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Feb 6, 202310 min read

STRAND Showcase Spotlight: In Conversation With Livia Rita

Photo by Simon Habegger Welcome to our STRAND Showcase Spotlight series, where if you haven’t bought a ticket to our upcoming live music...

Nov 13, 20223 min read

Christine and The Queens's 'Redcar': An Exercise In Emotional Exploration

Photo by Drew de F. Fawkes via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC-BY-2.0) Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) is Christine and The...

Aug 29, 20228 min read

STRAND X Reading Festival: A Female-Focused Friday

Image courtesy of the Reading Festival website; image credit: Sarah Louise Bennett The night before Reading Festival was about to hit the...

Aug 18, 20223 min read

STRAND X Mighty Hoopla Festival: In Conversation With T. Priestly

Photo by Vittoria Avigliano On the second day of Brockwell Park’s Mighty Hoopla Festival, musician and producer T. Priestly graced the...

Feb 8, 20213 min read

Mika - The Sound of Sad Gay Adolescence

2007 was the summer of Mika. Life in Cartoon Motion played everywhere for months on end; you couldn’t turn a radio on without falling...

Feb 7, 20213 min read

Non-Binary Representation and Grimes's Kill V. Maim

"GRIMES"by Pemberton Music Festival is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 It’s not often that you find a song that oscillates between using...

Jan 24, 20214 min read

Bring a Bucket and A Mop for This WAP Discourse

Image by Ishita Uppadhayay I knew ‘WAP’ was going to be controversial the minute I heard it. An overtly sexual song performed by two of...

Jan 18, 20214 min read

Christine and the Queens and Gender Fluidity in Mainstream Music

Image credit: Ella Mansell The first summer heatwave of 2019 inaugurates June in Paris and a fervent buzz grows louder in Bois de...

Nov 12, 20203 min read

Queer Choral Communities

Image credit: Pippa Sterk In September 2018, I sat on a train for an hour and a half. At the time, I thought that I was making the...

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