The making of our dress-up party Sink The Pink came from their trust and support when we were just two over-excited kids with a bag of wigs. Warren and Charlotte, who run things, always support the newest, weirdest, most wonderful talents and nights. The nostalgia, and sensory overload, that a traditional working men’s club with heart and soul makes it, in our opinion, London’s best late-night performance venue. The contrast of what we saw on stage versus what we saw around the venue was magical. We first attended a night called Britain’s Next Top Tranny, hosted by drag queen Fabulous Russella about 10 years ago. And, with a balance of new east London nights mixed in with its regular activities, it’s thriving. It’s a proper sticky-carpeted, plastic cups of wine, regulars of 80-plus kind of club. Step off Bethnal Green Road past a tapas restaurant and a church converted into “luxury flats” and you wouldn’t expect to find a traditional working men’s club. Sink the Pink at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.
