The Irrepressibles ‘St Valentine's Day Massacre’ featuring Bourgeois & Maurice and Jonny Woo

On V-Day, we were lucky enough to score tickets to the sold-out St Valentine's Day Massacre at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Billing the evening of live performance was the conceptually staged, alurring chamber orchestra ensemble The Irrepressibles (pictured), led by composer Jamie McDermott. In support was an amazing line-up of queer caberet starlets Bourgeois & Maurice and Jonny Woo.

To be very fair, the reason I was gagging to go to this is because I L.O.V.E. Jonny Woo and have been dying to see Bourgeois & Maurice for the longest time. And I wasn't dissapointed. Woo was stunning as ever, strutting before a mesmerised crowd, woo'ing them to drop their PC South Bank Centre snobbery and yell 'faggot' at him at the top of their lungs, as he flicked his waist length wig at them. Bourgeois & Maurice were seriously divine, frolicking in a bizzare and beautiful array of costumes and unrelenting set of adoring tunes.		After a lazy valentines day of opening naughty presents, and not making it far out of the bedroom, it was quite refreshing to doll ourselves up and head out for some fresh air and culture at the South Bank. Fanny had been bigging up both Jonny Woo and Borgeois & Maurice for weeks, so it was finally my chance to see what all the fuss was about. In one word, AMAZING. The only problem with the evening in my mind was that B&M should have been given top billing. The Irrepressibles were atmospheric, beautiful, haunting, and a host of other great adjectives, but Jonny and B&M's wit and lack of any pretension just blew the main act out of the water.