I’m talking to A about electro. I quite like A. She’s looking at me the way you indulge a child who’s learned a new word, and with a slight superiority. She’s smiling in a half grimace, head tilted slightly. She means well, though. I’m going on about Frankie Knuckles. I do not know if AContinue reading “Talking To A About Electro”
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Lost In Music: Man 2 Man/Man Parrish- Male Stripper
The mid-eighties were horrible. I was used to getting groped by boys at school, and not the nice ones. Nice boys wouldn’t have objectified me anyway. It felt like images of naked/ semi-clad women were everywhere, from Duran Duran and heavy metal videos to Page 3, to every other comedy show on TV (Benny HillContinue reading “Lost In Music: Man 2 Man/Man Parrish- Male Stripper”
Album Review: Sinkane-We Belong
Sudanese- American Ahmed Gallab, who records as Sinkane, reflects the global village in this glorious new album, his eighth. Whether joyful and gospel inflected (Come Together, We Belong) disco workouts (the campy How Sweet Is Your Love) or songs of resistance (Everything Is Everything, and the fiery standout track Invisible Distance) which feel like anContinue reading “Album Review: Sinkane-We Belong”
Hit The North 