London has the world's most diverse late night gay scene. Mainly located around its three gay villages - Soho, Shoreditch and Vauxhall - there's a gay nightclub to suit every taste, with music policies ranging from R&B and pop to full-on funky house via more underground, edgier sounds. There are, of course, many one-off and special events that happen around town to keep a look out for. And if it's something more 'adult' that you're after, then there's a whole heap of men-only and fetish special interest clubs out there, too.
ARE YOU DELOODED?
There’s a hot new club night heading to Vauxhall that’s all about one thing… FUN! Bringing together some of the hottest established, legendary and fresh talent from all over gay London, Deelooded is the place for big tunes and big personalities – but leave your ego at the door, gurls! We sent Lee Dalloway to have a chinwag with Deelooded promoter Fat Tony to tell us more…
POPCORN ‘CARNIVAL’
20/02/12: The brilliance of Brazil brought to London!
G-A-Y FEATURING CHER LLOYD
18/02/12: It was high time that perhaps the most controversial teeny-bopper in contemporary British pop, the Marmite of our nation’s latest onslaught of mainstream artists, took to the stage at Heaven to face her ultimate judgement day.
ROOM SERVICE
16/02/12: Thursdays are now known to be one of the best nights to get your crunk on, and where better than down in the heart of Soho at Room Service!
PLAYTIME: THE HOOKIES
17/02/12: Stuff the BRITs. Forget the Grammys. The awards ceremony that got Soho talking on Friday was the regional heats of international escort awards, The Hookies.
WTF: FROM RUSSIA WITH LUST!
14/02/12: Over one hundred sexy gay boys and girls converged on E2 for the Spinsters' Valentine's Ball @ BGWMC.
G-A-Y – EMELI SANDÉ
11/02/12: AMAZEBALLS! ... I think is an apt way to describe this past weekend at G-A-Y @ Heaven (thanks to Perez Hilton for that fabulous new word).
WAR
11/02/12: WARLet battle commence! Forget the World Wars, Vietnam and any conflicts created to ensure Western control of oil shipments.
PLAY>TIME IN PARIS
04/02/12: In a few short months, Lo-Profile’s weekly Friday nighter PLAY>TIME has found itself gathering a huge following… and earlier this month its reputation spread beyond Soho, across the Channel to Paris!
ENERGY BEARS
11/02/12: QX felt the force as Barcode went into overdrive for an Energy Bears blowout that had the Vauxhall block rockin’ last Saturday.
EAGLE 8TH BIRTHDAY
11/02/12: Vauxhall hit the jackpot for a birthday bonanza as Eagle London celebrated eight rollicking years at the very forefront of the capital’s world-beating gay scene last weekend.
CLUB WRONG
10/02/12: While others were just waking up on Saturday and thinking “too cold, stay in bed”, the Vauxhall hardcore were partying on the dance floor to fantastic tech and progressive tunes from Jamie de Rooy.
TRADE – A TAINTED LOVE AFFAIR
11/02/12: What can we say about Trade that hasn’t been said a million times before?
GREAT 8
Eagle London is re-shaping the London scene with a truly diverse series of regular club nights, cruise events and good ol’ fashioned hoe-downs for hot, horny and happy homosexualists. As they celebrate their 8th birthday this weekend, QX presents eight of their best!
OVER THE BORDER
A weekly gay Sunday club that was born over 20 years ago in small cities around Belgium has grown into one of the biggest, most renowned and most anticipated parties in Europe. Yes, you know it – were talking La Demence…
XXL ‘CONSTRUCTION’
04/02/12: QX Club News battled through a perilous snowstorm as XXL cemented its reputation with a tooled-up ‘Construction’ party last weekend.
LUSH-MO
05/02/12: The Green Carnation was the place to be as QX Club News attended the intimate launch of Lush-Moi, deep in the beating heart of London’s glamorous West End last weekend.
CITY BOYZ
03/02/12: Now in it’s 10th year, City Boys continues to attract a mixed crowd of real Square Milears as well as younger guys aspiring for a career of over-inflated bonuses.
LET THERE BE WAR!
Fresh from co-promoting 2011’s most talked-about gay disco, Meat, Kris Di Angelis unveils his new club brand set to devastate a dance floor near you in 2012: WAR!