Burlesque Showreel, Act 3

The third and last installment in my burlesque showreel project pro tem. Although I have two more acts eventually to add to it, one of them needs costume work and the other I did for a music video as yet unfilmed, so it would not be right to debut it here. Some of you may...

Respect Your Elders

Needing a new hobby to make up for woeful lack of burleque dancing and modelling during this Covid-19 madness, I took up foraging. Cardiff is thankfully blessed with a large number of green spaces, and Bute Park - the closest to me - has a large and part-wild arboretum section, perfect for finding interesting and...

Burlesque Showreel, Act 2

The second effort in my ongoing project to while away the quarantine by filming a showreel of my burlesque solos. I finally accede to popular pressure and choreograph a vampire routine, with homage to a certain classic 1980s film. This is not quite the debut I wanted for this act, but it is what it...

Burlesque Showreel, Act 1

With nothing else to do burlesque-wise, I've decided to try putting together a showreel of my solo acts for hopefully freer times, and I'm starting with my debut act. This is the revamped version of "Phantom of the Opera / Born this Way" with new costume and revised choreography. Not exactly a live performance experience,...

Steamboat Ellie

It took a little time (bearing in mind I wrote the thing back in 2015), but with huge thanks to the wonderful Megan Pritchard (AKA fellow burlesque dancer Flossie Smalls) for her awesome cover design, my steampunk fantasy novel is at last good to go... ************ The vengeful, disfigured Gloriana - rebel fay queen and...

A Fembot’s Finest Hour

The annual C64 Shoot-‘Em-Up-Construction-Kit (SEUCK) game-designing contest, hosted as ever by Richard Bayliss of The New Dimension, seems to come around so quickly, but thankfully, to coin a phrase, here's one I prepared earlier ... SYNTHIA IN THE CYBER-CRYPT – DOWNLOAD LINK As you can see, I've gone for the platform adventure approach this year,...

A Sombre Day in Blighty

I assume there are happy people somewhere regarding today's election result, as some presumably voted for this Tesco Value version of "MAGA", but I certainly have yet to meet any (though hardly surprising, as Cardiff remained a Labour stronghold). At any rate, for those of us who are trans, gay or bi, disabled and /...

Fembot Frolics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgbF2qs0eA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1HNLQXd4Avw9kIcXscZ89feUhUWOjtrlRi4dAYA7i5EKDigg1fhEjQl-Y ************ And now, in video form, my latest solo with Cardiff Cabaret Club, cut a little short at the end due to a mix-up of stage directions (there was meant to be a reprise of the Terminator theme as my "dear master" came back home, and I brandished the kitchen knife in readiness), but...

Robot Positivity

I take a lot of inspiration from a friend of mine who is a punk musician with a taste for the extreme, and always says he doesn't care whether he gets a very good reaction or a scathingly negative one - the worst thing would be to be ignored. Based on that, I am certainly...

“A strength badly exerted” – Rousseau, Radicalism, and Repression in the Works of P. B. Shelley

Something a little unusual for this blog - This is an academic article I wrote back in late 2013, revised in 2015, then forgot about after the e-journal it was intended for vanished off the face of the interwebs never to resurface. Since I absolutely cannot be bothered with the rigmarole of trying to find...