COMMENT: FROM JAMAICA, WITH HATE

Last year, Bounty Killer – one of the hearty proponents of Jamaican Murder Music – performed some of his homicidal hoedowns at the Stratford Rex, with the full blessing of the London Met Police Force. This July, Buju Banton (he of ‘Boom Bye Bye’ fame) did the same at the Hammersmith Apollo....

October 21st, 2009 | International, Music, News | Read More

GAY CLUBBING GOES BACK IN THE CLOSET

Look at youse with your tits hanging out, you bling blong and your zing zong, yer £5 tan, and your rubadubdub on the dancefloors of the Vaux. Don’t you wish you could go back to happier times when homosexuality was bolted up in closets, when brushing up against someone in the gym gave you a hard...

May 21st, 2009 | Clubland, Highlights, News, Theatre | Read More

LIVE FROM BALHAM

Right cats. What you doing this Sunday? Down at The Bedford in Balham there’s a night going on called the Request Show – a charity concert in aid of The Annie Lennox Sing Campaign and The Peter Culverhouse Memorial Trust – featuring live pop, soul, electric and guitar. Organised by...

May 15th, 2009 | Music, News, What's on | Read More

MAMA Group buys Heaven

So finally, after months of gossip, Heaven is to be sold to entertainment group MAMA. For over a year, the rumours were that G-A-Y was set to buy the venue, and gayers on the street were convinced that Jeremy Joseph was going to buy Heaven and turn it into G-A-Y. Well, people were on the right track...

September 22nd, 2008 | Clubland, Music, News, Travel | Read More

Little Jackie Wants To Be A Star

We went to a band showcase last night at Maya on Dean Street, London, W1. Imagine the shock as we descended the stairs, realising we were in the OLD SUBSTATION SOHO!!!! (ignore that last bit if you’re under 35). Anyway, the showcase was for Little Jackie. Little Jackie are, in fact, two people....

July 31st, 2008 | Latest videos, Music | Read More

Interview: Temposhark

We’ve told you about Temposhark before – the electro-pop upstarts who have evolved into a proper 4-piece band. Including a drummer who’s very much a man and not a machine. We caught up with them before their gig at Popstarz* on Friday night: We like Temposhark. We like their music,...

June 23rd, 2008 | Interviews, Latest videos, Music | Read More

It’s official: Astoria to be bulldozed

London’s Astoria – home to the world famous fagtastic G-A-Y club – is to close, despite plethoras of online petitions to save the historic building. Mayor Ken Livingstone confirmed the decision to close the club in order to make way for the new Crossrail service. However, there’s...

March 13th, 2008 | Clubland, News | Read More