I love daffodils. They mean spring. They mean sunshine. They mean warmth. When the time comes for some soul to write my funeral notice don’t let them say ‘no flowers’. Say ‘lots of daffs’. Hundreds of them. Daffodils. They are my yellow joy. And when they are gone the sweetpeas come. Blooming marvellous. Continue reading Is that Spring I can feel?
Thawed out yet? Feeling the gentle heat of spring in those dancing pants of yours? Summer dear ones is almost here (say we, ever the optimists). And to fuel our hope for sunny days and hot nights here’s a pick of March’s finest. First check out Opto Nights Volume 1 on Opto and its tasty mix of house, techno and progressive. The acidic sounding Spank … Continue reading Wildblood and Queenie’s March Wonders
This month’s Gscene magazine sees the missus wax lyrical about the checklist that keeps telling her she’s getting on a bit. Just a bit mind. Enjoy x Why I know I really am knocking on a bit by Queen Josephine aged forty-eight and three-quarters. 1. It seems like about two months ago that Gscene last had a theme about Age although I’m reliably informed it … Continue reading Queenie’s knocking on a bit (apparently)
It consisted of one stand alone spin dryer, a bunch of coins for the meter and a sweet gay lad called Mark. Wash day with Whitney in a kitchen in Guildford. Smalls thrown in the air with every ‘Ohhhh I wanna dance with somebody’, a much needed lesson in camp for an Essex dyke, heavy with political intentions but light on gay sensibilities. Whitney, like … Continue reading Remembering wash day with Whitney
If music be the fuel of love then this, we hope, will rev you up in all the right places. Welcome to Wildblood and Queenie’s Winter Warmer Vol.7 – The LOVED Up One. With an emphasis on the sauce that only a decent tune can provide, this mix tips the wink to some of the finest tunes doing the business this February. It’s the kind … Continue reading Wildblood and Queenie’s Winter Warmer Vol.7 – The loved up one
Never has a game of football seemed so long. Never has my Facebook chat been so camp or so fabulous. Last night I joined a mass of British gay men staying up way past their bedtime just so we could say we saw it live. And wow was it worth it. I may have had enough time to have knitted Gaultier’s cone Madonna bra whilst … Continue reading Reasons to love Madonna No. 586230037020824: Super Bowl 2012
As the bills get bigger and times get tougher there’s nothing better than a bit of DIY. And when the results can be this beautiful whats not to like? Making Things Easy courtesy of 1977 and a certain Mr Ron Kidd is everything the budget squeezed home improvement buff could want. Don’t they look happy? Life was simpler then, okay maybe excluding wallpaper, but when … Continue reading Charity Shop Treasure: Making things easy in an age of austerity
If bass be the food of love, boom on! Yes its time to get seriously loved up with some sweet, sweet sounds. First up is Kinny and her sensational second album Can’t Kill A Dame With Soul on Tru Thoughts. You’ll not find a sounder sonic palette of on-the-button reggae, jazz and soul music this month. Another celebration of all things class comes courtesy of … Continue reading Wildblood and Queenie’s Fabulous February’s Wonders
For me the moment I love Brighton the best is on a hot summer day, haze coming off the tarmac as we drive along the seafront, windows down, tunes blaring. You know what I mean. Of course I’m omitting to mention the traffic jams, the eyesore that is the Odeon, nutters leaping out in front of the car, my lack of a suitably tanned and … Continue reading Two sides to Brighton courtesy of Caleb Yule and Sam Hiscox
Eve Arnold. A focused, truly wonderful, always inspiring legend who put the class into creativity and the balls into the male dominated world of photography. We’ll not see her like again. Continue reading Eve Arnold: A focused legend
