24 September - Anthony Kavanagh, Singer / Pop Star

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS ... Anthony Kavanagh (aka Kavana), Pop Star / Singer

Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh’s rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.

But Anthony – or Kavana as he came to be known – was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn’t.

What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Anthony will join us to coincide with his new memoir Pop Scars which is a story told with fearless honesty that’s at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement. 

Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and – ultimately – survival and sobriety.

Doors open at 6pm, the event begins at 6.30pm and ends by 7.45pm. Then we have until 8.30pm to chat with our guest, mingle & drink & enjoy the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café.

Tickets are non-refundable