Francesinha + Jazz Night!
Jazz L.A.B is back! A free night of live jazz curated by bassist Jason Simpson.
This Wednesday 14 September Dina is doing a special of francesinhas, the beloved Portuguese beef sandwich with beer sauces. Francesinhas must be pre-ordered to account for food preparation, so please use the link below! Other food from our typical menu will also be available to order on the night.
Doors: 7pm
Music: 8-10pm
Free entry.
Golden Era Burlesque
Step back in time for the debut of Golden Era Burlesque, a night dedicated to the vintage art of the tease… Curated by the time traveler of burlesque, Miss Odelia Opium.
LINEUP
Odelia Opium
Mimi Sugarpill
Marianne Cheesecake
Dolly Dove
Miss Cherry on Fire
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
António Variações Legacy Night
In honour of HIV/AIDS awareness day L.A.B presents a show celebrating the legacy of queer Portuguese icon António Variações. This event will feature performances from queer Portuguese artists.
Profits from tickets will go The Love Tank - a nonprofit who will be at the event providing education, support and on-site testing.
Lineup
Karma
Ewan Whatarmy
And more
Book tickets
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Playground w/ Pamela Van Horn
Pamela Van Horn is back for another edition of the queer, experimental cabaret night ‘Playground’ ❤︎ where desire and playfulness are alchemized into performance. Expect sensuality and provocation in this burlesque, cabaret and drag lineup…
lineup TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-10pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door
Permission to rest
Hosted by The Permission Space, Permission to Rest is a guided breathwork workshop designed to restore balance.
Doors: 7pm
Workshop: 7:30-8:30
Blue-Ray Cabaret: Desperate Housewives
Blue-Ray Cabaret is a series of live nightlife performances inspired by iconic cinematic and televised worlds. The opening series, three nights across September - November, look into the oddities of suburbia. First up… DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.
Watch drag, burlesque and beyond led by queer, immigrant artists inserting themselves into these Hollywood stories. Expect neurotic housewives, covert crime and DRAMA! All in the underground basement of LAB for your pleasure…
Doors: 6pm
Show: 7pm
This event is a monthly feature at LAB across September - November. Find the entire Blue Ray Cabaret programme on Outsavvy now.
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Major Dom returns with London’s ONLY FREE drag king night! Featuring a roster of the hottest up and coming drag king talent.
LINEUP TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
Dreamhouse Cabaret w/ Juliet Peaches
The diamonte-studded cabaret night is back after its summer break. Hosted by burlesque starlet Juliet Peaches, expect an evening tantalising and tongue-in-cheek performance with the best of London’s cabaret and burlesque circuit.
LINEUP TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
Sheer Encounters Vol. 2
Join us at L.A.B for the second edition of Sheer Encounters, a men’s lingerie social hosted by Manos.
A social safe space for men (inc. trans men) who seek community amongst a shared love for wearing lingerie, and admirers too. This event focuses on general socialising, with event host & photographer Manos taking Polaroids throughout the evening.
Dress Code
Bodysuits, stockings, corsets, garter belts, bras, heels/comfortable shoes, thongs, sheer nylon & lace materials. No sportswear / lycra.
Social: 6-10pm
Book tickets
Greek Jam Night
Come down the basement for Greek Jam Night, with Rebetiko Carnival. If you know the songs, you’re welcome to bring your instruments and join in.
Otherwise, sit back with a cocktail, a glass of Portuguese wine or hot food brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair, and enjoy an evening of traditional Greek folk music.
Doors: 7pm
Music: 8pm
This event is free entry.
Just A Little Taste... w/ A Man To Pet and Marta Vine
Wine tasting & Drag. It's never been done before… probably… but why?
Pour one out for the October edition of Just A Little Taste, at Love Affair Basement. Hosted by Greek-born drag legend A Man To Pet and LAB's wine supplier Marta Vine. A night that puts sophistication and debauchery in the same room. What happens next… Be the first to find out!
Marta Vine is the wine supplier of A Portuguese Love Affair and Love Affair Basement - she brings wine exceptional, small-production wines from family-run vineyards to discerning restaurants, wine shops, and private collectors across the UK and beyond. Founded on a passion for terroir-driven winemaking, Marta works with growers across established and emerging wine regions to source bottles that reflect the character of their land and the craft of their makers!
