Yellow Brit Road, 20 June 2021: Anthems and Icons: the 1980s

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, anthems, icons, history and great music!We're continuing our exploration into queer music history, and this week, we're talking about the 1980s! Lots of chat about pop, rock, New Romantic bands, and of course, great new music as always. We had music fromDiana Ross (Nile Rodgers interview here)Culture ClubVisage QueenThe SmithsAustralian feminist queer punk band Stray Dags (find the only other song of theirs I could find here)Pet Shop BoysLondon queer alt rock band Bitch HuntPunk with an incredibly catchy edge from IDestroyNottingham industrial punks Self-LoveLondon based soul musician George RileyOakland punk band Middle-Aged QueersFind this week's playlist here (try and support artists directly if you can!)For more on Welsh queer history, see the QueerWelsh sites.Listen live on your dial at 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)Get in touch with the show: email [email protected] or tweet @YellowBritCFRC.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yellow-brit-road. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This week on the Yellow Brit Road, anthems, icons, history and great music!We're continuing our exploration into queer music history, and this week, we're talking about the 1980s! Lots of chat about pop, rock, New Romantic bands, and of course, great new music as always. We had music fromDiana Ross (Nile Rodgers interview here)Culture ClubVisage QueenThe SmithsAustralian feminist queer punk band Stray Dags (find the only other song of theirs I could find here)Pet Shop BoysLondon queer alt rock band Bitch HuntPunk with an incredibly catchy edge from IDestroyNottingham industrial punks Self-LoveLondon based soul musician George RileyOakland punk band Middle-Aged QueersFind this week's playlist here (try and support artists directly if you can!)For more on Welsh queer history, see the QueerWelsh sites.Listen live on your dial at 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)Get in touch with the show: email [email protected] or tweet @YellowBritCFRC.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yellow-brit-road. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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