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# REVIEW: Andrew Pepper stuns with ‘House of Pepper’ at Crazy Coqs
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/review-andrew-pepper-stuns-with-house-of-pepper-at-crazy-coqs/
- Published: 2024-04-28T12:29:57.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-28T12:30:30.000Z
- Description: Andrew Pepper’s one-man cabaret House Of Pepper is a chaotic, whirlwind of high camp, some low singing notes and just tons and tons of fun. His opening is a mishmash of fast paced dialogue and snatches of songs, and as he tells us in one of many innuendos: “It’s 30 days since I sniffed around […]
- Author: Brian Butler
- Tags: Cabaret, Music, Reviews, Theatre, Crazy Coqs, LGBTQ

**Andrew Pepper**’s one-man cabaret ***House Of Pepper*** is a chaotic, whirlwind of high camp, some low singing notes and just tons and tons of fun.

His opening is a mishmash of fast paced dialogue and snatches of songs, and as he tells us in one of many innuendos: “It’s 30 days since I sniffed around your parts.”

*Let The Good Times Roll* and *Let Me Entertain You* get a short airing and then it’s ballad time, with touching lyrics like: “There must be one sort of decent guy out there,” although he subverts the pathos by having a gloved false hand on a stick for the audience to shake.

There’s more or less continuous piano accompaniment under his dialogue and the lead into songs, and it make the experience a fluid, carefully structured performance where everything, however crazy or left field, has a purpose.

He renders the Adele ballad *When We Were Young* with tenderness and real emotion – it’s a showstopper for me.

There’s plenty of **Jacques Brel** for aficionados, but Pepper can switch in an instant from soft lyrical sound to full-on operatic.

He reminded me in style and delivery of both Marc Almond and Charles Aznavour, and just when you think you’ve got the measure of his crazy antics, he gives us *Padam Padam* as, he tells us, Kylie gave it to him.

But the stunningly powerful, quick witted, fiendishly fast Brel song *Carousel* is where Pepper truly shines. It’s amazing stuff.

And as we whirl round on Andrew’s crazy carousel – I for one didn’t want to get off.

There’s great accompaniment from **Alex Maynard** (piano) and **Tristan Butler** (drums), who miraculously maintain Pepper’s mad momentum.

**House of Pepper is at Crazy Coqs on 19 May, 16 June, 21 July and 8 September. Tickets [HERE](http://brasseriezedel.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**