David Hoyle: Still Got It..!?

27 Apr 2024

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David Hoyle wearing a sparkly top on a black background
Date
27 Apr 2024
Venue
Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ
Tickets
£25, £20, £12.50 Affordable tickets, £10 Aviva tickets

7.30pm

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For information about who qualifies for £10 and affordable tickets, visit our Affordable Ticketing Policy page

To book access tickets and personal assistant tickets please call 0161 817 4531 (Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm) or email access@factoryinternational.org

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For ages 18+. This performance may contain strong language, nudity and references to adult themes including, sex, violence, substance use or abuse, suicide or other traumatic themes.
Running time: 2 hours (plus 30 mins interval)

Accessibility features available for this event: BSL Interpreting Wheelchair Access

The artist’s biggest, most ambitious Manchester gig ever – a Saturday night variety show like no other

This spectacular finale to a three-week takeover of Aviva Studios returns David Hoyle to his natural habitat – live on stage, joined by a pick and mix bag of titillating talent from the worlds of burlesque, music, drag, film, circus and cabaret.

Part variety show, part apocalyptic flourish, David Hoyle: Still Got It..!? brings together the best of seaside culture and the avant-garde for one night only – as only David can.

Is this the end of the world, or just the end of the pier? Has David Hoyle: Still Got It..!? You decide.

Very special guests

For Still Got It..!? David Hoyle is joined by a smorgasbord of special guests, plus some more surprises!

Glitterbomb Dancers

Glitterbomb Dancers are a cabaret dance troupe, making short, spectacular dance numbers, prancing their way around Yorkshire and the North. They combine high quality dance with pop, spandex and camp energy. Created and Produced by Joseph Mercier and co-directed by Joseph Mercier, Imogen Reeve and Matthew Robinson, they have previously supported drag stars such as Cheryl Hole, Jinxx Monsoon, Baga Chipz and The Vivienne.

Lilly SnatchDragon

Lilly SnatchDragon is an international, award-winning political comedy drag queen, burlesque artist and compere. Her approach to how the West stereotypes S.E Asian women won her 'Best Newcomer" at the London Cabaret Awards in 2015. She has been in the Top 10 ‘UK’s Most Influential Burlesque Performers’ since 2015. Recent engagements include Cosi Fan Tutte at the London Coliseum, and Sound of the Underground, written by Travis Alabanza, at The Royal Court Theatre. She is also one of the founders of sell-out show LADS and of renowned all-Asian cabaret collective The Bitten Peach.

Mark Pilkington

Dr. Mark Iain Pilkington is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His practice encapsulates sound and image to extend spatial imaginings between real and virtual space. His work has been performed and screened at ICMC, ARS Electronica, Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Society, ZKM | Karlsruhe, MANTIS festival and the Open Circuit Festival. Commissioned by Google, Future Everything and the Arts Council England. Awarded the prestigious Giga-Hertz Production Prize for Electronic Music in 2020.

Symone

Symoné is a Guinness World Record-holding alternative circus, cabaret and performance artist. She creates surreal and exciting performances by fusing high heel roller skates with hula hoops, lipsyncing, drag, pole dance, and voguing. Since 2016, she has traveled internationally working in 10 different countries with highlights such as rollerskating with Nile Rodgers, performing alongside Peaches, hula hooping in the Caribbean at Trinidad’s largest concert, and performing on West End stages with Chris Cox and La Soiree. Outside cabaret, Symoné is also a theatre maker and video game designer.

Tom Shaw

Thom Shaw as Pam Lustgarden. Pam Lustgarden hails from Vauxhall, where she is active in the local chapter of the W.I. and is known for her local community outreach work, especially with the ‘demi monde’ of Lambeth. She began helping David Hoyle with bits and bobs about fifteen years for his shows at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, during which she also facilitated art workshops in the men’s toilets. She enjoys needlework, jam making, poetry and constructing improvised incendiary devices.

Veda Lady

Veda Lady is a cabaret performer and style icon who has been creating queer pop and rock music since the 1990s.  She’s been celebrated in the queer community since winning the legendary drag pageant, Alternative Miss Ireland in 1999. She’s a DJ and host of the hit midweek shindig, Witchy Wednesday at The George Dublin, the coolest coven in town. She is also the creator and co host of Poz Vibe podcast, a podcast for people living with HIV, and Poz Vibe Tribe, a peer support group for the HIV positive community.

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We have a range of affordable tickets, including options from £10 for those who may need them. You can find out more about our Affordable Ticketing Policy here.

For ticketing and box office related enquiries, please contact tickets@factoryinternational.org or call 0333 322 8679 (phone lines are open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm).

For more information please visit Ticketing and Sale of Goods Terms & Conditions – Factory International

Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work

The inimitable David Hoyle takes over Aviva Studios this Spring with a showcase of his work to date and a series of unpredictable events.

Part retrospective, part residency, Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work runs from 10 to 28 April.

