Tag Archives: Soft Cell

Gavin Friday: ‘I like rubbing the word homo in your nose.’

There’s a well-known photograph by artist Gregory Crewdson titled Untitled (Boy With Hand in Drain). It depicts a sweet suburban boy in a bathroom, reaching his hand through a drain, crossing a boundary into an eerie, unknown subbasement. This image perfectly evokes the boundary in Gavin Friday’s work, balancing the beautiful pop of songs like […]

Madonna: The People’s Punk Princess

As you probably know by now, Madonna turns sixty this month. Fuck. Anyway, we have a lot of exciting Madonna features coming up, the first of which is from our resident Professor in Punk, George Alley, who looks at how Madonna is truly the people’s punk princess. This August Madonna turns 60.. It’s easy to […]