Episodios

  • Living Legends - David Hoyle

    Living Legends - David Hoyle
    Jan 4 2022
    David Hoyle is a performance artist, avant-garde cabaret artist, singer, actor, comedian and film director. Performing as The Divine David, an "anti-drag queen" who combined "lacerating social commentary" with "breathtaking instances of self-recrimination and even self-harm”, he appeared on the BBC's Comedy Nation (1998) and produced two shows for Channel 4, The Divine David Presents (1998) and then The Divine David Heals (2000).

    In this episode of Living Legends, David and Alfie talk about David’s extraordinary career. They go back to the very beginning of David’s drag journey, pay tribute to his manager at British Home Stores, and talk about the importance of nurturing new drag talent. Dave and Alfie discuss spirituality, London drag in the ’80s and the crippling curse of heteronormativity.
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    33 m
  • Living Legends - Lola Lasagne

    Living Legends - Lola Lasagne
    Jan 4 2022
    Lola Lasagne aka Stephen Richards is one of the most successful and popular cabaret acts on the UK scene. She has played all over the UK, starring in plays, pantos and is the organiser and host of the cabaret tent at Brighton Pride.

    In this episode of Living Legends, Lola and Alfie talk about Lola’s career spanning over 30 years, including her stint on The Big Breakfast, organising some of Brighton’s biggest drag events and her thoughts on RuPaul’s Drag Race coming to the UK.
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    36 m
  • Living Legends - Holestar

    Living Legends - Holestar
    Jan 4 2022
    Holestar is an award-winning cabaret artist, belting vocalist, DJ of other people's music, promoter and Mistress of Ceremonies since 2003. Blurring boundaries between gender, the avant-garde and mass entertainment, pop culture and the underground through music & performance. A former British soldier, brothel receptionist and dominatrix with an MA in Fine Art (from Central St Martins, London).

    In this episode of Living Legends, Holestar and Alfie talk about gender within drag, the term ‘AFAB Queen’, winning Best Drag Act at London Cabaret Awards 2105 and being a part of East London’s notorious queer scene documentary, Dressed As A Girl.
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    29 m
  • Living Legends - Adam All

    Living Legends - Adam All
    Jan 4 2022
    Adam All is and was the creation of Jen Powell finding an inner peace and empowerment in their identity through performance art; expressing a comic blend of gender stereotypical exaggerations and popular song.

    In this episode of Living Legends, Adam and Alfie talk about BoiBox, the legendary Drag King night celebrating and encouraging new Drag King talent, being a King amongst Queens and the joys of sharing the stage with their wife.
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    31 m
  • Living Legends - Son of a Tutu

    Living Legends - Son of a Tutu
    Jan 4 2022
    Son Of A Tutu is an award-winning drag queen, activist and the public speaker behind the vigil for the Orlando shootings in Soho that gained worldwide press.

    In this episode of Living Legends, Son of a Tutu and Alfie dive into Tutu’s fascinating story, growing up in Nigeria, a career in finance and how the events of 9/11 brought them to drag. Tutu and Alfie discuss issues of racism within the gay and drag communities, and how activism and drag can be intrinsically linked.
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    33 m
  • Living Legends - Dave Lynn

    Living Legends - Dave Lynn
    Jan 4 2022
    Dave Lynn is one of Britain’s most enduring drag queens. A long-standing national treasure, with a career that sees him on red carpets, iconic British soap operas and gay cult classic films.

    In this episode of Living Legends, Dave and Alfie talk about what has happened in Dave’s 45 years in the business. Dave tells Alfie about his first time in drag, sneaking underage into Camden’s iconic drag venue The Black Cap, and continues on through his incredible career on stage and screen, with anecdotes about legendary faces and moments of drag, like Channel 4’s ‘Faking It’, Lily Savage and A Beautiful Thing.
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    34 m
  • Living Legends - Le Gateau Chocolat

    Living Legends - Le Gateau Chocolat
    Jan 4 2022
    Le Gateau Chocolat’s work spans drag, cabaret, opera, musical theatre, children’s theatre and live art. His bewitching baritone has been heard internationally, through his own shows at prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre and Sydney Opera House, and as part of the Olivier-Award winning La Clique/La Soiree.

    In this episode of Living Legends, Le Gateau Chocolat and Alfie dive into drag beginnings in Brighton’s legendary Dynamite Boogaloo club, an infamous weekend at Glastonbury’s NYC Downlow and recent national press coverage surrounding Gateau’s Arts Council grant as well as exciting future plans.
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    38 m