Grecian born drag darling A Man To Pet is no stranger to the basement. The East London drag legend drew crowds hosting Pet’s Picnic on the green and starred and devised our sold-out drag panto “The Devil Wears JPG Hairy Chest Catsuit”. Host of Basic Boys at Dalston Superstore, you can find them swanning about at Body Movements and “showing love through insults”.
Doors: 7pm
Workshop: 8pm
The Cabaret of Curiosities
Shapeshifting siren Cazeleon ushers a fresh lineup into the basement for the latest edition of The Cabaret of Curiosities - a night of the wonderful, the weird and the beautifully perverse. Featuring the most eccentric and electrifying of London’s performer circuit.
LINEUP TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Entra
DJ collective ENTRA return to L.A.B for another night of sonic exploration ❤️🔥
tickets TBA x
Private Hire
Sorry! We are closed for a private hire on this day.
If you’d like to hire L.A.B for your event, speak to Camila at info@loveaffairbasement.co.uk
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
WEEK 2 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
L.A.B's 2ND BIRTHDAY
Pour one out for L.A.B’s second birthday…
details revealed closer to the time xx
The Bittersweet Readings
Literary journal The Bittersweet Review is back for another round of their reading night, ‘The Bittersweet Readings’, featuring a lineup of queer and trans writers.
Blue-Ray Cabaret: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Monsters. Music. Magic.
The second edition of Blue Ray Cabaret is here, and this time you’ve been cursed… and you can’t stop singing and dancing. Experience Sunnydale through ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, in a joyous queer cabaret night at Love Affair Basement.
Blue-Ray Cabaret is a series of live nightlife performances inspired by iconic cinematic and televised worlds. Expect comedy, drag, burlesque, and beyond - led by queer, immigrant artists inserting themselves into these Hollywood stories.
Doors: 6pm
Show: 7pm
This event is a monthly feature at LAB across September - November. Find the entire Blue Ray Cabaret programme on Outsavvy now.
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
WEEK 3 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Hot n Bothered: Halloween Edition
Hot n Bothered are BACK for another Str1p, pole and performance night.
Lineup and tickets TBA xxx
Greek Jam Night
Come down the basement for Greek Jam Night, with Rebetiko Carnival. If you know the songs, you’re welcome to bring your instruments and join in.
Otherwise, sit back with a cocktail, a glass of Portuguese wine or hot food brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair, and enjoy an evening of traditional Greek folk music.
Doors: 7pm
Music: 8pm
This event is free entry.
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
WEEK 4 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Major Dom returns with London’s ONLY FREE drag king night! Featuring a roster of the hottest up and coming drag king talent.
LINEUP TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
LAB's Halloween Party
This year we invited writer, performer, curator, and kink practitioner Matt Skully to guest curate LAB’s halloween party. More details coming soon ❤️🔥
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
WEEK 5 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Sensored Magazine presents...
Descend into L.A.B for an evening hosted by Sensored Magazine. Expect erotic and sensual performance guided and curated by Editor in Chief and photographer Tom Selmon. more details coming soon ❤️🔥
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
WEEK 6 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Playground w/ Pamela Van Horn
Pamela Van Horn is back for another edition of the queer, experimental cabaret night ‘Playground’ ❤︎ where desire and playfulness are alchemized into performance. Expect sensuality and provocation in this burlesque, cabaret and drag lineup…
lineup TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8-10pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door
Blue-Ray Cabaret: Edward Scissorhands
Saccharine pastels, sentient hedge spirits and the elegant blades of Edward Scissorhands. See it all mixed into a queer cabaret night at Love Affair Basement.
Blue-Ray Cabaret is a series of live nightlife performances inspired by iconic cinematic and televised worlds. Watch drag, burlesque and beyond led by queer, immigrant artists inserting themselves into these Hollywood stories.
Doors: 6pm
Show: 7pm
This event is a monthly feature at LAB across September - November. Find the entire Blue Ray Cabaret programme on Outsavvy now.
