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You can start the day enjoying a Kroissant Royale and a flat white and end it watching a roller skating drag queen covered in shaving cream.

That’s just a normal shift for the staff of Albert’s Schloss - the Manchester institution which is celebrating ten years.

As Adam Maidment writes in this fabulously entertaining piece , pretty much every type of performer has graced the stage here over the years.

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“There was one performer a few years ago where we had to have a conversation and be like ‘are we crossing the line here?’,” says head of innovation James Plant.

“It was burlesque performer John Celestus, who was stripped down to a thong, bent over on stage and shavin

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