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Archive for year: 2013

  • An image in brown tones of an open book with two pages folded into the centre to create the shape of a heart.

Polari Magazine’s Favourite Books of 2013

21 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Features/by

Books, books, books.

From drag on the streets of Old London to whales at the depths of oceans, this is a list of Polari Magazine’s Favourite Books of 2013.

  • Clementine the Living Fashion Doll is pulling a disgusted face against a black backdrop.
  • Clementine the Living Fashion Doll is pulling a disgusted face against a black backdrop with a speech bubble that says "Eeew!!"

Clementine’s Top Five most revolting Christmas foods

20 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Features/by

Christmas 2013 AlternativeTop 5.

Clementine’s alternative Christmas list is an insight into the dolly diva’s Top 5 least favourite foods. Like the Clementine, it is at times a little tart.

“It resembles something you might present to your doctor for investigation. Goodness knows what the diagnosis would be if he found the sixpence.”

  • A scene from American Psycho the musical at the Almeida Theatre. The image shows Matt Smith in the lead role of Patrick Bateman who is wearing only a pair of grey jogging bottoms and strangling another man in a highly stylised stage set depicting a men
  • A scene from American Psycho the musical at the Almeida Theatre. The image shows Matt Smith in the lead role of Patrick Bateman sat on a green park bench with two secretaries. The stage set is blank with the exception of trees which appear as sketches drawn with light.
  • A scene from American Psycho the musical at the Almeida Theatre. The image shows Matt Smith in the lead role of Patrick Bateman and 5 other male members of the cast in an office scene. They are all suited and the set is highly stylised in electric blue with a single table whose surface top emits from within a bright white light.
  • A scene from American Psycho the musical at the Almeida Theatre. The image shows Matt Smith in the lead role of Patrick Bateman at the centre of an empty stage. Onto the set walls a simplified city skyline is projected in white light and also projected are the words "Abandon all hope those who enter here" that appear in a bright blood red.
  • A scene from American Psycho the musical at the Almeida Theatre. The image shows Matt Smith in the lead role of Patrick Bateman who is wearing a white shirt splattered in blood. In his right hand, raised behind his head, he holds a black blood stained axe.

American Psycho: A New Musical Thriller

19 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Stage/by

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160 min • Almeida Theatre, London • December 3, 2013 – February 1, 2014

Matt Smith plays Patrick Bateman in the dark musical thriller American Psycho. Gruesome, with an eclectic lo-fi ’80s score.

“Patrick Bateman is essentially the ’80s American Dream. He has the perfect body, the perfect hair, the perfect designer suit, and the perfect high-paid job. He is also Matt Smith”

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What The … • Black Flag

19 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Music/by

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Released November 05, 2013
The Black Flag legends look at late middle age and try to recapture the fast and violent glory days of their youth. Do they succeed or do they fail?

“Black Flag built their reputation on raw, angry hardcore. Every record sounded like it would end in a riot and a police raid. .”

  • David Shenton cartoon depicting and mustachioed man with a prawn cocktail
  • David Shenton cartoon title which reads "Every Little Helps"

Every Little Helps

18 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Polari Safari/by

December 18, 2013

David Shenton gets creative with prawn shells for Christmas. Polari Safari by David Shenton.

  • A black and white image of Clementine The Living Fashion Doll dressed as Little Red Riding Hood in shock on discovering a hunky big bad wolf in her granddmother
  • A black and white image of Clementine The Living Fashion Doll dressed as Little Red Riding Hood thirilled to have discovered a hunky big bad wolf in her granddmother

Clementine’s Christmas Message 2013

16 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Clementine: The Living Fashion Doll/by

Clementine’s Christmas Special.

Celebrate Christmas with Clementine as she reveals, with the help of Zak Black, just what that naughty charmer Mr Wolf gave Little Red Riding Hood …

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  • A still image from Maggie & Martin

A Christmas Present from Maggie & Martin

13 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Bulletin Board/by

Lonely This Christmas.

This festive season Maggie and Martin are giving away a download of their tender cover version ‘Lonely For Christmas’.

  • The inside sleeve artwork for the Troubled Troubadour by GG Allin showing GG Allin without any trousers on with a guitar between his legs. It is a black and white photocopied image.

The Troubled Troubadour • GG Allin

12 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Classics: Music/by

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Released August 1990
GG Allin was without a doubt the most notorious punk rocker, but here he goes country for an acoustic detour.

“GG Allin may have been one of the most anti-social personalities in the history of rock n roll, but this song shows that maybe he still felt a glimmer of human emotion.”

  • A black and white image of lead singer Tigrane Minassian from Classroom Battles running down a road on a deserted moor taken from the video for the single Crosseyed horse.
  • A black and white close up image of lead singer Tigrane Minassian from Classroom Battles running down a road on a deserted moor taken from the video for the single Crosseyed horse.

Ones To Watch: Classroom Battles

11 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Interviews/by

Call To Arms.

Andrew Darley talks to Classroom Battle’s lead singer Tigrane Minassian about the band’s debut EP, This Week’s Question.

“It’s a great privilege to be living in the era of digital music and social media. I know it doesn’t sound very ‘retro’, and I love physical CDs more than anything, but the reality is that without the internet we wouldn’t be where we are today.”

  • A photograph of the author Edmund White double exposed with an image of the cover art from his book A Boy

Edmund White: In Conversation, Part II

09 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Interviews/by

A Boy’s Own Story, Part II.

Edmund White talks to Michael Langan about the thirtieth anniversary of A Boy’s Own Story, and how men and women have to learn to be gay. Part II of II.

“I once had a very good gay psychiatrist say to me that the cliché is that straight fathers tend to reject the gay son but, actually, the opposite is true – that the gay son rejects the straight father because the straight father doesn’t know how to love him in the way he wants to be loved.”