\]UO[g7 a][SbW[SabVW\YbVOb 7¸[OT`SOY]\bVSUOg aQS\SPSQOcaS7R]\¸b © CHRIS JEPSON Weird name, weird band, but great tunes. 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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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They perform their first London show in over a decade at the Hammersmith Apollo on Thursday 10 April. www.portishead.co.uk ' =CbT`]\b 27/@G 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. www.photonet.org.uk www.exactitudes.com Q`SObSR[caWQT]`bVS U`O^VWQS`]bWQbSfba]T >WSb`]/`SbW\]O\RWbWa bVWaA]\SbbW:caac`W]aW bVObVSO\R/\USZ eWZZPS^S`T]`[W\U ;W\W[c[R]\ObW]\ T]`bWQYSba#eee R`WZZVOZZQ]cY SUN 13 Actor, singer and all-round entertainer John Barrowman takes to the stage of the Hammersmith Apollo to showcase songs from his recently released Another Side album of covers. www. johnbarrowman.com SUN 06:/a^O`b]TO aS`WSa]TAOdSBVS 2`WZZ6OZZPS\STWb Q]\QS`baQ][^]aS` ;WQVOSZ<g[O\PSab Y\]eT]`VWaaQ]`SbVS ''!TWZ[BVS>WO\] eWZZPS^S`T]`[W\U O]\S]TTQ]\QS`b eWbV/cab`OZWO\P]`\ a]^`O\];O`WS/\USZ ObbVS1VS\WSaAb`SSb dS\cS<g[O\VOa SAT 12:/a^O`b]T aS`WSa]TUWUaW\OWR ]T@]US`2OZbS`g¸a BSS\OUS1O\QS`B`cab ;caS^ZOgOUWUObbVS @]gOZ/ZPS`b6OZZ³O Q][^O`ObWdSZgW\bW[ObS UWUPgbVSW`abO\RO`Ra 15-19 APR:3c`]PSOb WabVS\O[S]T\]dSZ O\RaObW`WQOZ[caWQOZ aV]ePOaSR]\bVS 3c`]dWaW]\A]\U 1]\bSab/\RXcabZWYS bVS`SOZbVW\UbVS OcRWS\QSUSbab]d]bS T]`OeW\\S`SOQV\WUVb dWObSfb[SaaOUSBVS QO[^b][T]]ZS`g `c\aT]`TWdS\WUVbaOb bVS<SeEW[PZSR]\ BVSOb`S'!BVS 0`]OReOgAE'eee bVSO[POaaOR]`aQ][ WED 16: >ZOgW\UbVSW` TW`abC9UWUaaW\QS BVS0`SSRS`a TSObc`W\U9W[2SOZ]T >WfWSaTO[S^ZOg9]Y] W\1O[RS\^`][]bW\U \SeOZPc[;]c\bOW\ 0ObbZSaeee"OR Q][bVSP`SSRS`a TUE 15:BVSZSUS\RO`g ;OdWaAbO^ZSaT]`[S`Zg ]TBVSAbO^ZSaAW\US`a ^ZOgaO`O`S]\S]TT aV]eObbVS0O`PWQO\ 1S\b`SeWbVac^^]`b T`][8VSZWaOeee PO`PWQO\]`UcY WED 16:BVS6O[WZb]\a 5OZZS`g!1O`Z]a >ZOQSEV]aba O\SeSfVWPWbW]\ T`][`S\]e\SRTOYS ^V]b]U`O^VS`/ZWa]\ 8OQYa]\aV]eQOaW\U VS`\SeQ]ZZSQbW]\ ]T^O^O`OhhWabgZS W[OUSa@c\a$ /^`WZ³%;Ogeee VO[WZb]\aUOZZS`gQ][ FRI-SAT 18-19 APR Is there no stopping Cirque Du Soleil? The 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 =CbT`]\b 27/@G =CbT`]\b 27/@G 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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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 +++++ 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 +++++ & 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. 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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. 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Tickets £20-£60. Box office 0844 482 5151 or online at www. jerseyboyslondon.com PHOTO © HUGO GLENDINNING After Mama Mia (Abba) and We Will Rock You (Queen), 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. =Cb\]e 3<B3@B/7<;3<B !' =CbbVS`S 4==2 GREEN FEAST CARY JAMES REVIEWS ACORN HOUSE Acorn House, 69 Swinton Street, WC1. 020-7812 1842. www.acornhouserestaurant.com Acorn House’s dining area (top) and environmentallyconscious interiors (right) " 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. 