What’s on: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
On this week’s show we invite Josh Mason from New International Bookshop in the Trades Hall building (cnr Lygon &Victoria St) to discuss one of his favourite book series, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. 
Sam brings the music of Xiu Xiu out of a cold, dark corner in our regular segment on the music and lyrics of queer musicians. Their new album released this year is called Dear God, I Hate Myself and offers more of their weird and experimental rock.
Xiu Xiu also do some fairly unpredictable things in terms of distribution. Last year, Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu’s main member, offered a new 12 month/12 disc music service limited to 50 subscriptions. Each package would include a hand-wrapped, hand-made disc containing ambient and other experimental music works. It sold out in less than a day of course! Check out Xiu Xiu’s blog here, with it’s cool pictures and some fairly entertaining Q&As including a dark response to where to best listen to the music of Xiu Xiu.
We bring Deanne Carson from banQuetPress on to the show to talk about the upcoming launch of their publication that showcases artwork and writing of Australian queer women. It’s being launched at Midsumma festival in February.
Sam talks to John Frame about archiving his Queer Radio show that aired on 4ZZZ in Brisbane from 1993-2009. You can check out audio interviews covering years of queer news and culture by clicking at this great website.
Alex does a review of the blog Sexuality & Love in the Arts, a cross-medium project which artistically spotlights work by people such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Shelley and Keith Haring. Local Joy94.9 listeners might recognise this Keith Haring mural in Collingwood which the artists did with local kids in 1984:
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