Home Service LGBT+ History Month Specials on RadioReverb

Celebrate LGBT+ History Month with two special Home Service shows on Brighton’s community radio station RadioReverb. Expect plenty of dance floor memories as Wildblood & Queenie delve into our glorious queer past and play tracks reflecting the 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Expect soul, funk, disco house and plenty of camp banter (with added Polari!) as we remember dance floors past and … Continue reading Home Service LGBT+ History Month Specials on RadioReverb

Wildblood + Queenie’s February Gscene Wonders

This month the tunes are as joyful as the hopes only spring can bring, yes its time to get loved up and heartfelt. First up is the jazz-fuelled delight that is Songs For Knotty by Ishmael Ensemble on the tasty (sorry couldn’t help ourselves) Banoffee Pies label. One for the lovers. As are the minimal and ambient wonders of S.A.M.’s Dream State Of A Bellmaker … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s February Gscene Wonders

Perfect distraction: Joe Goddard’s Music Is The Answer

Like the wonders from Werk For Peace I believe that music is the answer. It has to be. Doesn’t it? Okay maybe house won’t fix the nightmare coming from the US right now but community just might. So until the day we do make everything okay again I’ m gonna find inspiration in tracks like this latest beauty from Joe Goddard. Re-imagining Tenaglia for the 21st century. … Continue reading Perfect distraction: Joe Goddard’s Music Is The Answer

Perfect distraction: Goldfrapp we can’t wait Anymore

So Goldfrapp have gone and dropped a wonder. And the tease is perfect. March the 31st can’t come soon enough. And if the forthcoming Silver Eye album opener Anymore is anything to go by then my non-Goldfrapp loving neighbours will be wishing I hadn’t made March’s must-purchase. Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory you right teasers you. Silver Eye, Goldfrapp’s seventh album is released  on March 31 through Mute. Listen now on Spotify and … Continue reading Perfect distraction: Goldfrapp we can’t wait Anymore

Wildblood + Queenie’s Home Service: The Sybil-not-that-Sybil one

It’s time to get your ears round our latest Home Service as we keep the house bouncing, the innuendos Ofcom freindly and the skateboarding interference to a minimum. Like we do. We’ve some fine tune action from The xx, Daniel T, Marquis Hawkes, COEO, Denney, Carlo & Black Loops, our tune of the month from The Black Madonna plus a sprinkling of disco magic by Syreeta and a 25th WB … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s Home Service: The Sybil-not-that-Sybil one

Don’t tell me not to live, just sit and putter! 10 Actions for the first 100 Days.

Where Streisand leads I’ll always follow. Chasing tugs, running after Doc’s rocks in San Francisco, and even Up The Sandbox (yep I’m that much of a dedicated fan!) Since K-K-K-Katie protested in The Way We Were I’ve always had a thing for Babs and a cause. She didn’t disappoint this weekend when her words took on Trump at the Women’s March in Los Angeles joining the many legends speaking out against Trump … Continue reading Don’t tell me not to live, just sit and putter! 10 Actions for the first 100 Days.

A much needed perfect distraction: Nina Simone’s Revolution

Today I need hope. Today I need to know its gonna be alright. So today I’m reaching for Nina Simone. And filling my belly with fire for the fight to come. Sure it maybe just over the pond but just as in Russia, Indonesia, Lithuania, Eygpt, Iraq, Jamaica, Maldives and over 79 countries across the world, the LGBT+ community of the USA need our support. Anti-sodomy laws were ruled … Continue reading A much needed perfect distraction: Nina Simone’s Revolution

Perfect Distractions: Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long [The Reflex Revision]

You don’t have to wait to long for a decent tune to turn up on the award-winning weekly Horse Meat Disco show on Rinse FM. Infact from you don’t have to wait any time at all. This week DJ Luke Howard, aka Filthy Luka delivered a rewind moment that has kept me grinning all week long. The right lovely Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long [The Reflex Revision] … Continue reading Perfect Distractions: Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long [The Reflex Revision]

Perfect Distraction: Justin Cudmore’s Forget It EP on The Bunker New York

Today I needed a bleep that didn’t resemble the various bleeping expletives coming out of my mouth in response to May’s latest sink-my-nation speech. I needed a perfect distraction. Thankfully Justin Cudmore’s Forget It has enough bleeps to disguise the sounds of me banging my head against my desk. In fact it has enough bleeps, filled with addictive basslines, vocal hooks and wiggly acid overtones, to please everyone. Old skool meets … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Justin Cudmore’s Forget It EP on The Bunker New York