L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
L.A.B Christmas Show w/ Fancy Shews! and A Man To Pet
““THE DEVIL WEARS JPG HAIRY CHEST CATSUIT””
The sold-out Christmas show returns to Love Affair Basement.
A sit down theatrical + dining experience like no other, written and performed by East London icons A Man To Pet and Fancy Shews! Starring also Some Other People, probably.
Ticket includes a divine three course Portuguese fusion dinner, brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. For different dietary requirements, please email info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk specifying your order number and date booked.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-11pm
Jazz L.A.B.
Join us for Jazz L.A.B, a free jazz performance night at the basement. Curated by bassist Jason Simpson on the first Wednesday of every month.
Wednesday 3rd November
Line-up tba
Doors: 7:00pm
Music: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Enjoy dinner with the show, with food brought to you by the kitchen of A Portuguese Love Affair. This month’s Jazz L.A.B includes the Portuguese francesinha (traditional doorstep sandwhich) or the vegan beetroot burger.
The Bittersweet Readings w/ The Bittersweet Review
The Bittersweet Review returns to the basement for another evening of readings and performance by queer and trans writers. Lineup tbc with ticket link to follow.
Playground Cabaret
Guest curator and performance artist Pamela Van Horn brings a slew of talented, weird and wonderful guests to the basement for ‘PLAYGROUND’, a night of burlesque, drag and performance art.
More details tbc.
Love Affair Kindgom: A Drag King Show
Introducing Love Affair Kingdom - a night full of Drag King performances with a stellar line-up.
Guest curator and performance artist Major Dom, featuring Sarjana and Marco Mozzarelli.
More details tba.
L.A.B Quiz Night
Our quiz night is back for its second edition! Free entry to the bar with a £2 fee to enter the quiz.
The winning team gets a £50 bar tab voucher that doesn’t expire. Come and join the fun xxx
Greek Jam
Greek Jam returns to L.A.B. A free entry event where everyone is encouraged to join in the jam whether with their instrument or their voice! Celebrating Greek culture and folk music.
With food brought to you by the deli kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair. An evening of live music to enjoy whether you are an audience member or a performer.
Doors: 6:00pm
Dina 5.0 | 50th Birthday Celebration!
Come celebrate our Diva’s birthday with us!
Expect amazing shows and a night full of surprises!
Line-up tba
Doors: 7pm
Free entry
Jess Fitz - Miss Romantic EP Launch
Jess Fitz and her band launch her new EP Miss Romantic with a night of live music and celebrations in the intimate setting of Love Affair Basement. Known for her big hair and big voice, Jess Fitz started her artist journey as a teenager listening to powerful female voices including Whitney Houston and Ella Fitzgerald. She also takes great inspiration from current pop powerhouses including Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware & RAYE.
With more performers to be announced.
Dress Code: Wedding 👰
Doors: 7pm
Fractured Earth: Remembering Darfur
Fractured Earth — Remembering Darfur is an immersive night where sound becomes awareness — a collective act of listening to a world in fracture. Through drones, granular textures, and decaying harmonics, artists translate the silent crisis in Sudan into a shared sensory terrain: a landscape carved from resonance, rupture, and noise.
The evening moves through shifting zones of stillness and erosion — low-frequency tremors evoking collapsing ground, filtered winds brushing over desolate plains, field ambiences dissolving into shadow. Expect ambient drone works, experimental beats, field recordings, macabre dance, and dreamlike visual fragments — a collision of frequencies and movement sculpted from empathy and unrest.
Across Sudan, over fourteen million lives have been displaced since conflict reignited in 2023. Fields lie barren, communities fall silent, and children face famine and disease. Fractured Earth — Remembering Darfur listens to these truths not as narrative, but as vibration — where every tone carries loss, and every sound becomes resistance.
This is not a gig but a listening environment — a ritual of presence where awareness, sound, and motion merge. Empathy here is not spoken; it hums through frequency, noise, and movement.
