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Lily Allen starts an underground movement in secret gig
By Robert Mendick, Evening Standard Last updated at 09:38am on 12.05.09
Grand show: Lily Allen as Queen Victoria
Secret fans: The Chemical Brothers arrive
Lily Allen returned to the scene of her first performance last night for a secret gig for 300 fans wearing bizarre fancy dress interpretations of Tube stations.
Allen led the way as Queen Victoria. One guest wore a rooster's costume and a Foster's lager sash (Cockfosters), another turned up in a maid's outfit with a bride's veil (Maida Vale); there was also an angel (that would be Angel Tube then).
It also clarifies why the chap with a crown on his head was walking around with a very angry look on his face (King's Cross).
Other outfits includes numerous Wimbledons (tennis whites), Canada Water (a girl wearing the Canadian flag and a skirt made of Volvic bottles) and High Barnet (a very tall man in a Sideshow Bob wig).
Gallery: Lily Allen's secret gig at the Tabernacle
As for the gentleman who posed in a prisoner's outfit with handcuffs on and smoking a cigarette, it is thought he could be Amy Winehouse's husband (Brixton).
Allen played the secret gig at the Tabernacle, a converted church in Notting Hill, to an audience of 300 MySpace fans and friends, including Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw and her ex-boyfriend Ed Simons of Chemical Brothers.
Grimshaw, who was dressed as a canary (Canary Wharf), won the best costume prize. He is about to move into Allen's spare bedroom, which could lead to a steward's inquiry.
Allen said the gig marked a homecoming — her first appearance on stage was in a pantomime at the Tabernacle when she was five. “I was a frog, or a boy, or something s**t,” she told the audience.
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Reader views (4)
Lily Allen is good and its not her fault she has a hard life.
- Yo, hhhgyyil
Lily Allen (The child)
Should get a life not everybody has to sing about sex to get on in life. At least Susan Boyle can sing.
- Diana Greenford, london
A lot of people with no musical sense.She can't sing to save her life.
- Bernie, essex
I liked the guy in a David Beckham top and a bag of white powder...Tooting Bec!
- Piers Thompson, Notting Dale
