Tag: musician
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“Because Of Those Women In Those Lesbian Bars…” – with Crys Matthews
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Sweet, sweet love…. Usually on this show when a guest brings up affairs of the heart i’m like ‘ugh, let’s move on…’, but this week I didn’t. Maybe it’s the summer weather, maybe I’m mellowing in my old age, but this time i […]
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“Who’s Got That Sequinned Thong?” (with Boogaloo Stu)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Very early on in the life of this podcast I had Boogaloo Stu on to talk about the cult London club night Shinky Shonky. And, in lots of ways, that was the episode that helped show me that the concept of Lost Spaces […]
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“The Queers Will Go To The Queer Spaces” (with Chris Pureka)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else There’s a really interesting conversation in this week’s episode about the ‘we’re all in this together’ mentality that queers in small towns have, supporting queer spaces even if they don’t particularly enjoy the music or the events held there. And, to show […]
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“I Will Preface This By Saying I’d Had A Few Drinks…” (with DJ Dan Murphy)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Having been an in-demand DJ for the better part of the last 20 years there were a lot of queer spaces that I could have talked about with DJ Dan Murphy, but we decided to go with the venue that gave him his […]
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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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“Lean Into My Transness” (with Simona Castricum)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Simona Castricum is a musician, DJ and producer based in Melbourne, Australia. We caught up to talk about Hugs and Kisses, a night that ran in the 2010s and took advantage of the looser licensing laws that applied to the venue it was based […]
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Dancing On Your Own (with Venn Smyth)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere ElseHave you ever been clubbing on your own? Is it thrilling, exciting, or… terrifying? If you’ve had experience standing awkwardly against the wall, unsuccessfully striking up a conversation with a stranger, or loitering at the end of the evening in the hopes of to […]
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East Bloc, Old Street, London, UK
Where: 17 City Rd, London EC1V 1JN When opened: September 2010 When closed: 2018 History Dank, dirty, damp, loud and sweaty. East Bloc had it all. At the end of the 00s London’s queer scene started to migrate to the east. A reaction to the largely cis, white and overly commercial scene in Soho, the area […]
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The Beaver, Toronto, Canada (with Casey Mecija)
We caught up to talk about The Beaver, an alternative queer space in the heart of Queen West, Toronto, that closed in 2020 primarily because of restrictions in place due to coronavirus. Find out more about Casey by visiting her website And, if you want to hear more about The Beaver check out my interviews […]
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Manray, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (with Melissa Ferrick)
Melissa Ferrick is an American singer-songwriter whose career exploded when, in 1991, she was a last minute replacement support act for a Morrissey tour. Since then she has released an impressive number of albums, and has even had one of her songs, ‘Drive’, named as a ‘lesbian anthem’ (and, trust me, that song is FILTHY). […]