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Aural FixationTracks of Our Queers: Margaret Cho, entertainerHi friends, Andy here – née Aural Fixation, currently wittering away on Tracks of Our Queers.In case you're still not subscribed to the Tracks of Our Queers feed, I'm sharing one of my favourite recent episodes right here.Margaret Cho requires zero introduction. She is nothing less than a living, breathing queero, and it was an honour to chat to her about the music that has soundtracked her queer life.Subscribe to Tracks of Our Queers right here, and follow me at @tracksofourqueers.2025-05-0644 minAural FixationTracks of Our Queers: Bonzai Bonner, nightlife promoterAndy here – as I'm putting the finishing touches on Tracks of Our Queers' second season, I thought I'd share some previews from my favourite episodes so far.Here's the first 10 minutes of my conversation with Bonzai Bonner, a DJ, nightlife promoter and activist based in Glasgow.You can find and subscribe to Tracks of Our Queers wherever you get your podcasts.2023-05-1810 minAural FixationTracks of Our Queers: Jonny Seymour, producer and activistAndy here – as I'm putting the finishing touches on Tracks of Our Queers' second season, I thought I'd share some previews from my favourite episodes so far.Here's the first 15 minutes of my conversation with Jonny Seymour, a producer, activist, and community elder based in Sydney.You can find and subscribe to Tracks of Our Queers wherever you getyour podcasts.2023-05-1217 minAural FixationTracks of Our Queers: Abdi Nazemian, author and producerAndy here – as I'm putting the finishing touches on Tracks of Our Queers' second season, I thought I'd share some previews from my favourite episodes so far.Here's the first 15 minutes of my debut episode, with Abdi Nazemian, an Iranian-American author, screenwriter and producer based in Los Angeles. You can find and subscribe to Tracks of Our Queers wherever you get your podcasts.2023-05-0516 minAural FixationTracks of Our Queers is available nowA note from Andy...Hello! Tracks of Our Queers is my new podcast, in which I interview a fascinating person on the music that has soundtracked their queer journey through one song, one album, and one artist. Tracks of Our Queers is available to listen to right now, wherever you find your podcasts. Head on over to subscribe – I cannot wait for you to hear the tales my guests have lived to tell.2023-01-1101 min
Tracks of Our QueersAbdi Nazemian, author and producerAbdi Nazemian is an Iranian-American author, screenwriter and producer based in Los Angeles. He joins me for our debut episode.We discuss “Put the Blame on Mame” by Rita Hayworth, Infinity Within by Deee-Lite, and Lana Del Rey.Abdi’s queer charity shout-out is the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, and you can find him on Instagram at @abdaddy.Tracks of Our Queers is produced, presented and edited by Andy Gott, with the support of Forbes Street Studios, Sydney. A big thank you to Anthony Garvin, Drew Tweddle, and Dan Stanley Freeman...2023-01-1145 minAural FixationEyes Pride Open: Aural Fixation's Mardi Gras Special 2022The boys are back from their UK adventures and ready for Mardi Gras weekend in Sydney, shooting the shit on Shrove Tuesday, corporate queers and biodegradable glitter. We also aboard a round-the-world Pride tour from Cardiff and Manchester to Quito and Orlando, soundtracked by Andy and Drew’s favourite Mardi Gras musical classics.Visit our online home at auralfixationpodcast.com, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, or go old school and email us at auralfixationpodcast@gmail.com. You can follow Andy on @andrewdoyouthinkyouare and Drew on @with.all.drew.respect. And don't forget to check ou...2022-03-031h 02Aural Fixation'Two in the P!nk', or the Missundaztanding of Alecia MooreWe're coming up so you better get this party started! Aural Fixation's eighth cycle wraps up with a good old fashioned Drew and Andy romp, and this time, it's Missundaztood by the one and only P!nk. Some of the queer topics we cover around and amongst Alecia Moore's iconic sophomore outing include Shirley Bassey's Marks & Spencer adverts, "Get the Party Started" being about completely nothing, and rifling through Billy B's phone book. We also muse on Liv Tyler's paternal parentage, shout out to our gaymers, and raise our fists (not glasses) to Max Martin's sl...2022-01-131h 04Aural FixationInsincere to the point of nausea: Dead or Alive’s 'Nukleopatra' with Adem EveIt's New Queer's Eve and we're wrapping up an oddity of a year by delving into the magic and mayhem of Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive and bonafide pio-queer. No one knows Pete better than our old friend and host of various incredible podcasts (The Record Doctor, This Is Disco and the brand new You Can't Mistake Their Anthology to name three), Adem Eve. Adem takes us through possibly the most chaotic album we've covered yet on Aural Fixation, iconically a global flop everywhere apart from Japan... Dead or Alive's Nukleopatra. We also...2021-12-301h 21Aural FixationQueer thinking; straight talking – Geri Halliwell's Schizophonic with Malcolm MacLeanOn May 31 1998, Geri Halliwell shook the globe by announcing that she was leaving the Spice Girls, effective immediately. Caught in the tumult of one of the biggest scandals in pop history, Geri she did what any gay icon would – she packed a bag and headed straight for George Michael's gaff. It was there that she decided what the hell she was going to do next. The result was Schizophonic.Lauded as a parallel universe third Spice Girls album, Geri's debut is a cacophony of frenetic but catchy bops, boasting three UK number ones. But on re-listen over tw...2021-12-151h 16Aural FixationWho took the ram from the rama-lama-ding-dong? Le Tigre's queer feminist debutHow are you? What's your take on Cassavettes? Who took the bomp from the bomp-a-lomp-a-lomp? And who the HELL took the ram from the rama-lama-ding-dong? All these questions and more are answered in this ep dedicated to dancepunk trio Le Tigre.We tackle the band's debut self-titled album, the brainchild of Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning, which sits at the precipice of '60s surfer bops, 80's new wave and 90's queercore New York... with a healthy splash of third-wave feminism.So grab yr metrocard and take the train direct to Friendship Station...2021-12-0149 minAural FixationBells dinged; heartstrings zinged – Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall with Alexander AndrewsJudy Garland's concert appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall is often described as the greatest night in show business history. After ongoing battles with a variety of substances for most of the 1950s, many had come to judge Judy. Her 1961 return to the stage, however, was a roaring success devoured by a crowd made up almost entirely of screaming queens.Discussion on the original gay icon must