Shapeshifting Cazeleon is back for another round of The Cabaret of Curiosities, the cabaret night that spans drag, burlesque, sideshow, clownery, and more. 

LINEUP:
CAZELEON
MAJOR DOM
DIE LEMMA
MASC PEACH

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

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Introducing… ‍LIVE AT LAB. A new musical, comedy and cabaret night at Love Affair Basement.

🗓️ Thursday June 11th

⏰ 7pm -11pm

🎟️ Early BIRD tickets now on sale, early bird catches worms etc!! Link in bio

A real variety night with a gorgeous SMORGASBORD of delights. From sensual cabaret acts, to musical mayhem.

I’ll be performing a mixture of original comedy songs, bangers (aka power ballads) and 1960s/70s covers that will make you want to plait each other's hair and throw your phone in the sea.

Wonderfully supported on the guitar and piano by George Barnes, multi-instrumentalist and MD of Hot Piece of Brass, who will also be Emceeing on the night (wayo !).

Further musical and cabaret acts to be announced… SEE YOU THERE.

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Led by guitarist and composer Vitor Pereira, Electric Chamber is a boundary-pushing quartet redefining the sound of modern chamber jazz.

Their music combines elements of neo-classical and cinematic styles with the edgy spontaneity of jazz. Each piece unfolds like a narrative, traversing a rich sonic landscape filled with explosive contrasts and mesmerising atmospheres.

Intriguing, contemporary, and cinematic, Electric Chamber offers a musical experience that is as refined as it is engaging.

Natalie Rozario (cello), Riley Stone-Lonergan (saxophone), Adam Teixeira (drums), Vitor Pereira (guitar & composition)

“The music is lyrical, luminous and filmic” –  All About Jazz

“Pereira has created music that emphasises a wide range of dynamics and moods, music that ranges from emotional and introspective moments to energetic and explosive” – Jazzport

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8:30

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Permission to Rest is a gentle, breath led session designed as a soft landing. Led by Kathryn Snook. Together, we’ll explore gentle breathing techniques to help your body settle, soften, and release tension. We’ll then move into guided rest, allowing space for quiet connection and integration after the session.

Doors: 7pm
Session: 7:30-8:30
Optional time to stay and chat: 8:30-9:00

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London's favourite drag swarm is descending upon the iconic Love Affair Basement for the first time! The Lab Rats (and a few very special guests) present a cabaret night with a difference…

DINNER AND A SHOW!

Love Affair Basement's stunning kitchen will be open throughout the course of the show, with a special Meal Ticket option for a nourishing Vegan, Gluten-Free* meal for you to enjoy before the show, perhaps complemented by a delicious glass of wine from the delectable LAB Bar. Feeling full, but still hungry for a show? You can join us for the cabaret without a meal ticket, we won't blame you if you find yourself tempted to order something off the menu though…

Camp, chaotic, cabaret; Divine food and wine; all in an iconic and atmospheric venue. Come and FEAST with us, darlings xx

*Due to the nature of the space, LAB's kitchen is unfortunately unsuitable for those with Coeliac disease

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Adam Kinrade and Annie Sherburne invite you to an artists’ party to celebrate the exhibition of Adam Kinrade at Containerville Corbidge Crescent. An evening of art networking, music, performance, and food and drink brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair.

Free entry

After popular demand, our Wine tasting & Drag ‘Just A Little Taste’ is back at the basement. 

Imagine a night that puts sophistication and debauchery in the same room. What happens next… be the first to find out!
Love Affair Basement welcomes back star of our Christmas Show ‘The Devil Wears JPG’ A Man To Pet for an evening of wine-tasting with our long time wine supplier and dear friend Marta Vine. 

Ticket holders get a wine tasting workshop with Marta Vine (wine expert) and performance from A Man To Pet (house trained).

The wine tasting workshop involves trying 5 different wines plus delicious & Portuguese-style food pairings straight from the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. Wine and food pairings TBA.

