Dusty Limits

Dusty Limits is an Australian-born cabaret singer and comedian based in the United Kingdom, and one of the leading figures on the "new cabaret" scene.

Dusty Limits is from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, where he first appeared in cabaret. He made his European debut in 1999. He has a three-and-a-half octave vocal range and is noted for his interpretations of the songs of Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Noël Coward, Tom Waits, Stephen Sondheim, Jacques Brel, Portishead, Tom Lehrer, David Bowie, Philip Jeays and Nick Cave. He writes songs, usually with a macabre or satirical twist, including such songs as "I Am A Jolly Self-Harmer", "Cocaine Socialist", "Beaucoup de Lifting", "Is It Too Late?", "Imagine (Think of the Kids)" and "Poor".

Since 1992, he has also performed as an actor on stage and film, sometimes also performing under the name of Dorian Black. He performs regularly throughout the UK as a singer, comic and compere, both in solo shows and as part of variety bills. He is the director and compere of the Black Cat Cabaret which appeared at the Café de Paris every Friday in 2013 and now takes place at the Grill Room at the Cafe Royal. He also produced and co-hosted the monthly Savoy Cabaret at the Savoy Hotel.

He is director and host of Cabaret at Scarfes Bar, which takes place monthly at the Rosewood London.

He won the London Cabaret Award for Best Host/Compere in 2012, 2013 and 2015.

He is one of the three Trustees of Cabaret vs Cancer, a charity which raises money for cancer relief and research in the UK.

Limits performs throughout the UK and abroad as a cabaret singer, comic and compere.

From 2003 to 2005, he had his own monthly show in London under the titles Dusty Limits and Friends and Dusty Limits Etc. Since 2003, he has performed every year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, either in his own one-man cabarets and/or as host and programmer of variety nights including the Vaudeville at the Bongo Club. He hosted the Bongo Club Cabaret in 2012. For a number of years he was a judge and occasionally compere for the Tap Water Awards.

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