And so we continue. Returning to 1BTN this Friday 14th November, from 13:00. The Wildblood and Queenie Show. Set to treat your ears to some right bobby dazzlers as we delve deep into our housed up boxes and disco archives. We’ve plenty of Zap pleasure as we jack it up, we’ve a detour relapse you’ll want to make, new action from Detroit Swindle, a double … Continue reading The Wildblood and Queenie 1BTN Show 14.11.25
Tell me you come from a long line of haberdashers without telling me you come from a long line of haberdashers. Granny Branch and me, Waltham Way, Frinton On Sea, Essex, 1974. Dressed handmade by my mum, fabric provided (at a charge, no doubt) by Granny Joan Branch from her shop, Branch The Drapers on Connaught Avenue. A formidable, filter-free matriarch, shopkeeper and landlady who … Continue reading Granny Branch and the polyester years
It is with a heavy heart that I have to write of the passing of Josephine Queenie Bourne’s adored dad Philip Hugh Bourne on August 31st 2025, aged 88. Husband, Dad, Uncle, Grandad, Great Granddad, loyal friend, inspiring colleague, Monday night quiz king, the bassiest of choir wonders and performers, New Orleans Trad Jazz and Blues lover, steam railway fanatic, obsessive map reader, passionate gardener, … Continue reading Forever blowing bubbles
Summertime disco roast with us Wildblood and Queenie at The Barley Mow Pub Sunday 20th July 2pm onwards. Joining a line-up of darlings including Charlene FromNeighboursDarren Bell and Trusted Rhythm Records Just how you like it. Disco, eats, sunshine, good times. See you at the front. Menus, info and reservations https://thebarleymow.uk/ Continue reading A Balearic Boulangerie of Summer Sounds at Barley Mow
DANCE FOR PEACE returns this Saturday 12th of July to raise funds for the charity Medical Aid For Palestinians at Brighton Electric Studios. Some of Brighton’s finest DJs are coming together to show support and raise money for the innocent victims of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people. The awesome DJ line-up includes: STEVE MAC, SCOTT DIAZ, EVIL TOM, POOK, NICK HOOK, EUGENE GLASGOW, CHEMA GONZALEZ, BRUNO NUMERO … Continue reading Dance For Peace 12.07.25
My mum, Janet Elizabeth, was born in Banstead, Surrey, in 1943 in The Woolpack, a pub run by her gran Elizabeth, her uncle Bobby and her parents Lucy and Jack Prevost. Mum and Nan would often tell the tale of the night in 1944 when a doodlebug took the top off The Woolpack whilst they cowered under the kitchen table in a Morrison shelter in … Continue reading This one is for Janet…
It’s here. It’s happening. That one party of the year we all wait for. The Brighton Pride legend that is the Sunday Sundae Pride Reunion at Patterns Brighton. The party Queenie and I never stop being proud to be part of. The party responsible for some of our finest hours. The party we locals call home come Brighton Pride weekend. A reunion of our queer … Continue reading Sunday Sundae Pride Reunion 2025
Yesterday I made a cheesecake for Clare. A vegan cheesecake, all worthy Violife, fuelled coconut cream with some McVitie’s filth for its super sweet foundations. And somehow as I leaned into that very specific spoon-to-melted butter biscuits action as you press down the crumb in your spring tin of soon-to-be dessert of joy (fingers crossed Clare!) I found myself back in my childhood cheesecake-making days. … Continue reading Greens Cheesecake Mix
Before the day raves of 2024 made a generation of hip (aching) clubbing elders happy, there was Sunday Sundae. A gay tea dance that delivered Sunday afternoons more special than an iced bun and a hot brew at your nans, Sunday Sundae was the home of right proper deep New York house and US garage, when the BPMs were as engaging as your Nokia ringtone … Continue reading Sunday Sundae Pride Reunion 2024
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