Please note, food pairings are not the size of full food courses!

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

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Step into the shadows with Hersh Dagmarr, a singing phantom from Weimar Berlin’s underground cabaret scene who mysteriously disappeared in the 1930s—but refuses to stay gone.
From the smoky cabarets of Paris to the expressionist darkness of Berlin, from Hollywood’s golden lie and back to the volcano’s edge, this is a story of desire, emancipation, future nostalgia and the dance floor as cathedral.

“… what we called freedom, some people called sin. And they got rid of us. Or so they thought. Little did they know that for us sinners, troubadours, fem freaks, and degenerate artists—for us, it was only the beginning!”

Featuring songs by Edith Piaf, Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Spoliansky, Friedrich Hollaender, Iggy Pop, Kylie Minogue, Régine, and more—performed in French, English, and German.

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

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The cabaret that brings queer femininity to the front, with your barbie-doll hostess @julietpeaches. Expect glitz and glamour with a side of seduction, at our house cabaret night at @loveaffairbasement.

LINEUP:
POWDERED SUGAR
DONNA DIVINE
WANDA VULL  

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

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Major Dom’s roaring drag king night is back for May. A fresh night of outrageous, hilarious and political performance from the best of London’s drag scene.

LINEUP
@cissyphus_drag
@lustivlife
@richard_energy

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

This month we are excited to announce a Community Meal Ticket. This vegan community meal is set at the accessible price of £8, and brought to you by the award-winning kitchen A Portuguese Love Affair and will be served during the interval of the show. Book your community meal ticket here.

Free entry before 8pm, or £10 tickets on the door.

A night celebrating traditional Greek folk music with Rebetiko Carnival, where if you know the words or the music you are invited to join. With hot food, wine and cocktails brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair.

Doors: 7pm
Music: 8pm

this event is free entry.

A Man To Pet is having a PICNIC on the Love Affair Green, Sunday 21 May. Drag show from 2-4pm. With brunch food from A Portuguese Love Affair. Start your summer right. 

Show: 2-4pm

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Please arrive 15-30 minutes before the show starts. Reserve a table for free via Outsavvy. 

Sorry, L.A.B is not open to the public today due to a private hire.

Interested in hiring L.A.B? Get in touch at info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk x

Sardinian fashion brand SARIUSAI brings a night of ritual and performance to the basement.

A night where myth meets the underground, with dancers embodying ancestrial energy. Styled and curated by Sariusai with an exclusive drop during the night.

Tickets and lineup TBA

Our new drag talent competition is here, hosted by the one-and-only Cazeleon and presented by Love Affair Basement. Every week new drag talent will compete in a range of challenges for the £500 cash prize.

Come down to the basement to see what our competitors have to offer as they are judged by a roster of guest judges, led by drag superstar and shapeshifting siren Cazeleon.

6 CONTESTANTS.
7 WEEKS.
1 REIGN.

Line-up

Haris Ack
Delia Faye
Pastor Aux
Saffron Solstice
Gay Knightwood
Herr Maphrodite

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Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

Lo-Fi improvisation project and Resonant futures join hands to bring you a night of improvisational and experimental music.

Doors : 7pm

Ghost Mind + Special Guests

Stuart Wilding (cello/percussion) · Pete Robson (piano/trumpet) · Charlie Folorunsho (voice) · Barbie Mukoda (flutes) · Adrian Roper (voice) · Isaac Robson (bass) · Simon Lawson (saxophones) Ghost Mind present a live improvised film score — a collaboration between the core trio and invited guests. The group's signature practice weaves acoustic instruments, electronics, and a curated backdrop of global field recordings into a continuously evolving soundscape.

'Etudes' Study Group

Ningrui Liu aka Akira (voice) · Felix X Tigersonic (bass/electronics) · Jo Morrison (voice)
An experimental voice-and-electronics ensemble exploring structured improvisation through the lens of the etude form.

