19/04/14: Cliché launched with a diva-like aplomb as a performance laden La Scala flung open its doors to the sequined, exciting and excitable last Saturday night.
With those sexy Room Service videos playing and pounding on huge screens above the main dance floor, the balloons everywhere at the ready, our first stop was of course going to be up in Scottee’s secret boudoir where a packed crowd were licking up their drinks and loving the eccentric array of scene faces treading the boards and giving us their vocal chords on a platter.
Then everyone descended en masse to the main dance floor where Sink the Pink’s Glynn Fussell ascended to the stage in a head-dress extraordinaire that could only be rivaled by Jodie Harsh’s wig herself.
And following Sink the Pink and Figs in Wigs’ wonders, there was Miss Harsh on the decks, spinning in the burning beats to keep us dancing until the early hours! The night might have suffered a little in attendance launching on the Bank Holiday.
But as a mini-festival in itself, Cliché got us running around the venue like madmen, and as a warm-up to Bestival it succeeded in getting us excited for the main event!
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, N1 9NL
Words by Pat Cash
Photos by Mark Storey
