06/10/12: Picture it. G-A-Y Mika. London. 2012. Your favourite freeloading editors from the rag you just can’t help but pick up when you’re off your face (yet still hide on the night bus home) went to the Sanderson Hotel to interview a rather beguiling Mika.
Downing expensive cocktails that someone else paid for as if Armageddon was approaching, no-one does this better than Joannou and Dalloway. Fast forward two weeks and we thought, why not do the same thing, but this time watch a show as well!
And all we can say is thank the LORD for both G-A-Y Mika! Separately, both rather legendary in their own right. Together, a beautiful co-mingling of theatrical exuberance, top tuneage and homosexual-based revelry.
This is probably a term that gets bandied around too much, especially in this magazine, but the atmosphere was truly electric. As soon as Mika stepped on stage, the showman didn’t disappoint, banging out hit after campyloo hit with his band (which seriously makes all the difference in live shows, and made us truly feel like we were at a stadium gig, but without the hefty ticket price).
Mika professed his love for Saturday nights at G-A-Y – coming to see epic performances and feeling part of a wonderfully free and fun environment – and he recreated that perfectly here with his gigantic teddy bears, confetti cannons and G-A-Y’s trademark balloons.
His words about G-A-Y meaning so much to him visibly touched the club’s head honchette Jeremy Joseph, and us too. Personally, I’ve been watching artists strut their stuff on stage at G-A-Y for twelve years now and I’ve never, ever stopped revelling in the pure joy they can unleash when they’re spot on.
And this was certainly one of the best we’ve ever seen there. Missed it? Ya Missed out, honey!
Heaven, under the Arches, Villiers Street, WC2
Words by Lee Dalloway
