Oct 28, 2026 · 33 min · 7 segments
By night they are the QLC Mix & Mingle Host, and by other nights they are Bella Artois - camp theatrical musician and performer tearing up the queer London scene! Find out their music crushes…
Oh yeah, and we've been gigging a lot and I always feel like they're happiest
when I'm on stage performing.
And I think as well, if you're at a gig, you know when the artist is really engaging with the audience? Not just audience participation, but when they're breaking the fourth wall.
right
we've really been loving a bit of that recently yeah where we want to get someone from like a plant in the audience to then suddenly break the fourth wall and they're they're suddenly part of the set well don't tell
everyone they're a plant right no good point but you don't know who's the plant that's
true yeah
that's very true yeah i think that's what's so lovely about your live performances is that it's like so engaged and like um you're embroiled in the crowd.
I think sometimes, like when I've seen you perform when you've had Bendy dancing, because I spoke to you before the first gig that I saw and you were like, oh yeah, Bendy's here to do some dancing.
I knew that that was happening, but I think a lot of other people were just like, oh my God, why is this person like rolling around on the floor? And then it becomes part of the show.
yeah yeah yeah exactly we've been doing a um slapstick fight scene um basically obviously
yeah
i wrote a recent one me and v recently wrote a song called for me and it's about me being a people pleaser i'm a recovering people pleaser um but just kind of being like yeah you can beat me up and i'll just i'll hand you the boxing gloves and you can just do whatever you want like you know and trying to shower people in love and in the process just getting beaten the shit out of you know
yeah
um but i thought hey let's do a slapstick fight
fight scene
so I got some plain black boxing gloves and my friend Ty who's like an amazing artist they basically painted my eyes and my eyeliner like onto the the gloves and then and some yeah they basically made this whole design And then they, like, made sure that it wouldn't smudge or anything.
So then Bendy puts them on and then puts the gloves, like, over my eyes and is, like, kind of moving around.
So it's quite pretentious.
Yeah.
Which is great.
It's important to be pretentious.
And then we do a whole,
you know, like, during the song.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, and we've been gigging a lot and I always feel like they're happiest
when I'm on stage performing.
And I think as well, if you're at a gig, you know when the artist is really engaging with the audience? Not just audience participation, but when they're breaking the fourth wall.
right
we've really been loving a bit of that recently yeah where we want to get someone from like a plant in the audience to then suddenly break the fourth wall and they're they're suddenly part of the set well don't tell
everyone they're a plant right no good point but you don't know who's the plant that's
true yeah
that's very true yeah i think that's what's so lovely about your live performances is that it's like so engaged and like um you're embroiled in the crowd.
I think sometimes, like when I've seen you perform when you've had Bendy dancing, because I spoke to you before the first gig that I saw and you were like, oh yeah, Bendy's here to do some dancing.
I knew that that was happening, but I think a lot of other people were just like, oh my God, why is this person like rolling around on the floor? And then it becomes part of the show.
yeah yeah yeah exactly we've been doing a um slapstick fight scene um basically obviously
yeah
i wrote a recent one me and v recently wrote a song called for me and it's about me being a people pleaser i'm a recovering people pleaser um but just kind of being like yeah you can beat me up and i'll just i'll hand you the boxing gloves and you can just do whatever you want like you know and trying to shower people in love and in the process just getting beaten the shit out of you know
yeah
um but i thought hey let's do a slapstick fight
fight scene
so I got some plain black boxing gloves and my friend Ty who's like an amazing artist they basically painted my eyes and my eyeliner like onto the the gloves and then and some yeah they basically made this whole design And then they, like, made sure that it wouldn't smudge or anything.
So then Bendy puts them on and then puts the gloves, like, over my eyes and is, like, kind of moving around.
So it's quite pretentious.
Yeah.
Which is great.
It's important to be pretentious.
And then we do a whole,
you know, like, during the song.
Yeah.
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