The Dirty Thirty

It’s a Beauty Contest
It’s a Birthday Party
And it’s the Readers Wifes Last Ever Duckie Gig

Saturday 5 July 2025

8pm – 2am

The Albany, Deptford, SE8

Tickets 20 quid, or less if you are skint

On sale in about a week

Please Arrive Very Early

To mark our pearl anniversary, on Gay P*@*e Night 2025, Duckie invite you to a beauty contest, a knees up and Readers Wifes last hurrah

Hosted by Azara
Disc Jockeys Readers Wifes
Arias from Sharon Le Grand
Doors Tink & Libro

8.00    Readers Wifes
9.00    Swimwear Round
10.00   Evening Wear Round
11.00   Change the World Round
11.30   Winners
2am     Carriages

Each round lasts 15 minutes

Punters collect their voting card from Tink & Libro and the winner will be announced at 11.30pm. Remember, this is not Miss World 1970 and Azara is not Michael Aspel

Duckie is 30. Our performance clubnight ran every Saturday for 27 years at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and for another 2 years at the Eagle round the corner. We got chucked out of both pubs for being too lippy to the landlords and not boring enough

After three decades of dancefloor action Readers Wifes have decided to hang up their headphones and go out with a bang

BEAUTY CONTESTANT INFORMATION

Duckie are seeking 30 contestants for The Dirty Thirty

Are you a Beauty?

Can you be in our Parade?

Do you want to Change the World?

Applications are now open, to apply send an email to 30@duckie.co.uk

Applications close on Tuesday 20 May

In the unlikely event that we get more than 30 people applying, the decisions will be made by a very official panel, and we will confirm the participants on Friday 23 May

Here is the offer:

The Dirty Thirty is open to all beauties from ages 18 – 91

All genders are welcome

All body shapes and sizes are welcome

Deaf and disabled folks are very welcome

People who are happy with their bodies and people who are unhappy with their bodies are welcome

Contestants get paid a bursary of 150 knicker to take part

They will make a creative relationship and be styled by our team of three Top London Stylists

Shanti Freed
Costume Lewks & Fits

Robin Whitmore
Cardboard Queen

Daz Evans
Wigs, Ria & Slap

They are asked to invent a their Dirty Thirty name by chosing a title (Mx, Mr, Miss, Mrs, Colonel, Duchess, Master, Doctor, etc.) followed by an area, street or location that is near where they live

Contestants are asked to provide three items:

One or two bits of schmutter that can act as the basic structure to build your evening wear

A swimming costume if you have one you like *

Shoes

Chosen contestants need to be available for the following dates:

Tuesday 3 June at 7pm on Zoom

Either Thursday 3 or Friday 4 July in person at Albany in Deptford for a creative fitting (individual appointments will be made)

Saturday 5 July from 5pm until 11.35pm

* For the swimwear round, don’t feel you have to show lots of flesh if that’s not your vibe. Artist Robin Whitmore has a plan with cardboard