Hold off those tears and the violins… Metal Peterborough is moving out of Chauffeurs Cottage with a BIG bang, and you’re invited!

Get your glad rags on and let the music play, join us for an evening of dancing and drinks as we celebrate, remember and toast to the future.

We’ve called Chauffeurs Cottage home for over ten years. It’s been a place of creation, experimentation, community, sharing, friendship, art, food and love, so let’s see it Out With a Bang!

Hosting the evening will be the fierce and fab Rhys’s Pieces. They’re one of London’s most-loved and likeable drag divas! Bringing sass and panache to any event with her stunning performances, insane looks and big bag of pop tracks that has everything from Queen, to Beyonce, original raps, to politically charged pieces and back again. Expect performances, games, and a catwalk or two!

And what’s a party without some music? Providing us with the tracks to keep us dancing into the night is artist and DJ Byron Vincent. As Disco Neurotico’s resident DJ, Byron Vincent has ignited dancefloors across the UK’s top venues and festivals. Expect riffs you recognise in remixes you don’t. Byron has a love for all genres with a focus on underground club anthems from hands in the air disco-house classics to electro and tech-house floor-fillers.

Our foyer walls are open for your memories. Local artist Fiona Cifaldi has created a gorgeous blackboard mural so you can share your favourite moments from Chauffeurs history and what a future art space in Peterborough should look like.

The when and the where?

• Date: Saturday 30 November
• Time: 7pm – 10pm
• Location: Chauffeurs Cottage, St Peters Road, Peterborough PE1 1YX
• Dress code: Sparkle if you like, or just keep it casual

Come along and raise a glass to the end of an era and help us go Out With a Bang! RSVP here so we can get the party hats ready.

In the build-up to the party, check out the rest of the events in our What’s Possible When Things Go Wrong programme here.

What’s Possible When Things Go Wrong
Metal and the other organisations based at Chauffeurs Cottage will be leaving in December. It wasn’t our decision and it’s one we’re still trying to get our heads around, but we’re working hard to find a new space in the city that will be just as wonderful, whilst celebrating all the magical moments we’ve spent here.

Being thrown into this situation has made us reflect on ‘necessity as a mother of invention’ – being faced with a challenging situation and being inspired to create a new imaginative solution. It’s made us dream about inspiring futures and what a queer, accessible, anti-racist space would look like from scratch.