Live performance and cabaret acts have never been so popular in the UK. “Welcome to Britain’s Cabarenaissance. Across the country a new breed of night owl has sworn to bring the dressing-up, the decadence and the dandy back into after-hours debauchery. Clubbing is getting classy. For a growing number of people seeking to burn it at both ends, standing in a cramped stench-box listening to some trend-ophile play six hours of ‘fusion grime’ just doesn’t cut the mustard any more.”