be taken seriously, and Andy and Drew recruited Judy super-stan Alexander Andrews for a conversation that covers the legendary performance.Want more from the boys? Visit our online...2021-11-171h 12Aural FixationTalkin' about Tracy ChapmanWhat do the forces of Nicki Minaj, Ronan Keating, and those who imprint queerness on successful figures in pop culture all have in common? They all want a piece of Tracy Chapman, ladies, and count us in. One of the best-selling albums of all time by anyone, anywhere, 1988's Tracy Chapman took the singer-songwriter traditions of the 70s and brought them into a new musical landscape and sparking another decade of heartfelt guitar confessionals – but there's so much more than meets the eye in the Tracy Chapman House (TCH). Press play to find out. Want more...2021-11-0354 minAural FixationWe could drink a case of Joni Mitchell with Matthew Arthur WilliamsThe boys are joined by artist, photographer, DJ, and Andy's mate from uni, Matthew Arthur Williams, to discuss the legendary Joni Mitchell and her 1975 album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns. An unrivalled figure in pop culture, Joni loves the queers and the queers love Joni but her icon status isn't as obvious or surface level as most of our usual Aural Fixation subjects. Matthew takes us on a memory lane trip back to the mid-00s, when Joni was the soundtrack of his blossoming queerhood. You can find Matthew on Instagram here, and follow his...2021-10-201h 16Aural FixationOn Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped’, an avalanche of empowerment that is beautiful in every single wayChristina Aguilera's masterpiece Stripped has been cited as inspiration by countless pop sensations including Rihanna, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. From self love, to feminism, to sex positivity, the music gave gals, gays and theys permission to roar when it hit the shelves in 2002.Nearly two decades later, Stripped still gets our temperatures up. What better way to kick off our eighth cycle than with a full strip-search of the album that made us fighters and taught us to trust the voice within. So here it is – no hype, no glass, no pretence. Just Andy an...2021-10-061h 07Aural FixationDrag Race Double Dip Pt. 2: We're all born naked and the rest is Drag Race with Entertainment Weekly's Joey NolfiAfter over seventy episodes and several many bottles of chilled Semillon (send me home), we've reached our Cycle 7 finale! As is tradition (of which there are many!) this ep sees us tackling a subject that's a little... left of the usual format.Second only to Madonna (welcome to her fempire), RuPaul's Drag Race is the cultural touchstone of Aural Fixation. We're hard-pressed to find an episode of the podcast that doesn't in some way reference the show (Tamar, have you ever watched the show?) or its contestants. Beyond the pod, we'd go so far as to say...2021-09-221h 13Aural FixationDrag Race Double Dip Pt. 1: Maxi Shield took a shot from Madonna's diamanté bananaWe're in for a treat this fortnight with our first of two very special Drag Race episodes. First up, superstar of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, Maxi Shield, regales us with her long and very personal history with... Madonna. Yes, we know, every Aural Fixation episode is essentially about Madonna, but this topic was Maxi's choice and for good reason. Our album of focus is the incomparable Immaculate Collection, but it was her brush with a diamanté banana on the Rebel Heart Tour that will prick up your ears. Want more from the boys? Visit our...2021-09-081h 20Aural FixationSTFU! and listen to this episode about Rina SawayamaApril 2020 was a rough time to release new music, but that didn't stop Rina Sawayama from having one of the strongest pop albums of last year. The eponymous Sawayama was an eclectic mash-up of Y2K nostalgia, paying homage to early 2000's manufactured pop, nu-metal and R&B.The album went on to feature on several best of lists, and Sawayama herself made history after criticising major British music awards such as the Mercury Prize and the BRITs who deemed her illegible to be nominated as a British artist, despite having lived in the UK since she...2021-08-251h 03Aural FixationSinéad O'Connor wearing a rainbow hijab on Good Morning Britain is queerA mere 18 years old and mother of a three week old baby when her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released, Sinéad O’Connor shot to stratospheric success off of her haunting vocals, powerful songwriting and give-no-fucks visuals. In this episode, we use Sinéad's blistering debut as a starting point for an exploration of her distilled queerness, her massive appeal to queer listeners, and exactly why is she so... very... O'Conic? We also touch on the Prince Thing, the Pope Thing, and the Madonna Thing (spoiler alert, we're Team Sinéad on all). 2021-08-121h 03Aural FixationIt all comes back to Céline Dion – 'Falling Into You' with GwynneWhen it comes to sweeping romance, earnest lyrics and – let's face it, songs that last six minutes MINIMUM – there really is no topping Ms. Céline Marie Claudette Dion.From humble beginnings in Charlemagne, Quebec (which is queer) to becoming the best-selling Canadian recording artist in history, Queen Céline has dominated the music industry for over three decades. In 1996, her star was in full ascendence when she unleashed Falling Into You on the unsuspecting masses. Playing host to career-defining tracks such as "Because You Loved Me", "All By Myself" and, importantly, the first single Drew ever bought...2021-07-281h 25Aural FixationAll of us wants all of Sufjan Stevens – 'Carrie & Lowell' with Jared RichardsThis fortnight, we're joined by Jared Richards, a cultural critic living on Gadigal land, and writer for NME, The Guardian, The Big Issue, Sissy Screens and more. Last year, Jared wrote a beautiful article on the evolution of Sufjan Stevens that caught our queer eye, so we welcomed him into the studio (pre-second Sydney lockdown) to unpack the mystery and intrigue surrounding a long-awaited Aural Fixation topic. We talk grief and catharsis (or lack there of), Lady Gaga's aunt, and the romance wank of Call Me By Your Name. It's all queer.Visit o...2021-07-1559 minAural FixationDrake-ing the binary with Kris Chesson from Bad QueersIt's a Bad Queers double dip as we welcome on Kris Chesson, the podcasting partner of Shana Sumers from our Beyonce episode, to explore why her queer icon is... Drake. Just hold on, we're going homo.In this episode we use Drake's 2011 album Take Care to centre a discussion on the dos and don'ts of 'dirty macking', what it means to be a stud, and why his disdain for toxic masculinity is just one of the things that make Drake queer. We also close off Pride Month with a deep dive into the minefield that is corporate...2021-06-301h 15Aural FixationSex, Liza and Videotape – 'Live from Radio City Music Hall' with Trevor AshleyStart spreading the news