By Jeff Downs
The podcast currently has 50 episodes available.
This week and I chat to the amazingly talented Lucy Lush, drag queen extraordinaire.
Lucy Lush is a drag artiste actress/actor plus one of the campcooks touring UK wide festivals also a Broadcast Journalist for gaydio
Lucy boasts a flamboyant career spanning 20 years working with drag legends, such as Lily Savage.
But, while the name may not be instantly recognisable, his alter ego may well raise a few eyebrows.
She travels all over the UK as drag queen Lucy Lush, performing shows under other guises including Hilda Crabtree, Lucy’s 70-year-old grandmother.
Lucy Lush is not an everyday drag act and uses comedy put together from recent topical news stories to constantly update his acts.
“When Lucy Lush is on stage Lucy Lush is real.”
“From a performance aspect I can be as outrageous as possible and it’s all purely for fun.”
A massive thank you to Lucy for being my final guest on the podcast. It's truly a great interview.
https://twitter.com/therealLucyLush
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009111483198
https://www.instagram.com/lucylushuk/?hl=en
This week I speak to Vivien Ella Walden author of Eating from the Cherry Tree.
Vivien Ella Walden who is still alive and kicking, born in Salford Manchester. Raised in a loving working class Jewish family she ran from her heritage, bared her perfectly formed derriere and partied with the elite and famous while taking on many guises and titles. With the death of her first husband she took on his mantle and grew to become one of the UK's most successful 'madams' within a world of scandal and naughtiness, corruption and suffering, sadness and exhilarating happiness. 'After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life'.
EATING FROM THE CHERRY TREE: You had me gripped from the very beginning and captivated me on every single page. A life filled with trauma, tragedy humour and sexiness. Opening your world through beautiful use of language that evaporates any concept of taboo.#5STAR #reviewMyBook.to/CherryTree
Thanks to Vivien for coming on the show.
Social media:
https://www.facebook.com/viv.walden.71
https://twitter.com/vivienwalden
This week I chat with Tony Kinsella, Jeff Dawson (Jeffarama), Gordon Zola and Ian Whiteley, collectively known as Bard Company.
Poetry with a difference! Four alternative poets performing a rock n' roll fuelled selection of their work with humour and no doubt a bit of controversy. Each member brings his own unique style to the group getting to know each other on the poetry and performance circuit for the last 5 years. They include poetry with musical backing tracks and songs with acoustic backing, also comedy and brilliant one-liners to give the edge on any socialist event, anti-war gig or comedy fundraiser. As they say themselves, "We want to perform some old/new stuff as a group with a different edge to it, have a few laughs, cause a bit of controversy and mayhem on the way, all for one & one for all!!" They have so far played in Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Wigan, Leeds, Wakefield and grow from strength to strength. A big thank you again to Tony, Ian, Gordon and Jeff for coming on the show. Social media contact:https://www.facebook.com/tony.kinsella.73
https://www.facebook.com/ian.c.whiteley
https://www.facebook.com/gordon.zola.1
https://www.facebook.com/jeff.dawson.792
Jeffarama Instagram account
https://www.instagram.com/jeffinbolton/?hl=en
This week I chat to a wonderful lady, a marvellous performer Aunty Ginger aka Thomas Henderson-Griffiths.
Ginger has been on the drag circuit for four years and has made a huge impact, she won the Miss Drag UK 2019 competition and is part of The Three Ladies drag musical trio. She organises, produces and performs in her charity nights for the Albert Kennedy Trust and also performs in a variety of drag shows and events around the UK. Plus she is a grade 8 cello player! A multi talented lady indeed!
Come meet everyone’s favourite Aunty, she believes in justice for cougars and combines old school and new school with campy lip sync comedy, badly sung tunes and Dad jokes. She can always be relied on for whipping her baps out at a family gathering and her trademark crusty makeup will give you life, trust!
It's a great interview and a pleasure to have Aunty Ginger on the show! Thank you darling! Check out Aunty's instagram it's filled with great pics and info!
Social media for Aunty:
https://www.instagram.com/aunty_ginger
https://twitter.com/tdgriffiths1
https://www.facebook.com/auntyginger87/
[email protected]
https://www.akt.org.uk/
This week I chat to the wonderfully talented Christian Reilly. A stalwart on the UK comedy circuit for many years Christian never fails to deliver outstanding comedy. I've always been a massive fan of his comedy and musical parodies, a range of bands, check out his Artic Monkey's parody! The best!!
