IF you had imagined that an evening of live music and spoken word inspired from the LGBT community meant songs and poems by the likes of Bernstein and Auden, you would be wrong.

But you could have been forgiven for making the assumption, if you had made it on the basis of the Voices and Lyrics evening you had remembered very much enjoying at the Octagon back in Christmas 2014.

No, if the occasional production that was revived to round off Bolton Pride 2017 was a video, it would definitely be in the X-rated section.

The evening opened with an uncensored sketch read by Darren Langford and old faithful, Graham Edgington.

The boundaries were clearly marked for the tone of the entertainment ahead and I began to wish there had been an adult content advisory.

Drag queen Divina De Campo, in her skin tight, sheer black and bejewelled jumpsuit and stilettos, was very funny and her flights of song from falsetto to bass were hilariously impressive. She struck the right note as compère, somewhere between Bet Lynch and Ru Paul.

James Edgington achieved a coup by attracting West End star Kerry Ellis for the event and she did not disappoint with her inevitable opener, a pared back Defying Gravity and we remembered why we had reserved tickets.

Lucia Brennan took the stage with a reading from The Vagina Monologues....remember Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally? Think that to the power of 50.

There was much more, all in all an eye-opening education in LGBT entertainment!