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This Week we chat about the new adaptation of John Gay’s forgotten gender-bending, anti-colonialist and proto-feminist ballad opera, Polly (The Heartbreak Opera). Touring this April across the UK, Bringing a gritty, vibrant energy to the scandalous sequel of The Beggar’s Opera, this new show features 18 original songs inspired by the likes of Britney Spears and Peaches. Think ‘Gimme More’. Think ‘F*** the Pain Away’. But make it Opera. Originally written in 1729 and banned for its daring content.  PLUS, Queer East is back for a fifth year, we talk to Director Yi Wang.

We chat to Darryl Bullock; Described as ‘A veritable Bard of the bent, broken and baroque’ by Andy Partridge (XTC), Darryl W. Bullock is a feature writer and author who specialises in pop music history and LGBT issues.


He has written for publications including The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Bristol Magazine, The Bath Chronicle, Literary Hub, Venue, Folio, Songwriter Magazine, The Spark, The Western Daily Press, We Are Family Magazine, The Bristol Evening Post, B24/7 and The Quietus. He has been profiled in The Guardian, The Sunday Times and GT, and has featured on BBC One, Channel 4, and on many local and national radio & TV programmes.




Darryl is the author of The World’s Worst Records (Volumes 1 and 2), Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World’s Worst Opera Singer (Duckworth-Overlook, 2016), David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music (Duckworth-Overlook, 2017), The Infamous Cherry Sisters: The Worst Act in Vaudeville (McFarland and Co., 2019), and The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging 60s (Omnibus Press, 2021), winner of the prestigious Penderyn Music Book Award 2022. His next book, Pride, Pop and Politics, will be published by Omnibus in June 2022.

 

He hosts The World’s Worst Records Radio Show on internet radio station Sheena’s Jungle Room/WFMU and posts weekly on his blog, also called The World’s Worst Records: www.worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com


ALSO: Drag at Pride, we chat to Aled aka, Miss Beaver...

We're talking about and chatting to, Jamie, AKA Ivano Turco. From it's London debut, Everybody's talking about Jamie is on UK tour and we caught up with the lead in this roller coaster of a musical show. Plus; Talk to the Rainbow are launching affordable counselling across the country for the LGBTQIA2 community.

Is 'Queer" the replacement for ALL the letters of the rainbow' We chat to Buzzy of Queer Spirit festivals and the new station; Sanctity of Sound. Plus Martin Spellacey chats to The High Sheriff of Bristol about vulnerable children and social exclusion.

We absolutely Drag it up this week. We chat to The London Divas, plus CoCo Peru of To Wong Foo, Will & Grace, Girls Will Be Girls and so many more...

We look at a very special art exhibition,The Neurodivergent Rhapsody. Steffi chats to one of the organisers, Serafina. Plus, time to get singing with EnharmoniQ.