Christian’s first comedy gig was in the Perrier Award-winning show, ‘Rich Hall is Otis Lee Crenshaw’. He is a global comedy circuit headliner and has appeared at numerous international comedy festivals, on BBC radio and TV, and in four series of the Chortle Award-winning stand-up and sketch show ‘Richard Herring: As It Occurs To Me’. In 2015, BBC Radio 4 followed Christian on the road to the Edinburgh Fringe for ‘Lives In a Landscape’. 2016 saw Christian taking his comedy to Australia as part of Perth’s Fringeworld festival. Catch him soon at a comedy club near you!
Check out Christian on social media:
https://christreilly.com/
https://twitter.com/christreilly
https://www.youtube.com/user/christianosfandango1/videos
https://www.facebook.com/christianreillycomedy
[email protected]
This week I chat to the multi-talented Dave Morgan, a Bolton poet who has been gigging and writing in and around the North West for the last 20 years.
He has worked in all sectors of education, and in a range of community and voluntary organisations plus involvement in teaching Chinese cooking, performance poetry, community action, and a host of other interests.
Dave says, "Younger people seem to think that those of us growing up in the 1960s were somehow charmed. Maybe we were. I have no idea what it is like to be young today, any more than my parents had any idea what it was like to be young in the 1960s. I don't envy the young, the odds are heavily stacked against them. Almost as much as they are stacked against the poor."
For further information about Dave please see links below:
https://www.davemorgan.info
https://www.writeoutloud.net/
https://www.facebook.com/dave.morgan.31945
This week I chat to the wonderful and talented Ginger La Rouge, award winning international burlesque dancer!
Ginger is an award winning, international performer and has traveled the world performing her unique and diverse burlesque acts.
Ginger is a Manchester burlesque dancer and co-founded North West Burlesque in 2010, a company which provides entertainment and burlesque hen party teachers across the North West.
"The joyous thing about Ginger La Rouge is that you genuinely don't know what you're going to get: from the classically elegant to the sublimely ridiculous and everything in between, all fantastic and entertaining as heck." - Cabaret Roulette
"She's the title sequence of a Bond movie happening right in front of your eyes" - Review of Burlesque! At the Lowry
"A simply marvellous thing to witness" - The Skinny
www.gingerlarouge.com
FB: Ginger La Rouge
Twitter: Ginger La Rouge
Instagram: Ginger La Rouge
This week I chat to the wonderful and delightful Poppycock.
Smiley, happy dragling Poppycock is one of those characters that lights up a room and a stage as soon as they appear. She’s been performing as a drag artist for less than a year, but has already won Halfway II Heaven’s It’s a Knockout competition and made it to the semi-finals of this year’s Drag Idol UK. Thanks for coming on the show Poppycock and here are her social media links.
Contact
https://www.facebook.com/itspoppycock/
https://www.instagram.com/itspoppycock
https://twitter.com/_itspoppycock
This week I talk to the legend that is Bob Sinfield. Radio presenter and comedy writer who has been performing and writing comedy for the last 40 years. I first met Bob back in London around 2003 helping out on his comedy show's, writing and performing.
Bob Sinfield is an actor, author, presenter and freelance waster. He has appeared at theatre festivals from Edinburgh to Brighton and written scripts for some of the best comedy performers of the last four decades, including Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Tracey Ullman, Joan Sims, Stan Freberg and Rory Bremner. In his spare time, he enjoys name-dropping.
His books to date are Gentleman of Jazz, The Gag Trade, Simply Dead, Ready Steady Crook and, soon to be published, The Great Unwatched.
Bob’s voice has been heard on all the major radio networks (plus quite a few minor ones) and he even appears on television when they’re desperate.
Facebook: Bob Sinfield
Website: www.bobsinfield.co.uk
Mixcloud: MixCloud
Twitter: /twitter.com/BobSinfield
Podcasts: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/laughterzone
This week I chat to Jess Abouzied / Aerial Acrobatic and Circus Skills Teacher
Jess quickly realised that her love of performing and being upside down was a perfect match for circus. With the career goal of being ‘professionally awesome’ she enrolled on Greentop’s full time Circus In Performing Arts course and has been unstoppable ever since.
Now an artist and tutor, Jess specialises in aerial acrobatics across multiple apparatus such as silks and hoop. She also likes to sew costumes, play with fire, and pretend to be a gymnast. From glamorous corporate events to comedy characters, she performs all over the country but is rarely found with two feet on the ground.
Website: bloodsweatcircus.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/jessabouzeid
Email: [email protected]
The podcast currently has 50 episodes available.