Nightlife
Originally published on Tuesday, 17th May 2011
Cabaret: No Longer A Four Letter Word
Le Crazy Horse at Supperclub and Ibiza’s new Lio put the hot back into cabaret
We’re going to say this only once, so please listen up: Cabaret is actually getting exciting again.
Yep, that’s right: the risqué beast is once more onto something special – and to be honest we’re as surprised as you are. That’s not to say that we’re wrong to be wary of nipple-tassels in general (the very word is usually verboten here), but two very good reasons are appearing on the horizon to suggest we should perhaps hold our tongues on the ol’ cabaret-bashing.
Something Special #1: Paris’s infamous Le Crazy Horse at Supperclub.
Something Special #2: The launch of Lio, Pacha’s huge new cabaret venue in Ibiza.
Firstly, Le Crazy Horse is one of the classic Parisian strip/cabaret icons – and from next week it’s right here in London. Yes it’s at Supperclub. Yes it’s billed as one of those generally mediocre cabaret-dinners (which so often equate here to blah venues and half-hearted boob-wiggling). But this is Le Crazy: slick, sharp, actually sexy and wholly glossier than thou and we think it has serious potential.
Across the seas, meanwhile, if anywhere else in the world is capable of setting the art of tease back on fire, it’s going to be Ibiza and it’s going to be Lio. The island’s biggest, sexiest, most anticipated launch in ages, the upcoming Pacha-owned bar/cabaret/restaurant promises a (much-needed) rebirth of the old El Divino, yielding a very sharp, very hot, very sexy and totally Ibizan venue to rival all others.
So will it be hot, mysterious Ibizan wow or high-kicking, risqué Parisian kapow? Either way, our UJ cabaret jury is out – booking in for both. Ibiza, cabaret and Supperclub. Who’d have thunk it?
Once you’re in the New Shoreditch Triangle, there is no escape.
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Le Crazy Horse begins its one month run on May 25,
Supperclub, 12 Acklam Road, W10 5QZ.
Lio launches May 25 (opening party on June 15)
Lio, Paseo Juan Carlos 1, Ibiza Puerto Marina
