Queer Sounds

Join BBFs vocalist and songwriter @MissBabySol and stylist, DJ, drag queen and writer Aaron Francis Walker (@airysomething) as they chat growing up with god, finding queerness through music, queer-baiting pop princesses and their passion for all things soul and r'n'b, with music from Culture Club, Nina Simone, Meshell Ndegeocello and many, many more. 

Miss Baby Sol is a vocalist and songwriter who’s worked with Prince, Paloma Faith, Laura Mvula, The Noisettes and Florence & The Machine. They’ve performed everywhere from dive bars to The Pyramid stage and The Royal Albert Hall. Baby currently has a single out called Everyday available on all platforms.

Aaron Francis Walker is a Stylist, DJ, Drag Queen and writer. Styling clients include Haim, Alunageorge, Lianne La Havas, Tom Aspaul and Ariana Grande with work published in loads of major mags and newspapers.

Baby and Aaron have a new music and chat show called THEM(ISH) currently airing on Soho Radio third Thursday of every month!missbabysol.co.uk

Styling: aaronfranciswalker.comDJing: mixcloud.com/aaronfranciswalker

A hot date with South African avant-pop icon UMLILO aka Kwaai Diva of the universe this month, talking about friendship, heartbreak, Black femme power and alt-romance in the month of love. With tracks from Umlilo - including a track from their forthcoming album, along with Lebo Mathosa, Brenda Fassi, Nonku Phiri, Destiny's Child, Lil' Kim, SOPHIE and more.

Our latest takeover comes from director, activist  nightlife producer and founding member of Pan-Asian Cabaret Collective The Bitten Peach, ShayShay. Discover non-binary magic with music from Thigh High, Rina Sawayama, Shamir, SHINee, Kindness, Mulan (yes that Mulan) and more! 

www.ShayShay.show

(Picture by Jordan Rossi for Reform the Funk.)

UK pop sensation and GQ's #2 artist of 2020, Rhumba Club AKA Tom is in the guest host seat this month, with a selection of queer anthems old and new. Putting his Masters degree in Pop Music (seriously) to good use, he's exploring the queer canon with bender bangers from PSB, Sylvester, Christine, Blood Orange, The Blow Monkeys, Tyler, the creator and of course, Rhumba Club!

Legendary father of the UK House of Revlon and wearer of many hats, this month Jay Jay Revlon takes us on a journey into the contemporary ballroom scene, where everyone's welcome except Karen. With tracks from LSDXOXO, Whiskers Po, DJ Zinc, Sho Madjozi, Bamz and even Jay-Jay himself bringing it to you for the ball. 

www.justjayjay.com

Our first invited hosts, trans club promoters Alex Creep and Camila Creep of London's legendary Ghost School are here to bring you some banging queer tracks from Cobrah, Macy Rodman, Only Fire, Special Interest and much, much more!

Your regular hour of atypical, mostly queer sounds is back, and this month it's music to be anti-racist to for Pride month. Hot tracks from LYZZA, TootArd, Klein, Marika Hackman, Jockstrap and more, another We Could Be Queeros icon and a current mood mix of protest perfection. 

Stumbling squinting and bleary-eyed out of lockdown, Queer Sounds brings you all bangers no clangers with a big queer disco episode featuring Okey Kaya, Liz Lawrence, Mykki Blanco, Arca, Yaeji, Erasure, Tami T and many more. Bring your lockdown hair and horn and get ready to come on out.

To commemorate day seventwentyeleventeen of isolation, we present an hour of atypical beats and bender bangers. Stay at home with Lyra Pramuk, Amnesia Scanner, Lido Pimienta, Joey LaBeija, Raveena and more, and broaden your mind to avant-queer art and music with Adam Kershaw.

Queering the quarantine with emergency aural relief for isolation mania this month, with a mindful mix featuring Sui Zhen and Katie Gately among others, plus hot and heavy new sounds from Billy Nomates, Zebra Katz, Austra, Yves Tumor and so many more for the horny at home!