The Old Broad Way: Liliane Montevecchi, Crazy Coqs

The Old Broad Way: Liliane Montevecchi, Crazy Coqs

It’s not often you get to spend the night with someone who danced with Fred Astaire, drank with Dean Martin and did who-knows-what with Elvis. It’s been eleven years since Liliane Montevecchi played London. Then she enthralled Pizza on the Park, now it’s Crazy Coqs...
Review: Batt On A Hot Tin Roof

Review: Batt On A Hot Tin Roof

After a stint at the Crazy Coqs last August, the Batt is back. No, not Christian Bale in another Christopher Nolan instalment of rubber-clad and gruff-voiced comic book histrionics but Bryan Batt, known to some as Mad Men’s Sal Romano and, judging from his latest...
Review: Christine Bovill’s PIAF

Review: Christine Bovill’s PIAF

Edith Giovanna Gassion known as Piaf died when I was ten. There can therefore be few audience members for tribute performances who heard her live other than those whose parents also carried their half-sleeping forms to a late concert.  Yet as a performing icon she...
A Triumph of Hope over Experience

A Triumph of Hope over Experience

As a gay man whose formative clubbing years were in the glamour-obsessed 80s, drag ought to be right up my (Danny La) Rue, “dear”, but it just isn’t.  Never was. Even now I can’t see the irony in tipping up to a Soho bar in colourful wig, eyeliner and...