Sapphic Traffic rocked!

Wow, that was awesome! Thanks to everyone at Sapphic Traffic and the Common Place in Leeds for a brilliant night. There were lesbian threeways, Blind Date (with Joyce D Vision and Godcilla Black), drunk people fighting outside, gays dancing to gangsta rap, cheap but tasty beer, drag burlesque, No Scrubs, the lot. Let's do this again sometime! :-D



Cute couple!



Elliot and Corin



Sofia and Liz (God Cilla Black)



Charlotte



Tia Maria perform "Two Hearts"



Our Joyce in action



Dunno her name but she was lovin it (with ST promoter Ema in the background)



Me and soundman/DJ Dani behind the decks



Photos by Trent of the blog Bad Fotography!

DJ set @ Sapphic Traffic (Leeds) TONIGHT

I'm looking forward to this - I'm djing at "My Heart Is A Vital Organ Part 2" for Sapphic Traffic in Leeds tonight. My first time DJing there! There's going to be a live Blind Date (hosted by none other than Joyce D Vision) and I have a handful of anti-love songs to play (Love Will Tear Us Apart/No Scrubs/Love Is A Battlefield/I Hate Myself For Loving You/This Is Not A Love Song/etc). Facebook deets right here.

A Dinner Date with The Niallist!

Live @ Knock Knock, The Art School TOMORROW!

This was a short notice booking, but I am looking forward to it - a live set at The Art School's weekly Wednesday band night Knock Knock. For more details here's the facebook, and the Art School website is here.

Dangerous Minds 7th-13th February

MYWTF?!: The Rise and Fall of MySpace
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Video Tape
'James Blake' Full album stream
Little Known footage of 'Vamp' era Grace Jones
Supermotion! The Sound of Ben Butler & Mouse Pad
New Scandinavian Electro-funk: We call it "Skweee"
Momus: 'Strawberry Hill' and the 'Hypnoprism' album

Menergy February flyer

Two weeks to go to our residency at the Art School! We're doing a blog post a day until then, over at Menergy.tv, and for more info check out the Facebook event page.

Joyce D Vision live @ Eat Your Heart Out

Last night's show at Eat Your Heart Out was great! People responded really well to Joyce D Vision, and the rest of Scottee Scottee's cabaret troupe were excellent too. Special shout out to Myra Dubois who we hear got lucky while she was in town. Here's pics of Joyce in action (with legendary drunken producer Martin Hairnet in the background) taken by the lovely Will of Will'n'Rick. We performed covers of Joy Division's "Isolation", "Transmission" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in the style of Raw Sex from French & Saunders. I think we will be seeing more of Joyce...







Joyce has a glamour fit during "Transmission":

Eat Your Heart Out Manchester (this Fri)

I'm really looking forward to this! London performance artist Scottee Scottee is bringing his cabaret-not-cabaret to Manchester at the Contact Theatre this Friday. It will see performances from Zsa Zsa Noir, Will'n'Rick, Sheela Blige, Scott Gillespie, and our own Growler will be debuting his new incarnation as "Joyce D Vision" (with a little help from Peter Fook and Martin Hairnet). There will be some folk from London there, like Spencer Wood, Dickie Beau and Myra Dubois, so all in all it's gonna be great! Tickets are £10/£6, and for more details here is the Facebook page.

Dangerous Minds 1st-6th Feb 2011

Bit of a slow week for me on DM, what with my trip up to Glasgow and all. Also, last week's Iggy Pop piece was posted on the Friday, but held back til Monday to clear space for some other bits and bobs.

JD Samson's MEN "Talk About Body"
New BBC TV Children's show Rastamouse
Classic British nuclear attack drama "Threads"
Happy Anniversary Lux Interior
Demdike Stare "Tryptych"

TONIGHT!! Come...