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CLUBS>BARS>FASHION>GOSSIP>NEWS>TRENDS>SCENES>QUEENS>FACTS> =CbbVS`S PAGE 48 AREA The Vauxhall club has reopened after a major refurbishment and laser-tastic spring clean from the Orange team! PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM PAGE 58 TRADE London's most legendary afterhours party said a final goodbye to original home Turnmills BRACE YOURSELF... E34=C<2B63A3BE=:=D3:73A/B63/D3< 3<8=G7<5/<=B63@=4B631:C0AE7:2>/@B73A PAGE 56 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... "# =CbbVS`S @3D73E HEAVEN 63/D3<@313<B:GB6@3E=<3=47BA03AB 3D3@D/:3<B7<3¸A>/@B73AE7B6/:7BB:307B =463:>4@=;A=;3=47BA;/<G4@73<2A¬ 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 "$ enduring popularity, continues to be an eclectic mix of cute boys, suit boys, girly boys and muscle boys. Perfectly timed to coincide with a night of 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 WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM =CbbVS`S @3D73E "% @3D73E "& =CbbVS`S =CbbVS`S @3D73E AREA E63<B6347@3B3/;AB/932/1:/7; 7</@3/G=C8CAB9<3EB63GE=C:2 A>@7<9:3A=;3=4B637@>@=2C1B7=< ;/571/1@=AAB63D3<C3¬ WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM 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 venue and throw one hell of a party! "' A13<3 # =CbbVS`S =CbbVS`S A13<3 # =CbbVS`S @3D73E 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 # PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN =CbbVS`S @3D73E THE TWO BREWERS 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 #" WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM B63BE=0@3E3@A7A/A=CB6:=<2=< 7<AB7BCB7=<>C::7<57<B63>C<B3@A E7B6/<7<<=D/B7D3@=AB3@=4 1/0/@3BB6@=C56=CBB63E339¬ =CbbVS`S A13<3 ## @3D73E =CbbVS`S L-R: Pete Burns and Jodie Harsh #$ =CbbVS`S @=::C>@=::C>=<3=4A=6=¸A;=ABB/:932/0=CB <756BA7A17@1CA/BB63A=6=@3DC30/@ 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!” PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CIRCUS @3D73E Circus, every Friday night at the Soho Revue Bar, 11 Walkers Court, W1. www.sohorevuebar.com #% =CbbVS`S @3D73E TRADE BC@<;7::A7A<=;=@30CB034=@37B1:=A327B >:/G326=AB32B=47</:>/@B73A4@=;A=;3=47BA ;=ABA3;7</:<756BAE35=B/:=<54=@7BA47</: 2/B3E7B6B@/23¬ WORDS: FAYE LANSON / PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM 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 #& 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! =CbbVS`S @3D73E #' =CbbVS`S @3D73E WORK! >@=;=B3@>/B@719:7::3GC<D37:3267A:/B3AB1:C0 D3<BC@37<;/@16³<3E;72E339<756BE=@9¬ WORDS AND PHOTOS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM 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. 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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. $$ 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 =CbbVS`S A13<3 $% =CbbVS`S :7AB7<5A GOING=Cb 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 $& 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. =CbbVS`S A13<3 $' =CbbVS`S A13<3 popular with professional gay boyz 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 % 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, =CbbVS`S A13<3 % =CbbVS`S :7AB7<5A – 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 © CHRIS JEPSON 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. % and atmospheric gay bar in Victoria – weekend cabaret. 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. 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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, lgcm@lgcm.org.uk/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), info@gpa.police.uk. 