Resonant Futures presents Maasai Land: Red Tribe
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.
A Drag Love Affair: Finding L.A.B’s next star
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Pet and Norman’s Flower Market
PET AND NORMAN’S FLOWER MARKET.
It’s May Day, and your favourite drag queens are in bloom.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Book tickets
Open Decks
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.
STR!P NIGHT - Spring Celebration
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!
Jazz L.A.B with Jason Simpson
Bassist Jason Simpson brings a curated lineup of jazz musicians to the basement for an evening of smooth rhythms in the speakeasy, velvet-draped setting of Love Affair Basement. With food, cocktails and carefully selected Portuguese wine brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair.
Doors: 7pm
Live music: 8pm
This event is free entry.
A Drag Love Affair: Finding L.A.B’s next star
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Queer Comedy Social
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
Lesbian Field Day
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.
For Gaza and Sudan: A Curated Night of Music Videos
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.
Francesinha Night
It’s not every night that we do the special francesinha — the Portuguese sandwhich with chorizo, cold cuts and beer sauce. Come down the basement for a mellow evening of Portuguese wine, cocktails and food brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair, with a very special guest on the menu.
Doors: 7pm
Free entry to the bar all evening.
A Drag Love Affair: Finding L.A.B’s next star
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Nimbly Fingered.... w/ BARBS and Dinah Lux
Two of your favourite slaggy bimbos bring you a Piano Recital with a Twist!
This is NIMBLY FINGERED with BARBS and Dinah Lux. Dinner and a show like you’ve never seen before with food brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair.
Playground w/ Pamela Von Horn
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
A Drag Love Affair: Grand Finale!
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
This Is Not A Fashion Show
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
Private Hire
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
Greek Jam
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.
Silly Little Crafts workshop
Details and timings TBA for this Silly Little Crafts Club. 💝
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
The drag king night to end all drag king nights - every month at Love Affair Basement.
Stay tuned for the lineup TBA 💥
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Peaches' Dreamhouse w/ Juliet Peaches
The juicy cabaret night you didn’t know you needed, hosted by Juliet Peaches and celebrating glitz and glamour with a queer twist.
lineup TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Cine Brazil: Revolution Themed Screening
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
25 de Abril Sempre!
Join us to celebrate the Portuguese revolution!
Will have workshops in the afternoon and a special edition of ‘Peaches’ Dream House’, which this month will be entitled ‘Everyone’s House’.
At a time when it can be difficult to imagine a world where change and revolution are possible, we want to remember how 25 de Abril was brought by the people just 52 years ago! We want it to be present in our imagination that things can change and we have the power to do it!
Free entry!
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Want a night dripping in hot drag king magic EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH? We got you. Love Affair Kingdom is back for its next edition … hosted by @majordomdrag with a new lineup of drag kings 💥
Lineup tbc
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
free entry before 8pm / £10 tix on door
324 Hackney Rd
A Drag Love Affair: Finding L.A.B’s next star
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Greek Jam w/ Rebetiko Carnival
Greek Jam is a free night of Greek folk music — a beloved and regular night at Love Affair Basement, where if you have the instruments or you know the songs, you’re encouraged to join in. Hosted by @rebetiko_carnival_official with food by A Portuguese Love Affair.
Doors: 6pm
Music: 7pm
Membership Launch | A Twin Peaks Party
We’re finally launching the L.A.B membership, in Lynchian style…
more to follow
A Drag Love Affair: Finding L.A.B’s next star
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Performers’ Social
Hello performers! Finally, we have a night especially for you…
An event for performers who are interested in L.A.B to see the space, meet the organisers and connect with other performers.
So whether you're a L.A.B veteran or a new face, please come along…❤️.. we're excited for this one
Doors: 6pm
Food and drink will be available at a discount.
Dominant Discovery
A FLINTA-only workshop at Love Affair Basement, in collaboration with Palace of Stone.
At The Love Affair, we are deeply excited to welcome a new workshop that explores dominance as a lived, embodied practice. Not just in kink spaces, but in your voice, your body, your everyday life.
Queen Stone is a Queer Professional and Lifestyle Domme, Activist, Coach, Photographer, Witch and Mentor. With over 20 years experience in the kink world and over 8 years in the professional realm. Combined with her training as a feminine embodiment coach and somatic work she brings embodied depth and connection to her practise and in her teachings. An avid champion of the transformative power of the Dominatrix archetype and the many explorations it allows.
This FLINTA-dedicated workshop is an invitation to explore what dominance truly means for you.
