Arts Feature: Swapping Notes With Samuel Cousins Brian Butler talks to Samuel Cousins, musical director of Actually Gay Men’s Chorus By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Richard Hanson / StillMoving / Netflix Arts First Look: The Vivienne and Cheryl Hole kick-off the ‘I Like to Watch’ tour The Vivienne and Cheryl Hole have kicked off Netflix’s live I Like to Watch tour in Margate, as inspired by the performer’s video series. By Rachel Badham • 1 min read
Richard E Grant Arts Richard E Grant discusses Everybody’s Talking About Jamie “He goes from being this downtrodden old has-been running a drag shop in a rundown part of Sheffield to being reignited as his former drag persona of Loco Chanelle.” By Alex Klineberg • 3 min read
Arts Feature: More theatre treats in Brighton, south coast and London Brian Butler finds lots to see at the theatre for a discerning LGBTQ audience this autumn By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Juno Dawson will be speaking at the event Arts 11th September: Queer Bloomsbury Day Tomorrow, Queer Bloomsbury Day will see a host of exciting queer events including a talk by bestselling author Juno Dawson. By Rachel Badham • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person Jennie Kermode The book offers significant insights into the lives of our Trans elders and should be required reading for anyone working, supporting or providing services to an ageing LGBTQ+ population it’s also a warm and encouraging book which enables us to look positively at the process of growing older success By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dirty Dancing @ Theatre Royal Brighton He is a superb dancer. His body writing with a gymnastic energetic which is astonishing, jumping, twisting, lifting, spinning, thrusting, gyrating and doing all the things you can possibly do with a huge thickly muscled body to music. He understands the affect this has on his audience and plays up t By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts Nico: You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone Nico was one of the most original and charismatic rock stars of the post-war era. By Alex Klineberg • 6 min read
Arts Spotlight On Adam Blanshay Brian Butler: I don’t know if Adam Blanshay has a trophy shelf – didn’t ask him – but if he does, it’s stacked. His production company has been involved in over 60 shows worldwide and he’s scooped up 6 Tony’s and 7 Olivier’s along the way. If a production wins a Best Show Award, then it’s the produc By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Arts FEATURE: Spotlight On Sam Barton Brian Butler meets the new Musical Director of Brighton and Hove’s Resound choir who says ”Resound is a choir that wants to be challenged – they have an eclectic repertoire and that interests me. My aim with them is to achieve more diversity”. One route he plans is to present more women composers- f By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: BI THE WAY by Lois Shearing Shearing examines difficult subjects with a deft clarity of purpose, affirming and platforming real people’s experience throughout. It’s an engaging read, and if your head it turned by all sorts of folk, and your pulse quickened then the book supports an honest self-exploration of what that can mean By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Spotlight on Queer East Film Festival Brian Butler looks forward to the annual showcase of Asian Queer films. Rarely-shown Queer cinema from East and Souh East Asia can be seen across London in the 2021 Queer East Film Festival. Running from 15-26 September, it will present 37 features, short films and artists’ moving image works. By Brian Butler • 3 min read
