Gay London Life | May '24 Edition - Magazine - Page 8
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Freedom Bar
Athena
Good old May. She doesn’t just spoil us with one
It may be the year 2024, but music from the 1980s
Never been to the City of Quebec? Break out of
Bank Holiday Monday, but a pair of ‘em. How
still slaps hard in a club. In fact, there probably
your routine and give it a go! It’s a fabulous pub an
are you going to spend these days off work?
won’t be a time when the intro to Blue Monday or
artisanal croissant’s throw from Hyde Park that’s
Sensibly? Productively? No, don’t be so daft. You
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) won’t send
been serving the queer community since the mid-
should make the most of the opportunity to go out
people into pandemonium. Athena’s resident DJs,
1940s. Back when it was, you know, ILLEGAL. If
on a Sunday night without the looming spectre of
Gareth Hackney and Paul Joseph, understand
the walls could talk…they probably wouldn’t shut
work the following day. If you’re in need of ideas of
this more than most — they’ve been spinning the
up, so it’s a good thing they can’t. Pay a visit during
places to go, Freedom’s downstairs dance floor
catchiest, funkiest and downright most danceable
the day for a bit of food and a break from nearby
will be open until late and welcoming hedonists
sounds from the decade at Eagle London since
Oxford Street, or head back at night for a spot of
of all stripes to dance the night away to pop, RnB
2017 and long may they continue.
cabaret and a late-night boogie if you’re lucky,
and disco classics.
12 Old Quebec Street, W1H 7AF
Nearest Station: Marble Arch
60-66 Wardour Street, W1F 0TA
Nearest Station: Piccadilly Circus
Saturday 4th May, 9pm-4am, Eagle
London, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY
Nearest Station: Vauxhall
City of Quebec
Red Eye 90s Boat Party
The Old Ship
What were you doing in the 1990s? If the answer was throwing shapes on a
If everyone had a local at the end of the street like The Old Ship, the world
superclub dance floor or in the corner of a farmer’s field located somewhere off
would be a better place. This old-school boozer is found tucked away in little
Junction 23 of the M25, you’ll be thrilled to relive your wasted youth for Red Eye’s
ol’ Limehouse and is well worth an excursion. Wednesday nights are a good
90s boat party. Even if you were a mere babe in arms during the decade, you
time as this is when East End icon Saucy Sophie hosts her weekly pub quiz, but
can still come and be schooled by your elders on an era when dance music was
come on Saturday or Sunday instead and you’ll be treated to a drag queen up
king, slang was outdated and nobody had mobile phones. You can always watch
on stage singing for their supper — over the first May Bank Holiday weekend,
London’s landmarks drift pleasantly by in the background if you tire of their stories.
you get Son of a Tutu on Saturday, Saffron Slayter on Sunday and Tony Sinclair
Sunday 16th June, 6pm-10pm (meet at 5.20pm), Festival Pier, SE1 8XZ
Nearest Station: Waterloo
on Monday. How’s that for a throuple?
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17 Barnes Street, E14 7NW. Nearest Station: Limehouse