This month, Charlotte Church is giving the final of her Late Evening Pop Dungeon exhibits. If you happen to haven’t seen this nine-piece pageant staple, you’ve been lacking out. Image the scene: it’s 2am, you crawl by way of Glastonbury’s Rabbit Gap or make a beeline for one in every of Inexperienced Man’s extra distant tents, and there she is, the voice of an angel, belting out hits by the likes of Black Sabbath, the Cardigans, 10cc, Future’s Little one and Rage In opposition to the Machine, swigging champagne between verses. It’s, as you may think, a whole riot.
“After six ecstatic years of unparalleled debauchery, the Late Evening Pop Dungeon is hanging up its feathers, sequins, PVC and velour,” Church stated in an announcement. “All good issues should come to an finish, and this ending would be the most euphorically lickable ending conceivable. Assume Carrie meets Sundown Boulevard, soundtracked by the second aspect of Abbey Highway. Assume a pool occasion with Prince and Kate Bush on the grill, Beyoncé and Kurt Cobain on the bar… besides it’s additionally Christmas.”
Pop Dungeon is on the extra debauched aspect of Church’s in any other case pretty healthful latter-day actions. She additionally runs the earthy Welsh wellness retreat The Dreaming, in addition to the Awen Challenge, a forest faculty the place research is led by its younger fees. She has had a multifaceted profession: a classical singer who discovered fame by the age of 11 and sung for Invoice Clinton; a teenage sufferer of tabloid sleaze who would turn into a witness within the Leveson inquiry into phone-hacking on the Information of the World; pop star, TV presenter, Guardian columnist, mum or dad, and an activist on feminist, environmental and political points.
You may ask Church about all that and anything when she sits for the Guardian’s reader interview subsequent week. Publish your questions within the feedback beneath by 10am GMT on Tuesday 6 December – and bag your Pop Dungeon tickets here.