Arts REVIEW: Miss-Leading Ladies: St James Studio: London Ceri Dupree is undoubtably the finest female impersonator treading the boards today. His sister Ria Jones is a singer of the highest quality whose West End credits include Fantine in Les Miserables, Grizabella in Cats and at 19 she was the youngest actress to play the role of Eva Peron in the Nation By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Sound of Music in Eastbourne The Rogers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music is more than a story of a young postulant who marries a handsome naval captain, becomes step-mother to his seven children and flees from the Nazi’s over the mountains to Switzerland and freedom. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Mentalists – Wyndham’s Theatre It’s rare that you can see in an actor’s face a look of “I know very well this is tripe, but I’ve just got to go through the motions,” but it is written all over Stephen Merchant’s gormless face from the very beginning of this revival of Richard Bean’s The Mentalist. By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Jungle Book at Emporium From the moment you enter the Emporium Theatre, you become part of the wonderful world of the jungle created for this production. The set is very effective, you can feel the humidity of the jungle, you can smell it and you can touch it. It is all around you creating a magical world, where the darker By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Three Degrees at Concorde2 It’s barely ten minutes into their live set at Brighton’s Concorde2, when Helen Scott of the Three Degrees reminds a seemingly ecstatic crowd of their placing in The Guinness Book of Records as the longest running all female trio in music history. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts MUSIC REVIEW: T’Pau live at Royal Vauxhall Tavern T’Pau, fronted by the formidable Carol Decker are a band enjoying something of a renaissance since a successful 25th Anniversary Tour in 2013. Their return to the touring arena has not least of all revealed something of an LGBT following, cemented by this one-off acoustic show at The Royal Vauxhall By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Holy Mark Not an easy read by any means, but certainly one of the more fascinating and disturbing books I’ve read in a long while. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: Willem of the Tafel Hirschi has created an interesting love story more like ancient myth than modern gay love story with all the elements of a classical protagonist’s journey but with man on man love By Eric Page • 2 min read
Business News REVIEW and COMPETITION: Licx Lubricants These two posh looking products popped into my box a few weeks ago with an invitation to try them out. They are personal lubricants and as I was off to Brazil with the boyfriend; I didn’t need to be asked twice. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: BalletBoyz – theTALENT It’s now 14 years since Michal Nunn and William Trevitt first brought us BalletBoyz, and their all male dance company is still going strong, delivering on its manifesto to promote men’s dance and make modern ballet and contemporary dance more accessible to a wider audience. But this doesn’t necessar By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: Elixir REVIEW Elixir Head First Boscow Tent Old Steine This new show from Head First Acrobats where three acrobatic and enthusiastic scientists attempt to create the elixir of life is a unique mix of mayhem where lithe handsome boys and incredible circus tricks meet with impeccable comic timing to make you By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Basement: 4 Guys Chillin’ This is a verbatim drama based on interviews with a number of men who go to ‘chill out’ parties or, to be perhaps slightly more accurate, ‘drug-fuelled orgies’. As it starts off it seems as if it’s going to be a basically sensational tale of hedonistic gay men and the hijinks they get up to. There’s By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