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2
WEEK 7 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Dina's Birthday
Pour one out for Dina’s birthday. Co-owner of L.A.B and legend of Hackney Road ❤️
details TBA closer to the time xx
Greek Jam Night
Come down the basement for Greek Jam Night, with Rebetiko Carnival. If you know the songs, you’re welcome to bring your instruments and join in.
Otherwise, sit back with a cocktail, a glass of Portuguese wine or hot food brought to you by A Portuguese Love Affair, and enjoy an evening of traditional Greek folk music.
Doors: 7pm
Music: 8pm
This event is free entry.
A Drag Love Affair: Season 2 Finale
WEEK 8 OF A DRAG LOVE AFFAIR - Finding L.A.B’s next star. The drag competition hosted by Cazeleon is back for its second season. Join us in the basement as seven chosen participants perform each week, hone their craft and compete for the grand £500 prize!
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets forthcoming on Outsavvy.
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Major Dom returns with London’s ONLY FREE drag king night! Featuring a roster of the hottest up and coming drag king talent.
LINEUP TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
Dreamhouse Cabaret w/ Juliet Peaches
The diamonte-studded cabaret night is back after its summer break. Hosted by burlesque starlet Juliet Peaches, expect an evening tantalising and tongue-in-cheek performance with the best of London’s cabaret and burlesque circuit.
LINEUP TBA
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
Salon Perverse
Join us for the second instalment of Salon Perverse. 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.
18+ | Consent centered | All genders, orientations and experience levels welcome
More details and tickets TBA xx
Choro music in the garden
We have live brazilian choro music in garden, with @docedechoro.
Come and enjoy a cocktail, a glass of Portuguese wine and the end of summer !
Free to enjoy.
HOLIDAY CLOSURE
We are closed for this period, so that our staff can take some well-needed time off.
See you soon x
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Major Dom returns with London’s ONLY FREE drag king night! Featuring a roster of the hottest up and coming drag king talent.
LINEUP
DADDY PECS
ROTTEN
LEX VON DYKE
REN CARNATION
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
Dominant Discovery: A Workshop series
Dominant Discovery presents a three part FLINTA workshop at Love Affair Basement in collaboration with Boss Witch. This workshop series explores dominance as a lived, embodied practice - not just in kink spaces, but in your body, your voice and your everyday life.
The workshops are facilitated by Queen Stone, a queer professional and lifestyle domme, activist, coach, photographer, witch, and mentor. She brings 20 years of experience in the kin world and 8 years in the professional realm, with additional experience as a feminine embodiment coach. She is an avid champion of the transformative power of the dominatrix archetype.
Please arrive from 7:30 as the workshop will start at 8pm.
Jorts Season presents: A Sapphic Film Night
Jorts Season back with another sapphic film night you won’t want to miss. An evening of short films with a focus on queer and lesbian stories, on Friday August 21st at Love Affair Basement.
Expect a juicy shorts programme followed by post-screening drinks and mingling with fellow queer film lovers.
Doors: 7pm
Film: 7:30
L.J. Griffith-Jones - Fried Eggs in Bed Launch
Join us for L.J. Griffith-Jones' "Fried Eggs in Bed" poetry book launch feat. guest poets, drag performers, and DJ set to close!
L.J. Griffith-Jones - Fried Eggs in Bed Launch
Join us in person for a fun and relaxed evening celebrating the launch of Fried Eggs in Bed by L.J. Griffith-Jones.
The author will be supported by guest poets, drag performers and a DJ set to end the night.
Tickets here!
Dominant Discovery: A Workshop series
Dominant Discovery presents a three part FLINTA workshop at Love Affair Basement in collaboration with Boss Witch. This workshop series explores dominance as a lived, embodied practice - not just in kink spaces, but in your body, your voice and your everyday life.
The workshops are facilitated by Queen Stone, a queer professional and lifestyle domme, activist, coach, photographer, witch, and mentor. She brings 20 years of experience in the kin world and 8 years in the professional realm, with additional experience as a feminine embodiment coach. She is an avid champion of the transformative power of the dominatrix archetype.
