Just what makes your DJ tick? What tunes did those headphone-wearing lovelies listen to way back when? Here at GScene we thought it was time to find out. Hence the desert island. No palm trees, just decent tunes. This month it’s the turn of the ever so talented Grant Knowles. 1. Josh The Funky 1 ‘Universal Sound’ Funktion Recordings This one made it big for … Continue reading Desert Island Disco: Grant Knowles
It’s beautiful right before the end of summer don’t you know. And as autumn begins to grip our days and demand the annual invest in mittens I’m falling for Fink. Queenie won’t have a journey that isn’t soundtracked to it and I can’t write without it dulcet tones lifting my soul. A mate once commented on her boyfs dislike of what he calls “English miserable … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: 27.10.11 Fink ‘Berlin Sunrise’ (Lee Jones Remix)
A candlelit vigil is to be held at the Old Steine Fountain in Brighton on Friday 28th October as the local community unites on the International Day against Hate Crime. The second event was marked last year in the city by 200 people meeting at Old Steine to ‘express their concern and anger and to commemorate those who had been victims of hate crime’. This … Continue reading No To Hate Crime – Brighton Candlelight Vigil Friday 28th October
Today I’ve been transported back to those Tracey days. Her latest EP includes a wonderful cover of the xx’s Night Time. Enough said. The xx always had me from the first moment they appeared, delivering me hook, line and sinker back to those mohair covered, floppy hair, unrequited love filled teenage years. Add one of the actual voices that soundtracked those days to the mix … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: 25.10.11 Tracey Thorn ‘Night Time’ Strange Feeling Records
Today my fully working, excellent condition £2.79p Kodak Coloursnap 35MM Model 2 camera arrived. I’m addicted. Even it doesn’t turn out to be fully working. I’m working out the settings and loving the clouds and sunshine. I’m remembering the frustration of loading film as Queenie and I try to fathom what the hell the manual is talking about. Sod it if it turns out not … Continue reading Killing time with my Kodak Coloursnap Model 2
I’m about to spend three days in the company of Madam Satan. I will watch this. I will read about and try to find the words to explain this gown. It’s about the gaze, a wonderful fabric called Nude Souffle and the vision both Adrian and DeMille shared. A weekend of nudity, pre-Hayes Code and cracking feminist film crit. Its about a random act of … Continue reading Madam Satan and a man called Adrian
Over the weekend I continued to play with aperture. Buddleia became birds and Action Man reflected on his de-frocking courtesy of my favourite lads and lasses. Like you do. Continue reading Buddliea becomes birds
Today we took pictures. Today we talked Jarvis. Today we ambled through memories of four soggy kittens on the washing line, horses arses and Christy John. Today we spoke of family. Of Grandads we never knew and stories we’ve heard told too many times. And I struggled with buttons, settings and light. This is gonna be an interesting journey. I need to study the manual. … Continue reading A journey with Matilda: Day one
This semester I return to university and find myself being extended. Extension Studies. Preferred option? Creative use of the Camera in Developing a Personal Approach to Visuality. Ten weeks to find some way of getting the visuals in my head on to photographic paper. Ten weeks to conceive of a journey, to record without the simplicity of recording. To say more than here you are, … Continue reading Extending myself: A journey with Matilda
I’ve used Switchboard. You’ve used Switchboard. At some point we’ve all used Switchboard. Well us souls lucky enough to find ourselves of the lesbian, gay, transgendered or bisexual persuasion anyway. Today, like many services we rely on Switchboard need us to make a fuss and raise £20,000 before April 2012 if they are to continue supply our city with counselling and information services. A quid … Continue reading We need Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard and now they need you – Donate now
Wildblood and Queenie 