About
Dandy began with a singular purpose: to provide an alternative to the queer bear subculture, which we felt was underserved by too many gay men’s spaces offering similar (restrictive) experiences.
We rapidly expanded the scope of our events, aiming to provide inclusive, welcoming, and accessible queer clubbing for all gender and sexual identities, all faces, and all body types and those who love them.
This isn’t another run-of-the-mill house or pop night: Dandy recognises and celebrates the crossover between queer and alternative cultures, showcasing a truly eclectic mix of alternative music styles and playing everything from alternative and indie to pop, dance, and more without pigeon-holing ourselves into a single genre or era.
Dandy loves to hire and platform LGBTQ+ talent across the artistic spectrum, from the artists who design our posters to the guest DJs and performers we work with. We’ve already worked with an array of amazing queer talent including:
Katherine Aly, A Man To Pet, Chraja, Beltran, Mx World, Fatality KO, Inflateacub, Plastick, Lady HD, The Sapphic Menaces, Former Hero, Sum Ting Wong (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK/Drag Race Philippines Slaysian Royale), Sally TM (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK), Hijac, Big Softy, Spray, Bjørn Felle, DEF NEON, Caprice Sühñ, Space Candy, OUTOUT Middlesbrough, Zoe McVeigh, Leila Liines, Sandra D, Fat Girl Slim, and many more.
We’re lucky to get to hand-pick those that share in our values of unapologetic queer joy, body positivity, gender euphoria, and the rejection of cisnormative patriarchal inhibition.
We let our events speak for themselves, with the quality of the music we play and the atmosphere we create. We’ve enjoyed playing incredible gigs across the UK and in Europe, and we hope that we’ll be welcoming you to a Dandy party near you soon.
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Meet The Team
Deany Sevigny
Deany Sevigny is a DJ, promoter, and the founder of Dandy. Deany has over 15 years of DJing experience, including the alt. queer indie night Anointed with DJ ADBT, a residency at the seminal Mancunian queer night Bollox, and sets at the world-famous Homobloc.
As well as working up and down the UK, Anointed took Deany to Amphi Festival (Cologne) in 2019, and Dandy took them to Bearly Athens in 2024. When they’re not organising and managing the events and the brand, they’re behind the decks to pump out their trademark mix of alternative pop, indie, electro and rock.
A Deany Sevigny set spans across the best of all genres and there’s always something for everyone!
Adaimia
Adaimia is a DJ and Producer with a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Sound Design (Electronic Music Production). He is a resident DJ and co-promoter of Dandy and has previously performed at events such as Bollox and Homobloc.
Being raised on video games and alternative music, he eventually discovered the world of synthesis and electronic music. Expect filthy drops, nerdy references, overt queerness and the heaviest metal shredding in his twisted taste of alternative and electronic bangers.
Sugar Puff Daddy
Sugar Puff Daddy is a resident DJ and performer at Dandy. He has a Bachelor’s with Honours in Classical Music from the Royal Northern College of Music and utilises absolutely none of that in order to bring you queer euphoria with a twisted sense of humour instead.
A Sugar Puff Daddy set is an electrifying assortment of Disco, House, Pop, Dance/Electric, Hip Hop, & Escape Room. If Dandy were The Addams Family – Sugar Puff Daddy is the Debbie Jelinsky.
ADBT
ADBT is the DJ moniker of Adrian Brian Thompson (or Ady to his friends), a versatile club DJ with almost 20 years’ experience playing outsider pop, indie electro, industrial, electronica, hard dance, and commercial dance throughout the UK and Europe.
As well as his current DJ residency at Manchester’s pioneering alternative queer party Dandy and his own diverse mix of events under the AnalogueTrash umbrella, ADBT has DJ’d at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Cologne’s Amphi Festival, London’s Slimelight, Sheffield’s Resistanz Festival, Manchester’s Deaf Institute, Copenhagen’s Underhusset club, Athens’ Big Bar, Paris’ Le Klub venue, Todmorden’s iconic Golden Lion, Birmingham’s Eden Bar, and many more eclectic and underground events.
Never one to sit still, he also performs live as part of the UK electronica 4-piece VIEON as a visual artist and VJ.
A typical ADBT DJ set is an energetic mix of pop, dance, indie, and electronica, with plenty of songs you love and more than a few curveballs thrown in for good measure.