All proceeds support Kids for Kids, a UK charity sustaining long-term aid in Darfur through community-led initiatives: clean water, goats for milk, healthcare, and education for children living through crisis.
Line-up:
Deep Dive Sound & Tim Sayer
Kimbal
Xuân Sinden & Tata Cheng
8trone
Fear of Fluffing & Mai Nguyen Tri
Tickets here
Doors: 7pm
2 for 1 all night
2 for 1 on our mother cocktails all night long.
Rosemary’s Mother: Our take on a classic negroni.
Naughty Mother: Our take on the spicy margarita.
Come down to the basement to enjoy our most popular cocktails at half price, all night long.
Doors: 7pm
The Bittersweet Readings w/ The Bittersweet Review
The Bittersweet Review returns for their night of readings by queer and trans writers in the basement. Expect performance art, autofiction, personal essays, and poetry. Lineup tbc. Ticket link coming soon.
The BitterSweet Review is a publishing platform dedicated to the advancement of queer literature and visual culture.
Private Party
Sorry beauties, we’re closed today for a private soiree!
Come celebrate your special day with us by emailing our Events Team at info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk and check out our hire details here
São Martinha
São Martinho but make it G A Y!
A take on a traditional Portuguese celebration with great music and roasted chestnuts.
Music by Nova and DJ Nossa Senhora
Doors: 7pm
DJ: 9pm
Free entry
Open as usual
We are open!
Join us to enjoy amazing wine, signature cocktails and home cooked food.
Doors: 7pm
Astrology Friendship Mixer w/ Black Astrology Club
The Black Astrology club returns to the basement with their platonic astrology mixer. The evening will include board/card games and bingo, and guidance from Celestrial Tree, Tumi & Destiny who will offer mini readings — tarot, oracle and birth chart — breaking down your compatibility matches and answering your cosmic queries.
This event is open to everyone but prioritises Black women, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, and neurodivergent people — those the world often doesn’t.
Go to the Black Astrology Club instagram to sign up for a ticket and complete the form to receive your compatibility match based on your astrology placements. To receive a compatibility match buy a ticket before November 2nd.
Doors: 7pm
Private Party
Sorry beauties, we’re closed today for a private soiree!
Come celebrate your special day with us by emailing our Events Team at info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk and check out our hire details here
L.A.B Lates w/ Yang Walish
Our latest L.A.B late is with Yang Walish. Born in the warehouses exploring London’s music scene, Yang Walish mixes world music from female oriented punk bands through dark techno towards more uplifting emotions.
Doors: 7pm
DJ: 9pm
Free entry
Thirsty Thursdays
2 for 1 on our mother cocktails all night long.
Rosemary’s Mother: Our take on a classic negroni.
Naughty Mother: Our take on the spicy margarita.
Come down to the basement to enjoy our most popular cocktails at half price, all night long.
Doors: 7pm
Jazz L.A.B.
Join us for Jazz L.A.B, a free jazz performance night at the basement. Curated by bassist Jason Simpson on the first Wednesday of every month.
Wednesday 5th November : Improvised electronic music
Featuring: Klaus Bru (saxophone/pedals), Mawulikpimi Dossavi (percussino) and Jason Simpson (moog synthesizer)
Doors: 7:00pm
Music: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Enjoy dinner with the show, with food brought to you by the kitchen of A Portuguese Love Affair. This month’s Jazz L.A.B includes the Portuguese francesinha (traditional doorstep sandwhich) or the vegan beetroot burger.
L.A.B’s Halloween Party
Make no mistake, we’ll be celebrating our favourite campy holiday in style.
WIth guest curator Matt Skully and DJ Belzeboo. Free entry.
Keep an eye out for more details x
Devianza Cabaret Halloween Special
Devianza Cabaret is BACK with their screening and cabaret night. Dress for the occasion and settle into the candlelit setting of the basement… if you dare x
This edition of Devianza features a night of cult cinema and spine-tingling cabaret performances, bringing Mario Bava’s legendary 1963 anthology “I Tre Volti della Paura” ("Black Sabbath") to the silver screen. A cornerstone of Italian horror, this gothic triptych weaves together three chilling tales: a supernatural stalker haunting a lonely woman, a vampiric family curse, and a nail-biting story of a phone call from a stranger. The film will be screened in English language.
