with Dickie Beau
Celebrated drag fabulist Dickie Beau joins forces with London’s darkest DJ Helen Noir to play us out late into Saturday night at Queen Elizabeth Hall with a party soundtrack that includes show tunes, disco and electro, interspersed with contemporary performance. A series of short shows will include lip synch and live singing from Dickie and spellbinding vocal performances from Helen, whose operatic singing style is unique on the alternative cabaret scene. Special guests Amanda Pet and Ingenue St John will give the kind of uplifting drag performances that have seen them become the darlings of the new drag scene; and the language of the body will find expression through the dazzling dance talent of Nando Messias. A truly genre-bending party to shout out about.
Dickie Beau
‘One of London’s hottest rising alternative performance talents’ Time Out
‘Intensely pretentious’ Londontown.com
‘Nice packet’ QX Magazine
Profiled in last summer’s New Talent issue of Time Out as a rising figure on the alternative cabaret scene, drag fabulist Dickie Beau is a performance artist and writer based in East London. Much of his work is informed by the central premise that, beyond our letting it all hang out as fully-bearded naturists, we are, each of us, to some extent or other, in drag.
Dickie has performed widely on both the London and New York cabaret circuit. Most recently he gave a specially commissioned performance at the Barbican as part of the London Australian Film Festival. He has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Camp Bestival and Latitude Festivals, as well as performing as his alter-ego Alma Mater in Kindertotenlieder, part of the Arcola Theatre’s alternative opera festival, Grimebourn. He performs regularly at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and is Duckie’s artist in residence for three consecutive weeks in May.
Dickie is currently collaborating with David Hoyle for a performance at the RVT in June and working on his first full solo show, Blackout, also previewing at the RVT. He can also be seen at Underbling and Vow’s Big Night Out at the Hackney Empire on 6th June.
Dickie writes for QX magazine and is a regular member of the DJ Drag Tag Team at Shoreditch club monthly, Film Noir.
Helen Noir
Helen is a London based DJ, singer, writer and music supervisor. Classically trained, she’s performed her unique versions of songs such Time is Running Out, From Here To Eternity and Karma Police at Eat Your Heart Out, Bistrotheque, the South Bank (with noted cellist Natalie Clein), The Last Tuesday Society, the Sanderson Hotel’s New Year’s Eve Party and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Fusing operatic technique and baroque instruments such as harpsichord with elements of dance music and cabaret, her performances are dramatic and highly original.
Helen promotes and DJs at Film Noir (monthly at the Ghetto), a night known as much for its alternative performance element as its cutting edge music policy. Regular guest DJs include scene stars Severino, Ben Pistor (Disco Bloodbath) Scottee, Molaroid, Jonty Skrufff, John Taylor (Punx Soundcheck), and Ma Butcher, as well as the regular Film Noir team of Dickie Beau, Ingenue St John, Amanda Pet & Nando Messias, who also contribute twisted cabaret numbers and bizarre lip synchs to the night’s mix. Helen plays at clubs such as Foreign, Decasia and La Fleche D’Or (Paris) and works high profile fashion & PR events. Known for the depth and breadth of her musical knowledge, her music supervision work has included advising on runway tracks for a major French fashion house and providing music for an international hair show in Germany. She also writes regularly for music & style publications including A and The Hospital magazines.
