XNTHONY is taking over the UK right now with a Bingo event, a Robyn tribute, an Irish-themed club night, a creative werkshop and interactive-story-telling for kids! Loverboy catches up with him to discus his many projects, including his upcoming show ‘Confirmation’, and to bond over the ever-relevance of The Cranberries’ ‘Linger.’ What events are you […]

One of the best things about interviewing someone is seeing how much they can totally shatter any pre-conceived expectations you might have over the course of forty minutes. Before speaking with The Drums’ Jonny Pierce, about new album Brutalism, we’re not too sure what we expected but it was most definitely not bonding over The Sound of Music, […]

For all that K-Pop artists are burning up the charts and selling out arena tours all over the globe, the amount of publicly out LGBT K-Pop artists is still relatively low. But perhaps that is not so surprising when being LGBT is still pretty taboo in South Korea. One artist who is shunning expectations and […]

One of Loverboy’s favourite things about moving to Barcelona has been discovering it’s burgeoning fashion scene – and realising that it has always been major!! But besides the models, clothes and designers there has been someone else that has been catching our eye at 080 Barcelona Fashion Week and that is the handsome fashion reporter […]

Loverboy has been following NY drag queen, activist and club icon, Stephanie Stone, on Facebook for some time. We enjoy her unashamedly direct opinions on both Queer & Black Culture – and more importantly always agree! We love Stephanie schooling us on the fashion industry and as for looks, we’ve given up gagging so, ’cause […]

This week we spoke with Ángel Vilda of Brain&Beast – one of the Spain’s most contemporary and queer labels – about his obsession with..obsession, how he feels like a daddy to the fashion kids of Barcelona and how Brain&Beast is really an extension of his real-life family with César Olivar, Ezequiel Carril and a lot of dogs… […]

“This has been the funnest interview I have had in years. You haven’t asked me hard political questions once!” Mashrou’ Leila’s Hamed Sinno. Mashrou’ Leila is Loverboy’s favourite band in the world right now. The Lebanese foursome write/produce/perform songs that have been controversial enough to see concert-goers arrested in Cairo and the group banned from Jordan…twice. […]

’Slap on the big tits, big hair and make up that’s been applied with a donkey’s dick.’ This was Róisín Murphy‘s response to Loverboy’s opening pitch. Then, after emailing Detox, we received a ‘YES!’ less than two minutes later. Perhaps the fastest response of all time. For Loverboy, this project has been a dream pairing. One […]

The best things about another RPDR All Stars is the return of some of our most cherished queens. Case in point: Naomi Smalls. And Miss Naomi ain’t even waiting till her exit to drop something – no, she’s releasing her new single ‘Pose’ later today!!  What is the history of Naomi Smalls? When I turned […]