Performed by: Bad Girls Creative
Venue: Three Sisters
Time: 11pm
Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5)
Reviewed by: Jo Sansom
A fully immersive dance and music experience, this is a feminist pop party where you can scream, dance and come together for an hour and a half of uplifting pop tunes.
Returning for its second year at the Fringe, DJ Carly Gray brings us this carefully curated club night that combines songs from some of the best female artists of all time with stunning visuals on the big screens.
The club night takes place in the back room of The Three Sisters and, once you have made your way through the legions of teen boys in the main bar (no mean feat… make sure you sharpen those elbows), you are rewarded with an hour and a half of divine female awesomeness.
DJ Carly has put together the most high-energy playlist that you could hope for. She effortlessly mixes big club hits with iconic tunes from the past 60 years (my favourite mix was Freed from Desire with Love Is a Battlefield… it shouldn’t work, but it does!).
The evening covered female artists from Aretha Franklin and Stevie Nicks to Annie Lennox and Whitney Houston, right through to the Spice Girls, Taylor Swift and Charli xcx. There was something for everyone.
With each song or mix came an accompanying visual that told the story of a woman who changed the world, such as Eve, the Queen, Joan of Arc and Barbie, to name just a few.
Honestly, I was having too much fun dancing and screaming to think critically… this show is about thinking with your body and heart, not your brain. DJ Carly is a brilliant performer who brought everyone along for the ride. She made eye contact with everyone in the room and interacted with audience members throughout the evening, singing with them, twirling them around, smiling and encouraging people to join in and match her energy. She is the antithesis of the early noughties ‘mean girl’ persona that so many of us grew up with.
What she does so well is take up space. She makes herself seem 10ft tall (that’s the kind of personality she shows up with on stage) in a pink wig and glittery, leopard-print catsuit, with make-up that would make a drag queen proud!
It is so clear to the audience that this is a woman who loves what she does, and in communicating that, you can’t help but get involved in her mission for collective joy and sisterhood.
She ended the night with a beautiful tribute to her own mum and all the women who have shaped her life, and asked us all to do the same: to hold on tight to our mothers, aunties, queer friends and girlfriends. In a world that can feel increasingly dangerous for a woman who dreams big and loves fully, this show reminded me to keep caring, feeling and working for the things I want for myself and all the women and girls alongside me.
If you are looking for a perfect way to end Fringe 2026, then get yourself along to this show and gift yourself an uplifting and unifying night out. Take all your friends, remind yourself why women need each other (and all our allies), and tear down the patriarchy one song at a time.
If the patriarchy is powered by individualism, then to dismantle it we need community cohesion.
While dance and music can’t make societal or political change happen any faster, what they can do is remind us that we are stronger together and that our energy and passion have power.
And Bad Girls might just be the catalyst that we need.
