Soho Songs written by performer and songwriter Barb Jungr and composer, the legendary Level 42’s Mike Lindup features an ensemble cast of five fabulous singers with a trio of stunning musicians.

In 2022, Jungr and Lindup launched this new song cycle about their beloved Soho at Crazy Coqs in embryo form. This first stage of this brand new piece of song cycle theatre drew a slew of wonderful responses. Now they present the second performance of Soho Songs at Crazy Coqs in the heart of Soho with 5 featured performers, new characters and additional songs.

Soho. A magical place. Where everyone comes to make their dreams come true. A pub bar. A day dawns. The homeless person sees everything. The Landlady prepares for another bloody scrap to keep her pub open, as Soho is eroded by developers’ who eat the past and regurgitate everything into another block of super flats. Traffickedjob women, bouncers, the pit musician, drag queens and burlesque dancers, croupiers, actors and luvvies, dancers and chancers; they all come to the legendary Shangri-La pub to share their stories, have a laugh or to tell their tortured tales. As the night welcomes another dawn, the disco lights spin on, the glamour fades and the homeless man returns to his pitch. Come and join us at Shangri-La before last orders.

Staged and directed for The Crazy Coqs by Benji Sperring (Liver Birds Flying Home, An Act of God, Night Of The Living Dead: Live!)

For some time Barb Jungr, entranced by its unique history and her experiences of working there for the last 40 or so years as a singer and performer, wanted to make a piece of work about Soho. Mike Lindup’s relationship to Soho is formed over half a century, as a child visiting with his parents, both of whom were working musicians and as an adult as a musician himself, both in the pit and on stage. Soho Songs is their homage to London’s most extraordinary square mile.