YOU'D BE MAD TO MISS IT!
Oh, what a night!
RuPaul famously called drag a “sarcastic spoof on culture”, and it is evident
that La Voix has lived by these words. No queen has such a wide ranging repertoire
of sass, and with a voice to boot. From Cher to Shirley Bassey, and with lil’
Liza Minelli making a cameo, this lady has got her impressions down, unpicking the complexities of
making one face another, reading the audience for their hideous jumpers and
just in general giving us all a damn good night out.
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| La Voix during her final lip-sync on UK Drag Race Ambassador |
For anyone who is a ma-HOO-sive
fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race, LaVoix was a FINALIST in the spin-off UK Drag Race Ambassador, only losing out because she had to
lip-sync for her life and her talents are obviously
singing live. This show proves beyond doubt that La Voix has chosen her name well; that VOICE!
La Voix has an unquestionable
talent for live performance; her witty banter with the audience was genuinely
funny, and never came across conceited, faded or, God forbid, boring. Instead,
the evening was the crème-de-la-crème of drag performance, with exception vocal
quality that dazzled almost as much as her teeth.
Fellow Ab Fab Movie cameo-ist
Harriet Thorpe made an appearance, and was a laughingly stark contrast to the
high-energy La Voix; displeased, disinterested and yet not disheartening! The
energy from La Voix only seemed heightened by these encounters, and their
on-stage chemistry was simply wonderful.
Of course, the night was not
simply La Voix, although she was the sparkly glitterball that eclipsed all the
rest. Her Va Va Voom dancers sparkled as they shimmied; both rippling (waxed)
chests from the boys and fluffy showgirl feathers for her ladies. This is the
first time we have seen La Voix with her own band, and LORD did they make all
the difference! A gleaming “white grand piano”* housed our MD, with whom La Voix
had a wonderful rapport, and his rhythm section was as good as the real backing
track. Our horn section for the evening gave a much needed boost that one just
wouldn’t get from a prerecorded backing track; a wailing lead trumpet, dirty
glissy trombone and sultry saxophone brought the whole band to life.
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| Guest Samantha Atkinson with La Voix. |
Unfortunately, because our band
were just so very good, when guest singer Samantha Atkinson came on to sing
with backing track, the atmosphere fell a little flat. Although she brought the
tempo back up at the end of her set, her first two ballads, although impressive
vocally, just didn’t have the punch of La Voix’s power ballad pipes. Perhaps
just the missing band…
The Glitz! The Glamour! The GOWNS. This is a fabulous show that absolutely belongs in the Vegas of the North. You can always go to Blackpool!
General admission tickets for this show start at just £10.80, so you’d be mad as a box of frogs to miss it!
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* In order to find out why I've put this in quotation marks, you'll simply have to buy a ticket and have a good stare at the piano. Anyone who can find out wins a Freddo.