20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1958
Featured song: Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they [more…]
Music
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Nice Firm Bottom
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays proudly present yet another light-loafered, lubed-up and luxuriant leap over the pavilion-end puddles of musical magnificence. Tonight’s missive will probe the [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1957
Featured Song: – Buddy Holly – That’ll Be The Day This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Polari
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends. Tonight, it’s bona to vada your dolly old eeks, as this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly presents yet another march of the muscle Marys up [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1956
Featured song: Elvis Presley with Hound Dog This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – The Monkees
Welcome back my friends, to the drivel that never ends – Laydees and Gentlebodies, Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays proudly present yet another of our light-loafered, lubed-up and luxuriant leaps over the pavilion-end puddles of musical magnificence. [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1955
Featured song: Bill Haley & His Comets with “Rock Around the Clock”. This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off
Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, as we mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, [more…]
Culture
A View From They/Them Greenhouse; We’re All Non-Binary Now…..innit?
Things are moving on apace. The recent spell of decent weather’s seen a growth spurt right across the board, so much so that I have most of the tomatoes in the ground and there’s been [more…]