Spicebag describes itself as “a queer performance night and dance party for succulent misfits, fabulous flamers, dazzling dykes, trans celestial travelers, bisexual bikers, asexual agony aunts, cock goblins, hoop trolls, Nadine Coyle, that chicken fillet roll from last night you woke up with on your pillow”. Its founders Stephen Quinn and Sarah Devereux talk about its birth, infancy, and what people can expect as Spicebag grows into a terrible toddler.

Photo essay by Mattia Pelizzari.

“ Now that everyone can get hitched, if they so choose, I think it may be time for those a bit closer to the fringes to get all kinds of freaky again.

STEPHEN QUINN

(aka Stefan Fae)

Spicebag was born out of frustration at a kind of homogeny I had observed creeping into the Dublin queer scene and of a shared desire, between Sarah Devereux and myself, to create a space for fabulous weirdoes who didn’t fit in anywhere else. Having bonded fairly quickly over a shared love of spontaneous Riverdance, and Nadine Coyle’s passport, we had been concocting Spicebag for quite a while before the grease traps opened and it finally exploded onto the stage, just over a year ago.