Lineup
We’ve brought together a very tasty and dynamic mix of local legends and fresh faces to keep your hooves moving and smiles widening from start to finish.
Check out the schedule below and get to know the artists behind the decks and on stage:
Main hall
Onislay
8.00pm
Tapping into her Afro-Indigenous roots to bringing heat to her sets. DJ Onislay curates a sound that will liberate any space (think big bass and booty). Join her as she warms up the dance floor, decolonising your hips with sultry Afrobeats, oozing with queer magic.
Boorloo Ballroom
[interactive]
8.30pm
Boorloo Ballroom takes over Rave Relief with some high-energy categories to open the night. Three categories will set the pace for the night: Fashion Killa for those who want to flaunt their fabulous Pride outfits , OTA Realness a traditional ballroom category respecting our fun art trans brothers, sisters and butch queens, and Performance showcasing the full spectrum of vogue – Vogue Femme, Old Way, and New Way. A fierce warm-up curated by the Boorloo community, priming the room for a night of sweat, spirit, and celebration.
Categories are open to our guests in attendance:
If you’re planning to walk, you should read up on the categories and most importantly: show respect and some understanding of ballroom customs and rules. This includes understanding that ballroom was created for and by Black and Latina trans women, and our participation in the space should reflect that knowledge. Watching, supporting, and sharing energy can be just as valuable as walking!
Bobby Fletcher
9.30pm
Bobby Fletcher is a professional homosexual, veteran DJ, radio presenter, and audio producer with over 40 years in Boorloo’s queer music and community radio scene. He began spinning records and volunteering in the community in the mid-1980s, working clubs, raves, and live gigs across the city, and was part of the protests that led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1989.
A long-time presence at RTR FM, he’s contributed as a presenter, producer, Production Manager and Board Member, and played a key role in the station’s queer programming including the outrageous Each To His/Her Own Show and All Things Queer. With roots in both community radio and club culture, Bobby brings technical finesse and soulful curation to every set—whether it’s a high-energy dancefloor or a sunset groove. Expect decadent disco, soulful house, and classic queer foot stompers with a touch of trash!
The Kamilaroi Cowboy
10.30pm
Dale Woodbridge is a First Nations Circus Artist from Mungindi on the border of NSW and QLD, After completing his studies as a dancer at The Aboriginal Centre for Performing arts he went on to tackle the circus realm. He has since worked with some of Australia’s most exciting and innovative circus companies touring all across the world. Along his wild ride in Circus he has learnt to do things from Flying Trapeze to Sword Swallowing. His efforts in these spaces have earnt him the titles of Indigenous Circus Artist of the year and NAIDOC Performer of the year.
Impulse Cuntrol
10.30pm
Honk if you’re homo, it’s Impulse Cuntrol! This shapeshifting, light weight lifting delectable diva is here to show you a sensually goofy experience xx
Sugar Du Joure
10.30pm
Sugar Du Joure is more than just a burlesque performer… She is the Storm in a G cup.
With a larger-than-life personality matched only by her iconic pair of phenomenal breasts, Sugar has become a celebrated figure in the Australian burlesque and drag scene, earning accolades and adoration wherever she goes.
An internationally renowned performer. Sugar has represented Australia in notable European Burlesque Festivals in Berlin, Munich, Bordeaux and Stockholm.
Shoogie is also the current reigning Title Holder of Mx Burlesque Masters.
She is the Breast in the West.
The Storm in a G Cup
SUGAR DU JOURE.
Diva2Diva
10.45pm
A filthily-gorgeous tale of 2 sisters colliding in a discotheque. Henny & Jam Jam glam up their pussoirs to bring euphoric divastation to the dancefloor.
Hot Blonde Slvt
11.45pm
An interstate & international travelled performer (Naarm/Melbourne, Berlin, Cologne, Reims) and current reigning 2nd Runner-Up at Mx Burlesque WA 2025, this unnatural blonde is fast becoming one of Boorloo’s favourite burlesque bimbos! Not your Mum’s cup of tea, but she’ll get your Dad in hot water; it’s Hot Blonde Slvt!
Ash Baroque
11.45pm
Infamously revered as the prize vulgarian, Ash Baroque is a multi-undisciplined powder-keg performance poof and bedlam bog witch. Staggering ‘tween the tragic and the jester, the intimate and the collective, his practice sprawls over alt-drag, body weather, mime, ritual and theatre art. Drawing power through vulnerability, Ash offers tender ruminations on the human condition whilst crafting a revenge fantasy on la structure du pouvoir. Baroque pays homage to hysteria, reclaiming the individualist amidst an increasingly homogenised society.
