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Deb Adler - cool and old skool

Posted by ulla on Monday, March 2, 2009, In : Music 

By Ulla Kelly

Deb Adler has been entertaining diverse audiences professionally for over forty years. Trained in both music and theater, Deb's performance background includes everything from glee clubs, choruses, and classical choral unions, to folk groups, to solo performances.

You've been out and singing about it for a long time now – what are the biggest changes you've noticed?
Definitely the integration into mainstream. When I started performing as a "Lesbian-feminist singer-songwriter...


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Shooting the Breeze with Michelle Breeze of Darkpop

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Music 
I found Michelle by surfing along to www.darkpop.co.uk where I saw that Darkpop made the site themselves, and that it’s the only way to get your sticky paws on their exceedingly sublime album ‘Golden Lillies + Mr Smith.’ If you have a look at the Biography link, you’ll see that the mesmerising vocalist is our very own Michelle Breeze, of Fetish fame. There’s an intriguing remark on the website’s front page too, “We know that we are definitely not cool, therefore your love is all...

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Claudine of the Idolins

Posted by ulla on Saturday, February 28, 2009, In : Music 
“Feeling the butterflies crushed in your stomach when the beauty, attraction, lust”

What’s it like being an out lesbian muso?

Great. We played a lesbian / women only gig earlier this year- was fun. There are good audiences out there and many talented lesbian musicians.

You’re UK based - please tell South African readers who you are and what you sound like?

We are an Acoustic female duo based in Nottingham. U.K. Called The Idolins, comprising of Karen Smalley-Turner (Vocals and acoust...


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Cute Little Queer Dude

Posted by ulla on Monday, February 23, 2009, In : Music 


According to various articles online, Joshua Klipp got his break by saying audaciously to Tyra Banks that he’d agree to be interviewed about trans issues on her show if she agreed to talk about his music - she loved his music and the rest is history.

From his 2007 blog:
“appearing on the Tyra Banks Show
getting my song placed on the L Word
making a music video with Margaret Cho
getting that music video on MTV/LOGO’s Top Ten”

All of that, a Billboard chart song and his own hip hop danc...


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Most interviews here appeared on queerlife.co.za with the exception of The World Unseen, which was commissioned by mambagirl.com.  Some interviews have been republished on cherrygrrl.com

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Great news, my interview with The World Unseen people was the cover story of the South African Big Issue March 6 2009.