Event series, London, UK & Berlin, DE.
Launched back in December 2007, GutterSlut has since established itself as (one of) the most notoriously-wild, insanely-fun and hotly anticipated club night(s) in London – enthusiastically hailed by magazines including Time Out and i-D as the natural successor to some of the Capitals’s most iconic clubs from the past, such as The Blitz and Taboo.
The monthly London GutterSlut parties at East Bloc always draw in a dressed-up and up-for-it gay and straight crowd of good times-loving boys,- girls,-, trannies,- club kids,- and older nightlife faces from all walks of life, whom collectively let rip amid the most dynamic sets played by international DJs around. Larry Tee, Hannah Holland, Birdee, Peo de Pitte, Tom Stephan, Severino, D’Johnny, Jonty Skrufff, Mikki Most, Alexander Parade, Deep Groove/Idiot Proof, Princess Julia, WeAreSkitzo, not to mention resident spinners and GutterSlut founders Per QX, Nic Fisher, Ralf Obergfell (and Elliott J Brown who moved on to other projects in 2010), as well as the inimitable Miss Crystal MC, have consistently offered a cutting edge mix of eclectic, energetic house and techno and general dancefloor mayhem.
Like all the best club nights, GutterSlut began on a small scale, when its aforementioned founders and friends realized, back in 2007, that there was no decent Saturday club night in East London, and found the mainstream gay scene to be tired and formulaic. Naming themselves the Dalston Gay Mafia, they applied this tongue in cheek moniker to decadent after-hours parties – which were the catalyst for GutterSlut – hosted in Per’s, Nic’s and Ralf’s Glebe Road abode (situated down a seedy Dalston alley, frequented by local crack addicts, gangsters and prostitutes). Roping in one of the regular attendees – performance artist and alternative cabaret star, Jonny Woo – to become the club’s very own muse, the Gutterslut story duly began.
Since celebrating its own first birthday in 2008, GutterSlut has regularly hooked-up with and hosted rooms at various esteemed London-based venues and bashes including Fabric, Trailer Trash, Wet Your Self, Egg and Trade. As well as played UK Festivals such as Lovebox (2012), Glastonbury (with Vogue Fabrics in Bloc 9) and Summer Rites. Further afield, GutterSlut has been putting on parties in Berlin’s Hubertuslounge & Lovelite and played gigs at Stockholm’s Under Bron & Tradgarden.
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