Most recently, Ash Baroque studied butoh and performed with Sankai Juku in Japan, performed at Dark Mofo festival, supported Methyl Ethel on their national tour of “Are You Haunted?”, featured in Nicholas Allbrook’s music video for Jackie and mentored the 600 Seconds Program at The Blue Room Theatre.
Boorloo Ballroom Community [performance]
11.45pm
Fresh off the heels of the “For The Love” Showcase, the Boorloo ballroom community returns with a brand-new piece honouring the foundational performance styles of the culture. This electrifying set features lipsync, Old Way, and Vogue Femme choreography crafted and performed by some of the city’s most celebrated walkers. An annual tradition of rhythm, precision, and pure ballroom spirit — come share energy with the girls as they bring the floor to life once again.
Aquenta
12.00am
Aquenta is an Afro-Caribbean crip DJ, interdisciplinary artist and curator, currently living on unceded Wurundjeri Country.
Her sound is genre-blending and her taste wide-ranging, grounded in her Dominican roots, and traversing through bouyon, footwork, rap, afro-diasporic club, R&B and everything in between. Tough, sexy, and with more than a few surprises up her sleeve.
She has played an array of international and local festivals, including PXSSY PALACE (UK), Soft Centre (Eora) Daybreak Festival (Naarm), Dayshift (Eora) and Rave Relief (Boorloo).
Aquenta is also the founder of CRIP RAVE THEORY, a project that draws on crip/disabled knowledge to expand sound and club culture.
Forever experimenting with ways to create greater intersectional-accessibility, CRT’s raves, club nights and expansive listening events centre and celebrate all bodies that have been excluded from commercial music and nightlife culture; with a focus on inter-community solidarity, pleasure, agency and self-expression.
Cooper Cooper
1.30am
Disk spinning trans fem adhd hype girl!
Basement
Cheap Rosé
9.00pm
A founding member of the Malibu Stacy Social Club and resident DJ of their biannual queer party, ‘Snack Shack’. True to his name, Cheap Rosé makes champagne-taste selections on a beer budget.
Soap Popera
10.00pm
Steamy, sparkly and just a little dirty, Soap Popera fuels your main-character era with pop-soaked beats and salacious drops. As a Freocast resident with her own show, you can find her on their airwaves or deep in the Basement for Rave Relief. Lather up with your new favourite DJ.
Arle
11.00pm
Arle (they/them) hails from an South East Asian and Eastern European background, which is reflected in their spectrum of sound.
They invite you dance until midnight, mixing queer and international deep house excellence.
For Arle, Rave Relief is their event of the year.
Yikes
12.00am
Boorloo based Wongi man Yikes is a multitalented and mad-skilled DJ, producer, radio presenter, artist, designer and promoter. Throwing down the stages at Inner Varnika Festival, Pitch Festival, Sun Cycle Festival and Strawberry Fields over the past year, Yikes has certainly cemented himself as an unstoppable force in the so-called Australian music landscape. Not one to stick to any genre, Yikes is known to glide through a variety of genres effortlessly tied together with his signature style of deep, broken and percussive sounds.
Holding down the legendary Friday’s Full Frequency slot on community radio station RTRFM, Yikes shares his wealth of musical knowledge and skills as a selector with listeners each week. A community minded individual, Yikes also shares his deep musical knowings with others through his First Nations DJ course for young musicians. Extending this ethos is his co-founding of Nani Creative: a Boorloo based Aboriginal led creative studio that aims to encourage authentic design that creates connection and enables storytelling. With the space, he has worked hard to tangibly fight back against the lack of diversity in creative industries.
Livvy Ratbag b2b Pamika
1.00am
Sealed Section woo girl on the streets, Mariah Carey super fan in the sheets. Their tracks will whisk you off your feet and onto a cloud of air kisses, floating through naughty edits and irresistible piano house vocals. Look up to the stage and Pamika will be singing right there with you. Mwah mwah
Livvy is the proud and devoted co-parent of the not-so-secret lovechild Smoked Trout Queer Cookery and Fuckery, loves playing the boops and bleeps!
Rooftop
Rave Relief classics [radio]
8.00pm
Setting the tone on the rooftop with a curated radio playlist of disco, bops, camp classics & queer pop perfect for mingling and easing in to the night.
Pleasure Principle [radio]
10.00pm
Pleasure Principle is a new dancefloor experience from DJ Sliding Doors and Tom of Midland, friends with a shared love of classic disco, cheesy synth pop and early house, whose mission is to bring a slice of the Paradise Garage and the Limelight to Boorloo dancefloors. This darling duo will be hand-curating playlists to soundtrack your breathers, chinwags and bops on the rooftop til the late hours!
