Shortly before playing ‘Thank You’, she expresses her gratitude to a crowd that has effectively revived her career with their affection for her noughties output. Over at the Candy Crush Arena (yes, really), Jamelia is one of the day’s busiest sets. After launching straight into Girls Aloud’s debut single ‘Sound Of The Underground’, her set is a whistlestop tour through the girl group’s highlights: a troupe of Sink The Pink queens join Coyle for ‘Biology’, while 2017’s ‘Go To Work’ is the only solo outing. The former cover Jamelia’s ‘Superstar’ (and welcome the singer on-stage for a brief cameo), while Coyle skips most of her lesser-known solo catalogue to give the masses what they really want. In other words, it’s a winning formula.įLO and Nadine Coyle both seem well-versed in Hoopla’s unique charms already. While women and queer artists remain woefully underrepresented on the majority of festival bills, that’s not the case here: instead, the line-up is packed with throwback noughties fare, newer dance-adjacent pop music and a number of pop culture deep cuts. The feel of the place hits somewhere between a daylight version of Glastonbury’s NYC Downlow, the world’s messiest hen party and the unofficial annual summit for every queer person living within the M25 (and indeed beyond).įounded by the team behind the much-loved club night Sink The Pink, Mighty Hoopla isn’t an LGBTQ+ festival per se, but celebrating queer culture forms a huge part of its ethos. Mighty Hoopla has managed to carve out a real niche for itself since its inaugural 2017 edition.
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