Sheer Encounters
We’re excited to be hosting the first edition of Sheer Encounters - a men’s lingerie-only night! A social safe space for men (inc. trans men) who seek community amongst a shared love for wearing lingerie, and admirers too.
Expect a judgement-free, queer friendly bar where guests are encouraged to mingle, drink, and flaunt their best undergarments. Leave your insecurities at the door. Sheer Encounters is about expressing your erotic fantasies to confidently feel and be seen, encouraging all body types and age ranges.
13 years of A Portuguese Love Affair: The Anniversary Party
Every year we celebrate the anniversary of the deli, A Portuguese Love Affair! 2026 it has been 13 years. We will have live music outside in the afternoon as well as performances from some of our favourites, moving into the basement as the sun goes down…
The day-to-night party of a lifetime!!!… 💪
Free entry.
Dominant Discovery: A Workshop series
Dominant Discovery presents a three part FLINTA workshop at Love Affair Basement in collaboration with Boss Witch. This workshop series explores dominance as a lived, embodied practice - not just in kink spaces, but in your body, your voice and your everyday life.
The workshops are facilitated by Queen Stone, a queer professional and lifestyle domme, activist, coach, photographer, witch, and mentor. She brings 20 years of experience in the kin world and 8 years in the professional realm, with additional experience as a feminine embodiment coach. She is an avid champion of the transformative power of the dominatrix archetype.
L.A.B X Murmur
A L.A.B and Murmur collaboration. A day party with DJs and music out in the garden and heading into the basement when the sun goes down.
Murmur is a house music event and community based in East London, founded by New Zealand born DJs and selectors Tom Fraser and Sincerely Simon.
This event is free entry.
Corder & Friends: A performance night
Join Daze Corder for a night of music and performance at Love Affair Basement in the August heat, gathering funds and warmth for The Outside Project's Trans Winter Night Shelter.
Enjoy an eclectic (and marvellous) lineup of artists exploring performance through cover, copy, and homage. It might be experimental, it might be spectacular. There's only one way to find out.
So many artists, performers, and people find themselves through others and their work - reading, idolising, embodying. This is a space to explore it. What does it mean to find yourself by being someone else?
And there might be karaoke.
Love Affair Kingdom w/ Major Dom
Major Dom returns with London’s ONLY FREE drag king night! Featuring a roster of the hottest up and coming drag king talent.
LINEUP
DAIRY KING
LOOSE WILLIS
MERCEDES BENZ 1999
POET DADDY
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door.
SAPPHIC NIGHTS presents: Salsa Class
Sapphic Nights comes to L.A.B for a salsa night! Open our doors for drinks and socialising at 7pm. The salsa class will run from 8-9pm with the lovely Corina.
Community Day
A free day / evening of community-forward activities, with the bar open as usual.
Itinery TBC 😘
Doors: 7pm
Free entry.
STR1P NIGHT: Trans Pride w/ Hot N Bothered
Our favourite girls from Hot N Bothered are back for a trans pride edition of their cabaret style queer strip night…
Doors: 5:30
Show: 6:15
TRANS PRIDE AFTERPARTY @ L.A.B
Trans Pride is a big day for us at L.A.B. We're having an afterparty for the march so we can celebrate trans people through rest, crafts, performance, and of course PARTY!!
5-7PM - COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
• communal moodboard
• letter writing station
• Polaroid photoshoot with banners / signs
• and more TBA
8-10PM - DRAG SHOW
with your host MAJOR DOM
and featuring…
🏳️⚧️COCO COUTURE
🏳️⚧️DIELEMMA
🏳️⚧️FABIO LEZONLI
🏳️⚧️PASTOR AUX
10.30PM-CLOSE - MUSIC by MAJOR DOM
¡Vaya Con Dios! w/ Santa Marika
After a year-and-a-half of bringing flamenco chaos to London’s queer scene, trailblazing drag sensation Santa MariKa will be flying off to Amsterdam for new adventures at the end of the summer...
So catch her before she’s gone! For a one-night-only cabaret blending a retrospective of her most iconic acts with special performances from some of her dearest drag friends Patricia Langa, Dairy King, Cazeleon, Sean Murray & Skiyodu.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Ana Lua Caiano @ L.A.B
The acclaimed Portuguese musician Ana Lua Caiano is coming to L.A.B for one night only as she tours her music globally.