Torio

Freeland Green (words/found sounds) · Dominic Thurston (voice) · Tim Sayer (trumpet/electronics) A trio working at the intersection of spoken word, extended vocal technique, and live electronics.

ABOUT GHOST MIND

Ghost Mind are an experimental improvising ensemble based in Cheltenham and London. Founded in 2014, the group's practice centres on a distinctive concept: a core trio of Pete Robson (trumpet/piano), Stuart Wilding (percussion), and Charlie Folorunsho (voice), augmented by a continuously evolving backdrop of found sounds drawn from locations across the globe — the titular 'Ghost', a fourth, invisible member. Extended collaborators include Carina Tint (xiao/bamboo flutes), Zhuyang Liu (guzheng), and Barbie Mukoda (flutes).
The concept emerged from the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra, where the founding members sought a more intimate format that could sustain the textural and spatial qualities of large-ensemble free improvisation. Ghost
Mind have since performed widely across the UK and toured Germany, collaborating with Göttingen trio Brainville Desperados. Further collaborations span Rothko, Emi Watanabe, BeiBei Wang, Saltings, Lee Boyd Allotson, Chris Cundy, and numerous poets and performance artists. In 2017 they contributed a live improvised soundscape to a radio performance of Bill Drummond is Dead (Johny Brown / Tam Dean Burn) for Resonance FM.

ABOUT LO-FI IMPROVISATION PROJECT

Lo-Fi is a London-based curatorial and performance platform dedicated to improvised, experimental, and
process-driven music. The project creates contexts for artists working at the outer edges of jazz, electroacoustic
practice, and free improvisation — prioritising discovery, dialogue, and risk.

ABOUT RESONANT FUTURES

Resonant Futures is a promoter and production platform committed to presenting sound work with artistic and
social purpose. The organisation supports emerging and established artists across experimental music,
audio-visual performance, and interdisciplinary practice.
For press enquiries, high-resolution images, and artist interview requests, please contact the promoters via Instagram.
Lo-Fi Improvisation Project: instagram.com/lo_fi_improvisation_project

Playground is the experimental queer cabaret, burlesque and performance art night where desire and playfulness is alchemized into performance. A favourite at L.A.B, you won’t want to miss this one…. 🥀

LINEUP TBA

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

Our new drag talent competition is here, hosted by the one-and-only Cazeleon and presented by Love Affair Basement. Every week new drag talent will compete in a range of challenges for the £500 cash prize.

Come down to the basement to see what our competitors have to offer as they are judged by a roster of guest judges, led by drag superstar and shapeshifting siren Cazeleon.

6 CONTESTANTS.
7 WEEKS.
1 REIGN.

Line-up

Haris Ack
Delia Faye
Pastor Aux
Saffron Solstice
Gay Knightwood
Herr Maphrodite

Thickets here!

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

For Gaza & Sudan: A Curated Night of Music Videos. A special fundraising night in support of communities facing urgent humanitarian crises in Gaza and Sudan. This evening will take the form of a carefully curated screening of music videos, presented as you might experience a series of short films in a cinema setting.

All proceeds will be split equally between @thesameerproject, which delivers essential aid in Gaza, and @humanitarianactionsudan, which provides critical food and resources to those affected by the crisis in Sudan. Following the screening there will be a relaxed set by ethereal @aquamarine.mp3. For more details on the event see here.

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Three venues. One ticket. One massive lesbian day and night in East London.

On 9 May, Damsel Collective, Aya & Suki and Love Affair Basement are joining forces to create Lesbian Field Day - a collaborative day-to-night takeover across three East London venues.

For one day, the neighbourhood fills with lesbians: food, drinks, workshops, performances, queer businesses, unexpected encounters and hundreds of dykes moving between spaces together - before everyone gathers for one massive after party ‘Lesbians: AFTER DARK’ to take the night into the early hours.

