From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots

Geoff Deane has worked as a fly-pitcher selling out of a suitcase and flogged suits on Brick Lane market in London’s East End. He was the singer in a much-loved culty punk band, the Leyton Buzzards, and a floppy-haired pop star in Modern Romance. He has also been a songwriter and record producer.

Geoff wrote a gay anthem for John Waters' drag queen muse, Divine, and worked as a journalist and restaurant critic for style magazines The Face and Arena, before becoming a successful writer and producer of TV comedy. He then wrote a couple of films, one of which, Kinky Boots, became a Tony Award-winning Broadway stage show.

With a cast ranging from local oddballs to international celebrities, Geoff Deane’s unique take on the world is only matched by his extraordinarily rich use of language, which includes a smattering of Cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish, and Polari. A glossary is provided.