The crowds still come but, venue management says, “revenue at the bar” is too low. But in four weeks, after 27 years, its Saturday nights at the RVT will end. It was the start of one of the world’s longest-running LGBTQ+ club nights and the ignition of a powerhouse performance collective that runs dozens of projects with hundreds of collaborators to this day.ĭuckie as an organisation is going nowhere – it has plenty of touring shows, community projects and one-off parties in the works. They were host Amy Lamé, DJs the London Readers Wifes (Mark Wood and Mark Johnston), producer-promoter Simon Strange (AKA Simon Casson) and “door whores” Jay Cloth and Father Cloth. I n November 1995, six twentysomething mates in London were sick of never finding anywhere to go out that fitted their idea of fun, so they put on a night of their own at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT) and called it Duckie.
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