To reclaim presence.
To sharpen boundaries.
To step into leadership, power, and clarity in a world that often asks minorities to shrink.
In this workshop you’ll be guided from self-inquiry to embodiment, and finally into action.
🗓 14th April
Dominant Discovery teaser
What is a Dominant expression and how to step into yours.
This is for those curious about dominance.
For those already walking the path.
For those ready to be seen, felt, and heard.
🔥 Limited spaces. Deep work. Real transformation.
Tickets HERE!
Olga's Birthday Cabaret
Celebrating Olga’s birthday?
Talk about an offer you can’t refuse …
Here it comes
The birthday party to end all birthday parties.
Cabaret. Burlesque. Drag. Absurdity. Surrealism. Really good wine.
LINEUP:
PATRICIA LANGE
PAMELA VAN HORN
YOS CLARKE
ELENA CANDELA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
free entry
LAB's Queer Night Market
Queer market with amazing vendors, Tarot reading and much more.
Free entry x
*Vendors
Tom Selmon
666999
Eyes Overload
Liminal space chains
Ingrid Kravchenko
Boo Rubber
Odd Fabrication
Slag Inclusion
*Drag King Live Drawing with Kings for Life
*Tarot Reading by Lovely Rita
*Music by DJ Jamie Moon
A Drag Love Affair: Finding L.A.B’s next star
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
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Jazz L.A.B w/ Jason Simpson
Bassist Jason Simpson brings a curated lineup of jazz musicians to the basement for an evening of smooth rhythms in the speakeasy, velvet-draped setting of Love Affair Basement. With food, cocktails and carefully selected Portuguese wine brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair.
Doors: 7pm
Live music: 8pm
This event is free entry.
Sacrilegious w/ Red Velvet
Red Velvet invites you to a divine service so debaucherous and licentious, you'll leave desperate to repent. Come down to the velvet-draped Love Affair Basement for an evening of cabaret, drag and burlesque. Ready your offerings, dust off your sunday best and humble yourself at the altar of SACRILICIOUS.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Lineup TBA
Bad Friday Burlesque w/ Miranda Miracas
Miranda Maracas, and her alter ego Nigella Lawson, are back at the basement with an all-star lineup of burlesque talent.
Atone for your sins at BAD FRIDAY BURLESQUE.
Feast on the delicious Easter meal provided by the love affair team - Food + Show tickets here!
Line-up
MIRANDA MARACAS
FREIDA NIPPLE
DAIRY KING
JESSABELLE THUNDER
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Book tickets
JUST A LITTLE TASTE w/ A Man To Pet and Marta Vine
Wine tasting & Drag. It's never been done before… probably… but why?
Love Affair Basement are welcoming 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)…. A night that puts sophistication and debauchery in the same room. What happens next… be the first to find out!
The wine tasting workshop involves trying 5 different wines - to be announced soon (plus delicious & Portuguese-style food pairings…) Food pairings are hot and straight from the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair.
Roda De Choro Jam Night
Join us for a night of Choro - a Brazilian jam session!
We have live music all through the night, with Capirinha specials and fejioada hot food brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair. Get a cocktail or hot meal as part of your ticket with different tiers available for your preference…
Doors: 6pm
Music: 7:30pm
Book tickets
For group bookings get in touch.
CARLOTTA stars in 'CENTERPIECE': A Music Video Screening Evening
ome celebrate the release of the "CENTERPIECE" music video by CARLOTTA on the 29th! The evening will consist of the showing of the music video, with wonderfully talented friends who will be DJ'ing!
CARLOTTA is a 23yr old artist originating from Lisbon, Portugal currently residing in London. She released her first song in 2023 and has since taken the time to build her sound putting out two singles, “DIAMANTÉS” a jersey/reggaeton fusion, and “CENTERPIECE” a more introspective cut, both which will be part of her upcoming debut EP. Not being dictated by genre, instead preferring to go by feeling, CARLOTTA is making in her words “pop music with substance” trying to explore all the different possibilities under that umbrella. Her latest single, is accompanied by a music video, which was released this past Friday the 13th.
Listen to CARLOTTA here!
Watch the music video here!
Food and drinks available!
Tickets HERE!
Doors - 6pm
Featuring
Owais Azam
Jamie Cem Bean
Lilly Thompson
Peaches' Dreamhouse
Peaches’ Dreamhouse is back!
