Most celebrities are chomping at the bit for the chance to do a shoey when they perform in the land Down Under, but Chappell Roan is not one of them.
The 27-year-old was performing at Laneway Festival in the Gold Coast on the weekend when she was asked to do a shoey on stage.
After finally deciphering what the audience was asking her to do, she said, “Oh, oh, oh, OH. That’s what you’re saying, drink a beer out of the shoe?”
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The Pink Pony Club singer’s query elicited cheers from the audience, but she quickly dashed their hopes.
“No. No, no, no, no,” she refused, before changing the topic to one that elicited even more cheers, telling the crowd, “I want to talk about being gay.”
The shoey is a tradition that has been taken on by the biggest names to grace our shores. The likes of Kylie Minogue, Harry Styles and Lizzo have partaken in a tipple.
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But while Australia has claimed the bizarre practice as its own, drinking from a shoe is actually thought to date back hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Drinking from a shoe or boot is believed to date back to the Middle Ages, when it was thought to bring good luck.
By WWI, German soldiers were said to share a drink from a leather boot filled with beer to bring luck on the battlefield.
During WWII, a shoey was a hazing ritual in the German army. Drinking from a general’s boot also became customary after a victory.
By the 20th century, drinking champagne from a lady’s slipper became a party trick.
The practice is thought to have originated in 1902 at a high-class brothel in the US city of Chicago.
A member of Prince Henry of Prussia’s entourage reportedly picked up a dancer’s slipper that fell to the floor and used it to drink champagne.
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Later use of the ‘shoey’ saw a drinker use their shoe or someone else’s as a vessel to consume alcohol, usually as a celebration.
The ‘shoey’ first started to be linked to Australia a decade ago when Aussie Supercars driver David Reynolds won the first non-endurance race of his career in 2015 and proceeded to drink champagne from his shoe on the podium.
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