Win tickets to see the fantastic Bianco Marvel at Bianco, the dramatic live contemporary circus performance from NoFit State, which comes to the London Southbank Centre from November 23rd. Bianco is an immersive promenade show directed by Firenza Guidi and we are giving you the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to see it. […]

Udderbelly Festival April 7th – July 17th, 2016 London Wonderground May 5th – September 25th, 2016 Part of Southbank Centre’s Summer Season Underbelly and Southbank Centre have announced the return of Udderbelly Festival and London Wonderground on London’s South Bank through the summer of 2016. Among the fantastic performances added to this year’s programme are Nina […]

August 7th – 31st, 2015 Edinburgh, Various venues Foreword by Joanna Orland Merely skimming the surface of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, it was easy to see a bit of a different scene burgeoning.  In recent years, the Fringe has become a playground for comedians to run rampant.  But in 2015, something old has become […]

August 13th-16th, 2015 Hampshire, UK www.boomtownfair.co.uk by Ella Jean BoomTown Festival took place last weekend in Winchester.  It’s hailed as being one of the most unique and entertaining festivals in the UK.  Being a festival for kind-hearted weirdos, Loose Lips sent me to cover it. When I watched the trailer for BoomTown’s 2015 Festival, it […]

From August 13-16th 2015, Matterley Bowl in Winchester will play host to BoomTown Fair – a fictional pop-up city where post-apocalyptic Mad-Max meets Burning Man in an immersive playground of creativity, life imitating art, interactive sideshows and live theatre. More information and tickets are available at www.boomtownfair.co.uk.

July 16th, 2015 Udderbelly at Southbank Centre by Michael Anderson Trygve Wakenshaw’s extravaganza of thrilling physical comedy has swept all before it for over a year now, presumably miming a broom with those incomprehensibly long limbs, collecting awards like stamps. The follow-up to the similarly acclaimed Squidboy, Kraken is an hour of free-associative delirium propelled […]

June 24th, 2015 London Wonderground at Southbank Centre by Jon Burns If Dusty Limits wasn’t already considered one of the more accomplished figures on the UK cabaret scene, he’s cementing his position at the top by adding a beautifully dark album of original songs to his achievements. Grin is a collaboration with long term musical partner […]

Hosts: EastEnd Cabaret (Bernadette Byrne and Victor/Victoria) Line Up: David Mills, Gypsy Wood, Ursula Martinez and Le Gateau Chocolat The London Wonderground, Southbank June 12th, 2015 by Bernie Byrnes (no relation) Last night, fresh from their Australia tour, EastEnd Cabaret hosted Club Perverts in the fabulous Spiegeltent at the Southbank Centre amid a line-up of […]

June 3rd –  June 13th, 2015 Soho Theatre by Joanna Orland What I love most about this show is how it exudes sarcasm to the point of making a sociopolitical statement.  Middle of the Road sees two of the UK’s top cabaret acts – Bourgeois & Maurice and David Hoyle – combine forces in an […]

Bourgeois & Maurice talk about their origins, influences, and what it is to be ‘normal’. “They’re kind of our characters, but they are also almost like us turned inside out,” says George Heyworth, one half of award-winning cabaret duo Bourgeois & Maurice. George and Liv Morris originally met in university at Royal Holloway, part of […]