Tag: Derek Jarman
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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Still Life
A friend posted an article about the top ten Suede tracks, and shockingly ‘Still Life’ wasn’t one of them. The closer on Dog Man Star, it usually was performed acoustically in concerts, on record it showed Bernard Butler’s obsession with BIG orchestras which is why I preferred the live versions like the one I saw…