Who gets to do drag? A discussion of drag and its offshoots by Ray A J. So you wanna be a drag queen? One problem, you’re biologically female. Historically, the idea of a drag queen has been a strictly male dominated territory – you can get the female equivalent (drag king), but women aren’t usually allowed to be queens.
Alan Bonner reminisces about his time with Amy Winehouse, explains how playing live is like getting naked, and reminds us what true music is, in an interview with Ray A-J. DON’T you just love Summer? The bright rays of sunlight, kissing your skin till it’s golden. The gorgeous beach that just comes alive with fields of people, all blissfully beaming with smiles firmly planted on their faces. And the best thing of all? A lazy summer afternoon.
Welcome to the stormy voyage through rock band Talma’s debut E.P. Out to sea. You’re in the middle of the sea. Empty horizons surrounding you. Brisk biting winds encapsulate the air-from every direction they’re pulling at your hair, snatching at your skin as the freezing ocean slowly laps up the side of your row-boat. You’re lost. Alone. Out to sea with nothing but a paddle. And then…
Okay, so I have a phobia. I’m not the only person either. Around 6-8% of people in the West suffer from the excruciatingly debilitating hold of a phobia. Previously we established the unrelenting pain and suffocating effect an intense fear can have on its victim, and I think it’s only fair that the severity of the barbed wire phobia that wraps itself around your life and digs into you at every moment should be explored.
Explore the snowy scene of a Christmas classic reimagined, through the voice of Velma Celli. Chord. Then twinklingly melancholy piano notes. The intro to a, dare I say it, Twilight film complete with sweeping camera shots of a desolate snowy landscape rushes into your conscious.
