PRS Magazine: Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy

As part of LGBTQ History Month, PRS for Music asked me to write about the Smalltown Boy who changed everything, the moment Bronski Beat reached out of my tv screen and showed me I would always have my queer tribe. So here’s my love letter to the queer 80s pop stars who made Thatcher’s inalienable right to hate us disappear and our glorious queer selves … Continue reading PRS Magazine: Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy

Alfresco Festival 2022

So the prospect of dancing in the woods with our Alfresco family may seem a world away right now but the tingle of joy that is joining a line-up as gloriously fierce as the second release announced today is unmistakable. To be part of a collective of the willing, the wonderful and the wild this August will be a blessing we continue to count with … Continue reading Alfresco Festival 2022

Listen again: The Wildblood and Queenie Shameless Housewife’s Special P2

And so it was written somewhere in the annals of LGBTQI+ history that Wildblood and Queenie would often head down to the 1BTN Bunker to play tunes for the faithful. And occasionally, if the need took them by the short and whirlies, they would delve deep into their Shameless Housewife’s archive, dust the dust off their, erm, dusty boxes and lo – another radio show … Continue reading Listen again: The Wildblood and Queenie Shameless Housewife’s Special P2

The Wildblood and Queenie Show 180222

And so it was written somewhere in the annals of LGBTQI+ history that Wildblood and Queenie would often head down to the 1BTN Bunker to play tunes for the faithful. And occasionally, if the need took them by the short and whirlies, they would delve deep into their Shameless Housewife’s archive, dust the dust off their, erm, dusty boxes and lo – another radio show … Continue reading The Wildblood and Queenie Show 180222

Chris’s Birthday Almanac

Nothing makes me happier than pub dancing with the finest. And if it happens to be with some of you newest, soundest sweethearts washed with a soundscape of pub anthems, queer wonders, disco delights and bugger me electronica then we’re in. See you on the tables. Chris’ 60th Birthday Almanac, St George’s Inn, Sudeley St, Brighton. 6pm-close Continue reading Chris’s Birthday Almanac