SSONet.com – by Ian Gould
Former Drag Queen and Dikes on Mikes host Denise Hanlon is preparing to camp it up again at her Debut Solo Show.
From a woman best known as the over-the-top MC of lesbian karaoke night Dikes on Mikes, the revelation is a shock: in a past life, Denise Hanlon was a drag queen.
?She crept out of the depths of some nightclub in Newcastle,? Hanlon says of her one-time drag alter ego Aunty Tina.
?That was in my former band in Newcastle, Stark Raving Mad, where the characters and the costume started to take effect, I guess.?
Aunty Tina is ?dead and buried? these days, but Hanlon?s other wacky creations ? like Disco Denise and Dusty Denise ? are thriving, as the audience at her quaintly titled show The Bitch Can Sing will discover on Friday.
?My partner?s responsible for that,? she says of the show?s name.
?She?s one of my bigger fans and we refer to each other as bitches quite affectionately.
?There will be a costume or two. I?ve created a bit of an animal for myself I?m afraid, so it?s a little difficult to let it go,? Hanlon says of her first major solo event.
?Generally I do a lot of MC work ? so this will be an opportunity to hopefully show off the voice a little bit.?