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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
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The designer-clad crowd were in for a treat at the Double Club, the restaurant/bar/nightclub designed by the artist Carsten Höller in collaboration with Fondazione Prada, where Congolese culture sits alongside that of the West.
Gordon Masiala is one of London’s most prominent sapeurs, a member of the Congolese cult that elevates high fashion to quasi-religious status.
The handful of Africans amid the venue’s predominantly white clientele certainly cut a dash as they danced to NKA Musica’s upbeat, guitar-based soukous. But it’s Masiala, the band’s peroxide-haired lead vocalist, who leads the sartorial pack in kooky Gaultier sunglasses, crocodile-skin shoes by Hugo Boss and a long man’s skirt by Yohji Yamamoto.
Masiala sings his largely self-penned soukous, rumba and salsa tracks in a soaring falsetto not unlike that of Congolese superstar Papa Wemba, with whom he performed in the 1980s. The latter’s hit song Hiroshima punctuated a happily shambolic set that saw Masiala deliver lyrics in Lingala and French while formation dancing with male backing vocalists and several wine-glass-clutching, unsteady babes from the front row. In between, he mopped his brow with —what else? —a Hermes silk scarf.
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