PESTS: The Ugly Bugs Peep Show
PESTS: The Ugly Bugs Peepshow brings together the most talented and creative sexy-stick-crawlers to ask the questions:
- What is “UGLY”?
- What is “SEXY”?
- How many legs is too many legs?
Recorded at Venus Pole Studio on May 24 2025, PESTS presented an experimental night of performances and brand new ideas slithering into shape from an incredible line-up of pole dance artists and friends.
FEATURING:
Multi-competition-winning international pole dance superstar and heart of the Venus Pole Studio constellation Kelly Vee!
Interdisciplinary powerhouse of martial arts, pole magic and stigma-busting pro-domme fierceness Lady Black Venus In Furs!
Slinky, kinky pole artist, musician, multidisciplinary creative and disability advocate George Lou Bon!
TUNES by the electro-synth lovechild of Victoria Wood and Gary Numan, joining us from the cabaret underworld it’s the one and only Laurie Black!
Headline performance by the UK’s flexi favourite and internationally touring, boundary-pushing pole movement artist Callum Stevens!
MC’d by your very own pole comedy witch, now infamous as the pole dancing seagull on Britain’s Got Talent – Siân Docksey!

Videography by Talie Eigeland
Pests poster design by Will Powers and Amy Browne