Salty Lips "Smize" vid

I'm in this video somewhere - it being the work of Manchester's queer electro rockers Salty Lips. There's a whole bevvy of lovely local bears in here, and when I get my grubby mits on this I am going to turn it into divatastic bitch house :-)

Dirty Minds @ Purple Pussycat, Manchester

Here's the next (bar one) party by Growler & Niallist - a tribute happening in March at the Purple Pussy, with performances by Kurt Dirt, The Niallist, Emma Peate, and more tba. More details soon...

Presenting "Growler & Niallist Presents"

Well, after the success of Vogue Brawl, the Paris Is Burning screening, and individual nights like Zombie Pride and Menergy, we have decided to start an event management/promotions company. We being me and Joe Spencer. If you live in Manchester you will probably recognise him. He's a total camera whore. ;-) Our next few events are being planned right now, more news on that in a wee bit...

Mancy friends

Nice pic of us lot upstairs at Affleck's Palace the Monday after Vogue Brawl. Who's the campest?

Pics of me at Vogue Brawl

I make no claim that this is a good overall snapshot of VB - it's just some pretty picstures of me ;-) Also featuring Growler, Lady Munter, ZsaZsa Noir and Sebastian. If you want a more balanced overview of VB, hop on over to www.menergy.tv.

Dangerous Minds 24th-31st Jan 2011

Don't Call It Ambient: Optimo FACT 214 Mix
Dorian Corey: The Drag Queen had a Mummy in her closet
Eric Elmosnino as Serge Gainsbourg
Shakedown: documentary about LA's black lesbian stripclub scene
Charlie Brooker: How TV Ruined Your Life
Lightning Bolt Causes Your Glasses To Fly Off Your Face!
Happy Birthday Chris Carter: The Spaces Between LP re-issue
Little Iggy: Iggy Pop and those car insurance ads

Vogue Brawl vids

Thanks to everyone who came down to Legends for Vogue Brawl - IT WERE RITE PROPER FOOKIN AMAZIN! Here's a oucple of vids I shot and uploaded to FB, more pics and stuff coming soon:

Vogue Brawl TONITE

BOYZ magazine cover feature

Holy fuck... I'm on the cover...



You can read the interview at the BOYZ Magazine website.

Dangerous Minds Jan 16th-23rd '11

Haunted Retro Part 1: Ariel Pink, John Maus & Gary War
Gary War: Higspeed Drift
Wayne Coyne directs Ariel Pink's Round And Round
Haunted Retro Part 2: Nite Jewel, Desire & Italians Do It Better
Nile Rodgers dishes the dirt on Atlantic Records
Paris Is Burning: Vogue Realness
Arthur's Landing "Love Dancing"

Child Abuse (the band, not the act)

We went to Islington Mill on Sunday night to see Divorce play with their new singer Jenny. They tore it up! It could be tighter I guess, but they are definitely on to a good thing with this new line up.

Who I really liked were the support/co-headliners Child Abuse. They play really good thrash-math with overdriven synths in the mix. It's fast, heavy and fun. I bought their album Cut And Run on Lovepump United, and I highly recommend it to noise/post-thrash fans.

Here is the Child Abuse myspace. Oh the puns are endless.

Paris Is Burning screening @ Anthony Burgess Foundation

Again, thanks to everyone who came down to the screening of Paris Is Burning! What a great film - it was so good to see it on a big screen, with an audience, some of whom had never seen it before and loved it. Hopefully, this is just the start of more screenings at the Anthony Burgess Foundation - plans are afoot...

I've just posted about PiB on Dangerous Minds, here it is in its entirety.
Watch it now before it gets yanked:

Paris Is Burning from Billy Blaze on Vimeo.

'The Hots" on Youtube

Wow - someone who isn't me has uploaded The Hots to Youtube. Thanks!
I was gonna do this myself, but glad someone else has done it for me.

