Join queer pop music makers Jamsheed Master and Venn Smyth at Elephant & Castle's favourite gay bar - The Rising! Expect synths, saxophone, piano, ballads and bops (plus leather trousers and a kilt), as they celebrate pop over the decades with singalong moments and some of their own songs too 🎷🕺🎷 It's free entry with music from 8-10pm.
Venn Smyth has been praised as “a superb songwriter” with his music reaching No.1 on the LGBTQ Music Chart. His engaging performances have taken him to the finals of Brighton’s Voice of Broadway and semis of London Pride’s Got Talent and Una Voce per San Marino.
Jamsheed Master arrived on the international scene producing tracks for BAFTA-winning SingStar! and Disney SingIt! videogames. Jam toured Japan as piano-vocalist with The Golden Age of Song, and their own music gets described as a “giant bear hug”.
2025 has already seen Jam and Venn collaborating with Factory International in Manchester to provide a pop-up music night for David Hockney’s show Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), as well as hosting Deep Fried Sausage – a ceilidh-cum-cabaret for Robert Burns at The Divine in East London!