There’s a lot to catch up on
I’ve just landed back home after three weeks away - can’t yet see straight but there’s so much I look forward to sharing in the coming weeks. Saturday [weekend before last] I left my hotel room in Milan at 5am to catch the train all the way back home - I had a quick turnaround at my flat then a forty minute taxi ride out to into the sticks of East Sussex for a new queer festival: Camp Kindred.
So surreal and otherworldly rocking up to flashing lights in the pitch black of night in my disoriented state of mind - but truly such a unique and momentous occasion - the sense of community, the freedom to be unashamedly yourself from the get-go, the unbridled joy, the political resistance, the queer celebration and spiritual affinity - it meant even more to be able to take the stage on a weary Sunday afternoon.
I’ve often felt a little ostracised from the LGBTQ+ music community - perhaps from a fear of my own making - for maybe not fitting certain moulds, for not playing music to dance to or for my sexuality or identity not being immediately ‘apparent’ as I have been begrudgingly told many times - even coming into this festival I had my reservations toward playing music that is slower, more melancholic and subdued - but I’ve left completely recharged and feeling like I belong. Queer culture is sacred to me - the underlying grit of our life experiences for me feels best embodied in it’s rawest nature - there are so many ways to do it but the alternative music scene in my opinion is severely lacking in queer male/non-binary representation - a space I wish to take up.
Arriving home and catapulting straight into this queer utopia really aligned with the thoughts and revelations that I’d come to on my travels which I’ll delve deeper into once I’ve slept a little longer - but I will say for now that DIY and Grassroots cannot be beaten for heart - and we need a lot more of it.
Photo by | Hollie Lightfoot
It’s been strange to release a new single while feeling so detached from my day-to-day - watching you all engage with ‘Molly Coddle’ from afar has been a joy but now that I’m back I wanted to share some of the lovely press we have received including an interview with Motel Void Music Blog.
⟡ Unrecorded | Best New Tracks
It’s mid-july - landing back here:
"Days have passed unknowingly - I can’t see straight - like sleep half-stayed and stuckaround - there’s a well within me - a deep and cavernous opening - a bottomless pit - beckoning back to that cafe on the corner - the promenade in Paris - the final stopover - life since is a series of flashes - colourful lights in eerie skies - purple rain hammering down through marquee glass - nonsensical laughter and damp clothes - the room spins with someone else’s memories - trying to find the right way to land - for a while I’d rather stay spinning - alone."
