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, Clubbing, Perfect Distractions

A gaggle of gigs to make you giggle and wiggle

So much glittering goodness coming your way this spring as we head towards the warmer days with a dazzling array of gigs and radio action. It’s all about feeling the love this winter as we get down with the glittering grooves and the sequined parties. But then with wonders including our shows on 1BTN,Club Barbra at The West Hill Tavern, 1BTN International Women’s Day Takeover 2019, Patterns with Honey … Continue reading A gaggle of gigs to make you giggle and wiggle

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50 Tunes For 50 Years, Like we do

50 Tunes For 50 Years: Soldiers Of Twilight

All it takes for my heart to fall in love with a tune is a diva who knows her way to my soul. A tad of a tall order but something Lady Bird does within the first bar of this essential house track by Soldiers of Twilight. More uplifting than a crane driver on MDMA, this house beauty has accompanied some of the finest dancefloor … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Soldiers Of Twilight

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50 Tunes For 50 Years: Cocteau Twins

Like most people I know I grew up with the immortal words “turn that bleeding racket down”, my mum continuously shouting up the stairs as she failed miserably to end my addiction to the Cocteau Twins, the glorious “racket” that soundtracked my teenage years. On a mid-80s Binatone cassette player obviously. And yet regardless of the misery their effects-driven guitars appeared to infer, they were … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Cocteau Twins

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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: 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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Clubbing

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: 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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