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Cabaret at The Old Ship
Join us every weekend for foremost class cabaret entertainment. And if you want our listings at the tips of your fingers, don't forget to download our app.
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Friday, 25th July @ pm
Ruby Violet
Camp, fabulous and cheeky. Nominated for QX Cabaret Awards and as seen on ITV2's Celeability.
Saturday, 26th July @ pm
Mrs Moore
The voice of a thousand fags, Mrs Moore is a huge fan of female vocalists, especially the brassy, over the top divas, which is reflected in her shows.
Sunday, 27th July @ pm
David Dale
Genuine Drag Royalty. From numerous appearances on TV, long-term residencies in Gran Canaria and starring roles in pantos across the UK, David Dale has it all. Not to be missed.
Friday, 1st August @ pm
Karise McCock
She is wild she is crazy she is Karise McCock. A heat winner of Drag Idol and already with her own residency in West London, Karise is hitting the East End at The Old Ship.
Saturday, 2nd August @ pm
Dolly Diamond
Dolly Diamond has had great success host
White Swan, Commercial Road
Wednesday nights at the White Swan are stripper nights. In January the local authority, Tower Hamlets council, threatened to ban the stripper nights as part of a general policy of closing venues that featured strippers, but the venue hoped to escape the exclude because the strippers are amateurs and no abuse is involved.[2]
The WayOut Club meet there once a month.
See also
White Swan, Vere Street
External links
References
- ↑Gay Europe () page 56
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BJ's White Swan
Something of a local legend, the White Swan is the East End’s most known gay boozer. The comedian Michael Barrymore famously came out on stage here. Sir Ian McKellen used to descend in after he came out. And the Sunday Tea Dances are an institution with an older crowd, who waltz and tango the night away. But despite its illustrious history, the pub’s decor is not quaint or cosy: on the contrary, it’s a rough and soulless space, with a dark warehouse-style aesthetic, enlivened only by the soft-porn videos broadcast from TV screens above the bar (usually naked French rugby players). The crowd, by contrast, is cheerful and rowdy; many Essex lads craft the trek here in on the weekend. It is notorious for its amateur strip contests – held on Wednesdays around midnight – in which the young and shameless bare all for cash. On Friday and Saturday nights, there are often strippers or drag queens, who warm up the crowd for a night of dancing to chart tunes and commercial residence.
- Address
- Commercial Rd
- London
- E14 7JD
- Opening hours:
- Mon 9pm-1am, Tue-Thur 9pm-2a
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