My latest article for PRS M Magazine is out now (like it’s author) for Pride month. It’s a celebration of all things disco and the role I believed it played on the place I’ve always been happiest to call home. Consider it a love letter to the genre, the glorious folk who created it, the DJs and LGBTQI+ communities who adopted it and the disco … Continue reading PRS M Magazine : Dance Proud
Oh those baby dyke days. Memories of rejection triggered by It’s A Sin. The relative who wrote banning me from seeing her child as she’d had to scrub the house after my visit, “cos of the AIDS”. The bestie who declared maybe we shouldn’t be mates – “cos her dad said AIDS is God’s righteous judgement”. The rejection, the homophobia, the words that went deep … Continue reading Baby Dyke Tears
When the ever-glorious Luke Howard from Horse Meat Disco asks you to contribute your Pride selection to his Glitterbox Radio Pride Takeover Show one can’t say no. And so it was as we joined some of our fabulous LGBTQI+ family for some glittering Glitterbox Pride essentials. We may be apart this Pride season but it’s time to join us for some Cerrone action as we … Continue reading Glitterbox Radio Show 169: Horse Meat Disco Pride Takeover
A candlelight vigil at the Brighton AIDS Memorial in New Steine Gardens is the centrepiece of a number of events marking World AIDS Day in the city this year. All are welcome to come along to the remembrance event of those we have lost to HIV/AIDS in Brighton & Hove at 6pm on Sunday 1 December at the memorial in Kemp Town. The event includes … Continue reading World AIDS Day 2019
Wildblood and Queenie’s 20 Minute Disco Mini Mix celebrating Stonewall50 is now available to stream on Mixcloud for your listen again (and again and again) pleasure). Press play for nineteen tunes, yep nineteen tunes (we counted them all in and we counted them all out) in a twenty minute mini mix as we celebrate the soundtrack of our Pride lives together, in Brighton and across the … Continue reading Listen again: Wildblood + Queenie’s Stonewall50 Disco Mini Mix
I want to say thank you. Thank you to the queer darlings, the trans women of colour, the bisexual beauts, the lesbian heroines, the non-binary diamonds. The kitten heeled, DM booted, frock frilling, denim donning wonders of Stonewall Inn who stood up and said no more. No more. No fucking more. Thanks to your bravery this 14-year-old baby dyke back in 1983 had a story … Continue reading Stonewall 50
So, erm, this is happening on Friday 28th June. Wildblood and Queenie’s 20 Minute Disco Mini Mix celebrating Stonewall50 on the Mary Anne Hobbs Show on BBC6Music. Blimey. Thanks to producer and DJ heroine Kath McDermott for thinking of us two old ladies and giving us a chance to be disco deviants on the BBC. I’ll say it again. Blimey. So tune in this Stonewall 50th anniversary for nineteen … Continue reading 6Music’s Stonewall50 Disco Mini Mix on Mary Anne Hobbs
A little #TBT action from our Strike A Brighton Pose exhibition in 2015 as we remember those heady Zanzibar days ahead of Friday’s reunion at Subline. Flyer artwork courtesy of the archives of Alf Le Flohic, Michele Allardyce and a certain Wildblood. Nice to know I’m not the only collector holding on to these moments of not so ephemeral disco history. The Zanzibar Reunion Party … Continue reading Striking a Zanzibar pose
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The all-women club night Venus Rising did more than just thrill me in parts of my body I didn’t think existed back in ’91. It changed my mindset, putting me in a path that was to be Shameless and full of regal passion. And it made me fall for the oh so hot soul of house music, the divas that ensured the b.p.m.’s were filled … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Xi-Xi
Wildblood and Queenie 