because this is one for the ages, Mein Herr. In an ep that might as well be titled "Legends on Legends" we welcome Australian stage actor and drag superstar Trevor Ashley to tackle Liza Minnelli's groundbreaking Live from Radio City Music Hall album. The show was directed for television in 1992, around the time of Liza's third divorce, and features a concoction of her hits and jukebox standards, as well as original compositions by long-term collaborators Kander and Ebb. There's no queen better qualified to dish on the performance than Trevor. His...2021-06-161h 07Aural FixationBreathing new life into Florence and the Machine's 'Lungs' with Peach FuzzNo matter what hemisphere you’re in, a solstice is upon us. And what better way to ring it in than with a heart-to-rabbit heart on British pop music’s sacred moon child, Florence Welch (and, of course, her Machine).In Cycle 7’s premiere episode, Andy and Drew are accompanied by Sydney drag monarch Peach Fuzz (aka Anthony Severino) to tackle the band’s debut offering Lungs. From the celestial rapture of "Cosmic Love" to the vigorous uproar of "Kiss With a Fist", the trio share their elemental experiences of the album and examine why us queer folks ar...2021-06-021h 01Aural FixationHoward Ashman's queer Disney legacy with Daniel LamminIcons are a dime a dozen here at Aural Fixation (that's what we do... it's what we live for) but heroes are a different kettle of sea-witch – and they don't get more queer-oic than Howard Ashman. For better and for worse, the animated motion pictures produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios have profoundly shaped the media consumed by children since 1928. Like any entertainment behemoth, quality and fortune has ebbed and flowed, but it was the sheer and singular talent of one queer man that steered Disney’s legacy from their lowest trough to their highest peak....2021-05-201h 24Aural FixationTaking apart 'Take Me Apart' by KelelaOver the past six cycles of Aural Fixation, we have discussed many artists who have either eluded to their queerness without directly acknowledging it, or generated a vast queer fanbase without actually being qard qarrrying queers themselves. However sometimes there are artists that we deeply revere who just so happen to be out and proud, which makes our hearts burst because it means that we can fast track them straight to the front of the queue.Enter stage left, Kelela whose debut album Take Me Apart is a delicious blend of R&B, electronic and garage music...2021-05-051h 00Aural FixationNever kissed a Tori (Amos) – 'Boys for Pele' with Tyson KohThere's a lot to cover off when it comes to Tori Amos when it's just Tori Amos – but when your guest star is a former TV producer, current radio DJ and the singular driving force behind the bid to save Sydney's nightlife scene, we somehow filled 90 minutes of your precious time! Fear not, we've made it worth your while. Tyson Koh joins the Aural Fixation-ers to discuss the myriad of mysteries and treats on Tori's 1996 critical masterpiece Boys for Pele, including Courtney Love, Janice Dickinson and of course, a bit o' (Kate) Bush. If you’re in S...2021-04-211h 25Aural FixationThe agony and the ecstasy of Perfume Genius' 'Set My Heart On Fire IMMEDIATELY'Perfume Genius has long been synonymous with gay angst but in his fifth and most recent album Set My Heart On Fire IMMEDIATELY, he takes steps towards acceptance. The album's opener "Whole Life" speaks to a reckoning of self that seems to have taken half a lifetime and sets the stage for the personal examination of a gay man approaching middle age.Recorded and released just before the onslaught of the pandemic, PG followed up SMHOFI with companion album IMMEDIATELY Remixes in March 2021 – arguably one of the more satisfying outcomes of lockdown. Join Andy and Drew as th...2021-04-0759 minAural FixationClear the area for Imogen Heap's 'Speak for Yourself'Techno-instrument inventor, West End composer and globally-renowned baby soother Imogen Heap has come a long way since her groundbreaking 2005 release Speak for Yourself, but we reckon it remains her queerest piece of work and we're about to tell you why. Tales of Ariana Grande's latent veganism, keeping TERFs out of Hogwarts and the most airtime Jason Derulo will ever get on Aural Fixation are just some of the delights that await you in this queersploration. Where are we, and what the hell is going on? Visit our online home at auralfixationpodcast.com, follow us...2021-03-2457 minAural FixationBeyoncé is a dykon and '4' is her best album. Fight us. (feat. Shana Sumers)"Forget being cool, I'm going to be honest," states a defiant Beyoncé in her 2013 documentary Life is But a Dream. "I'm going to be sad, I'm going to be passionate, I'm going to be vulnerable. And I'm going to sing from my heart." It was with this mindset that Bey embarked on her fourth solo album, 4. Fresh from a pretty public separation from her father's management, Bey was determined to prove that she could run things in accordance with her own agenda. The outcome was a reflective and triumphant album that re-introduced R&B to commercial radio, a...2021-03-101h 04Aural FixationAre our 'Expectations' of Hayley Kiyoko too great?Lesbian Jesus has been done arisen, and sign us up for her flock – this fortnight’s episode of Aural Fixation explores the 2018 debut album Expectations, by Hayley Kiyoko. Nickelodeon child star to empowered music video director, Hayley knows who is she and serves as a beacon for queer, but especially, female young fans. Does the material live up to our Expectations, and is Hayley more k.d. or Katy? Visit our online home at auralfixationpodcast.com, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, or go old school and email us at auralfixationpodcast@gmail.com.Our b...2021-02-2455 minAural FixationSelf actualisation and crashing the cis-tem in Antony and the Johnsons' 'I Am a Bird Now'Antony and the Johnsons' I Am a Bird Now is a story told from within a chrysalis.Featuring the unmistakably haunting vocals of lead singer ANOHNI, the album speaks of a yearning to be grown, the confronting nature of evolution and the delicious freedom of eventual self-actualisation. While it’s fair to assume the subject matter was directly informed by the experiences of ANOHNI, a trans woman, the themes of I Am a Bird Now hold assorted meanings for folks across the queer spectrum.Collaborations from AF alumni Boy George and Lou Reed, as well as...2021-02-1053 minAural FixationThe rise and fall, and rise again, of David Bowie's queernessThis episode we explore Bowie's succinctly titled The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. We journey on through Bowie's legacy to queer audiences, his vast array of bangers, and how we turned death into an art form. Facts are facts – David Bowie made life more bearable for othered people around the world. From the Seventies onwards, queer people could see parts of themselves in an unconventional