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 WANT TO GET LISTED? Please send listings to listings@outmag.co.uk RECRUITMENT: SALES EXECUTIVES ESO`SQc``S\bZg`SQ`cWbW\UaOZSaSfSQcbWdSaT]`=cbW\bVS1Wbg[OUOhW\S3f^S`WS\QSW\[SRWOaOZSa^`STS``SR Pcb\]bSaaS\bWOZG]ceWZZVOdSU]]RQ][[c\WQObW]\aYWZZaPS]`UO\WaSRe]`YeSZZc\RS`^`Saac`SO\RPSO U]]RbSO[^ZOgS` AOZO`gacPXSQbb]Sf^S`WS\QS Please send a CV and covering letter to rob@outmag.co.uk or call Robert Harkavy on 020 7258 1777 by 10 April 2008 %$ =Cb`SOQV :7AB7<5A %% =Cb\Sea <3EA NEWS FLASHES 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 jenny.stevens@stonewall.org.uk %& 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 BUYING IT. =Cb\Sea GET OVER IT AB=<3E/::µ53B=D3@7B¶>=AB3@A 234/1320CB1=;>:/7<BA27A;7AA32 <3EA 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”! JAMAICA: /a[OZZ\c[PS`]TbVS^`][W\S\b$PWZZP]O`RabVOb`O\OQ`]aa0`WbOW\ PSO`W\UAb]\SeOZZ¸aW\a^W`ObW]\OZZgaW[^ZSµA][S^S]^ZSO`SUOgUSb]dS`Wb¶ [SaaOUSVOdSPSS\dO\ROZWaSRBVSRSTOQSR^]abS`^WQbc`SRW\:]\R]\¸a 0`Wfb]\TSObc`SabVSV][]^V]PWQ`O^Zg`WQµ0]][0gS0gS¶³XcabbVS YW\R]TZg`WQbVObAb]\SeOZZVOaPSS\QO[^OWU\W\Ub]PS]cbZOeSRPgbVS 1`W[W\OZ8cabWQS0WZZ;SO\bW[SbVS/RdS`bWaW\UAbO\RO`Ra/US\Qg/A/ VOa`SXSQbSROZZ]TbVS#"Q][^ZOW\baWbVOa`SQSWdSROP]cbbVSQO[^OWU\ eVWQV\]eZ]]YaaSbb]`S`c\ZObS`bVWagSO` 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. 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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. PROPERTY HOT PICKS E3B/93/:==9/BB67A;=<B6¸AB=>>@=>3@B73A =<B63>/@B0CG>/@B@3<B;/@93B UPTON SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON 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. ' WORDS BY LOREM DELOREM | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAET IPSUM =CbV]caS >@=>3@BG ' >@=2C1BA ' =CbV]caS =CbV]caS >@=2C1BA WE WANT B67A;=<B6¸A6=B>@=2C1BA4=@ B636=;3 03 FACETED PLANTERS/VASES | 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 01 02 02 ARFLEX FEMME SOFA | CHRIS COLUMBO 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 www.modenza.co.uk '" WORDS: CHARLOTTE DINGLE 03 04 =CbV]caS >@=2C1BA 05 PAUSE LOUNGE SHELVES | OTTO 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 05 06 BETTAN LINJE RUG | IKEA 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. 06 07 IRVINE W08 LAMP | JAMES IRVINE 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. RRP £1,299 www.boconcept.co.uk www.wastberg.com 07 '# =CbV]caS >@=>3@BG HOME IMPROVEMENT 74G=C¸@3:==97<54=@7<A>7@/B7=<=< 6=EB=7;>@=D3G=C@6=;316319 =CBB67AG3/@¸A3F6707B7=<A4=@B63 03AB7<;=23@<23A75</<2C>B= 2/B3B316<=:=5G 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 '$ =CbV]caS >@=>3@BG '% :=@3; '& =CbZ]`S[ '' =CbV]caS >@=>3@BG ADVERTORIAL FEATURE 74G=C2=:793B=03 03A723B63A3/A723B63< ;/G03B631C@@3<B B@3<24=@1=/AB:7<3 :7D7<57A@756BC>G=C@ AB@33B2=;7<7=< 6=CA7<55@=C>=443@A A3D3@/:A163;3A =<=@1:=A3B=B63 ABC<<7<5ACAA3F1=/AB Living on the coast has always been the choice of 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. =CbV]caS >@=>3@BG =CbZOe :35/: ONE-STOP LAW SHOP please send any questions to law@outmag.co.uk. 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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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. =CbTWb 63/:B6 #