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17 days ago

Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explai…

22 days ago

The worst gig-goers aren’t phone-wielding teens. It’s creepy blokes zooming in on female musicians

At a Kylie Minogue gig last Friday, the man next to me spent the entire show filming her in close-up. This unsettling behaviour leaves women – artists and audience alike – feeling surveilled

Kylie Min…

33 days ago

Kylie Minogue review – house, techno… doom metal? This is a thrilling reinvention of a pop deity

OVO Hydro, Glasgow
Her Tension world tour reaches the UK, and it’s the work of a relaxed but inherently flamboyant singer with a bold new vision for her back catalogue

The lights go down in Glasgow, an…

69 days ago

Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies review – lad laureate meets euphoric synths

(Tonal)
Kevin Lee Kharas’s muttered musings about love and life are given a sumptuous electronic backdrop by producer Patrick King

The third album by London electronic duo Real Lies might be the perfec…

3 months ago

‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’

They played Red Square, launched MTV Russia and got driven home from a gay club by the police. But the freedoms witnessed by Pet Shop Boys have been crushed. Singer Neil Tennant relives those heady d…

4 months ago

Olly Alexander: Polari review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Polydor)
The actor-singer’s solo debut proper looks to 1980s gay clubland for inspiration, but plays it too safe under all the retro synths and stammered-vocal effects

It isn’t melodramatic to say tha…

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