All it takes for my heart to fall in love with a tune is a diva who knows her way to my soul. A tad of a tall order but something Lady Bird does within the first bar of this essential house track by Soldiers of Twilight. More uplifting than a crane driver on MDMA, this house beauty has accompanied some of the finest dancefloor … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Soldiers Of Twilight
It was Guildford 1987 and I had heard a tune like no other, a tune I couldn’t get out of my head. A glorious man called Mark I had found myself house sharing with (responsible for enough gay life lessons to last me, well, a lifetime) was a disco devotee and always happy to confirm my first childhood love for the cowbell and strings. But … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Nitro Deluxe
It is time to wiggle through humpday with The Queenie & Wildblood Show on 1BTN. Expect nothing but grooves of the golden kind as we deliver the best in disco-infused house and house-infused disco. With new music from Birdee, Alkalino, Sophie Lloyd and a certain Mr Wolfman, hot new promos from Girls Of The Internet, PBR Streetgang, Heist Recordings, HDSN, longplayer love from Nordic Trax and … Continue reading Wiggle through humpday with Queenie + Wildblood on 1BTN
So I kinda forgot to have kids. Making it to fifty years old knowing some poor soul won’t inherit these unique genes is, well, a blessing, I guess but in my world filled with the best of nieces and nephews (and honorary nieces and nephews), those days of regrets are few. But there is, of course, the other kind of family I have chosen to … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: The Wannadies
Sometimes you need a tune to rage with. And nothing does it better than The The’s I’ve Been Waiting For Tomorrow (For All My Life) or has done for, well, most of my life. All the rage, all the anger, all the guilt, all the disappointment and despair. In a healthy five minutes and forty-six seconds. Forty-eight minutes if you count the rest of Soul Mining, … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: The The
Forever soundtracking those early summer days of my childhood as Radio 2 seeped out of our hand-me-down radio come sideboard (once it had 30 minutes to warm up that is), this beauty introduced me to the joys of the songsmith and for me the greatest lyrical line of all time. Yes this Wildblood is a romantic to her Essex core. I mean who could not … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Glen Campbell
So here we go. Starting at the beginning. Raised on Motown, Bacharach, Nat King Cole, disco and Kraftwerk. Angsting it out to The Smiths and those Cocteau Twins, going electro with Japan and The Human League, dancing to Luther, Stevie, Northern Soul and Ms Summer. Loving with Marvin and Badu. Mending a broken heart with Al Green. Swishing to Salsoul. Losing it to Frankie Knuckles … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Dionne Warwick
For this autistic lass, the promise I made to myself as I entered my 50th year was not an easy one. Say yes to things that scare you. Say yes when you would have said no. So 2019 will now be known as the year this Wildblood said yes. To festivals, to gigs, to new challenges, to my bike and to those random email requests … Continue reading Queer Songbook & Traumfrau present International Women’s Day Mixtape
So we go, the festive season is here and the pudding is about to be eaten. May your Christmas be filled with feasting, fabulousness and festive bits. Here’s to your bells being very ding dong, Santa delivering you and yours every wish and every moment of your holiday season being filled with celebrations. Wrapped with love. Obviously. So Happy Xmas everyone and we’ll see you … Continue reading Happy Xmas from Wildblood and Queenie
2019 will mark fifty years of being a Wildblood. A Wildblood with plans on my mind as I look set to challenge myself to new experiences, new gigs and new thrills. And believe me as someone living with Aspergers this is gonna be prove to be quite the challenge. So watch this space and watch this Wildblood as I get ready to dance, DJ, sing, … Continue reading 2019 here we come
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