Back in 1992 Queenie and Michele Allardyce aka Xi-Xi used to play live percussion at the Coco Club at the Zap on a Saturday night and decided doing the same at Shameless Hussies might be a good idea. Michele said to Queenie ‘ go on – phone up that Kate woman and ask if we can shake our maracas at the next one’. Suffice to say … Continue reading LGBTQ History Month: Shameless Hussies gets regal
First in a series of flyer action from this flyer addict for LGBTQ+ History Month. Shameless Hussies Fagins, East St and Reform Club, Ship Street Brighton 1992/93 Shameless Hussies was born out of two meetings – some lubricated by herbal tea…others not. A meeting made when this house music-obsessed soul found myself at Women Only night Venus Rising at the Fridge in Brixton where promoter … Continue reading LGBTQ History Month: Shameless Hussies Brighton
This LGBQ+ History Month I’m gonna be digging deep into my illustrator archives and sharing some of my portfolio of past wonders. That’s me, Queen Josephine. Drawing a queer crowd in pen and ink since 1984. Here is Bootsie Sue – a character I created back in 1992. They say to draw what you know. Well here I am – promoting an exhibition at Brighton’s … Continue reading LGBTQ History Month : Bootsie Sue
Like the school disco full of the kids you really wanted to be, Chris & Dom’s Sunday Almanac at Saint George’s Inn, Brighton celebrated 10 Years in decadent and dandy style yesterday. All queer like. All landlord dancing on the tables, singing till your throat broke, just the one more then, clipping speakers, kilts flying, beads never worried, Shameless dancefloor reunions, bear hugs, disco loved ones, Whitney and … Continue reading Thank you Sunday Almanac
Oh hello. Look at us. On a poster we’ve always wanted to grace. Goosebumps generated. Good times are incoming. As are the words I’m gonna find to sing the praises of this moment. Coming soon. Promise. HE.SHE.THEY w/ Horse Meat Disco Emily Meow (Polyglamorous) Wildblood and Queenie at Concorde 2 Brighton. Saturday 16th March 2024. Limited early birds are available here Continue reading He.She.They. w/ Horse Meat Disco
It’s just a gig. It’s just a list of DJs. It’s just a Sunday in Brighton. But if this small act of solidarity and fundraising can bring a moment of light in one of the darkest of times in my lifetime it will be worth it. DJs playing music for peace. Nothing groundbreaking or new in that sadly. But the sense of community in my … Continue reading Dance For Peace
Last year we got very, very close to leaving Brighton. To high re-mortgage rate rises to cope with, absentee student landlords below delivering the stress, health issues ensuring I needed a cheap and easy life. We stopped that train earlier this month (the grass is not always greener or cheaper it would seem) but not before the serious downsize was had. One of which was … Continue reading Wildblood and Queenie – The Vinyl Edit
#TBT to that day in April ’23 when the Chris & Dom’s Record Box Sunday Almanac reprobates descended into our 30/60 celebration at Patterns with style. Decadent disco darlings of the queerest kind soundtracked by the ever-sassy showstoppers that are Chris Goddard and Dom Agius Can’t wait to join the Sunday Almanac fam on January 28th at Sunday Almanac 10th Birthday Bash at Saint Georges, … Continue reading Chris & Dom’s Sunday Almanac 10th Birthday
The Wildblood and Queenie Show starts January just as it should be – fuelled by happiness, hot tunes and a little HRT. So join us this Friday as we get hotter than Davina on a loved-up leotard trip as we deliver some right fine fuck January tunes. It may be cold outside but it’ll be hot flushing in the bunker as we scatter the 1BTN … Continue reading The Wildblood and Queenie 1BTN Show 26.01.24
When you write a dissertation about gay night club flyer design and a certain Paul Kemp’s Club Shame and get cited in an academic article by your uni tutor from back in the day, the ever-brilliant Annebella Pollen. Back to back with my incredible university professor Paul Jobling. Yep, that’s me, that autistic school refuser who was told they’d never make anything with their words. … Continue reading Sliding into academia courtesy of Annebella Pollen
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