Tag: Queen
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RC 234: The Queer History of Pop Part 1 (1960s-1980s)
I’ve been listening to the Story of Pop which again has been repeated on 6Music, but this time also reading the excellent Simon Napier-Bell’s Black Vinyl White Powder and the contrast has been striking – not so much the drug usage which has been there in the BBC series, but the queer element has been…
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Unofficial Anthems 1: Good Morning Britain
The Muse Olympic theme tune has been released and ho-hum, it’s the bastard lovechild of Mr Blue Sky, John Miles (!) and Flash-era Queen guitar squiggles meeting unironic Triumph-of-Will-style Laibach vocals. So usual Muse then. *boom tish*. No it really reminds me of Laibach, in a rather unhealthy way…except I guess Leni would use a…
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Banksy’s take on the Queen (real this time)
Like this take on ER mark 2 by Banksy – it’s was posted to his Facebook page (yup even hyper-anonymous graff artists get FB pages now…how modern!). BTW the Ziggy Elizabeth that was doing the rounds in the papers and online isn’t a Banksy piece, it’s by IncWel. Interesting stuff, check him out.
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Fuck the Jubilee
Fuck the jubilee! Cos you know it’s not worth it! Fuck the IOC! Stop wasting our money! Great 😀 If I’d heard this before I’d done the Stuff the Jubilee show this track by The Dirty Rich would have been a dead cert…love it. You can buy it over at Junodownload or Trackitdown. In more…