50 Tunes For 50 Years: Barbra Streisand The Way We Were
I can still picture my mother’s net curtains dancing on the summer breeze as I returned home from school that hot afternoon in 1976. Stepping through our forever-open front door, the sound of a woman I would love all my life greeted me, singing her broken soul out as she remembers The Way We Were. What I learnt that day as the vinyl crackled through … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Barbra Streisand The Way We Were
50 Tunes For 50 Years: C-Mos
Come Monday the 4th of February 2019 there will be a lot of talk about Brighton Pride. Who knows, they may even break the Internet again. But regardless of the headliner announcement, the controversies or the so-called principled objections to an event that some will argue is not the “Pride” they once knew and fought for, I’ll be rooting for the wonders bringing LGBTQ+ Pride … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: C-Mos
Feeling the disco love this February
Fancy a little de-freeze? Then come join us on the airwaves of 1BTN, Club Barbra at The West Hill Tavern, at Patterns with Honey Dijon, International Women’s Day Mixtape Bitch, Please! Residents Party at The Green Door Store and more this winter as we get set to deliver the funk, the disco and the hottest of house. All destined to warm up your winter days and long nights, all destined to please. Just … Continue reading Feeling the disco love this February
50 Tunes For 50 Years: Kraftwerk
If you grew up in the 1970s you soon appreciated the importance of closing your eyes and escaping to another world. The clash of floral wallpapers, candlewick soft furnishings and cheesecloth tablecloths, Hornsea crockery and gaudy patterned carpets (in the regulation shades of brown demanded by the decade) ensured it was an essential activity, saving your optics from the visual overload. An eye survival lesson … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Kraftwerk
50 Tunes 50 Years: HNNY
This is for the lovers of sparse house. The deep souls who need just the house basics to lose it, a simple bass line, a succinct sample and a kicking hook. This is for the warm-up and the afters. The anticipation and the appreciation. The glory of the night ahead, the giggles from the party just passed. HNNY’s Tears on Local Talk is a tune … Continue reading 50 Tunes 50 Years: HNNY
50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Breeders
Considering I’ve spent over half my life with my Queenie it figures that she’s going rock up on my 50 Tunes For 50 Years a fair few times. We’ve shared way too many stacks of speakers, amps and record players for her not too. But when you consider our track record one would think that the tune that soundtracked the beginning of my greatest love … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Breeders
50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Jam
It was 1980 and all I wanted in the world was a Harrington jacket. To feel the tartan lining on my skin, the buttons by my neck and cruise the streets of Frinton on my, er, hand me down Raleigh Shopper looking the dogs. In my Stay Press trousers of course. Sadly the local jumble sales rarely saw a donation from a generous Essex mod … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: The Jam
1BTN Bunker Buzz Chart Feb 2019
The February 1BTN Bunker Buzz Chart is now online and it will keep you tapping and wiggling and nodding until, well, March. Loads of sweet selections from 1BTN’s sweetest of selectors awaits you including our latest choice disco delight from Horse Meat Disco and Amy Douglas on Glitterbox Records. Just how we like it here by the seaside as we take the good stuff intergalactic on … Continue reading 1BTN Bunker Buzz Chart Feb 2019
Queenie + Wildblood Show on 1BTN 010219
Welcome once again to the Queenie and Wildblood Show on 1BTN as we return to the bunker on Friday 1st of February. A selection box of divine disco, fierce funk, determined detours and is it the weekend yet house music awaits you as we broadcast to you, our favoured beauties. And with advanced pressings (steady missus) from Justin Jay, Partyfine, Ralph Session, DJ Spinna, Kassian, … Continue reading Queenie + Wildblood Show on 1BTN 010219
50 Tunes For 50 Years: Luther Vandross
Pencil skirts and crushes. Soul music and Sunday afternoons. Love and Luther. Giving me the reason to Stop For Love. It was 1986 and nothing, not even Luther, could save me from that first unrequited love, that first true heartbreak as my big brown eyes failed to deliver the results they later would and I grew certain that this “phase” would ever end. Not that … Continue reading 50 Tunes For 50 Years: Luther Vandross
Wildblood and Queenie 