Praised for her fusion of traditional Portuguese music including fado with electronic sonic innovation, Ana Lua Caiano operates from the highest ground of Portuguese contemporary music.
She has performed at the likes of Primavera Sound, Bons Sons, MEO Kalorama, Tremor, Festival Músicas do Mundo de Sines as well as international festivals (Eurosonic, OOAM Festival, Babel Med, Les Suds à Arles, Roskilde Fest, Mar de Músicas, Reeperbahn, BAM Festival, Tromsø World Fest, Oslo World, Festival La Línea, among others).
Doors: 7pm
Permission to rest
Hosted by The Permission Space, Permission to Rest is a guided breathwork workshop designed to restore balance.
Doors: 7pm
Workshop: 7:30-8:30
World Cup Final
A Portuguese Love Affair x Love Affair Basement are screening the World Cup Matches. Depending on weather we will be showing these either outside or in the basement! Often with special food available to preorder for the day ✨ (table reservations are dependant on food orders)
Doors: 7pm
Match: 8pm
Free entry.
Community Day
A free day / evening of community-forward activities, with the bar open as usual.
Itinery TBC 😘
Doors: 7pm
Free entry.
World Cup Semi Finals Screening
A Portuguese Love Affair x Love Affair Basement are screening the World Cup Matches. Depending on weather we will be showing these either outside or in the basement! Often with special food available to preorder for the day ✨ (table reservations are dependant on food orders)
Doors: 7pm
Match: 8pm
Free entry.
World Cup Semi Finals Screening
A Portuguese Love Affair x Love Affair Basement are screening the World Cup Matches. Depending on weather we will be showing these either outside or in the basement! Often with special food available to preorder for the day ✨ (table reservations are dependant on food orders)
Doors: 7pm
Match: 8pm
Free entry.
Home Of As I Am presents: Sunday Serve
Sunday Serve is a community gathering for reflection, creativity, and connection outside traditional religious spaces. Blending music, conversation, creativity, and spiritual exploration, it offers a place to slow down, meet like-minded people, and reconnect with yourself.
Expect collective tarot message, open conversations, arts and crafts, music, open DJ decks, and an open mic/jam session to close the evening.
Doors: 4pm
World Cup Quarter Finals Screening
A Portuguese Love Affair x Love Affair Basement are screening the World Cup Matches. Depending on weather we will be showing these either outside or in the basement! Often with special food available to preorder for the day ✨ (table reservations are dependant on food orders)
Doors: 7pm
Match: 10pm
Free entry.
Playground w/ Pamela Von Horn
Pamela Van Horn presents an intimate, erotic and experimental night of queer cabaret.
LINEUP TBC
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Free entry before 8pm or £10 tickets on the door
World Cup Quarter Finals Screening
A Portuguese Love Affair x Love Affair Basement are screening the World Cup Matches. Depending on weather we will be showing these either outside or in the basement! Often with special food available to preorder for the day ✨ (table reservations are dependant on food orders)
Doors: 7pm
Match: 8pm
Free entry.
SENSORED MAG presents: A Sensored Evening
On July 10th, Sensored is taking over @loveaffairbasement
We invite you into The Basement to create, play, and connect in an immersive evening of live performance and creativity. Dress code: Come as you are party.
DJ @majordomdrag
Live Performances from:
@pamela_von_horn
@skully1888
@fotisnoir
@julietpeaches_
@clapmutt
Poster Image @sketchhouse72
On the poster @clapmutt
Design @_designedbyjr
July 10th
7:00 PM until Late
Love Affair Basement
324 Hackney Rd, London E2 7AX
Space is limited, and the energy will be magic. Secure your place in the ripple.
World Cup Quarter Finals Screening
A Portuguese Love Affair x Love Affair Basement are screening the World Cup Matches. Depending on weather we will be showing these either outside or in the basement! Often with special food available to preorder for the day ✨ (table reservations are dependant on food orders)
Doors: 8pm
Match: 9pm
Free entry.