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When it burns brighter, a lover like me learns to be a fighter When it gets darker, a fighter like me learns to love harder The family values these strangers hold are melting under the heat of my presence

I’ve admired Kae Tempest’s work for a while now (The Line Is A Curve is one of 2022’s best albums and there is serious competition out there— ask me all about my favourite albums from last year!) They continue to get better. They continue to amaze and impress. This is so powerful. It’s their latest single, and their new album is out in I think May this year. Can’t wait!

This week's show is out! As literally anyone who's hung around this blog this weekend knows, I've been all over the Glastonbury coverage. ALL over it! So we had lots of live performances from the festival, we had some Pride protest music, some new releases, lots of queer music (from Glastonbury itself because I will tell you: I just watched the festival all weekend long).

I also spoke to @desi-lgbt-fest on the show!! Really excited about this interview, we had 20 minutes of the interview on this Sunday's show, and the full 50-minute-long interview is coming out on Thursday (because I needed a little while to finish editing it lol).

Do listen to the Thursday release, it was so nice talking to the three mods of the Desi LGBT Fest, and they had some lovely and important things to say!!

Also if you enjoy the music listen to the show live I guess, I have to cut published/studio-recorded music in the podcast (copyright reasons).

Music for this week:

(Playlist links etc. in the description)

"Waiting for a thing that might make you old enough To get into the pub where people drink To lost youth"

Holy shit take a bow, Kae Tempest!

Here is the last Pride show for this year! I'd been doing Pride music by the decades all month in June for my radio station, and tbh there was too much popular queer music to fit into a single month so I stole a week from July for extended Pride...

The last week, we covered queer musicians in the 00s and 2010s, basically in the 21st century. There were far too any for me to hope to make a comprehensive guide in just an hour's episode, but should you want to listen, it has everything from electropop to ethereal post rock, anarcho-queer punk, spoken word, two-spirit rock, and Måneskin (while Eurovision is a queer genre unto itself...)

Featuring Against Me!, Kae Tempest, Arlo Parks, Sigur Rós, Rufus Wainwright, Peaches, Carolina Brown, SOPHIE, Bloc Party, Christine and the Queens,  Måneskin, Lolly Gaggers, The Younger Lovers, and We Are The Union