![]() ![]() This was all the more apparent a couple of Saturdays before Christmas the vibes were simply super. The website promises something “wild” and “crazy”, but the experience is less crazy in its idiosyncrasies – the humour and the concept are fairly conventional – than in its complete rejection of restraint: you go feral or you go home. ![]() To call the range of prizes eclectic would undersell them: from life-size cutouts of ABBA members to cereal, from £100 to over £1000. In between six rounds of bingo are showers of coco pops, dance anthems and so much booze (after a couple of vodka sodas it was onto the signature venoms, with tequila shots in between). The concept of Bongo’s Bingo is quintessentially cheesy, and brilliantly low-brow. A scour of the Bongo’s Bingo website listings unsurprisingly revealed nowhere else in the UK to have as many shows this month as Glasgow: the overlap in target audience between Mecca Bingo and Bongo’s Bingo is surely not as high in any other town or city. In Glasgow there’s no settling down into your forties, fifties, or beyond – going off out to get plastered is still the done thing. Almost everyone in the queue snaking down Eastvale Place was sequin-clad or generally glammed up, and some were dancing on the benches before 7pm. There is no greater accumulation of heteronormative slaying than at Bongo’s Bingo Glasgow. The Glasgow Guardian returns to Bongo’s Bingo to review its Christmas offering. ![]()
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