All That Jazz

Today I met my friend David in London's Soho (I was skivving off work). We had a gay old time trying on glasses, playing shoot 'em up games in a video arcade and checking out joke shops. I got myself some fabulous temporary tattoos and a wonderful dictionary of lesbian speak covering the major european languages . I can now fail to pick up girls in all the major capitals of the world. After an hour or so of silly shopping we stopped for coffee and cake at Maison Bateaux. MB is a famous 'pattessiere'. What it is famous for is crap coffee, stale cake and the grumpiest proprietor in all of London. But it has tables on the pavement and is opposite the entrance to that top of the range, members only, club - Soho House. So it's good for people spotting. This led us to come up with an idea for a salacious gossip site where people can post their celebrity spotting and comments about sobriety, fashion sense and so on. We then plan to sell said website for millions.......


Of course this money making idea is brought to you by the same people who came up with the 'Sandra and David Breakfast Show', presented by us, in our kitchen, wearing our pyjama's, with a daily horoscope provided by Perky the goldfish.



After saying goodbye to David, I met Cini at the Soho PizzaExpress Jazz Club where I saw the fabulous Lea Delaria at her regular Wall to Wall night. It was too fab for words. I first came across Lea as a stand up comic - and we are talking maybe twenty years ago here (old? moi? don't be silly). Lea, like Madonna, has reinvented herself and now she combines a wonderful jazz voice, with a natural ability to make the audience laugh. Wall to Wall' is Lea's regular (every third Tuesday) spot at the club, the concept is to cover one composer every month and to showcase a different guest vocalist. You should check it out.



At the end of the evening (and after a few beers) I was reminded that Lea once hit on me. We were both young and stupid.