Tag: artist
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“Everything We Did Was Queer, Queer, Queer” (with Samantha Nye)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else A few episodes ago I spoke to the wonderful singer/songwriter Chris Pureka (and, if you haven’t heard that chat yet go back and give it a wee listen – I’ll still be here when you get back!). After we spoke Chris suggested that […]
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Are There Straight Drag Queens?
Drag royalty Alaska Thunderfuck once said ‘straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time’. And though she may have been referring to Taylor Swift at the time, the same can be said of the art of drag. After all, why should us queers have all the fun? There’s room for everybody in the world of drag. We’ve […]
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“I Saw The Word Transsexual, And I Thought, ‘Well, I Guess That’s Me’” (with Cidny Bullens)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else The story behind how this week’s conversation happened is almost as good as the interview itself! So, you may know this already, but I’m a big fan of Grease 2, which I think is a far superior film to Grease. Having heard me rant about […]
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Regina Gently: I Never Wanted To Do Drag. Other People Wanted Me To Do Drag
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else One of the big perks of doing this show is that I get to reach out to people I admire with the flimsy excuse that I want to interview them for my podcast, and then get the opportunity to talk one-to-one with them […]
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Making out in the car park, breaking boys’ hearts, and finding community during the pandemic (with Seren Oakley)
Seren Oakley is a multi-disciplinary artist and events organiser whose work is based on queer spaces and elevation of others, which includes marginalised groups like asylum seekers. Currently based in Leeds, England, she grew up in Swansea, Wales, where she found solace and community at a venue called The Scene, which hosted gigs for under […]
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Remembering Pulse on the 5-year anniversary of the nightclub shooting (with Jared Lipscomb)
Today we are talking about Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which on June 12, 2016, became the site of the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks of 2001. And, the repercussions were felt worldwide- I remember how shocking and terrifying it was to hear about this happening in a country […]
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The Bay Horse, York, England (with Joseph Segaran)
Joseph Segaran is a British Artist living and working in Amsterdam, and whose art is inspired by the architecture of the city… and you really have to check it out – black and white ink drawings which are drawn freehand using a very fine Japanese ink pen and also papercuts which are cut using a […]
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The Henhouse, Toronto, Canada (with Joseph Amenta)
Ok, ok, a bit of a sensationalist headline…. But, what do you do when you don’t quite fit in with the commercial queer scene, and how do you find your scene? This week I’m joined by writer, director and filmmaker Joseph Amenta to talk all about The Henhouse, a small, queer dive bar in Toronto’s […]
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Crash, Vauxhall, London (with John Lee Bird)
John Lee Bird is an artist/designer/musician and all around glorious human being. He is also one of the last people that I had imagined would have fond memories of Crash, a dance party held in South London from the 90s-00s (being a self-described ‘pale awkward goth’ type)! I really enjoyed this interview, where John told […]
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First Out Cafe, London (with Ali Brumfitt)
We are back to London this week, and visiting another venue that fell victim to the Crossrail development (a large scale construction project which saw a good chunk of central London demolished to make way for a high speed train line). I had the delight of talking to Ali Brumfitt, a performance poet and all […]