Friday 5th June
Happy Valley Pride presents
DAVID HOYLE
A Bridge Between Worlds.
With special guests The Glitterbomb Dancers.
£15 [+10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm | Show at 8.30pm
Hedgerows Hum with high heels’ havoc,
as hives, hexes, and hysteria
waft o’er the vale.
The undisputed patron saint of Happy Valley Pride, David Hoyle is the original performance avalanche – an all singing, all raging bona-fide performance legend. His recent online collab with Parisian fashion house Mugler has once again catapulted him into the headlines.
For the last four decades, Hoyle has queered the boundaries between live art, performance, theatre and cabaret – conquering nightlife around the world and working extensively in film and TV. His infamous alter-ego ‘The Divine David’ transported him from radical alternative settings in the ’80s to the studios of Channel 4 in the ’90s.
A prolific visual artist, he exhibited his paintings at Goswell Road gallery in Paris and in 2024 The Aviva Studios in Manchester held a three-week long retrospective of his career (so far) called Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work, bringing together key themes that run through his output: gender, mental health, AIDS, revolution, decadence and the effects of capitalism.
‘A patron saint of queer creative expression, David Hoyle is as deserving of national treasure status as Paddington Bear is. He’s also wickedly funny’ British Vogue.
‘Terrorising terrestrial TV with his anti-drag persona, a raucous mix of political commentary, comedy and experimental fashion choices’ Dazed
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