Stories to ease you out of the darkness, featuring artists like: The Wild Reeds, Aimee Mann, Wet Leg, Cosmo Sheldrake, Grace Petrie, Little Milton, Ian McFarland, New Radicals
Grace Petrie’s bitter-sweet song of solidarity, Pride, movingly articulates the conflicting emotions of life as a gay person in the 21st Century – on the one hand the legacy of dignity earned by 50 years of liberal activism and on the other the rancour at a lifetime of being discriminated against simply for being who you are…
Apparently every nation has to have an anthem. Presumably this is so that footballers can stand awkwardly before important matches, incoherently mumbling the words while a TV camera probes their faces in close-up before they’re allowed to get on with what they came for.