A digital reproduction of the flyer (front & back) advertising Siren’s play ‘Now Wash Your Hands Please’. The play opened at the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton, and was directed by Sue Saunders.
Siren was joined by a new company member, Hilary Ramsden, for this play and for future Siren plays. Jane Boston did not perform in this play.
A newspaper about Siren Theatre Company in the Brighton & Hove Gazette Newspaper in 1983 concerning the group receiving a loan of £2500 from Midland Bank to produce their album.
The article inaccurately says Siren formed “eight months ago”, which would have been in 1982, but Siren actually started in 1979 and produced their first play (with music) in 1980. The article referred to the Midland Bank in Dyke Road as being ‘behind Brighton’s lesbian rock band’. The bank was actually not aware that it was lending money to a lesbian band, which in 1983 was not a trendy thing to do!
This is one of a number of posters used to promote Siren’s play ‘Mama’s Gone A’Hunting’. It is created in the form of an urgent telegram outlining the plot of the show, stating that woman intends leaving for a new planet without man.
The digitally produced poster was felt to be a ‘new’ form of photography at the time that it was on the high street, predating all the digitisation of photos that are now done on one’s own devices. Siren felt it reflected the futuristic content of the play.
A 2004 article about Boogaloo Stu's debut album release. The album is titled The Glambassador. The picture in the article is by Toby Amies and was taken in 2002 taken Lighthouse Studios on Middle Street in Brighton.
The digital poster for Traumfrau queer party event which took place on the 22nd of February 2013 at The Haunt.
The event was a Valentine celebration, celebrating the value of consensual love, over romantic love.
"Forget about heart shaped chocolate boxes and Valentine blues... and come celebrate all kinds of (consensual) love with us!"
Special guest for this edition: ANNEKA
DJs:
Mrs Norman Knows: Bedroom Electropop
Siouxie Nag: Femtronic, Electronica, Alternative dance
The digital poster for Traumfrau queer party event which took place on the 30th of November 2012 at The Haunt.
Traumfrau started in April 2012 at the TUBE, but by the autumn of that year it had outgrown its first venue and moved to a larger space, The Haunt.
Special guest for this edition: Sabrina Chap, NYC, “Bouncing rhythms, complex instrumentation, and intelligent lyrics” - BITCH.
The Digital poster for Traumfrau's second ever event, which took place at The TUBE on the 6th of May 2012.
This queer party was originally self defined as Brighton's new queer night for girls and their friends, a girls - but not girls only - club night, before becoming a queer party for all genders.
Live music by: GAPTOOTH
Entertainment by: Frederike.
DJ sets from: DJ Lonesome M, Mrs Norman Knows, and DJ Nika Valentina.
Having met in 1993 it took a while for the law to catch up with our love. We made the best of it - DIY wedding in 1997, Civil Partnership in 2008 but it wasn't until 2015 that we finally made it to equal marriage. But as all good queers should do, we made the most of the journey to equality. Celebrating with our chosen family, dancing and laughing - wedding hats not always optional.