QX Magazine

05/05/12: Home to some of the coolest club nights in town, mega-party venue Egg notched up another spectacular year on the block with a ‘Berlin Berlin’ birthday extravaganza that had the crazed crowds flocking to King’s Cross last weekend.

06/05/12: Licking her way through the crowd like a horny lizard, spitting lyrics that would burn the devil himself, there is only one Dame that can sell out a Vauxhall venue, week-in, week-out and have them all dancing to her tune like she’s the pied piper of the gays.

06/05/12: After the sad and untimely death of Steve Elliott in March, his partner Ian, friends and colleagues gathered together to organise an amazing memorial party in the venue he called home, Café de Paris, on Bank Holiday Sunday.

05/05/12: You’d be forgiven for assuming last Saturday’s star act had Heaven packed to the rafters simply because she’s ‘Hot Right Now’ – but Rita Ora seemed hell-bent on showing there’s a little bit more to it than that.

06/05/12: Last Sunday Recon’s ‘Full Fetish’ event returned to Pulse for another dark and sleazy affair.

05/05/12: Having become somewhat of a force to be reckoned with on the scene, and rapidly picking up momentum with each hugely successful themed event - it was only a matter of time before XXL would outgrow its own incredible success, and welcome in a new era of epic proportions.

Jonny Woo returns with two new shows this month, a residency at the Soho Theatre Downstairs performance space and a one-off event at the ICA where he stages his own TV show. In preparation for a busy May, this week we go back into the closet with la Woo to reveal the secrets behind his unique style…

James Gaddas’ play is to say the least (and let’s get the use of a boxing metaphor out of the way early) a TKO, ‘a technical knockout’. From the commencement of round 1 and the ding of the fight bell, this is a one-man show of an exceptional standard. Jonny Collis-Scurll’s performance as Flynn is breathtaking. The tour de force of his momentous monologue grabs you from the start.

The tragic decline of Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright Tennessee Williams, who suffered flop after flop during the last twenty years of his life, is the inspiration for this new drama in which theatre eats itself.

This Sunday, The Show Must Go On promises to be a show-stopping party at Café de Paris in celebration of the life of Steve Elliott, one of the gay scene’s most influential club promoters who passed away last month. Cliff Joannou speaks to Steve’s partner, Ian Durston, about his plans for the event…

Recon’s Full Fetish event celebrates fetish in all its forms, from sports shorts fanatics to leather loving blokes. It returns this Bank Holiday Sunday to super-club Pulse. Cliff Joannou speaks to event manager, Antoin Strachan…

Tom Ford was hailed “the king of sex” for transforming the fortunes of Italian fashion house Gucci in the Nineties. He later went on to prove designers can sometimes break free of their sewing machine when he made his directorial debut in 2009 with his BAFTA award winning film A Single Man, with Colin Firth as his leading man. Today, the super manicured Texan presides over his own sultry global fashion label, ‘Tom Ford’, and admits he gets his best ideas when he is alone, naked in the bath. 

Last Thursday at Society, Lo-Profile, was just that – the last Thursday – for Raphael, the club’s much loved General Manager, and team member (and his wife) Viola.

28/04/12: Not that we are shallow, cock-hungry size queens, but any advert that says, ‘who wants 7” when you can play on 12”?’ is sure to grab our attention with both hands, and so on Saturday night we found ourselves trolling the mammoth arches of Pulse for ‘XXL Retrospective’ as they ‘pumped it out old skool’!

28/04/12: Hands firmly on buzzers, everyone… or should we say Rose Garden’s ass cheeks! It’s Saturday Market time with blonde bombshell Rose Garden and what a treat last Saturday’s event turned out to be.

28/04/12: Fresh meat, girls! Come get some of Ku Bars new hot tottie behind the bar and on the streets around their Frith Street venue.

27/04/12: XXX Club is located in the heart of Kings Cross, a few minutes walk from the main station and tucked away in the discreet basement of Cenral Station.

28/04/12: We were off to The Hoist last Saturday for its latest concept, Total Fetish. We arrived wet and cold, and couldn’t wait to get inside and changed to embrace the hot action as the steam billowed out of the venue.