Ginger Tart hosted her burlesque show, 'OxPHWOARd' last Friday, with a lot of heart, a lot of fun and a lot of pizzazz. She held the show together with an assured and experienced charm. From the moment the audience entered the dark back room of the Bullingdon, we were warmly invited to enter her world, and it's a world where people support and love each other, respect each other's bodies, and perhaps most importantly, learn to love themselves.

Ginger Tart's own act, with which she started each half of this show celebrating self love, is full of energy and sparkle: a mix of the lip-syncing commonly associated with drag acts and a doll-like dance style which is compelling and fun to watch.

The evening was jam-packed with a range of performers, the stand-outs for me being Smidge Swayer's bubbly act involving her transformation from grey uniform-clad school-girl to queer neon queen and the fabulous Dis Charge's emotional and aggressively high energy drag routine.

What a wonderful way to spend an evening and see in the weekend. It is exciting that nights like these are being put on in Oxford and big thanks must go to Ginger Tart for organising the whole thing. I look forward to the next one!

It's not often that naked bottoms perform a service to society so hats, coats (and other garments) off to the OxPHWOARd crew for their brilliantly titled 'Self-Love Show'.

The show was billed as 'subversive burlesque and drag' but underneath the ample innuendos about 'feeling the love deep inside' was a sincere message about loving who you are, not overlooking differences but staring them right in the face, or in this case, bottom.

The show started with a striptease by a Mrs Overall character - which I took as a message about not underestimating people no matter how they first appear (plus it had a fantastic playlist for doing the housework).

The show also contained some hilarious, sexy opera by Carmen Monoxide, punk drag courtesy of Dis Charge, a whip-wielding catwoman (aka Crystal Beth), and a mind- and gender-bending Freddie Mercury impersonation by Morning Star.

The show seemed to go down a storm, a surprise to me in usually mild mannered Oxford. The atmosphere was helped and hindered in equal measure by a hen night, complete with the standard giant inflatable. Host Ginger Tart did a admirable job of engaging and controlling them despite having an unspecified 'disease' which she continually dosed with buttercup syrup.

Indeed, OxPHWOARd delivered on a number of levels - belly laughs, confusingly sexy drag acts - and I left feeling that the world had been made a better place. More nights out should be like this!