patron saint – sexually ambiguous, highly successful, and full of joy. He also probably wasn't gay. As in, putting his d*** in other men...2021-01-271h 02Aural FixationQ&A #5 – The Final Q&A?Q: Has cycle five been Aural Fixation's most diverse yet?A: Possibly maybe, mary!Over the past eight eps, we've beaten around the Kate Bush, dreamt of Tejano superstar Selena, salivated over Honey Dijon and gotten physical with Dua (to name a few!) We've welcomed incredible guests, gone profesh and moved in-studio (again, a huge shout out to the incredible guys at Forbes Street Studios) and in December we celebrated our most-listened month EVER! And so, in the great tradition of ourselves, we're wrapping up the tour du fierce that was cycle five with another stonking...2021-01-131h 00Aural FixationGhosts of Aural Fixation Christmas PastWhat do sequels, ghosts, and Christmas all have in common? They're queer! Join us (won't you?) for our second annual Christmas episode, where we take a trip down Yuletide Lane and dust off festive classiques by previous Aural Fixation subjects. It's mulled wine, it's mince pies, it's... listens. Despite non-stop merriment, we're still asking the hard questions – is You-Know-What even Mariah's best Christmas song? Who has more Christmas albums, Dolly Parton or RuPaul? Is "These Days" by ARIA-winning Fanny Lumsden actually a Christmas song at all!? This episode was recorded at Forbes Street Stud...2020-12-1651 min
Aural FixationDua Lipa – Future Nostalgia / Club Future NostalgiaIn March 2020, it's safe to say that the world was in search of a spark to pierce the dark. One such spark came in the form of Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia – a bombastic retro-journey that took pop and dance music cues from the past and thrust us towards a (hopefully) brighter tomorrow. A few short months later came the lockdown project to end all lockdown projects – Club Future Nostalgia. The companion remix album was created in collaboration with noted DJ The Blessed Madonna and featured guests such as Missy Elliot, Mark Ronson, Gwen Stefani and The Actual Madon...2020-12-0953 min
Aural FixationMelanie C – Northern StarAs one fifth of the most successful girl group of all time, Mel C spent her early twenties inseparably tied to her athletic alter ego. Her status as Sporty Spice was so entrenched in her public persona that when the Spice Girls took a hiatus in 1999, Mel C did what any trapped queer person would do; she cut her hair, dyed it blonde, changed her name and reached out to Madonna.Northern Star by Melanie C was the outcome. The debut tells tales of aggrieved emancipation, potential secret sapphism and the ongoing plight of the homeless through...2020-11-251h 00
Aural FixationABBA – Voulez-VousAfter a winning streak of iconique guests, Andy and Drew sit down this episode with nothing but a bottle of bubbles and one of the world's biggest pop acts... ever. If you've been to a wedding, experienced a road trip or watched a film starring Meryl Streep, Julie Walters and Christine Baranski, you've probably heard an ABBA song. If you've enjoyed a £2.50 triple gin and tonic at Thompson's on Canal Street in Manchester, you definitely have.If so, you'll know it's fabulous, you'll know it's joy, but have you acknowledged the slightly unsettling melancholy you f...2020-11-111h 01
Aural FixationHoney Dijon – The Best of Both Worlds (feat. Belinda O'Brien)Honey Dijon was born in Chicago and leapt headfirst into the club scene as a teenager. Mentored by house music legends Derrick Carter and Mark Farina, it wasn’t long before she established herself as a world-class club and remix DJ and producer.In 2017, Honey produced her debut album with an array of guests lending their vocals. Aptly named The Best of Both Worlds, the album takes its cues from a plethora of musical references and evades genre. Pretty on-brand for Honey, who renounces gender binaries, lives in two cities (New York and Berlin) and moves in fo...2020-10-281h 00
Aural FixationPrince – Dirty Mind (feat. DJ Matt Vaughan)In 2009, multi-talented queer power duo Wendy & Lisa confirmed that their former bandleader, brother-in-arms and boss, Prince, was definitely not gay, but rather a… fancy lesbian. What a relief. Not that we’re scrambling for excuses to explore the Purple One for Aural Fixation. Purveyor of assless chaps, a deft hand with eyeliner and a spiritual connection with the fight to be one’s authentic self are just the tip of Prince’s queer iceberg. To lead Drew and Andy to Paisley Park, we secured the wisdom of DJ Matt Vaughan, the father of Sydney’s own iconic q...2020-10-141h 10
Aural FixationSelena – Dreaming of You (feat. Rícardo Garcia)In the pop pantheon of stars taken from us too soon, few tales are as tragic – or as gruesome – as the tale of Selena. The lead singer in a family band created by her ambitious father, Selena spent most of her young life on the road playing in restaurants and state fairs. Despite being a first-language English speaker, most of Selena’s music was recorded and performed in Spanish, and Latin crowds swiftly became enamoured by the singer’s voice and charm. In early 1995, with four Spanish albums and a Grammy under her belt, Selena began to r...2020-09-3056 min
Aural FixationHole – Celebrity SkinHey, so glad you could make it! This episode we talk Celebrity Skin, the 1998 crack-at-the-mainstream album by Courtney Love and her band, Hole. Firmly planted in the mystique and fallacy of Hollywood and California, Celebrity Skin serves as a worthy counterpart to the mystique and fallacy of Courtney Love. A hotbed of raw talent, yes… a problematic fave, no doubt, but more than anything else, Love’s defining attribute remains being deeply misunderstood. We look at Courtney before, during and after the album, while exploring other queer aspects of Celebrity Skin and Hole. ...2020-09-1655 min
Aural FixationKate Bush – Hounds of LoveWe’ve reached Cycle 5 of Aural Fixation, and what better way to celebrate than with a discussion on the woman that completes the quinfecta of Andy’s top bitches – the incomparable Miss Kate Bush.A child prodigy with a penchant for dancing, karate and pianos, Bush released her first album The Kick Inside aged 19 (with some songs written when she was just a young teenager). From there, Bush parlayed her subsequent albums to firmly establish herself as British pop music’s sacred moonchild, before releasing her fifth studio album Hounds of Love in 1985.Split into two sect...2020-09-021h 03
