The thing they don’t tell you about DJing is it’s where love lives. You think it is all about the first 12” you obsess over, the divine disco you can’t stop collecting, the cowbell that follows you into your dreams, the house bassline that shakes you to your dancing core. You think it’s about your name on flyers, the resident brackets you fought so hard … Continue reading We Are Love Festival 2023
So without further ado…. Due to insane amount of requests for day tickets from those of you with work, childcare or A N Other problems here they bleedin’ well are…. Trumpet fanfare You can find the tickets in the usual place via either the link in our bio or on the website hit TICKETS http://www.wearelove.events Below are the day splits for artists so you can … Continue reading We Are Love Festival Day Tickets released
Risen was one of those days I’ll always hold close and treasure. Love as heartfelt as the reunions, thrills as exciting as the new connections made. It was a slice of festival heaven Queenie and I were so proud to play our part in. Thank you to Kitty Bartlett and Alice J Franklin for making it so. And to Abiagail Anna Polyamoross Heléna Star Michelle … Continue reading Risen Festival We Love You
Tonight Matthew we are going to be We Are Love. Yes, you know what it’s like. You like the fit, you like the look, you love the feel but the name just isn’t quite you. Time to get direct. Time to say it how it is. Time to shout from the rooftops. We Are Love. So it turns out 1BTN are pretty good at this … Continue reading We Are Love festival July 28th-30th 2023
Queer cinema has always lit the way for this dramatic soul. The films watched with adolescent blushes as I hoped my mother wouldn’t note my interest in the lives of Oscar, Orton, Arnold, Quentin, or Maurice doing their queer thing on our Radio Rental. The unbridled joy of digging into Go Fish or the heat of Desert Hearts as I worked out my passions in … Continue reading Lewes Depot QueerFest
30 years since we started our disco story together and still nothing beats the thrill of seeing our name on a festival line-up, And Risen 2023 is some line-up, delivering the most incredible line-up celebrating the divine feminine, an exercise in love vibration. Sounds from across the genre spectrum – bass, garage, disco, house and techno – will fill the dancefloors of London’s Colour Factory, … Continue reading Risen 2023
What can we say other than that was blissful? Truly blissful. It’s rare to find as much joy in one place as we did this weekend at Camp Bliss and we want to thank everyone who made it so. Anthony Prior, Mark Slade and the Camp Bliss team – legendary status now secured as far as these two disco queers are concerned. Hannah Sherlock, Tim … Continue reading We found magic at Camp Bliss
So it turns out us two old queers like nothing more than dancing under canvas, the stars lighting our way, the grass beneath our feet, the glitter on our faces. And so it is with a sense of real sequined pleasure that we can announce we will be joining the glorious Camp Bliss family this August in Dorset. Shoulder to shoulder with the party titans … Continue reading Camp Bliss
Well, that was a beaut of a weekend. 1BTN and our extended family opened their arms to a bunch of delights determined to dance, dance, dance the nights away at Where Love Lives. Love as always to Mickey, Matthew, Chewy, Ben and the 1BTN firm who keep the dream alive and sounding sweet. Love too heading towards the Chris and Matt and The Chill Out … Continue reading Where Love Lives for sure
Where Love Lives One look at that line-up is more than enough to convince you to spend the weekend in the countryside with us and some of 1BTN ‘s very finest. There will be disco (and other genres that are equally as fabulous), dancing, prancing and such like. Marvellous. Last few day or weekend tickets here Continue reading Where Love Lives 2022
Wildblood and Queenie 