15/06/16: There’s been a gap in the market for a gay-pop-disco-horror-cabaret-club night for a while.
Let’s face it, the gayboys love a queen, be they scream or scene! So when we received our deliciously sinister invitation to PopHorror, we couldn’t help but be intrigued. Said invitation was a compact mirror with “I STILL KNOW, JAMES” scrawled across it in “blood’.
Talk about personalised, I’ve needed a new compact for ages! We dragged our carcass over to the RVT last Wednesday for what’s surely one of the most inventive and entertaining nights we’ve seen in a while.
Hosted by the incomparable Baby Lame, the stage saw the likes of Lasana Shabazz giving us demonic drag, Bourgeoisie delivering deadly disco and a stunning mashup of the Wicker Man with “Burn Baby Burn” from an eerily accurate Britt Ekkland lookalike.
Add to that a video mash-up devoted to Jamie Lee Curtis, free gummy brains on the door, plus awesome tunes courtesy of Pop Horror himself and we were hooked. Oh, the Horror!
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY
Words by James Egan
Photos by FD Photography