Lost in a Dream

Tawiah - Mother's Prayer

Tawiah

Tonight’s show features a powerhouse line-up of Bishi, Luca Manning, Planningtorock, Tawiah, Tom Rasmussen, Tony Njoku and the Pink Singers, alongside a specially curated queer house band performing bold new arrangements of the record.

An unashamed portrait of radical queerness in 1980s Britain, The Age of Consent was a pivotal moment in LGBTQIA+ cultural history. Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek took the charts by storm with era-defining hits ‘Smalltown Boy’ and ‘Why’, and their new brand of bold, political synth-pop.

With current anti-trans legislation and rhetoric in the press, and the ongoing battle to ban conversion therapy, the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights continues. Against this backdrop, The Age of Consent is presented 40 years on, with its message still more relevant than ever.

For one night only, The Chateau presents this piece of musical and political history from 1980s Britain, live and reimagined through the voices of ground-breaking queer and trans contemporary artists.

The house band includes KK Brown (percussion), Maxie Cheer (drums), Chris Clarke (harp), Tom Foskett-Barnes (keys/musical director/arranger), Alley Lloyd (bass), Evelyn May (synths) and Hanna Mbuya (tuba).

Curated and produced by Laurie Belgrave for The Chateau, with curation consultancy by Luca Manning.

6.30pm performance: doors open at 6pm

This is an 14+ event

Southbank Centre

The Age of Consent 40

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Planningtorock - Get Your Fckin Laws Off My Body

Bishi

Luca Manning

Planningtorock

Tom Rasmussen

Gigs

London

Queen Elizabeth Hall - Southbank Centre

Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. He is a sought-after collaborator with an eye for the bigger picture and has worked with the likes of Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins and Common under the August Greene moniker, as well as Burniss Travis, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah or his sister & flautist Elena Pinderhughes. He uses his music to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change, working in the tradition of the black surrealists throughout the African Diaspora, those who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution. Pinderhughes is a prison and police abolitionist, an anti-capitalist, and an advocate for process over product.

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