The moment I got my eight year old hands on that helicopter covered vinyl I was smitten. Within moments The Osmonds and their Crazy Horses were brushed to one side and it was all about the Swedish Tiger as ABBA’s Arrival entered my childhood bloodstream. And just like with The Supremes before them, within weeks I knew every word of every song they’d ever made. Pop … Continue reading Perfect lifetime distraction: ABBA
More uplifting than a Ms Mary Of Sweden basque, more joyful than Maze on happy pills, more disco than, well, disco, Calling Out by Sophie Lloyd featuring Dames Brown on Classic Music Company is gonna be THE tune of the summer. Believe us. It will accompany every sunset, enhance every wonderous festival moment, rock every boat party, sparkle at every Pride celebration, heat up every terrace, … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Sophie Lloyd featuring Dames Brown ‘Calling Out’
The sun came out yesterday and the cobwebs were swept away. Car stereo cranked up, windows down, sunnies on. And the soundtrack? The tune that kept making us hit the rewind? The summer-to-come sensation that is Tensnake’s glorious electro disco pop rework of Charlotte Gainsboug’s Sylvia Says. Genuinely do you need anything more on a sunshine day? Charlotte Gainsboug’s Sylvia Says (Tensnake Extended Mix) is … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Charlotte Gainsboug’s Sylvia Says (Tensnake Extended Mix)
This is making everything taste better. Yep Detroit Swindle are back with their taster single Flavourism featuring Seven Davis Jr and everything is delicious with the world. And with their stonking new album High Life forthcoming on Heist Recordings this May we can’t wait to flavour our summer days and nights with this Dutch duo’s latest seasonal soundscapes. Excited? Us? Hell yeah. Detroit Swindle’s Flavourism ft. Seven … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Detroit Swindle’s Flavourism ft. Seven Davis Jr
Nothing warms the soul like a Special Request can. Yep I’m defrosting nicely thanks to Gerd Janson & Shan House Mix of Special Request’s ’90s hardcore rave gear Brainstorm. This is a rave rework for us house heads, an early contender for remix of the year. But then with Gerd and Shan onboard I kinda knew the results would be special the moment it dropped into my … Continue reading Perfect distraction: Special Request’s Brainstorm (Gerd Janson & Shan House Mix)
You know us. We love a wiggly worm as much as the next person. Which is all good as Big Miz shows his affection for the worm in the most jackin’ of ways on his latest EP the glorious Build / Destroy on the Glasgow label Dixon Avenue Basement Jams. If his track Our House doesn’t get your inner Jill up Jacks hill then nothing will. Yes this is … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Big Miz’s Our House
So here they are. Our twenty tunes of glory from 2017. Twenty tunes that have accompanied some oh-so glorious moments we’ll not forget. Be it tears to Borderline on Brighton beach with Diablo, new friends and favourite DJs made on the dancefloor come 1am on NYD in Patterns (what a pleasure you were Harry and Mr Servito), goosebumps as we prep for our proudest Brighton … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s 2017 12″s of glory
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
It’s become a bit of a camp tradition. A moment of majestic mayhem as Queen Josephine dons her best twinset, dodgy weather symbols and delivers the news and weather for the forthcoming Brighton Pride Festival. Yes its not the most hi-tech of visual adventures and we really should know better but seeing as we’ve been delivering them since 2009 it seems only fitting we carry … Continue reading Queenie’s Brighton Pride Weather Forecast 2017
50 years is such a short amount of time for us to come as far as we have today. And yet for the many gay men represented and interviewed in the moving BBC drama Against The Law it must of felt like an endless battle. A lifetime of bravery against fear, activism against unjust laws and hope against hatred. A lifetime of struggle that made … Continue reading Against The Law : Peter Wildeblood
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