Clique pic

Had a great night out on Friday with Scott and Joe - this photo has ended up being used for club promo by the people at Clique:

Dangerous Minds Jan 8th-15th '11

Nile Rodgers: Walking On Planet C
Trish Keenan: Mind Bending Motorway Mix
Broadcast singer Trish Keenan RIP
Cosmic Disco: The original Chop'n'Screw
Krautrock v Kosmiche
Some Best of 2010 mixtapes
The Cramps' Human Fly opera version
Netlabels: An Introduction

Deathkill 4000 Sat Feb 5th

My next gig: looking forward to this, I've wanted to play Deathkill for a long time! More details are on the Facebook event page. And, Marc from DK4K did us a mix for Shallow Rave a while back, check check it.

Team Little Rock pics

Some shots of me, Boag & Liam in the Glasgow office for my first DM feature:

Best of 2010 on Radio Magnetic

RadMag are hosting my best of 2010 mixtape. Check it out here, and for more info on the bands and ting, go here.

More "All About Evil" premiere pics

Some more pics of the "All About Evil" premiere we were involved in last October have turned up on Facebook. You can buy the film now on Amazon (US) too, it's highly recommended. Ah good times!

Librarians protesting the disgusting filth!


Love this photo - me , Kurt Dirt, Zsa Zsa Noir and M Night Growler:


I met the Pope!


Librarians getting jiggy.


Girls in action:


Mistress Peaches Christ herself!


Just a typical night at the Cornerhouse.

Dangerous Minds

So, as I mentioned, I have a new blogging job this year - I am going to be posting about music for Dangerous Minds. DM is one of my favourite blogs, and I am well excited by this!

The first post is up already, it's an introduction to netlabels which covers Little Rock, and in the future will see Jahtari, Fresh Poulp, Winning Sperm Party, Unioki, Black Lantern and more. Future posts will be covering Ariel Pink, Italians Do It Better, Neu!, Shunda K, Emeralds, Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique), Christeene Vale, Tyler the Creator, skwee, witch house and a whole lot more. So if you have arrived here from there, welcome, feel free to check out all the music on offer...

HOUSE MACHINE Relief (Pt 1)

Relief (Pt 1) by House Machine

The other House Machine demo I found is called "Relief", as a tribute to the label of the same name. I really like this mix, so while I am going to re-record it, I will call this version part one and the new mix part two.

HOUSE MACHINE Jack 2 Jack (Demo Mix)

Jack 2 Jack (1st Mix) by House Machine

Excavating some of my drives in Glasgow, I came across two more House Machine recordings from early 2010, so I have added them to the HM page. This is a rough mix of a tune I am currently re-recording. It's going to have a vocal. Can you guess what it will say?

Menergy at The Vic Bar 2011

AND we've started the PR machine rolling for our monthly residency at the Glasgow School of Art's Vic Bar! It's just under two months away, but it's good to get the people interested. Here's the Facebook event page, which is already quite busy! I've made about ten of the above slogans, so expect to see more of them flying around.

An Introduction to Vogue - Paris Is Burning FREE Screening

As a warm up for Vogue BRAWL! we're gonna be screening the legendry "Paris Is Burning" at the Anthony Burgess Foundation, which is just off Oxford Rd near the BBC on Thursday January 20th. If you haven't seen this film then you MUST, and if you have seen it you should come along anyway as it is still a great documentary.

Here's a link ot the Facebook page which has more info: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=179372525428677

And here's the trailer:

Vogue BRAWL! Facebook page

The countdown to Vogue BRAWL! is hotting up. Joe said he would bake a cake if we got 100 attendees on the Facebook page - well it looks like he will have to bake two now. This is going to be MAJE peeps, Glasgow is in the house and Manchester is GUNNA BRANG ET. If you are anywhere even remotely near the area you would be a fool to miss this.

Disinfo Posts

Just a list of articles I have posted on Disinfo - though as I have a new post contributing to another blog (news on that soon - it's fuckin awesome) I don't know how much more I will post for Disinfo.

Racism Row Over DC’s Muslim Superhero
The Mysterious Death of MI6 Agent Gareth Wiliams
Charles Dickens’ Scrooge – A Victorian Shaman?