Ibiza, September 2000. Our first time on the White Isle. Lene’s island tours and Christopher’s local characters. Café con leche and cerveza, nuddy beaches and the never-ending blushes. Hotel Cenit and breaking the beds. Kittens in the sand and drives around the Aleppo pines. Pan and jamon, sticky seaweed and the beauty of Benirras’ bongos. Longed for paella and perfect sunsets. And asking ourselves as … Continue reading Ibiza 2000
I wrote a blog for Queer Heritage South about our Candy Bar Brighton years. A reflection of an epic lesbian scene moment in which we played a small part – 12″s and all. Which is nice. There are photos and memories and name checks and things. The memories may be a little blurry, the tunes a little less banging nowadays, but the Candy connections we … Continue reading The Candy Bar Brighton Years 2001-08
10 Marine Parade matters. A building filled with love and emotions and the best of people, its basslines and disco high hats have kept us safe and dancing for as long as Queenie and I can remember. A building at the heart of the queer community that has always delivered the goods – be it Brighton Pride weekend, Horse Meat Disco, DTPM, Brighton Gay Dance … Continue reading 10 years of Patterns: Brighton’s must-dance disco deviant
I wrote a blog about lesbians for @queerinbrighton website. Like you do. Read it, like it, share it. To round up the year, our community champions are sharing their thoughts on the project so far, what drew them to QHS, and what they want to do next! Kate, our older lesbian Community Champion, has shared photos from one of their ‘Rebooting Our Archive’ events. The series of … Continue reading QHS Community Champion blog
So it’s finally happened. We’ve ended up where we belong, in a museum. Yep, we’re that old. Wildblood and Queenie – archived for the nation thanks to My Queer Museum as we babble on about basslines past, discos done and lesbian adventures had. It’s all here. Every grown breaking moment of history you’d expect from two old queer disco dears as we donate to the … Continue reading My Queer Museum: Wildblood and Queenie
Overthought and forever rejection expectant I was blown away by the support for our first Re-Booting The Archive Queer In Brighton event at Ironworks Studio and my debut outing as QHS Live Archive Lesbian Community Champion (Get me!!) Watching what I will now forever call our joyous colony of lesbians (the plural name for a bunch of beavers apparently – I looked it up) gather and want to talk … Continue reading Re-booting our archive – Our tales of Lesbian Brighton & Hove [2ND EVENT]
Here we go again. Yet another Tory #TBT as they announce their 21st-century version of Clause 28. Banning the support of trans kids in school, sanctioning silence and scarring another generation of queer kids with shame. Shame that I endured growing up a queer kid in the 80s, shame that has undoubtedly shaped who I am today and how I value my identity. Continue reading Clause 28 rebooted
Join us as we go back and celebrate the joy that was the Spirit Of The Zap Reunion. Capturing the love in that room, the joy the Zap Club in Brighton brought us back in the day and the connections we made under those Brighton arches that became our lifelong family. Continue reading Wildblood and Queenie: Spirit Of Zap Reunion Mix
Amazing what you find in the loft if you look hard enough. Tucked in with the flyers and laminated membership card, hiding underneath that oversized Coco Club tee, there it was. 90 minutes of joy courtesy of a Coco Club cassette. Continue reading Chris Coco live at Coco Club The Zap Brighton 1990
The Zap Club was always much more to me than just a name above an archway. Its influence on my life far greater than anything this wide-eyed queer suede head could have imagined back in 1990 when I first made my way to its famous if filthy Brighton dancefloor. The sea salt ingrained in the crumbling arches was as fundamental to my life as a … Continue reading Spirit of Zap Reunion
Wildblood and Queenie 