Kate Wildblood. DJ, writer and, as a sometimes outspoken journalist, a force to be reckoned with. If you’ve been out and about in Brighton then you’ll have found it hard to ignore her presence behind the decks at Wild Fruit, Sunday Sundae, Envy, the Honeyclub, Wet Pussy, the Candy Bar (pauses for breath) Shameless Hussies, Pride, Fruit Underground, Shine... (gasps)... and French Kiss. Amongst other places. Not that you’d have wanted to ignore her of course.
Not content with entertaining us while we're out clubbing, Kate's daytime career as a freelance journalist gives her a regular voice in both national and local press - she's features ed for Brighton's monthly Gscene magazine and regularly writes for DJ magazine.
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Quick Reference: All About Kate Wildblood...
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| Where did you grow up? |
Frinton-On Sea, a delightful coastal town with more churches than
pubs, an average citizen age of 85 and a place where me, myself and I
having coffee together counted as the local queer's AGM. An Essex girl. |
| What really gets on your nerves? |
Banging trance! It’s the musical equivalent of fingernails down a
blackboard. I’m sure it brings on early menopausal symptoms every time
I’m exposed to it. |
| What d'you love about Brighton? |
Those lovely people aside I love the big blue ‘Brighton’ sign on
the A23. No more turn offs to Burgess Hill or strange Little Chef’s.
Its just Brighton. And that’s home. The only place I’ve ever lived
where I truly loved returning too. |
| So. Vinyl or CD? |
I have to say I’ve always preferred vinyl. It tastes better with
chips and I’ve never trusted a medium you supposedly can fry an egg on.
But, seriously, as our Jo would say, vinyl does feel better; it’s
sexier than cd and when you’ve had a few too many sundae specials not
as fragile. But the Pioneer CDJ1000 is dragging me into the 21st
century. Just. |
| How long have you been entertaining people with music? |
Nothing that glamorous I’m afraid but in my eleventh year against
all the odds I snatched the position of record player monitor at my
primary school. Every day I’d fade in and out on cues of various
winking kinds from vicars, head teachers and guest speakers. I found an
early set list from those days recently and I was so ahead of my time.
Do you know how valuable those Womble promo’s are now? |
| What was your first gig? |
Student disco for my fellow drama queens and stage managers at
Guildford School Of Acting and Dance. Oh happy Smiths soaked days. |
| For the uninitiated, what sort of music do you play? |
That’s a dangerous question to ask a music journalist! Just let me
grab my Roget’s… I play decent funky vocal house music with – thanx to
my mother’s Motown love affair – a disco touch. Basically I play as the
gig requires be it classic or brand spanking new, disco soulful or
Latin influenced. If the bass line gets me ‘there’ and if I reckon
it’ll make the dancefloor grin it’s on the decks. |
| When you've not got a pair of headphones on, what?s your favourite thing to do? |
Pottering around my garden trimming our bushes listening to a
Barbra Streisand documentary on Radio 4 whilst my latest Victoria
sponge delight wafts it’s just baked smell through the house. Mmm. Mmm.
Mmm. [Queen Jo: Steady dear, you’re supposed to be the butch one.] |
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Your selected track for the forthcoming REALBrighton Timeless Dancefloor
Classics album:
The cool dj in me says Believe by the Ministers Of Funk and Jocelyn
Brown but the queer in me says Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer’s
‘Enough Is Enough’.
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Your favourite cocktail recipe for the forthcoming REALBrighton book of
Outstanding Cocktails:
The Queen Josephine. Sweet with a shot of hot that always has
something surprising and stunning inside. |
Hanbury Club
