The countdown's almost over, dear reader - it's Gay Pride tomorrow! We're expecting the boys from Essex this evening, who are staying over for the festivities, so this evening will be a takeaway, loads of booze and a bit of a "dress rehearsal" of our outfits, no doubt.
To get us in the mood, here's a simply faboo kitschy camp number that's guaranteed to get the party started...
Thank Disco It's Gay Xmas Eve Friday!
Have a fantabulosa Pride weekend, dear reader!
Ignoring the UK general election and the US Independence Day completely... as our "summer" weather carries on in the bizarre pattern that it usually does in the UK at this time of year [it was considerably warmer at midnight last night than it was at midday yesterday], let us travel back in time to another unsettled yet rather warm year...1999!
Twenty-five years ago [gulp!] this month, it was indeed very dry and sunny, but thunderstorms were everywhere. That didn't stop us partying, of course!
Can these "songs of the summer" really be that old??!! Fuck.
A quarter of a century?! Where did that go?
Time, methinks, for another selection of the "newer" choons that have caught my ear of late...
As is my wont, this collection is again peppered with nostalgia and a few "comebacks" - such as that of the crazy duo who were responsible for that eternal earworm Barbra Streisand.
DUCK!
Then there's the resurgence of a lady who's very close to our hearts, being one of the dance music gay icons of the 1990s [see here and here]...
We turn next to a singer who (to me, at least) actually bears the epithet of "new", the artiste formerly known as Louisa Rose Allen:
...and here's a chap who seems to have been "under the radar" for years as a DJ promoter, but whose penchant for 80s music led him this year to do a (rather good) update of a dearly-loved classic:
Speaking of remixes, I have featured this genius-of-the-mash-up previously, of course [see here, and more recently, here] - but now he's only gone and landed himself an MTV Award; for this slice of brilliance!
Finally... Never mind all that hoo-ha about "the great ABBA comeback". I'm foaming at the gash over the fact that none other than the Vengaboys have returned! [With a cover of a choon by "cool kid" Charli XCX, no less.]
Absolutely fantabulosa!
As always dear reader, let me know what you think...
This may only have been a short working week, but by heavens - it has dragged!
I'm off to our friend John-John's place tomorrow [on what may well be another scorcher of a day, weather-wise] for a marathon telly session of Wandavision [although I am sure there'll be a lot of sitting-in-the-sunshine-with-a-fag-and-a-cider in between!], but meanwhile - here's a simply faboo kitschy camp number to ease our passage to the end of the week...
Thank Disco Venga It's Friday!
Have a fantabulosa weekend, dear reader...