Aural FixationMadonna – VogueThe term “iconic” is bandied about on this podcast far too often, but when it comes to describing Madonna’s Vogue, there’s really no better adjective. At the intersection of old Hollywood glamour and the New York ballroom scene, Vogue was responsible for introducing queer POCs and their art to the mainstream on its release in 1990. Accompanied by David Fincher’s chill-inducing black and white video and *that* performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, the song immediately became required reading on the Queer Culture 101 syllabus and that position in the canon holds strong thirty years later.2020-08-1955 minAural FixationQ&A #4 (feat. @mynameisnotsusanthony)We started Aural Fixation's Cycle 4 by paying homage to Mother Robyn, with no idea of the extent we would truly be dancing on our own over the next few months. We found solace with queer giants like Queen, Janelle Monáe and Cher, and explored iconic queer tracks in a streak of mini episodes. We also recorded mostly 600km apart, with technical difficulties, corrupt memory cards and deleted vocal tracks just adding to the general 2020-ness of it all. But dolls – we soldiered. It’s with relief and well, a surprise, that we reach the finish line, and th...2020-08-0658 min
Aural FixationQueen – A Night at the OperaIf you’re a human being with ears under the age of 40, Queen have never not existed. For decades the iconic four-piece – fronted by the frontman to end all frontmen – pumped out hit after hit after hit. So much so that when Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 from AIDS-related bronchopneumonia, he had left us with ten careers-worth of music despite only being 45. Our gateway drug into the land of rock royalty is 1975’s A Night at the Opera. The band’s fourth studio album, and home to their definitive classic Bohemian Rhapsody, is part 70’s stadium concert, part-honky to...2020-07-221h 01
Aural FixationDolly Parton – The Very Best of (feat. Fanny Lumsden)Iconic duos have been cruelly separated by Miss Rona the world over, but finally your most loved audio couple reunite. Against the suitably spectacular backdrop of Australia's Snowy Mountains region, Drew and Andy are joined by a very special guest, for a very special topic. ARIA-nominated, Golden Guitar Award-winning, chart-topping country singer Fanny Lumsden invites Aural Fixation to swap the Snowies for the Smokies and hitch a ride to Dollywood. No other artist manages to unite the United States (and beyond) quite like Dolly Parton, a fact made all the more remarkable as her flame burns brighter...2020-07-081h 00
Aural FixationJanelle Monáe – Dirty ComputerAt the intersections of Black, female and queer excellence in 2020 sits a Baptist-raised sci-fi nerd who can act, dance, rap, write, and of course, sing. Not remotely intimidating to tackle in fifty-seven minutes at all, but Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer is worth it. From her first EP in 2007, Monáe has put her money where her mouth is. High concept and intricate imagery are complimented with top tier songwriting, production and bangers, with each piece of the puzzle held to the highest standard. Features from Brian Wilson, Zoë Kravitz and Grimes litter an equal...2020-06-2457 min
Aural FixationYears & Years – CommunionYears & Years bound to the top of the UK charts in 2015 with their fourth single "King", the band's unapologetically queer frontman Olly Alexander sitting proudly at the helm. Their debut album Communion shortly followed, an 18-strong cavalcade that spawned a total of seven (!) singles and global recognition among straight and gay fans alike.As the band started to make traction, so Alexander began to use his ever-growing platform to speak candidly but fluently about mental health, sexuality and identity. This episode, Andy and Drew use Communion to frame a discussion on the band's trajectory and the importance o...2020-06-1056 min
Aural FixationFirst Fix: Lady Gaga – ChromaticaNow seems a better time than ever to crack the fire exit and escape Earth, so thank the gay gods for Gaga who's created a whole new planet where equality rules and kindness punks run free. Welcome to Chromatica. In our inaugural “First Fix”, we tackle Lady Gaga's sixth studio album upon its release to dish our initial thoughts and dissect our favourite bops. Where does Chromatica sit in the pop pantheon? What do Ariana Grande, Elton John and BLACKPINK have in common? And does "Babylon" sound perhaps… a little... familiar? We’re still recording remotely...2020-06-0359 min
Aural FixationCher – Believe (feat. Matthew Harden AKA Slaydy Diana)Mom, she is a rich man – and one of the fiercest icons in the queer canon at that. Cherilyn Sarkisian's inimitable force has carried her from 1965 to the present day. There really is no one like Cher. A towering goddess of this stature couldn't be tackled by Drew and Andy alone, so we roped in long-time listener and huge friend of the pod, Matthew Harden – aka @slaydydiana. Slaydy dialled in from Melbourne to offer up a deeper understanding of Cher's place in the pop pantheon through the lens of her Believe album, possibly the most commercially successful come...2020-05-271h 01
Aural FixationQuick Fix: Kele – TenderoniIf you're not listening to Quick Fix, you're only getting half the story – and we've got the full download on the lead single, "Tenderoni", from Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke's first solo album The Boxer. Released ten (!?) years ago, Kele's bold new musical direction and image was in stark contrast to that curated over Bloc Party's meteroic rise to fame and adoration in British indie. Change was now underfoot, all clues point toward that – but why? What had shifted for Kele? Quick Fix is Aural Fixation's stickier and sweeter little sister, our run of shorter epis...2020-05-2020 min
Aural FixationBeverly Glenn-Copeland – Keyboard FantasiesOver 30 years ago, Beverly Glenn-Copeland released Keyboard Fantasies, a six track album that sold very few copies. It wasn’t until a Japanese music stan discovered the album in 2015 and shared it amongst his fellow audiophiles that it was lauded as a new-age, synthesised masterpiece. Before long, a number of record labels were fighting to sign Copeland, now in his seventies. From there the fascinating details of Glenn’s life began to surface – such as his life living in relative solitude with his wife in the wilderness; or his 25 years spent entertaining children on Canadian kid’s TV show...2020-05-1354 min
Aural FixationQuick Fix: Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a Place on EarthHeaven is, in fact, a Quick Fix on Earth, as well as four minutes of utter pop excellence performed by iconic ally Belinda Carlise. Join us for an exploration of this A grade masterpiece, including but not limited to, topics such as why this song is so bloody good, why this song is particularly gay, and why “San Junipero” is the greatest episode of Black Mirror ever. If you’ve made it this far into the bio, and you’re gay and/or a millenial, then you’ll likely know precisely what we’re talking about, but if not – do y...2020-05-0628 min
