Clayton Littlewood

Raised in Weston-Super-Mare, Littlewood attended Walliscote Primary School and Broadoak Comprehensive moving to London when he was nineteen.

The band recorded an album's worth of material and released a single called I Love to be Queer.

Clayton then telephoned Quentin Crisp and spent the day with him (Littlewood describes this meeting in his latest book Goodbye to Soho).

In 1998 Clayton hosted a pirate radio station in Brighton posing as a 75-year-old West Country female aromatherapist by the name of Dr. Bunty.

It was rejected by a number of agents and broadcasters including the BBC who wrote, "This is the most disgusting piece of filth we have ever read.

In January 2006 Jorge closed down his high fashion menswear Provincetown shop, Dirty White Boy, and with Littlewood re-opened it on Old Compton Street in London's Soho.

[1] However, on two occasions he and his friend, the actor David Benson, were removed from the building for using language that the BBC found to be unacceptable.

Clayton delivered his first reading in February 2008 at the LGBT History Month event called 'Between the Covers' (organised by the House of Homosexual Culture) where readers included Neil Bartlett and Maureen Duffy.

Reviews compared the book to the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Virginia Woolf and to Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories.

It was named Gay Times Book of the Year (2009) and was endorsed by celebrities such as Elton John, Stephen Fry, Holly Johnson and Sebastian Horsley.

We were getting all these crazy people coming into the shop, all these mad characters, but I thought rather than just write it as a diary I would post it on MySpace.

It premiered at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End and starred Clayton, David Benson and singer Maggie K de Monde, featuring music from Martin Watkins.

[7] The play was directed by Phil Willmott and received good reviews from Nicholas de Jongh (Evening Standard) and Paul Gambaccini.

On 10 May 2012 Clayton released a sequel to Dirty White Boy called Goodbye to Soho (DWB Press).

—Tim Fountain (Resident Alien) 'Beautifully composed vignettes...observed by a ravenous, compassionate, amused voyeur of the first rank.'

– Sebastian Horsley, author of Dandy in the Underworld "It is because of Clayton's genuine interest in the people he writes about that Dirty White Boy is such a compelling read.

"- Polari Magazine "A sense of historic Soho (Rimbaud and Verlaine, Quentin Crisp) percolates through the book."

– Gay NZ.com (New Zealand) "The queer descendent of Samuel Pepys, Clayton Littlewood captures the day-to-day drama of his London in all its demented glory."

– Michael Thomas Ford, author of Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and Last Summer "Dirty White Boy does for Soho in the digital age what Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe did for London in the 17th Century…their stories are what makes Dirty White Boy such a wonderful book."

– Polari Magazine "Mr. Littlewood's writing shone so swiftly, fiercely, and emotionally that one laughed out loud while clutching an imaginary tissue for the kickback...This is not acting, it's breathtaking authenticity."