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t-shirt or leggings, you will be turned away. ‘As soon as you step through the doors it feels like you’ve been transported into a parallel universe,’ explains Warren. ‘Our audience always go further than we expect, they dress madly and wildly. You can be completely yourself.’ Club Noir proved there was an appetite for burlesque in Scotland. And since they burst onto the scene, other clubs and venues have followed their lead. Glasgow has plenty to offer with the 1920s themed Gatsby Club; Spangled Cabaret at the QMU; Enterteasement adds comedy and magic to the mix at the Admiral and there’s ‘Scotland’s only dedicated cabaret restaurant’, Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge, in the Merchant City. Over in Edinburgh, the Voodoo Rooms hosts regular burlesque nights, and if you want to go even more extreme, London’s Torture Garden swings into town on a semi-regular basis.
As burlesque has grown in popularity, there have been thousands of column inches devoted to whether it is empowering or demeaning, a feminist statement or glorii ed stripping. Warren just laughs: ‘It is stripping! If anyone starts trying to put an arty spin on it they are just being pretentious. I pride myself on burlesque being the lowest form of art: it’s meant to be sexy and sleazy and fun.’ (Henry Northmore)
Club Noir Halloween, O2 Academy, Glasgow, Sat 28 Oct; Club Noir New Year’s Eve, O2 ABC, Glasgow, Sun 31 Dec.
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