It’s been a year of glorious sounding distractions from reality, ensuring our lives are feel good and stay fabulous. So do yourself a favour this December as we bid farewell to 2017 and budget for a blowout on the below. Your butt will love the wiggle and your loved ones love you. Enjoy. Sampha Process Young Turks Nothing got to us like this slice of … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s Longplaying Wonders of 2017
Take a moment to ask her a question and let her answer linger in your mind for hours. Yep Björk is on the interview trail again as she gets set to release her ninth studio album and all is good with the world. Her conversation with Lauren Laverne, filled with tales of Attenborough, Utopia, her childhood desire to be a DJ, swimming with choirs and ideas … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Björk, Björk and more Björk
It doesn’t go with the image I portray. It shouldn’t be me. The image of this Wildblood singing Happy Days Are Here Again is probably the one furthest away from your mind when you think of me. But then when the woman who’s gloriously camp entrance in Hello Dolly did more for my queerness than any other event in my life (that and a certain … Continue reading Perfect lifetime distraction : Barbra: The Music… The Mem’ries… The Magic!
She collects. He shoots. Or should that read I traipse behind my missus as she roots around endless secondhand bookshops, car boots and charity shops and he effortlessly creates a thing of binded beauty, bringing her obsession clarity. Either way Mark Vessey’s latest piece Observer Books has me beaming with joy. Queen Josephine’s childhood fixation reimagined with style by a photographer you need to know. … Continue reading Mark Vessey’s Observer Books
Blagging lifts in beat up cars. Bombing down motorways and country lanes. Following vague flyer instructions. Filling phone boxes. Deciphering directions. Parking up. Stumbling across fields. Parting with hard earned. Necking the good stuff. Getting down. Till the sun came up. Till we did it all again next weekend. Oh for next weekend. Thanks to Bicep and video director Joe Williams for the bringing back the … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Bicep’s Glue
There’s nowt like the news of an imminent PBR Streetgang debut longplayer to make a girl’s day. Yep Late Night Party Line is on its way come December the 1st on Skint and if their teaser single is a sign of beats to come then we are in for a right naughty winter treat. But then whenever Bonar Bradberry and Tom Thorpe get it on together … Continue reading Perfect Distractions: PBR Streetgang’s Late Night Party Line
What would Brighton be without Mr Charles Green? There would be less grins, giggles and grooves thats for sure. Because he’s the kinda King Charles whom I always want to rule my dancefloor. And with action as good as his latest Soul Fingers EP on the ever pert ASOK label, it is a cert he’ll continue to do so. Be it the techno jam hot happening … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Charles Green’s sublime Soul Figures EP
Forever opening the door to creativity in music and vision, Björk has returned and the goosebumps she generates are as pronouced as ever as she delivers yet another captivating chapter in her forever charming career. No other artist connects like she does and with her latest single The Gate and its spellbinding video, directed by long-time collaborator Andrew Thomas Huang, with creative direction by Björk (who wears … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Björk opens The Gate to Utopia
Once a year a tune comes along that you just know is gonna soundtrack your favourite moments. A tune that brings goosebumps and signals nothing but good times ahead. Horse Meat Disco‘s latest sound adventure, the divine Waiting For You To Call featuring the handsome and oh so sultry vocals of Roy Inc is just that tune. Saucy and stylish, it is a moment of … Continue reading Horse Meat Disco feat Roy Inc “Waiting For You To Call”
I’m feeling this one down, deep in my heart as Dusky returns with a sublime slice of vintage New York house. Cold Heart is set to warm yours with a “blissed out, atmospheric house epic that blends crisp percussion, soulful hooks, washing pads and a hypnotic lead organ melody”. Yep the PR is as good as the tune. And so it should be. Cold Heart is a summer anthem … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Dusky Cold Heart
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