Dillie Keane: Still Curious at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This supremely visual artist has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
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Songs My Mother Would Have Hated: Dillie Keane – The Pheasantry
Songs My Mother Would Have Hated: Dillie Keane at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Looking For Me Friend – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Looking For Me Friend continues at the Assembly Rooms – Drawing Room, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In many ways, Victoria Wood was an old-fashioned act, even in her own time: piano, cheeky lyrics and an engaging smile – a winning formula for decades. Paulus and his musical […]
Paulus to take Victoria Wood show to Edinburgh
Cabaret star Paulus will mark 30 years in entertainment by taking his tribute to his idol, comedy legend Victoria Wood, to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Initially a hour-long performance, curated for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020, Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood will play the Assembly Rooms, Drawing Room from 3-28 […]
Critically-acclaimed hit Julie Madly Deeply is heading to London’s Park Theatre
In the charming yet cheeky cabaret Julie Madly Deeply, playing at London’s Park Theatre from 20 December 2021 to 1 January 2022, award-winning performer Sarah-Louise Young pays tribute to beloved showbiz icon Dame Julie Andrews while at the same time taking an engaging look at fame and fandom. Sarah-Louise (Fascinating Aida, An Evening Without Kate […]
New season launch for online version of Harold Sanditen’s Open Mic Party
Harold Sanditen’s Open Mic Party has returned to the virtual stage on Zoom for the launch of its winter/spring season. Following on from a successful move online in 2020, the popular cabaret show which is the longest-running show at London’s leading jazz and cabaret venue The Crazy Coqs, is celebrating its eighth year with fortnightly […]
Looking For Me Friend: The Music Of Victoria Wood – Two Brewers
Looking For Me Friend: The Music Of Victoria Wood at Two Brewers, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The year 2016 was not great for the entertainment industry as it lost many of its big names. David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, to name but a few. It also saw the passing […]
Fascinating Aida – Queen Elizabeth Hall and Touring
Fascinating Aida continues at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London until 5 January 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The antidote to any Election Night blues arrived swiftly with the outrageous, hot-off-the-press satire of Fascinating Aida kicking off a month of wickedness and devilry on London’s South Bank before embarking on a […]
Open Mic Night – 4th Birthday – Live At Zédel
Harold Sanditen’s Open Mic Night – 4th Birthday at Live At Zédel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Open Mic Night in the Crazy Coqs cabaret bar at Live At Zédel is now celebrating its fourth year. Originally a weekly event, this now monthly gig has become a Mecca for […]
Cabaret Whore Presents – La Poule Plombee – Brighton
Cabaret Whore Presents: La Poule Plombee at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton (as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe). Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Brighton Festival Fringe ended this weekend and with this glorious act it finished in triumphant style. Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston, well known on the London cabaret scene, are a talented duo […]
London Festival of Cabaret at St James Studio – line-up includes Sophie-Louise Dann
The St James Studio will once again be one of the main host venues for the popular London Festival of Cabaret. Now entering its fourth year, the Festival – which aims to celebrate the great composers, lyricists and interpreters of popular song – runs from 22 April until 8 May. Other host venues across the city […]
The Best Bits of Roulston and Young – Crazy Coqs
Michael Roulston and Sarah-Louise Young perform their show The Best Bits of Roulston and Young at the Crazy Coqs, London until 30 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This extremely talented couple makes a triumphant return to the Crazy Coqs to celebrate their ten-year partnership of songwriting together. It’s an evening which includes both old and new […]
CD Review – Grin – Songs by Dusty Limits and Michael Roulston
GRIN – Songs by Dusty Limits and Michael Roulston. It is not possible to talk lucidly about the current London cabaret scene without mentioning either Dusty Limits or Michael Roulston. Australian born Dusty Limits’ reputation as a cabaret host is unsurpassed in the capital, while as a songwriter and performer he has appeared at cabaret hot-spots around […]
Flyin’ High – Harold Sanditen – Crazy Coqs
Harold Sanditen performed Flyin’ High at the Crazy Coqs, London. He then takes the show on an international tour until 5 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Harold Santiden’s residency at the award-winning Crazy Coqs is primarily as host to the venue’s remarkably successful Open Mic nights. Just about to celebrate its second anniversary, the weekly event is […]
Roulston and Young – Two Faced – Crazy Coqs
Michael Roulston and Sarah-Louise Young perform their show Two Faced at the Crazy Coqs, London until 19 March. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ I came to this show thinking that I knew nothing about the artists and that they were totally unknown to me. Oh dear! I should have done my homework better, for […]
Harold Sanditen – Flyin’ High – Crazy Coqs
Harold Sanditen performed his show Flyin’ High at the Crazy Coqs, London. Regulars at the ever-sophisticated London music room Crazy Coqs will know Harold Sanditen best as the host of the popular weekly Open Mic nights at the venue (Thursdays at 10.30pm), a venture which recently celebrated its first birthday. However, on this occasion the […]
