Several breakout performers from LIPSYNC1000 have gone on to win Miss Sink The Pink later on in the year, including ShayShay, Grace Shush, Georgie Bee and Bimini. There are close links and crossovers between The Glory’s performer family and other London drag parties and collectives like Sink The Pink, Mariah & Friends, Little Gay Brother and Winter Pride. The Glory also curates, under Jonny Woo, the drag talent and gogo dancers who appear in Block 9’s notorious gay club NYC Downlow at Glastonbury. Jonny Woo also takes shows to Edinburgh most Fringes and tours the world with ‘A Night At The Musicals’, a highly successful comedy-cabaret show he makes with operatic drag star Le Gateau Chocolat.
A short stumble from Bethnal Greens bars and pubs, youre in. After the closure of long-standing Camden LGBT venue The Black Cap and other.
The Grand final is similar to a heat – but supersized – each Heat winner performs one number, and there is one winner, with two runners-up. Guest judges, helped along by the cheering crowd, pick two winners each week and they win a place in the humungous final with big prizes. It’s very simple – contestants at a heat present one number – they are judged on their lip-syncing, their drag queen look, and their overall impression. The Glory creates one of London’s biggest, most respected, and most-talked about drag contests LIPSYNC1000! Established at Bistrotheque in 2004 under a different name, this dazzling contest was created by Jonny Woo fifteen years ago.Ĭurrently about 150 drag queens enter the contest each year which culminates in a big cash prize Grand Final judged by celebrities.