Our iconic drag bingo night is back 🥳

Our fabulous drag queens are back for a night of Big Glam Bingo! Bringing you the best night of drag entertainment and bingo, at the iconic Royal Vauxhall Tavern! 🤩💅🏼

Get ready for an evening of camp and outrageous fun with our wonderful drag queen host for the evening Eileen Eiffell! 💃✨

Bingo is a popular game of chance, where players mark off numbers on cards as they are randomly called out, aiming to complete a specific pattern (like a row, column, or full card) before anyone else. 🥳

We will also have games and prizes to be won in-between rounds of bingo, so more winners all round! Alongside special guest performances from the best queer talent we can find. 🏳️‍🌈

The night will be hosted by the iconic Eileen Eiffell (aka Ian Lilley), who has become a regular sight on the Soho scene over the last few years, including a residency at one of London’s newest queer venues, Zodiac Bar.

Ian’s background is in Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has performed in various musicals, plays, films and adverts in the Uk and abroad. His in-ate need for attention (middle child) led him to the inevitable conclusion of Drag.

So why Eileen Eiffell? The day Ian moved to London in preparation to start at Mountview, he was hit by a car whose driver had blacked out behind the wheel. After being rushed to surgery, he awoke to be told his left leg was amputated below the knee. As far as they’re aware, Eileen is the only working amputee drag queen in Europe (maybe the world), so why not use that to inspire the name (think I lean, I fell…).

Forever legless.

P.S. Be prepared for some possibly rude language/behaviour and crude jokes 🙊 But expect lots of fun music and sparkles ✨🔢

Stay tuned for more info and tickets going live on August 14th 👀

Accessibility:

The venue is step free on first floor you enter in.

Gender neutral toilet available.

Should you be hard of hearing or require BSL interpreters please do email hallslife@arts.ac.uk at least 2 weeks before the event so we can arrange adjustments accordingly.

Large print bingo cards available on request.

Seating is available throughout the venue but will be first come first served on the night.

The event will be louder than some of our events as there is a full sound system. At your request event staff on the night can provide you with in ear earplugs if you are overwhelmed.

There is also a smoking area to the right of the building out the front. If you need to sit at the front or need the bingo numbers shown to you just make yourself known to the Halls Life staff and they will very happily accommodate you.

Spotlights are used as well as coloured lighting and LED strip lighting. 

If you have any other access needs or concerns, please contact us directly hallslife@arts.ac.uk before the event, and we will do our best to support you.

Photo Credit: Halls Life Team - A group of drag queens performing at a previous Halls Life event.