Explore the full programme here

Credits

Image: Lee Baxter

Commissioned and produced by Factory International

Access information

Our full address is Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ and the what3words is chop.feeds.chase.

You can approach Aviva Studios along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield). Both entrances to the building have double sets of glass doors.

To book access tickets and personal assistant tickets please call 0161 817 4531 (Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm) or email access@factoryinternational.org

Access bookings can be made by email or phone. They are also available in person at Aviva Studios.

Once inside Aviva Studios, there is step-free access to all areas of the venue. The flooring throughout the building is smooth concrete.

The entrance to the Hall is by lift, escalator or stairs from one side of the Social beside the brick arches. There is only one escalator, and this will take you up to the Hall before the show, and will be reversed so that you can travel down at the end of the performance.

The Social has a range of seating, including those with arms and backs.

The bars in the Social and Hall Foyer have lowered accessible service points.

Our building is large. We have portable stools available to borrow if you would benefit from resting along the way during your visit.

We have wheelchair spaces and seats at standing events for all events.

There is step-free access to all areas of the venue, with lift access to the Warehouse from the Social, and lift and escalator access to the Hall from the Social. The escalator leading to the Hall foyers usually works in the direction of audience flow, so it will take you up before the performance, and the same escalator will bring you down at the interval or at the end of the show.

There are accessible toilets on all public levels of our building.

Accessible toilets are located inside the main toilets space in the brick arches of the Social.

Here you’ll find a mixture of accessible cubicles with left- or right-hand transfer, towards the back of the space, as well as ambulant accessible cubicles with grab rails, as well as a Changing Places facility.

The toilets in the brick arches of the Social are split into male, female and gender neutral – all of which contain accessible cubicles. There are shared handwashing facilities in each arch – they have soap dispensers under the mirrors to your left and dryers to the right. There are separate handwashing facilities inside the accessible cubicles.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in both Hall Foyers, at stalls and circle level.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in the Warehouse Foyer.

You do not need a key to use the accessible toilets at Aviva Studios.

Assistance dogs are welcome in our building, and we can provide mats and water bowls on request, just ask a host when you arrive. We can also take care of your assistance dog if you do not want to take your dog into the performance space. Please also refer to our assistance dogs policy.

If you are bringing an assistance dog to a ticketed event, please let us know in advance by contacting access@factoryinternational.org or calling our access phone number: 0161 817 4531 (phone lines are open 10am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday).

This event will be BSL interpreted.

This performance may contain strong language, nudity andreferences to adult themes including, sex, violence, substance use or abuse, suicide or other traumatic theme.

Travel information

The building can be approached along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield).

The Water Street route is the quickest way to arrive at our City Square entrance.

Our closest stations are:

Salford Central station: 0.4 miles

Deansgate station and Deansgate-Castlefield tram: 0.6 miles

St Peter’s Square tram: 0.6 miles

Manchester Victoria station is approximately one mile from Aviva Studios

Manchester Piccadilly station is approximately 1.3 miles from Aviva Studios

Click on the links above to find detailed access information for each station.

By Bike

There are 40 bike parking spaces at Aviva Studios including space for two accessible bikes.

National Cycling Route 6 passes close to the venue and this TfGM webpage can help with route planning.

You can also hire bikes from on-street docking stations across the city centre. The closest docking stations to our venue are currently on Deansgate by Liverpool Road and (400m from the building) and by King Street (500m from the building). Take a look at Transport for Greater Manchester’s webpage for advice on cycle hire.

By Walking and Other Active Means

Aviva Studios can be approached along Water Street via Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield).

If you're coming from Quay Street, the safest route to avoid construction works is via the cut-through opposite Gartside Street and past Booking.com.

All footways in the surrounding area are well lit and there are appropriate crossings across all main roads.

Pedestrians with visual impairment are recommended to approach the building via Water Street, from Liverpool Road. This route has traditional carriageway and footway design with fixed street furniture which should help with navigation to the entrance.

A footbridge at Left Bank in Spinningfields provides an accessible link across the River Irwell to Salford Central station, and a further footbridge also links Aviva Studios with the Salford area of Middlewood Locks.

Free bus services stop at all city-centre stations, and near to Aviva Studios along Deansgate, Bridge St and Quay St. Buses on these free routes are wheelchair accessible. For full details of the free bus routes, please visit the TfGM website.

There is a car park approximately 0.6 miles from Aviva Studios at Water Street Car Park, New Elm Rd, Manchester, M3 4JH.

There is also a NCP car park (Manchester Spinningfields) approximately 0.5 miles away from Aviva Studios at Spinningfields, New Quay Street, Manchester, M3 3BE. It has 35 accessible bays.

There are a small number of Blue Badge spaces along Water St and Quay St. Otherwise head towards Liverpool Road, Great John St and Lower Byrom St – close to our neighbours, the Science and Industry Museum where there are a small number of additional Blue Badge spaces.

For a list of other parking bays available in the area, visit Manchester City Council website.

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