QX Magazine

The original after-hours party monster Trade returns with an almighty party next month, once again re-writing the clubbing rulebook by throwing a Saturday afternoon session across four rooms, each with a distinct sound policy. This week, Nick Tcherniak representing ‘Trade Modern’ and Guy Williams in the ‘Trade Lite’ rooms…   NICK TCHERNIAK: TRADE MODERN - TRADE AUTUMN Why are you so excited...

Charity Monster is the club for a good cause from the folks that bring you SEPM. This time around, they are supporting gay health charity Antidote and London Friend with a  Halloween Pool Party. Darren Palfrey quizzed promoter Larry Tee about the latest outing… What makes SEPM the place to go this Halloween? Our semi-regular big events outside East Bloc for...

It’s eyes down at one of Soho’s busiest boozers, The Duke of Wellington, as they prepare to let the drag queens rule the roost and present a very special slice of Rock and Roll Bingo. So this week we decided to invite hosts Mary Mac and Frankie Fantastique to have a fiddle with our balls here at QX (they’re...

You may have heard recently of the plight of the famous gay pub The Joiner’s Arms on Hackney Road. New licensing proposals seek to restrict its opening hours from 4am on the weekends to 12.30am every night of the week, effectively killing its main business revenue. But all over London right now there have recently been licensing reviews, often in...

Celebrating 10 tempestuous years of Gay Bingo! Jonny Woo, Ma Butcher and Jon Sizzle are bringing the numerical madness to its zenith with a calamitous conflagration of number crunching craziness, drag outrageousness and comedy gold at the Hackney Empire. Oh yes, you’re nobody unless you’ve been 69’d by la Woo! They share their memories of the wildest moments of...

From Glastonbury to Bestival, via Berlin, NYC and every other major city and festival on the planet, Horse Meat Disco is without doubt the UK’s most successful international gay club brand of the past ten years. James Hillard – who created the brand alongside Jim Stanton – spoke to Cliff Joannou to share the secret of its immense success…   1) Beginning 10...

Known as one of the friendliest saunas in London, the Locker Room can be found in Kennington behind a discreet front, just 4 minutes from Kennington tube station or just over a ten minute walk from Vauxhall. They’ve got some new nights to go with the new colourful and horny interior. So we had a catch up with Tim...

Alternative clinic is a modern beauty clinic that combines the cutting edge with the traditional, offering a range of services that include pain-free IPL hair removal and an acupuncture based Beijing facial. Being the vain creatures that we are at QX towers, always wanting to look our best on a night out, we got in touch with Lemma from...

Halloween has always been a very special time of the year for the Drama Queens, as it was at this time, in 2009, that the troupe formed. That initial show: ‘Drag Me To Hell’ was the first of what would become an annual celebration of all things theatrically ghoulish.  This year they’ve decided to construct a totally new show, rather...

Despite its successes off Broadway in 2004, it’s taken eight years for London to see this rock musical by John Hartmere (lyrics and book) and Damon Intrabartolo (music and book), enjoying a sell-out run at the Union Theatre earlier this year. Now at the Greenwich Theatre, the first impression is one of West End grandeur and gloss, thanks to David...