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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...
Talia Andrea
Feb 6, 202310 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...
Molly Boniface
Nov 13, 20223 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...
Talia Andrea
Aug 29, 20228 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...
Maisie Allen
Aug 18, 20223 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...
Pippa Sterk
Feb 8, 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...
Mariam Razzaq
Feb 7, 20213 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...
Ishita Uppadhayay
Jan 24, 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...
Ella Mansell
Jan 18, 20214 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...
Pippa Sterk
Nov 12, 20203 min read
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