Aural FixationPet Shop Boys – BehaviourWhat have I done to deserve this? What are we going to do about the rich? I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it to you – musings we should all be considering, or Pet Shop Boys song titles? Both! We’re well into Cycle 4, and for a supposed queer music podcast we took our sweet time getting to this iconic duo. Nevertheless, here we are with the PSBs, an act who have shaped many of the artists we know and love, queer or not, and continue to pump out their own unique brand of...2020-04-301h 01
Aural FixationQuick Fix: Groove Armada feat. Mutya Buena – Song 4 MutyaFew break-up tracks capture the boppery, struttery and sheer i’m-so-over-you-ery found soaked throughout Song 4 Mutya, our next selection for Aural Fixation's Quick Fix. Conceived by UK electronica duo Groove Armada, the song was originally meant for Estelle before being handed to ex-Sugababe (and current hun) Mutya Buena shortly after she departed the band. We couldn’t imagine it in anyone else’s hands; Buena’s chocolatey vocals provided us with the definitive heartbreak anthem of summer 2007. Join us, won’t you, as we wax quick on what The Guardian dubbed “the finest pop song sin...2020-04-2222 min
Aural FixationEpisode Zero: The Aural Fixation PilotAs we’re sure you’re aware, recent developments surrounding Madame Rona and government mandates regarding social distancing mean that for the foreseeable future, Drew and Andy won't be able to record Aural Fixation in the same room as one another for a while. While we play around with ways in which we can record our episodes remotely, we wanted to share our first ever experiment with you – Episode Zero. Recorded in October 2018, this is the pilot episode of Aural Fixation – just two boys, a laptop and one burning question: do we have what it takes to become po...2020-04-1553 min
Aural FixationQuick Fix: Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Lil' Kim and Mýa – Lady MarmaladeIn the grand tradition of reality TV show companion spin-offs broadcast on D-grade companion TV channels, we're keeping the flame burning at Aural Fixation with Quick Fix: Shorter episodes focusing on a song, rather than an album, which left a similar impact on our queer selves. We're kicking off with a look at the "finest all-female collaboration between 1988 and 2018" (a big call from Entertainment Weekly), the 2001 cover of "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Lil' Kim and Mya. We explore this stratospheric meeting of the minds between late 90s/early 00s icons, and Mya, w...2020-04-0929 min
Aural FixationRobyn – Body TalkThe world continues to get more topsy turvy, but it also continues to spin, so therefore you have a brand new episode of Aural Fixation. We're kicking off with an artist who, quite frankly we cannot believe we haven't tackled sooner! Hang on – have we done Robyn before? As you can imagine with three EPs and a lot of heartbreak to get through, it's a bumper episode indeed, which we hope provides a glimpse of escapism (if that be what you're seeking). Andy gets emotional about Candi Staton's life of regrets, Drew muses on a past life whe...2020-04-011h 01
Aural FixationQ&A #3 – Q&SléWe can't lie – these are mysterious times. Everything feels a little bizarre and confusing at the moment, but something you can rely on is your fortnightly dose of unbridled queer joy from Drew and Andy. To wrap up our third (third!) season (cycle?), the boys once again take a deep dive into the DMs to provide their answers to your questions.This ep is pepped with conjecture on Gaga's upcoming Chromatica (save us Mother Monster), discourse on Whitney's bisexuality (RIP our Queen of the Night) and even questions the queerness of hettie god Harry Styles AND his he...2020-03-1851 min
Aural FixationDannii Minogue – Neon Nights (feat. Tom Aspaul)Have you ever felt like you’re ever-so-slightly less-than? Do you ever get the sense that you’re living in someone else’s shadow? Have you, too, experienced that niggling sensation that there is somebody else – somebody more successful than you, more recognised, more universally revered – consistently beating you to the punch? OF COURSE YOU DO! You’re queer for christ sake, those feelings of inadequacy are literally engrained in us during childhood because of the systemic patriarchal dictatorship we’re born into! Aaaanyway, the silver lining that comes along with the feeling of never being quite good enough is...2020-03-041h 03
Aural FixationDiana Ross – dianaWe’re coming out, and we want the world to know… that not all gay men are born with an innate, all-encompassing love for disco, ok!? In fact, only 50% of Aural Fixation was, as we discover on a glitter ball-guided tour through 1980’s diana, by Diana Ross. Released in the disco revolution’s twilight years, diana was the Boss breaking free from the shackles of Motown, the record label which made her in the 60s, and was starting to break her. Helping her out were CHIC’s very own Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, taste-making producers riding the wave o...2020-02-1955 min
Aural FixationFrank Ocean – Channel OrangeA tornado blew around the Aural Fixation recording studio before we came, and, well, excuse the mess it made! Ok, that analogy can only go so far, but nonetheless, the memorable opener from Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout You” has endured since it’s 2012 release on Channel Orange. At the time, a ground-breaking hip hop album documenting the lost loves of a 23 year old finding out who he is, Frank had us shook with the mainstream explosion of queerness in a traditionally not-very-queer music scene. Or, so it seems. Eight years later, Drew and Andy venture not too far d...2020-02-0555 min
Aural FixationSpice Girls – Spiceworld (feat. Rebecca Gibbs)It’s hard to believe that the Spice Girls were active for less than two years during their initial run as a (Spice Force) five-piece. Hot on the heels of their ground-breaking 1996 debut Spice, the gals were on a roll when they put out both Spiceworld (the album) and Spice World (the movie) in 1997. By this point they were cooking with gasoline-soaked platforms, overtaking the globe with their trademark Girl Power at a rate the music industry (and impressionable young music stans) had never seen before. On 31 May 1998 Geri peaced out, breaking our hearts and sending us in...2020-01-2258 min
Aural FixationIndigo Girls – Indigo GirlsAmy Ray and Emily Saliers met at school before forming femme folk twosome Indigo Girls in 1985. They’ve performed together steadily ever since, providing the soundtrack to sapphic glances across campfire singalongs the world over. In this episode, Drew and Andy take a look at their self-titled LP. Released at a time where queer female voices were scarce, the album became a beacon for the lesbian community, its songs speaking to love, loss and longing. Indigo Girls has since gone on to inspire a number of female artists, queer and otherwise. But did they ever as...2020-01-0848 minAural FixationAn Aural Fixation Christmas SpecialGod rest ye merry queers, and step into an Aural Fixation wonderland for our very first Christmas special. Drew and Andy take each other on a Yuletide journey down and up their respective memory lanes, applying their now trademark Queer Analysis™ to exactly what makes a merry music moment so magical. Each picking their eight favourite festive bops, the boys riff on the spectrum of emotions Christmas music can conjure up - from joy and mysticism, to loneliness and longing. With cameos* from LGBT icons like Tinky Winky, Enya and Carol Vorderman (*mentions, really), we're gift...2019-12-181h 01
