Author: Wildblood and Queenie

Wildblood and Queenie are exactly what it says on the tin. (Almost.) DJs, freelance journalists, cartoonist and queer writer who likes to wiggle, campaign and disco. Like they do.
1BTN

Listen again to Queenie + Wildblood 0102 1BTN Show

Feeling the need for a priceless perk-up? Fancy some February action to lighten up your day? Then grab a listen of our latest 1BTN show, now streaming on Mixcloud and Soundcloud. And with advanced pressings (steady missus) from Justin Jay, Partyfine, Ralph Session, DJ Spinna, Kassian, Motte, Eduke and Salted Records, disco classics from Stephanie Mills, Loleatta Holloway, Kiki Gyan and Debbie Jacobs, a tropical … Continue reading Listen again to Queenie + Wildblood 0102 1BTN Show

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50 Tunes For 50 Years, Perfect Distractions

50 Tunes For 50 Years: Royksopp

Sometimes only Royksopp will do. Their warm melodies achingly cosy, wrapping you up as you face the world. Melody A.M. first came into my life in 2001 and since then has been sonically hugging me stronger with its plucked up strings, kooky keyboards and homely harmonies. And it’s always been there to remind me of a certain lady. A lady who will probably kill me … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Royksopp

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50 Tunes For 50 Years, Perfect Distractions

50 Tunes For 50 Years: Fire Island

Stick me in a room with a conversion therapist and I’d fight tooth and queer nail to kick that repressed hypocrite to kingdom come. Because every day, regardless of the bigotry I read of, occasionally experience and forever campaign against, I am so proud to be who I am. One butch dyke. With rainbows for blood. (As contradictory as my love for Streisand’s My Man … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Fire Island

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50 Tunes For 50 Years: Barbra Streisand The Way We Were

I can still picture my mother’s net curtains dancing on the summer breeze as I returned home from school that hot afternoon in 1976. Stepping through our forever-open front door, the sound of a woman I would love all my life greeted me, singing her broken soul out as she remembers The Way We Were. What I learnt that day as the vinyl crackled through … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Barbra Streisand The Way We Were

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50 Tunes For 50 Years, Brighton Pride, Perfect Distractions

50 Tunes For 50 Years: C-Mos

Come Monday the 4th of February 2019 there will be a lot of talk about Brighton Pride. Who knows, they may even break the Internet again. But regardless of the headliner announcement, the controversies or the so-called principled objections to an event that some will argue is not the “Pride” they once knew and fought for, I’ll be rooting for the wonders bringing LGBTQ+ Pride … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: C-Mos

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Feeling the disco love this February

Fancy a little de-freeze? Then come join us on the airwaves of  1BTN, Club Barbra at The West Hill Tavern, at Patterns with Honey Dijon, International Women’s Day Mixtape Bitch, Please! Residents Party at The Green Door Store and more this winter as we get set to deliver the funk, the disco and the hottest of house. All destined to warm up your winter days and long nights, all destined to please. Just … Continue reading Feeling the disco love this February

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50 Tunes For 50 Years, Perfect Distractions

50 Tunes For 50 Years: Kraftwerk

If you grew up in the 1970s you soon appreciated the importance of closing your eyes and escaping to another world. The clash of floral wallpapers, candlewick soft furnishings and cheesecloth tablecloths, Hornsea crockery and gaudy patterned carpets (in the regulation shades of brown demanded by the decade) ensured it was an essential activity, saving your optics from the visual overload. An eye survival lesson … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Kraftwerk

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50 Tunes For 50 Years, Perfect Distractions

50 Tunes 50 Years: HNNY

This is for the lovers of sparse house. The deep souls who need just the house basics to lose it, a simple bass line, a succinct sample and a kicking hook. This is for the warm-up and the afters. The anticipation and the appreciation. The glory of the night ahead, the giggles from the party just passed. HNNY’s Tears on Local Talk is a tune … Continue reading 50 Tunes 50 Years: HNNY

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50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Breeders

Considering I’ve spent over half my life with my Queenie it figures that she’s going rock up on my 50 Tunes For 50 Years a fair few times. We’ve shared way too many stacks of speakers, amps and record players for her not too. But when you consider our track record one would think that the tune that soundtracked the beginning of my greatest love … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Breeders

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50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Jam

It was 1980 and all I wanted in the world was a Harrington jacket. To feel the tartan lining on my skin, the buttons by my neck and cruise the streets of Frinton on my, er, hand me down Raleigh Shopper looking the dogs. In my Stay Press trousers of course. Sadly the local jumble sales rarely saw a donation from a generous Essex mod … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Jam

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