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A night of queer comedy featuring Shannon Ong, Caz Thorne, Oni Benjamin, Mohsin Ishaq, and Phoebe Taylor. With hot food, cocktails and wine brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair.

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

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Our new drag talent competition is here, hosted by the one-and-only Cazeleon and presented by Love Affair Basement. Every week new drag talent will compete in a range of challenges for the £500 cash prize.

Come down to the basement to see what our competitors have to offer as they are judged by a roster of guest judges, led by drag superstar and shapeshifting siren Cazeleon.

6 CONTESTANTS.
7 WEEKS.
1 REIGN.

Line-up

Haris Ack
Delia Faye
Pastor Aux
Saffron Solstice
Gay Knightwood
Herr Maphrodite

Thickets here!

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

Pack all of your dollar bills and pound notes and get ready to make it rain. We're curating a sizzling sapphic lineup and sexy vibes for the night of your queerest dreams. May 3rd is our host Hot Honey's birthday, so get ready to celebrate spring and birthdays in style!

We run our night cabaret style, with time between acts to drink, chat, and meet new people. 

Put your name into the draw for a hot lap dance on stage, or buy one ahead of time for ur cheekiest pal! Our acts range in vibe from traditional skripping to burlesque to drag kings, encompassing many different ways to feel and be fucking hot as a queer person. 

STRIP NIGHT DOLLARS ARE CASH ONLY AT THE VENUE! Get them ahead of time on Outsavvy and pick up at the door. 

CONSENT IS KEY! Please respect all of our performers both on the stage and after. 

PWYC/Low income tickets - please dm the organisers!

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Our doors and our decks are open. Send a mix to info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk if you’d like to DJ at L.A.B on Sat 2nd May. A chance for new DJs or old to try out some new stuff.

The bar will be open from 7pm with wine, cocktails and hot food brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair.

PET AND NORMAN’S FLOWER MARKET.

It’s May Day, and your favourite drag queens are in bloom.

A Man To Pet
Jane Norman

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

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Our new drag talent competition is here, hosted by the one-and-only Cazeleon and presented by Love Affair Basement. Every week new drag talent will compete in a range of challenges for the £500 cash prize.

Come down to the basement to see what our competitors have to offer as they are judged by a roster of guest judges, led by drag superstar and shapeshifting siren Cazeleon.

6 CONTESTANTS.
7 WEEKS.
1 REIGN.

Line-up

Haris Ack
Delia Faye
Pastor Aux
Saffron Solstice
Gay Knightwood
Herr Maphrodite

Thickets here!

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

Audiovisual artist Rafael Diogo presents the latest chapter in Resonant Future’s charity sound series. This time with an evening of live electronics, audiovisual performance and experimental music in support of Maasai communities in Kenya.

For generations, the Maasai people have lived in deep relationship with the earth guided by ancestral knowledge, movement, and community. Their lands hold stories that continue to resonate yet today many face challenges in access to education, clean water, and healthcare.

All proceeds from the night will support RedTribe for Maasai: working alongside Maasai communities in Kenya to empower the next generation through education, sustainable livelihoods, healthcare initiatives, and community led projects.

Their work includes:
- The Maasai Academy providing education for over 300 children
- Clean water projects improving health for thousands
- Beadwork initiatives supporting Maasai women and their families.

Through sound and collective listening, Resonant Futures hope to build solidarity with this community by raising funds and building sonic awareness and connection.

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Our friends at CineBrazil see our revolution weekend with a screening of Iracema. This film was censored by the dictatorship in Brazil because of its exposing of the brutal conditions of the Trans Amazonian highway, what was hailed by the government at the time to be an ‘economic miracle’. From the perspective of a young girl travelling into the Amazon this film exposes the dark underbelly of exploitation, human trafficking and forced displacement.

Brazilian food and drinks (fejioadas and capirinhas) will be available - preorder at a discount by getting a food / drink combination ticket.

Doors: 3pm
Screening: 5pm

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