Thursday, October 09, 2025

"This kind of cross between a northern, working-class Divine and Margarita Pracatan"

Have you heard the one about the Orthodox Jewish housewife who lived a double life entertaining punters with her racy and uproarious hi-NRG routines in Manchester's gay clubs in the 1980s? I certainly hadn't, until Alexis Petridis told Avril A's remarkable story in the Guardian earlier this week.

You've got to love a good old-fashioned British eccentric with a devil-may-care attitude and a healthy disregard for personal dignity.

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