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Siouxsie Sioux, June 15, 2013

Siouxsie Sioux at Meltdown: a review and personal reminisce by Carl Stanley.

“her felt-tip scrawl on the sleeve of my home-made kimono turning ordinary cloth into something as sacrosanct as the Turin shroud… “

The V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL • March 23 – August 11, 2013

More than a tour through an icon’s golden years, David Bowie Is lays on a retrospective that paints a vivid portrait of the man & the music.

“Water and boats often feature in his landscapes, and they do here, with the human figure sometimes floating on or above water. The people are ghostly and ethereal, creating an air of mystery, of things just happened, or about to happen.”

Marc and the Mambas, ‘Torment & Toreros’.

To mark LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari asked its contributors to recall a song that had an impact their own stories.

“Marc once described Torment & Toreros as ‘a nervous breakdown committed to vinyl’. Thirty years on, Torment & Toreros still invokes memories of that day – and sometimes even makes me shed a tear for the boy I once was.”