Hot Shots - La musica dell'estate*

This evening, Sky1HD came up with a fabulous addition to the countdown to Pride, in the form of Kylie's "Aphrodite: Les Folies" concert, filmed at the O2 - absolutely incredible!

As ever, the Princess knows her (gay) audience - glitter, muscle-boys, 200 costume changes, and feathers, fouf and faff are most definitely the order of the day...

Kylie Aphrodite tour - Slow / Confide in Me

Kylie Aphrodite tour - On a Night Like This / All The Lovers

Having exhausted my camp genes with a two-hour Kylie-fest, I think it's time for a little update on some of the newer stuff that has flowed through my consciousness recently...

First up, thanks to Henry (yet again) at Barbarella's Galaxy for introducing me to the most original young lady by the name of Florrie and her wittily-named Experimenting with Rugs, which is rather fab:

Florrie - Experimenting with Rugs

Next, the Ozzie model, actress and singer Zoe Badwi with a divinely decadent orgiastic video for her new single Carry Me Home:

Zoë Badwi - Carry Me Home (Grant Smillie Edit)

And as we head into what promises to be a mini-heatwave over the next couple of days (which usually just means a sweltering day then a thunderstorm), here is a most fabulous summery dance choon that should cheer us all up - the boppy "Garage" sound of Chasing Pluto with Maybe I'll Miss You:



Now, with Gay Pride in mind again, it's time for "the family" to step up to the mike...



Here's a real out-and-proud queen doin' what comes naturally! More gratitude to Marc at Deep Dish for drawing my attention to the magnificent diva B. Scott giving a Kiss Kiss to the lovely model Brett Davis. How could I have not discovered this fierce creature before?

B.Scott - Kiss Kiss

This is an interesting conundrum - the uber cool gay "singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Manhattan nightclub fixture" SirPaul (no relation to McCartney, apparently) has released a new single that is the theme to a film of the same name by the equally cool Casper Andreas - Going Down in La-La Land. The trouble is (and this is no bad thing, of course) it reminds me of a Eurovision track called Drama Queen by DQ from 2007:

SirPaul - Going Down in La-La Land

And to finish, here's the out and civilly partnered (to music video producer Richard Cullen) Darren Hayes, with a fantastic b-side - to his new single Talk Talk Talk - a rather good cover of Madonna's Angel:

Darren Hayes - Angel

Let's enjoy the sunshine tomorrow and have a ball!

[* La musica dell'estate = The music of summer]

Pick of the Pops

"Not 'arf, pop pickers!"

So we have survived the middle of the week (Wednesday is always the worst of all days), and we've had so much trouble with the cable connection at Dolores Delargo Towers lately (no TV nor internet again for three hours this evening!) I decided to embark on a new(ish) music fest to cheer myself up once I was back online!

It would be rude of me not to share my chosen delicacies...

The ever-reliable Freemasons have come up with yet another corker of a new single, Believer:

Freemasons featuring Wynter Gordon - Believer

Despite this being the big summer hit of 2009, not 2010, I am still madly in love with the charms of Romanian megastar (and it's not often you get those two words together in the same sentence) Mr Edward Maya...

Edward Maya & Mia Martina - Stereo Love

I am always cheered up by the news that our beloved Princess Kylie is releasing a new single. The next track chosen from Aphrodite is the fabulously chirpy "Scissor-Sisters-esque" Better Than Today - enjoy the Happy HotDog Remix Edit:

Better Than Today (Happy HotDog Remix Edit) by kyleongwl

Just in case anyone missed it in my blog about the fantabulosa 82-year-old Spanish diva Sara Montiel last week, I remain absolutely fascinated, nay obsessed, with this collaboration with the marvellous Alaska and her band Fangoria!

Fangoria & Sara Montiel - Absolutamente

Finally, here's a real work of art - a recent video by Brooklyn indie band The Drums, that pays a remarkably bizarre homage to another uber-cool band, the Shangri-Las. This is genius!

The Drums - Down By The Water

And here is the original - Out In The Streets by the Shangri-Las:

Shangri-Las - Out In The Streets

Thoughts?

Move out of my way

As our pint-sized Pop Princess Kylie celebrates the great news that Aphrodite is not only at Number 1 in the UK, but has debuted in the Top 20 in the US as well, let us flit back a whole decade to another renaissance in the lady's career. Can it really be ten years since this was at the top of the charts?

Kylie MInogue - Spinning Around

Can't you see that this is getting higher, higher, higher, higher?

Following my last post, there really is only ONE summer anthem!

Enter the all-conquering Miss Kylie Minogue (with a fabulous new video)!!

Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers

Strange girl, that Aphrodite...

Kylie Minogue has confessed she has a bizarre phobia of coat hangers.

The Aussie pop singer and fashionista loves clothes but has to lay them out in a room as she can't bear to hang them up in a wardrobe, as hangers upset her.

Kylie, 41, revealed to Elle magazine:

"The problem is I hate putting things on hangers - I have a hanger phobia - I don't like the way they sound when you put them in the wardrobe."

So the pop princess explained how she stores all her favourite clothes and shoes.

"It's a room in my home where everything is laid out. It never looks like other people's wardrobes. I've got far too many shoes, but they're so pretty I don't like to hide them away."

Aphrodite is released on July 5th (at the end of Pride weekend!). I can't wait...

Kylie - Aphrodite album preview