REVIEW: ‘Kiss Me, Kate,’ London Coliseum
‘Kiss Me, Kate,’ Opera North, London Coliseum until June 30th, 2018 *****‘Kiss Me, Kate,’ Cole Porter’s classic 1948 Broadway hit, returns to London for a limited run in this awesome…
Pete Burns: A night to remember…
Pete Burns will be remembered by the majority of people for his cosmetic surgery and his worldwide smash hit ‘You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)’. But for those of…
GAY PRIDE: In the wake of Orlando
Back in the mid-`80s, when I was a New Romantic and used to dress like the bastard offspring of Marie Antoinette and Boy George, I’d get abuse on a daily…
I WISH U HEAVEN: my encounter with Prince
Back in 1999, while I was living in Spain, a hairdresser friend of mine arranged for me to go and do the make-up of one his clients, a woman called…
WHAT MATTERS MOST
Last year I did the make-up of one of Jimmy Savile’s victims for ‘Best Magazine Women of Courage Awards’. On top of a medical condition which meant she has been…
NEGATIVE IMAGE
I was booked on a shoot last Saturday. The shoot had been arranged ten days beforehand. Warning bells rang when, last Friday afternoon, I got an email from the client,…
REALITY CHECK
Who’s been watching this year’s ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’? When judge Nicky Johnston tore a strip off the girls in the bottom three during elimination on last week’s episode I…
BECAUSE I’M WORTH IT
There I was tossing and turning in bed, half-awake. It was still dark outside. I did try going back to sleep but I couldn’t: blame the birds, there’s a tree…
THE PRETTIEST STAR
David Bowie was the first pop star I was aware of. Not a fan of – not at first, anyway – but aware of. ‘Hunky Dory’ was released in ’71…