Aural FixationKylie Minogue – Light YearsDoes any gay icon better illustrate the Anglo-Australian tapestry of Aural Fixation than Kylie Minogue? Just why it took so long for us to sit down with the Princess of Antipodean Pop is unexplainable and inexcusable, but we’re here now, spinning around, so ploise move out of our way. After blazing through the late 80s as Stock Aitken Waterman’s poster girl and notching up four UK number ones, Kylie found herself at a reinvention crossroads in the early 90s, trialling different sounds and images over various albums and record labels. Struggling to find her place in th...2019-12-111h 01
Aural FixationGeorge Michael – FaithAs part of teen pop two-piece Wham!, George Michael was every little hungry schoolgirl’s – and statistically one tenth of all little hungry schoolboy’s – pride and joy. With his hair feathered, his torso bronzed and his shorts shortened, George spent the first seven years of his career selling more than 30 million records globally alongside ghost of pop past Andrew Ridgely.By 1987, it was time for George to go it alone. His debut album Faith heralded the death of Day-Glo George and the birth of George 2.0. This George was everything a male pop star in the 80’s...2019-11-2756 min
Aural FixationBjörk – HomogenicWe begin our third collection of musings on queer musos with a deep dive into Andy’s second favourite of all time, Mother Björk. Defiantly impossible to compare to pretty much any other artist, queers the world over have clasped Bjork to their alternative bosoms since her 1993 first album Debut, but what exactly is it about her body of work, visual language and legacy that appeals so directly to so many queer fans?Drew and Andy take her commercial and critical peak, 1997’s Homogenic, as a starting point for a journey attempting to answer those...2019-11-131h 01Aural FixationQ&A #2 – Q&A with Drew & AQ: Can Andy and Drew last an hour without talking about Madame X or Mother Monster?A: No. Q: Can Andy and Drew last five minutes without talking about Madame X or Mother Monster?A: Also no. By popular demand, the boys wrap up the second season (!) of Aural Fixation with another bumper Q&A session. But this time there’s a twist – any word of either of their #1 bitches comes with a punishment. If you sliced Aural Fixation straight down the middle, this episode’s companion playlist would come gushing out so be...2019-10-301h 09
Aural FixationAriana Grande – Sweetener / thank u, nextAural Fixation’s second season of queer icons wraps up with our most contemporary yet. Ariana Grande might be the most popular artist among queer people under the age of, erm... twenty-five, but in recent years has trodden a path taken by very few, if any, of her peers. Released just six months apart, Sweetener and thank u, next both represent a different side to the complex coin of Grande’s career in 2018. Common threads carry through both, of relationship woes, mental health struggles and inevitable resilience, not to mention the bangers and bops galore. Grande also conti...2019-10-161h 00
Aural FixationElton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadIt’s the early seventies and Dame Elton John is spaffing out music like it’s nobody’s business. As part of his songwriting sisterhood with Bernie Taupin, Elton had already gifted us with six albums by early 1973, featuring hits such as “Your Song”, “Tiny Dancer” and “Crocodile Rock”. You’d think at this point the gal needed a break. Actually – if you’ve seen Rocket Man, you’d know the gal needed a break. But anyway... Break he did not, for it was straight back into the studio with our Elt. What came out what undoubtedly Elton’s most experimental o...2019-10-0257 min
Aural FixationGarbage – Beautiful Garbage (feat. Liam Casey)Whether you've been a regular on the fan forum since 2002 or you simply know them as the band that did the song from Romeo and Juliet, chances are you know a little about this episode's subject – Garbage. But there is no way in gay hell you know anywhere near as much as this episode's guest, Liam, who has deeply stanned the band ever since discovering an obscure Garbage remix on his 12th birthday.Experimental and unapologetically queer, Garbage cut their tusks in the nineties with their inimitable cocktail of genres across grunge, trip-hop, pop and rock. The me...2019-09-1853 min
Aural FixationJanet Jackson – ControlGimme a beat! This is a story about Control – Janet Jackon's Control, the 1986 album which quite literally birthed an entire genre (Siri, what's 'new jack swing'?), and placed the Jackson Five's little sister on a path to international stardom, selling 100 million records worldwide and directly influencing artists as diverse as Britney, Beyoncé and, erm, Heidi from the Sugababes... according to Wikipedia. At just twenty years old, Janet set out to cast off her family's astronomical shadow, while repositioning her image and sense of self as firmly in Control – control of her sexuality and relationships, control of her indepe...2019-09-0455 min
Aural FixationCulture Club – Colour by NumbersWhat do maketh a queer icon? Pop princess blighted by tragedy – tick. Indie darlings, misunderstood by their contemporaries but retrospectively lauded – check. Alexandra Burke – say no more, dot com. How about an effeminate, sexually ambiguous teenager pulled from small town 70s England to front a reggae-influenced pop rock band who would go on to sell 150 million albums, and soundtrack wedding dance floors for decades to come? Boy George confused and bewitched men, women and everything in between, and in some ways, continues to do so. Colour by Numbers is Aural Fixation's look at a fully-formed body of...2019-08-2150 min
Aural FixationCarly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TIONLet us take you back to 2011. Egypt is in revolt. The people of London are rioting. Earthquakes are wreaking havoc in New Zealand and Japan. Amy Winehouse is dead, for christ sake. Life is bleak. But wait – what’s that we can hear in the distance? It’s a girl with a sugary voice. And it sounds like she’s... imploring a boy to... pick up the phone and... give her a call? Oh happy day mama, it’s Carly Rae Jepsen! Come to remind us all that there *is* joy in the world, through the twinned arts of add...2019-08-0856 min
