For those who need to know, here’s the stuff you need to know. Tracks that made the listening easy on 1BTN. Or the tracklistings for May 3rd on 1BTN. Either way, with added ZenZero Chicago connection selections they are most sound. Enjoy. Los Amigos Invisibles & Dimitri From Paris Glad To Know You (Ray Mang’s Flying dub) Toy Tonics Da Afro Funky Groover (Original Mix) … Continue reading 1BTN 030519 tracklisting
It’s time to get those sun dances happening people. The summer is coming (promise) and we are ready to disco. And with loads of party action incoming from wonders including 1BTN WKND at The Alternative Escape, Bitch, Please!, Club Barbra, The Syndicate Party, Zanzibar Reunion, Eleven Seven, Alfresco Festival, The Tempest Terrace, DJ Faro adventures, The Pride Village Party, Sunday Sundae, Block, 1BTN Soundsystem, Patterns, … Continue reading Time to do a disco sun dance
Whether a child or an adult, big or small you filled my cinematic days with wonder. Thank you oh wonderful Wookiee one. RIP Peter Mayhew. RIP Chewie. Continue reading RIP Chewbacca
Happy birthday to my first and always ever crush. Thanks to her this buggered nose of a queer who had a thing for gutsy ballads and heartbreaking cinematic performances knew nothing could rain on her parade. Continue reading Happy birthday Barbra Streisand
The 1BTN March Bunker Buzz chart is now online – starring some right tasty moments including a Dame Damian Harris FGTH recommendation that has us all a queer quiver and a slice of Horse Meat Disco Hifi Sean rework goodness. Like it does. Click here to read more and grab the playlist on Spotify to hear them in all their glory. Enjoy. Continue reading 1BTN Bunker Buzz Chart
It’s International Women’s Day this Friday and 1BTN will be filled with the sounds of women all day long as twenty six presenters and their special guests deliver a day of celebrating, campaigning and fundraising for Threshold BHT and The Girls Network. As per I got to write a few words about it on the 1BTN website. As per I got a little over emotional … Continue reading IWD19 connections on 1BTN
Every week when I was a kid we’d head up the path beside our house to my Granny’s bungalow to pay the rent on 60 Pole Barn Lane. And every week after she filled in the rent book she’d hand over two Fox’s Glacier Fruit and our 10p pocket money. The candy was a thrill but the pocket money was the escape pod. Ten whole … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Solange
I once had a friend who was saving herself for David. In all seriousness. Sylvian was all she wanted and wished for and although by the time Japan graced my sound system, I knew I my love life would be fulfilled at slightly different tomorrow parties I was happy to second that emotion. For more than a moment back then in the 80s David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Japan
I am an international woman (cape optional) and I have my own day. Literally. My birthday is the 8th March, this year my 50th (how the disco did that happen?) and I’d like to think that women across the world have only one thing on their minds as they gather to celebrate and campaign. Okay, maybe not, but sharing my celebrations on a day when … Continue reading Still Wild At Heart
This one is for my little sister Joanne. The lass I rarely see, the lass life has kept from me but the lass who will always be. Chalk and cheese, we never saw eye to eye on much, mine an awkward life not suited to her confident Essex ways. She was the sweet, I the sour, she the popular, me the acquired, her 70s brash, … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Average White Band
Wildblood and Queenie 