MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. RIOT. LONDON TINGS I LIKE. SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION.
An article on the new neo-burlesque phenomenon that has swept the country in the past two years and how it has second wave feminists turning in their wheelchairs. Alternative performance art is running riot in the London. On any given day you can find Mexican wrestlers battling it out, drag queens voguing, overweight ballerinas screaming [...]
This was such an interesting article to write, based on the Soul Jazz/Heatwave compilation ‘An England Story’ on the history of MCing in the UK. Apologies to Roots Manuva, Estelle and YT, who did not make in. We’re dancing in the intense main room of Herbal to the eruption of elephantine sub dubstep basslines, adrift [...]
