We’ve all had our Bowie TV moment. You know the one. 1972. Arm dropped casually over Mick Ronson’s shoulder as he performed Starman on Top Of the Pops. Moments that made us feel we were no longer alone, that we were part of a tribe. I can’t sit here and claim that when I saw Frankie Goes To Hollywood on Channel 4’s The Tube one … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Frankie Goes To Hollywood
It was Guildford 1987 and I had heard a tune like no other, a tune I couldn’t get out of my head. A glorious man called Mark I had found myself house sharing with (responsible for enough gay life lessons to last me, well, a lifetime) was a disco devotee and always happy to confirm my first childhood love for the cowbell and strings. But … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Nitro Deluxe
Today I’m feeling a little under the weather. Lurgy incoming. So it seems only right that I head towards the warmth of Nat King Cole. The crackling 33 1⁄3 rpm of Love Is The Thing from my early childhood that brought charm and cosiness to those long evenings spent on my Nan’s black leatherette sofa as I battled the scratch and static on my tight … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Nat King Cole
There is nothing so important to me as being strung out. Right proper strung out. Thanks to a childhood of being raised on the good stuff, oh how I loved my Nan’s Mantovani vinyl box set, I soon became accustomed to wanting my tunes filled with strings. And with disco endlessly glittering with the most glorious of instruments on earth, my life was destined to … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Debbie Jacobs
Sometimes you need a tune to rage with. And nothing does it better than The The’s I’ve Been Waiting For Tomorrow (For All My Life) or has done for, well, most of my life. All the rage, all the anger, all the guilt, all the disappointment and despair. In a healthy five minutes and forty-six seconds. Forty-eight minutes if you count the rest of Soul Mining, … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: The The
One of my favoured jobs as a DJ is the warm up. A real, proper warm-up. Seducing an a gently filling club into joining me on the dancefloor. Beckoning, teasing, ensuring the heads nod, those fine arses wiggle. When I started playing in house clubs all those disco moons ago you had to start at the beginning, the warm up slot, to earn you vinyl … Continue reading 50 tunes for 50 years: Chezere
Here we go then. Our best of 2018. A year that has brought us love, laughter and sunshine, lots of sunshine. Thank you to everyone who made it so, from The Tempest to Wild Family, our Patterns disco darlings, the wonders at Syndicate, Nightshift, Brighton Pride and B, Please, Club Barbra and our amazing 1BTN fam. And to you dear clubber, dear listener, dear reader. … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s Wonders of 2018
Wildblood and Queenie – if you like a lot of disco on your biscuit join our club! Be it on the airwaves of 1BTN, at B,Please! With Maze & Masters at The Green Door Store or doing our thing with the 1BTN Soundsystem at Patterns you can join our club this winter as we keep things toasty and disco. We still have some dates available … Continue reading You ready to get toasty with Wildblood and Queenie?
The nights may be drawing in but for Wildblood and Queenie that just means only one thing – reasons to keep warm (and mittens obvs!). So grab some action with us this coming November and December at B,Please! With Maze & Masters at The Green Door Store, Patterns and courtesy of our 1BTN radio shows and let’s keep those cockles warm (and dancing!) Wildblood and Queenie – two old lady … Continue reading Warming up your winter – disco style
As we head into the most sparkling of months, its time to let off a few sound bangers. Be it the Brazilian underground electronica of Manni’s Take 6 on Society 3.0 Music, the hot Parisian house of DJ Steaw’s Rise on Rutilance (oh those drums!), the jacking Chicago flavours of Chrissy’s Resilience on Chiwax or the organic, leftfield electronica of the legendary Kittin and her … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s November Bangers
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