Today I had yet another reminder of who exactly is responsible for my taste in music. I would like to think it was some mentor like experience with a soul in love with music who inspired my teenage tastes. I could say it was Anna Tripp and her gothic, Bauhaus moments, that it was my Ma and that Motown soundtrack, my first gay boy dearest … Continue reading Love Witchita Cowboy? I blame Radio 2
Last night saw a distinct rise in temperature as my cold settled in for forty eight hours and The Brits raged on the TV. I say rage, it was more like ramble, helpless as its desire for credibility fell victim to Corden arse licking claptrap. Thinly veiled wank jokes sat next to Bieber love me desperation as the one known as Not-Ruth-Jones tried to dismiss … Continue reading My Brits? Your Brits? Their Brits?
My Nan, Lucy. Shortest lady, shortest skirt. Today we braved Bexhill and the wind to marvel in the wonder that is the De La Warr Pavilion. The Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff architecture never ceases to inspire me and this month’s content Moving Portraits – 60 years of film and video portraits continued that inspiration. With unexpected memories attached. Although Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and … Continue reading A Ma, a Ga and one tweed coat
Here it is – our latest mix, Queenie and Wildblood’s Winter Warmer Vol.4. It’s a tech-fuelled adventure starting with the slow burner that is Sleazy E, reflecting our love of the wind-up as we head into heavy bass from the likes of Creep, Channel X and Casie Lane. It’s got its queer tech moments, how could you otherwise describe the wonder of Riva Starr’s Tribute … Continue reading Wildblood and Queenie’s Winter Warmer Vol.4 The (queer) tech one
The delights never stop as Tensnake – Mr Friday night – remixes Hercules & Love Affair’s My House in heroic style. The bass gets a makeover whilst the additional keyboard brings an groove that hard to resist. I wanna hear it louder. That’s all. My House (Tensnake Remix) by moshi moshi music Derrick Carter gets in the act with a suitably moody yet bouncy bass … Continue reading Hercules and Love Affair ‘My House’ Tensnake and Derrick Carter Remixes
Friday night and we put away frivolous things and concentrated on life’s finer stuff. Beats, beer and mates. Wrapped up in perfectly formed Audio Brighton style, Tensnake delivered one of the finer sets I’ve ever heard. Yes there was Coma Cat and yes there was disco but as the groove of one merged into the groove of another courtesy of a re-tweeked Audio soundsystem (Pige … Continue reading Mr Tensnake I presume – Audio + Maxxi Soundsystem present Tensnake LIVE 04.02.11
Distractions have been hard to ignore this week. The news providing moments of hope, horror and disgust as the human spirit continues to amaze and baffle me in equal measure. Music seems both irrelevant and vital right now, soundtracks outweighs by chanting yet providing essential hope. There are certain tunes that stay with you because of the images of the time, a chosen album or … Continue reading Perfect Distractions – Maya Jane Coles’ Humming Bird
Seems I can’t go straight to my desk and write essays. Like Billy Connolly once said when you get into work you don’t go straight to it. You ease yourself in. Well thanx to a woman who knows far too much about music for her own good I’m feeling medieval. Fake Blood’s Medieval. And not getting straight too it. The fuzzy distorted bass is too … Continue reading Feeling Medieval – Fake Blood make me boil once more
Must be something about being born by the seaside and having sea salt in my bloodstream that makes me love Brighton so. Just when you think you can’t handle another seagull chorus, it knocks out another wonder and all is well in my hometown again. As January comes to its long waited for conclusion, there’s plenty to look forward to in the next few months … Continue reading Reasons to be Brighton 1.2.3.4. (Hercules & Love Affair, Tensnake, Your Mum’s House & our Romy)
Just what makes your DJ tick? What tunes did those headphone-wearing lovelies listen to way back when? GScene thought it was time to find out. Hence the desert island. No palm trees, just decent tunes. And this month’s desert disco darling? Brighton’s very own disco Queen, one half of Go Bang!!! and coordinator of Calabash, DJ Affy. Always an inspiration Affy’s been dancing his butt … Continue reading Desert Island Disco DJ Affy www.gscene.com