And of course, the film will be paired with immersive burlesque and drag performances. Expect glam ghouls, spooky acts, and campy homages to Bava’s surreal imagery.
Featuring: Luna Lussuria, Co Kendrah, and Pamela Von Horn
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm onwards
Love Club: Writing the Underworld
Step into the season of sahmain with Love Club’s creative writing workshop venturing into the underworld of myth, folklore and poetry. The underworld is a rich mythic and metaphoric concept where characters — Hades, Persephone — and concepts — shadows, the unconscious — step into the half light. Unleash your creative self by candlelight in the intimate setting of Love Affair Basement.
This poetry workshop will be facilitated by wellbeing facilitator and Founder of Love Club Polly.
Workshop: 7:00pm-9:00pm
With the bar open until 11:00pm.
Greek Jam
Greek Jam is a free entry musical evening celebrating the Greek folk music culture. Expect singing and playing all night — where anyone who knows the songs is encouraged to join in!
This night is complemented by the A Portuguese Love Affair menu. Enjoy carefully curated Portuguese wines, boutique cocktails and traditional home-style cooked food, brought to you by Dina and Olga.
Back2Hack: A Queer Pub Crawl
Did you know there are three queer venues on Hackney Road within a 10 minutes walking distance of each other? Back2Hack is a queer pub crawl hosted by three venues: Nelson’s pub, Love Affair Basement and the Queen Adelaide. Each host is providing free drink (while stocks last), drag and burlesque performances and queer market venues to create a united front celebrating queer nightlife in Hackney. Go to all three venues (in any order) and redeem your free drink token.
L.A.B will be hosted by our resident burlesque starlet Miranda Maracas, with market stalls from 2:00pm-6:00pm and DJing from Entra from 9:00pm-12:30am.
We’ve been planning this for ages and can’t wait for the big day - you don’t want to miss this one!
Bass Pussy Premiere
BigDaddeh moves between worlds, weaving playful and empowering lyricism with bold sonic textures. This performance night includes the premiere of BigDaddeh’s new music video BASS PUSSY — a video set in a cyberpunk world where The Matrix meets Berlin rave culture. Followed by performances from Big Daddeh, RHUR and Lady Jules.
FHUR is a London-based producer, songwriter and artist known for their moody tracks with electronic and industrial influenced sounds and beats.
Lady Jules brings a bouncy, techy and groove-heavy sound where she merges minimal house, deep tech and electro-house influenced by Stockholm’s minimal scene and London’s underground late-night energy. She’s brought her signature sound to some of London’s most respected musical venues including The Cause, Night Tales and Venue M.O.T.
The event runs from 7:00-00:30 at Love Affair Basement.
Screening: 8:00pm
FHUR: 9:30pm
BigDaddeh: 10:00pm
Lady Jules: 11:00pm
Book tickets
Tickets for this event are on a PWYC / donation basis.
Kate Sharp and Friends Comedy Night
Kate Sharp returns to the basement with her lineup of queer comics serving the best of alternative comedy in the intimate setting of Love Affair Basement.
Featuring: Kate Sharp, Will Owens, Samira Banks, and Dick Denham
Doors: 6:00pm
Performance: 8:00pm-10:00pm
The bar will be open until 11:30pm.
Portraits of Place Autumn Screening Social : Laberinto de Pasiones dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Portraits of Place returns to L.A.B with another screening social, this time screening Pedro Almodóvar’s Laberinto de Pasiones (Labyrinth of Passion) – a camp, chaotic, and boldly irreverent exploration of love, sex, and the psyche. Drenched in a punk aesthetic and scattered with caricatured everyday scenes emblematic of the Movida counterculture.
Doors: 7:00pm
Screening: 7:30pm
Free entry from 9.15pm for drinks and music.