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Stage review Drag queen delivers a diva mashup with hella pizzazz

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April 17, 2025

On his last London visit, Salty Brine mashed up the Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and episodes from his own life into a pretty extraordinary show—but not a unique one.

- Brian Logan

Stage review Drag queen delivers a diva mashup with hella pizzazz

On his last London visit, Salty Brine mashed up the Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and episodes from his own life into a pretty extraordinary show—but not a unique one. Brine has made 21 such confections in his Living Record Collection project, which now brings These Are the Contents of My Head (The Annie Lennox Show) to Soho. If I found this one less remarkable an achievement, the feeling was offset by admiration that Brine's Smiths show was clearly no fluke; that he's created a striking and confident collage-cabaret genre all of his own.

Maybe that last one worked so well because

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