Join your host, burlesque starlet Juliet Peaches for a juicy night of cabaret at L.A.B. Glitz and glamour with your favourite cocktails to finish it off 💋
LINEUP:
MATT SKULLY
MIMI MARIAMA
TANGERINE TASSELS
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
free entry before 8pm / £10 tix on door
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Want a night dripping in hot drag king magic EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH? We got you. Love Affair Kingdom is back for its next edition … hosted by @majordomdrag with a new lineup of drag kings 💥
LINEUP:
CHIYO
CONNOR LINGUIST
MACHO MEI
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
free entry before 8pm / £10 tix on door
324 Hackney Rd
LUNGS karaoke w/ Kuntessa & Hanna Tonic
Kuntessa and Hanna Tonic bring their beloved karaoke night LUNGS to the basement. Get your notes high and inhibitions low for your new midweek ritual. Free entry.
Doors: 6pm
Greek Jam
Greek Jam is a free night of Greek folk music — a beloved and regular night at Love Affair Basement, where if you have the instruments or you know the songs, you’re encouraged to join in. Hosted by @rebetiko_carnival_official with food by A Portuguese Love Affair.
Doors: 6pm
Music: 7pm
School of Cvntology - Trans Anthology Book Launch
Join us for a celebration of the voices and stories from Class of 2025 School of Cvntology - a Trans Anthology Book Launch!
This is the gorgeous outcome of the three months’ blood, sweat and ink. The anthology is freshly printed.
We will gather to celebrate the launch of the anthology Class of 2025 - A Trans Anthology is a collection of writing by the first cohort at the School of Cvntology, a trans writing course. The stories range from experimental to more traditional prose.
Tickets HERE!
Timings
Doors: 5 pm
Readings: 6.30 - 9 pm
Close: 10.30 pm
Readings by
Aparajita Ray Chaudhuri, Avie Jay, Belle Gatherer, Ewen Ma, June Archbold, Lucy Petersen, Matti Griso Dryer, Oona Evergreen and Tomara Garrod
Food
Love Affair Basement will be offering community meals for around £8
From the introduction:
“We believe that writing for a trans audience can produce work that is confronting, energising and, perhaps, more reflective of the contemporary moment in Britain. Over the course, many of our guest lecturers proposed that leaning into the frictions of the world we exist within might be a source for inspiration.”
Back 2 Hack | A Queer Pub Crawl
Back by popular demand!
Join Love Affair, The Nelson’s, and The Queen Adelaide for a day and night of music and much more!
More details to follow!
Doors: 2pm
free entry
LAB + Cazeleon present: The Cabaret of Curiosities
Shapeshifting siren Cazaleon returns to L.A.B for a night of cabaret, burlesque and drag. Leading the way with performances that blend mesmerising vocals and theatrical flair, Cazeleon will usher in performers mixing drag, burlesque, music and cabaret.
Line-up
Cazeleon
Ezme Pump
Margo Marshall
2 Pregnant Men: Rotten & BoiWyfe
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Quiz night
L.A.B Quiz Night returns!
Doors: 6pm
Quiz: 7pm-9pm
free entry / £2 to enter the quiz
Jazz L.A.B w/ Jason Simpson
Join us for Jazz L.A.B, a free jazz performance night at the basement. Curated by bassist Jason Simpson on the first and third Wednesday of every month.
With home-style food brought to you by the kitchen at A Portuguese Love Affair.
Doors: 7pm
Jazz: 8pm
free entry
Salon Perverse
Join us for the second instalment of Salon Perverse at @loveaffairbasement — an intimate, interdisciplinary series exploring the aesthetics of desire, led by Matt Skully.
This cultural salon invites artists, writers, and thinkers to examine longing, eroticism and the deeper layers of sexuality through art, language and cinema.
The afternoon and evening will include:
– A writing workshop interrogating erotic language and narrative tension
– A guided life drawing session exploring the archetype of the muscle himbo
– Fetish and erotic Film shorts
– Talks and workshops
– Curated stalls from independent artists and vendors
Salon Perverse is a space for provocation, reflection and embodied inquiry — a gathering for those drawn to the sensual, the intellectual and the perverse. We invite you to think critically, feel deeply and explore the layered relationships between sexuality, identity and creative expression.
This is not spectacle. This is study. This is play. This is practice.
18+ | Consent centered | All genders, orientations and experience levels welcome
Playground w/ Pamela Von Horn
Pamela Van Horn’s ‘PLAYGROUND’ returns — a night where playfulness and desire are alchemized into performance. Featuring cabaret, burlesque, drag, and pole work.
Lineup tbc
Doors: 7pm
Performance: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm / £10 on the door.