Lips Choir Presents: Total ECLIPS

Lips Choir – London’s trans-inclusive feminist pop choir return to the EartH theatre stage for a glittering night of fierce harmony, joyful protest and unapologetic celebration.

Expect LIPS pop-perfection — from Sugababes, Olivia Dean and Lorde, to garage mash-ups, Alanis Morissette and our signature festive singalong like no other.

This is more than a show. It’s a cosmic celebration of pop, power and collective joy. A reminder that when our voices come together, we can shake the stars, challenge the system and create a whole new universe.

So gather your favourite earthlings, cover yourself in glitter and prepare for lift-off. Lips Choir is taking you on an intergalactic pop odyssey with Total ECLIPS — where joy is radical, resistance is celestial, and the power of collective voices is out of this world!

This year, we're pumped to be joined by not one, but TWO incredible support acts – DJ EULA and NAALA (Yvette Riby-Williams)! DJ EULA, founder of queer party GAYTORADE, will be taking us into another orbit with her electrifying, genre-bending sounds, while the magical NAALA brings her spellbinding vocals and cosmic blend of jazz, soul and global grooves to the stage. Together, they're bringing enough star power to light up the whole galaxy!

“A cracking repertoire of pop, soul and disco tunes… They can really sing” - Time Out

Bar - 6:30pm

Doors - 7PM

DJ EULA - 7pm

NAALA - 7:45m

Lips Choir - 8:30pm

This year we will be raising money for Women for Refugee Women and TransActual with any funds raised being split 50/50 between both charities. Please consider donating at the checkout.

Musical Director: Jessie Maryon Davies

Joined by Guest Musical Director and Support: Yvette Riby-Williams (NAALA)

Drums/percussion: Calie Hough

Guitar: Boom Buratto

Bass: Alex Malseed

Keys: Sarah Kershaw

This event will be BSL interpreted. For any other access needs please see https://earthackney.co.uk/access/. For accessibility tickets please purchase directly from the venue.

Lips Choir

Formed in 2009, Lips Choir has grown from a small group of friends who loved to sing, to a 100-strong musical force to be reckoned with. Led by dynamic musical director Jessie Maryon Davies, Lips were handpicked by Alison Goldfrapp to perform alongside her at the Royal Albert Hall, where Goldfrapp described them as “Great singers with a wonderful musical sensibility.". Other highlights of the last 17 years include performances at Mighty Hoopla, Bestival, Camp Bestival and Wilderness Festival plus sell-out shows at Earth Hackney, the Coronet and Clapham Grand. Last year, Lips was proud to perform the world premiere of REIGN by Errollyn Wallen for WOW15 at the Royal Albert Hall in an intergenerational choir of over 100 singers. Lips is a women’s choir for people who identify as female, trans and gender non-conforming.

Yvette Riby-Williams (NAALA)

Yvette Riby-Williams is a London-based Lecturer, singer, songwriter, producer and workshop Lead working in communities across the UK.

She has sung with many prominent musicians including Jarvis Cocker, Bobby McFerrin, Nao, Heidi Vogel and the Cinematic Orchestra. As a songwriter she has co-written with Daktyl for his album Unreality, Mercury nominated Kathryn Williams’ album Night Drives, NAO for her Grammy nominated album “Saturn” and collaborated with Jarvis Cocker on his album and live cave performance of “Beyond the Pale”, being heavily featured on the remix of 'House Music All Night Long', Touring with Pulp this Summer for their Mercury nominated release ‘More’. Much like her musical tastes she draws inspiration from everywhere; in the sounds of vivid horn lines of vintage Jazz records to the hypnotic grooves of Ghanaian highlife cuts to weave these into her uniquely magical storytelling.

DJ Eula

Eula (she/her, fka SHANDY)! Eula is founder of GAYTORADE, a retired bagpiping prodigy and London-based, Scottish, transexual anarchist river dyke. She has played a range of gigs like Field Maneuvers, Leatherette, Camp Trans, Secret Valley Fest and BODY SWAP, toured Brazil and featured on Voices, Pocket Radio, EHFM, Reprezent Radio and Function (São Paulo).