The Aeronaut, 264 Acton High St, W3 9BH

The Aeronaut open their doors in Acton Town to offer you a new innovation in pub drinking.

It’s not often that you see a man in the pub successfully balancing his glass of wine on top of his cigar whilst there’s a clown having a puff in the smoking area. That’s because a new innovation in pub drinking has been erected in Acton where the circus comes to town every night!

Vegas style neon lights with red and yellow stripes set up the perfect circus scene. It looked like they hadn’t held back on the expense with an impressive interior and beer garden to die for.  The performance starts at 9pm every night in a separate section to the pub so if clowns aren’t your thing you can still hide behind your pint.

The idea of a circus in a pub was inspired by the first Englishman that dared to fly upside down on an aeroplane and lived to tell the tale, a man called George Lee Temple. Acton, being the town of his birth was the perfect place for The Aeronaut to be born and dare to bring a little bit of carni to your sarnie.

A ring man clown will invite you into the wonderful world of circus and introduce the plethora of acts. He will charm you with his Irish accent and encourages you to drink by asking you to order doubles or triples.

A vigorous amount of acts storm the stage and astound you with their own individual talents. A clown tosses off a rose whilst stripping and pulling more flowers from her crotch like a dirty Charlie Chaplin. Dot Cotton the sex-up clown messed around to the sound of electro swing and proved she could stand on her toes like that posh bitch off of titanic.

Matt Ricardo, a man’s man and comedian takes to the make shift ring and delivers funny speeches about circus boners and failing to do tricks you’re sure he could do really. He then takes a real butchers cleaver and cuts through his arm which he had previously sliced some carrots with. This man seemed more dangerous than a snakebite as everyone stopped sipping their pinot noir to watch him juggle machetes.

Before you think you can’t laugh anymore at such ridiculous trivia going on in a pub then behold Lawrence Owen, a singer who chants about the boring Halloween costumes available when you go to parties. Why be a cat when you could be a sexy snail leaving a trail in your grass? The crowd roar as one heckler regrets making an un-witty comment. The man who was clearly trying to impress his girlfriend or has possibly had one too many shots then proceeds to be shot down the whole night by the performers.

A girl with a tendency to enter rings performs a hula hooping act which gets everyone in the mood to clap like baby seals. And a vision of elaborate offerings is the stunning Jane Robinson who takes to the sky in a hoop and flexes all her limbs in some sort of transformer way. It was a striking moment to close the curtain and proceed to the bar for further entertainment.

One spectator, Monet Onojeruo said, “Amazing acts and buoyant beer garden. The staff was all really nice making the pub a worthwhile trip to Acton.”

It was a pure English celebration of sorts with classic pub grub and a showering of English beers and boasting of a brewery to be installed to offer new ales.=

Every night they mix up the acts and rope in some new ones so you can go more than once to the show or merely enjoy this fantastically English pub located in the west of London.