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# “A 24-carat performance!” Billie Gold wows with Brighton Fringe show, ‘Praise Kink’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/a-24-carat-performance-billie-gold-wows-with-brighton-fringe-show-praise-kink/
- Published: 2024-05-21T13:06:16.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-21T13:06:16.000Z
- Description: Brighton-based cabaret star Billie Gold produces a 24-carat performance that storms through her turbulent life in her one-person Brighton Fringe show Praise Kink. On a stage moodily lit by bright red lights, she belts out the song Beggin’ and we know we’re in for a storming hour of truth, honesty, r
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Brighton Fringe, Billie Gold, Brighton, Ironworks Studios

Brighton-based cabaret star **Billie Gold** produces a 24-carat performance that storms through her turbulent life in her one-person **Brighton Fringe** show ***Praise Kink***.

On a stage moodily lit by bright red lights, she belts out the song *Beggin’* and we know we’re in for a storming hour of truth, honesty, raunchiness and fun. Billie doesn’t disappoint.

It’s kind of the story of how a potential Barbie girl grew up and found her true self, a cabaret career and the love of another woman.

But along the way we get an insight into Billie’s true past – as stripper, consensual dominatrix and the prisoner in an unhappy relationship with a boyfriend who totally controlled her existence.

It’s a story that’s hard to listen to but Billie peppers the narrative with jokes, innuendo and raunchy songs that lift us out of any possible gloom.

Tom Lehrer’s *Masochism Tango* was a no-brainer choice and she leans on its wickedly explicit lyrics with obvious joy.

But for me the stand-out two songs are *Dreamgirl Evil*, which she delivers with ferocious energy and self-assertion. And she ends the show with *I Would Do Anything For Love*, which here becomes an anthem of personal triumph.

If you get a chance to catch the show whenever its next outing is, then go – it’s pure cabaret gold.

***Praise Kink* was at the Ironworks studios.**