Aural FixationMadonna – American LifeAfter slyly dominating the first ten episodes of your new favourite music podcast, we're finally giving a much-deserved hour to the pop monolith that is... Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. Madame X, if you're nasty. Fourteen studio albums, three hundred million records sold and a superlative-exhausting run of smashed records later, the Queen of Pop has been thrusting queer sensibility to the forefront of mainstream pop culture for nearly 40 years, spanning from her early 80s association with Keith Haring and Andy Warhol right through up to her 2019 World Pride performance marking five decades since the Stonewall uprising. 2019-07-251h 02
Aural FixationKelis – Flesh ToneAny typical conversation about Kelis will almost undoubtedly centre around *that* dairy-based beverage, and its power to lure ~the boys~ to her front lawn for a taste. Of course, Drew and Andy aren’t interested in typical conversations. This episode, the boys have gone lactose-intolerant – they didn’t come here to talk milkshakes; they came here for flesh. 2010’s Flesh Tone was recorded in collaboration with visionary – if not ever-so-irritating – Black Eyed Pea will.i.am and marked the beginning of a new era for our Kel. The R&B soul sister of the early 00s was dust and an e...2019-07-1052 min
Aural FixationQ&A #1 – In Bed with Drew and AndyOur email servers have crashed time and time again underneath the sheer influx of mail, and our fans have questions which need answering. It was time to give the people what they want.Drew and Andy settle down with a glass of cask wine and give our listeners insight into what makes us tick, what gets us razzed, and what makes up our pop DNA. Forty-five minutes isn’t enough to get through all the enquiries, but tune in to find out who soundtracks our seduction techniques, what we’d love to see our icons cover, what musi...2019-06-2648 min
Aural FixationScissor Sisters – Scissor SistersThe year is 2004. The likes of Katie Melua, Jamie Cullum and Dido dominate supermarket shelves, as the UK charts are pervaded with an overwhelming sense of beige – that is, until, a glamourous quartet from the streets of New York storm through with a disco Pink Floyd cover to punctuate the gloom with glitter.The Scissor Sisters channelled the peacocking showmanship of Elton John and Freddie Mercury through an early 2000s sensibility, which remains futuristic, yet timeless, to this day. In this episode, we appraise a purposefully, performatively queer band with something to say, and the bangers to ba...2019-06-1348 min
Aural FixationLady Gaga – The Fame Monster (feat. Charlotte Tweddle)When 23-year-old Lady Gaga strode boldly into the flashing lights with 'The Fame' in 2008, she was lauded as a new kind of pop princess – honest, opinionated, perhaps a little extra but with the vocal chops to back it all up. Her eight-track 2009 follow-up 'The Fame Monster' dug its gilded heel into the zeitgeist with instant classics like 'Bad Romance' and 'Telephone', clinching Gaga a spot in the sonic hall of fame. From here her war cry was clear: Be your authentic self, celebrate difference, and party in the margins. In this episode, Andy, Drew and th...2019-05-291h 05
Aural FixationGrace Jones – Island LifeFrom daughter of a preacher man to empress of New York nightlife, Grace Jones has spent her career challenging, scintillating and titillating listeners, audiences and baffled onlookers, with panache like no other. Andy and Drew meet underneath the disco balls of Manhattan, dancing through Grace's early greatest hits, before skipping thirty years ahead to a decade-in-the-making comeback, recorded in the heady hills of Jamaica. Through 1985’s ‘Island Life’ and 2008’s ‘Hurricane’, we tackle one of the few pop culture icons who can lay genuine claim to the title of, well, ‘icon’. You can find this episode's companio...2019-05-1544 min
Aural FixationRuPaul – AmericanStep aside, we're back again – and frothing to spill ALL of the tea on RuPaul's political juggernaut 'American'. Released as a direct response to the 2016 US Election, the album speaks to civic disenfranchisement, administrative unease and, of course, lady cowboys. With a career trajectory unlike any other, RuPaul has solidified his status as an icon in recent years with the growing success of RuPaul’s Drag Race. But as he approaches his sixties, is he still a Champion of the queer community – or are his opinions trapped in the past? So, kitty girls, call us mother...2019-05-0152 min
Aural FixationGirls Aloud – Tangled UpBirthed from the profits of Cher’s ‘Believe’ and Geri Halliwell’s blink-and-you-miss-it reality show judging career, Girls Aloud are the biggest UK girl band ever… who no-one outside the country actually knows. With twenty consecutive top 10 UK singles, four million albums, and some of the most bonkersly brilliant bangers of the 21st century to their name, the band hit their commercial and critical summit with 2007’s ‘Tangled Up’, and we think it’s time that this pop masterpiece got the international respect it deserves. Spanning the spectrum of 80s synth-pop and 90s house to 60s psychedelia, garag...2019-04-1748 min
Aural FixationBritney Spears – BlackoutLet us break the ice and give you more in our third episode, an exploration of a pop masterpiece created at the most tumultuous intersection of Britney Jean's career. Released four years following her commercial zenith with 'In the Zone', 2007's 'Blackout' gathered innovative producer upstarts, like Danja and Bloodshy & Avant, alongside industry veterans, like the Neptunes, to mark Britney's personal struggles with futuristic-sounding anthems of frustration, sex and independence. Drew and Andy dive into their own personal histories with one of the widest-reaching gay icons in recent years. There's Timbaland-related tension and some tough Br...2019-04-0746 min
Aural FixationThe Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & NicoEpisode two of your new favourite podcast plunges deep into The Velvet Underground and their debut album 'The Velvet Underground and Nico'. Produced by Andy Warhol and featuring the trickley tones of German songstress Nico, 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' is lauded as the first indie rock album ever, and one of the greatest of all time. Join Drew and Andy as they wax intrigued on the mysteries shrouding the album's inception and the sexuality of frontman Lou Reed. You can find this episode's companion playlist on Spotify, and follow us on Instagram a...2019-04-0746 min
Aural FixationBette Midler – Experience the DivineDrew and Andy kick off Aural Fixation with a personal analysis of the Divine Miss M, the wind beneath our wings, Bathhouse Bette herself: Bette Midler. In our inaugural episode, the conversation centres around Bette's 1993 greatest hits collection 'Experience the Divine' – a childhood favourite of Drew's – featuring beloved hits such as 'Chapel of Love', 'From a Distance' and 'The Rose'. Allow us to put a spell on you as we discuss, arguably, the best Bette, in which Drew and Andy pose all the important questions such as: What makes a gay icon? Is 'Beaches' overrated? And...2019-04-0746 min