Alan Pellay
| Al Pillay | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alan Pillay 22 August 1959 Grimsby, England |
| Other names | Alan Pillay, Alana Pellay, Lana Pellay, Lanah Pellay |
| Occupation | Actor and singer |
| Years active | 1983 - present |
Alan "Al" Pillay also known as "Al Pillay" (born 22 August 1959), the star of Eat the Rich is a person of many names and two genders, starring in The Comic Strip Presents as Alan Pellay playing Himself in Gino (Episode 10) as Alana Pellay playing Herself in "The Bullshitters" (Episode 13) and, finally, as Lana Pellay playing Mary in the feature movie, The Supergrass.
Pillay was born near the docks of Grimsby where he was the youngest of six children, his mother a cleaning lady of Irish and Trinidadian descent, his father an engineer on the fishing trawlers originally from South Africa of Sri Lankan and Spanish descent.
Pillay left school at fifteen and went to Manchester where she befriended the prominent Northern drag performers Bunny Lewis and Frank "Foo Foo" Lammar. She was noted for her impersonations of Shirley Bassey, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, Cleo Laine and Dorothy Squires in full drag and no microphone and was booked into the Working men's clubs throughout the North of England as well as the cabaret club circuit.
During a lull in her drag career, while managing the Black Market Café in Levenshulme and renting a room from Coronation Street actor Alan Rothwell, Pillay was introduced to Kay Carroll and Mark E Smith of The Fall. She formed her own band the 'I Scream Pleasures,' which would appear as guest support at many Fall gigs, with an original repertoire of songs including "Parasitic Machines", "Surrender Your Gender", "Closet Queen", "Do You Like Labels", "Spirit Souls" and "You Aint Nothing But A Phoney F-cking Hetero Queen".
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