There’s something about Hot Chip that makes me love them. Over and over and over. And so it is with their latest sound adventure the truly addictive Hungry Child. Forthcoming from their June incoming longplayer A Bath Full of Ecstasy, this is a tune you will not be able to get out of your head. Which is where video director Saman Kesh comes in. Boy, … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Hot Chip’s Hungry Child
One day a few years back out of trainspotting curiosity I decided to sort my iTunes in order of plays. Who would have the most? Who would be the tunes I played over and over, much to my neighbour’s sheer, erm, joy? The underground house DJ in me was hoping for some Chicago goodness, the glitter queen after some disco, whilst my natural resting face … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Fleetwood Mac
Welcome to the magic that is streaming the Queenie & Wildblood Show– 3 hours of our disco delights, house hotties and never-guilty treasures as we spread the love on 1BTN. From soul to funked up disco and delicious divas via 80s electro pop detours and synth sweeties it’s all here for your listening pleasure. Plus with a little 50 tunes for 50 years action as … Continue reading Listen again : 010319 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’ve not always been the healthiest of souls, a mind not as strong as my occasionally butch bod would like it to be. (The lack of #50tunesfor50years this past ten days is a testament to that). I always know I’m in trouble when the music goes off, when the moments without a soundtrack become days and when the days without a wiggle become weeks without … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Midland
Can you believe it’s March already? The days are getting longer and whilst it might not be time to crack out your bikini it’s definitely time to get your lug-holes round some beautiful music – and this lady knows a magnificent tune when she hears one!!! So as we celebrate the budding trees, the lighter evenings and of course International Women’s Day, let the gorgeous … Continue reading Feeling up thanks to Kerry Jean Lister
The all-women club night Venus Rising did more than just thrill me in parts of my body I didn’t think existed back in ’91. It changed my mindset, putting me in a path that was to be Shameless and full of regal passion. And it made me fall for the oh so hot soul of house music, the divas that ensured the b.p.m.’s were filled … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Xi-Xi
Two words that mean its gonna be a good night in disco land. Guy Williams. So if you want your tunes as classy this fella from clubland who’s brought more joy to my dancing nights than any other DJ I care to think of, you best check out this epic six hour 25th Year Anniversary set recorded at London’s Savage last weekend. A lesson in … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Guy Williams
Sometimes you need your disco saucy, sultry and oh so sweet. A groove so good all Fern can do is sing about it. And what a groove. One that’s had me hooked since I first dug deep into disco’s glittering underbelly (thanks it must be said to the boys of Horse Meat Disco), Fern Kinney’s Groove Me is an epic lesson in the joy of … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Fern Kinney
This one is a seriously indecisive choice. Because this one is more than one tune. It’s more like 50 times 50 tunes as I head towards that thing called the DJ box. Thankfully the finer DJs in my life don’t appear to share the red button terror I do, delivering instead sets that have wowed, charmed and made my life so sound. Be they Midland … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Various Artists Various DJs
Wildblood and Queenie 