The February 1BTN Bunker Buzz Chart is now online and it will keep you tapping and wiggling and nodding until, well, March. Loads of sweet selections from 1BTN’s sweetest of selectors awaits you including our latest choice disco delight from Horse Meat Disco and Amy Douglas on Glitterbox Records. Just how we like it here by the seaside as we take the good stuff intergalactic on … Continue reading 1BTN Bunker Buzz Chart Feb 2019
Welcome once again to the Queenie and Wildblood Show on 1BTN as we return to the bunker on Friday 1st of February. A selection box of divine disco, fierce funk, determined detours and is it the weekend yet house music awaits you as we broadcast to you, our favoured beauties. And with advanced pressings (steady missus) from Justin Jay, Partyfine, Ralph Session, DJ Spinna, Kassian, … Continue reading Queenie + Wildblood Show on 1BTN 010219
Pencil skirts and crushes. Soul music and Sunday afternoons. Love and Luther. Giving me the reason to Stop For Love. It was 1986 and nothing, not even Luther, could save me from that first unrequited love, that first true heartbreak as my big brown eyes failed to deliver the results they later would and I grew certain that this “phase” would ever end. Not that … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Luther Vandross
Time to replay the joy that is our latest 1BTN show as we deliver three hours of right regal radio stuffed to the sparkling gills with disco, disco, house infused disco and, er, more disco. And with plenty of gig gossip, random banter and hot grooves its just the thing to warm up your January days. With new music from Birdee, Alkalino, Sophie Lloyd and … Continue reading Listen again to Queenie + Wildblood 1BTN Show 230119
Sunday Sundae. Two words that have brought me more joy than any other double sonic phonic, although I’ll never say no to a DD. The club night that made me, that the took this sullen faced DJ and taught me to smile, to read a crowd, to love an anthem and appreciate the Sunday clubbers of my city. Whether a wet and windy winter session … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Simpson Tune
So here we go. Starting at the beginning. Raised on Motown, Bacharach, Nat King Cole, disco and Kraftwerk. Angsting it out to The Smiths and those Cocteau Twins, going electro with Japan and The Human League, dancing to Luther, Stevie, Northern Soul and Ms Summer. Loving with Marvin and Badu. Mending a broken heart with Al Green. Swishing to Salsoul. Losing it to Frankie Knuckles … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years
Club Barbra is one of those gigs we had to say yes to. You want us to play all those never-guilty treasures that have brought us joy over our combined 104 years? Any genre as long as it gets people wiggling? (Dancing on tables a must). Playing beside 1BTN legends and Club Barbra residents Kerry Jean Lister (Feel Up) and Suze Rosser (Inspired Presents)? And … Continue reading Club Barbra
If there is one tune on this planet that captures being autistic it has to be Björk’s Hyperballad. Okay, I live on a hill and not a mountain but whilst view is beautiful there is no pile of car parts, bottles and cutlery at the bottom of our garden steps (although Hubbell’s keen on his collection of clothes pegs). Instead, there’s a pile of my … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Björk
Club Barbra is back! Yep the gig where we get to share our never guilty pleasures, dancefloor delights and kooked up korkers is back this February for another session of dancing on the tables down at The West Hill Tavern. Yes expect nothing but good time vibes as we deliver the perfect Friday night soundtrack of loved-up funk, soul, pop, disco, divas, 80s electro, house and … Continue reading Club Barbra is back!
Sometimes your missus’ cartoon skills surpass themselves. Sometimes she gets a birthday card for a certain someone just so right you wanna scream “dammit Queenie you’re good!“. This is one such moment. Her Lego Dr Frank. N. Furter. For our James. Sweet Brick Transvestite indeed. Continue reading Lego Dr Frank. N. Furter
Wildblood and Queenie 