Show Notes
Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 of Memories from the Dance Floor, where we've left the bright lights of London and headed straight up the M4 to Wales. Over the series, we have celebrated LGBTQ+ venues, shone a light on their history and met the revellers taking us through the velvet curtain and into the queer chaos and joy within.
In this final episode, I'm taking us up to the present day. We'll see how the value of our venues has changed, ask how the land of song - Wales that is - has influenced our music, weigh up the importance of regional drag and see what it means to be Welsh and proud in 2024.
It’s a biggie - let's go!
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Croeso i bennod olaf Cyfres 2 o Memories From The Dance Floor, lle rydyn ni wedi gadael goleuadau llachar Llundain ac wedi teithio’n syth i fyny'r M4 i Gymru. Yn ystod y gyfres, rydyn ni wedi dathlu lleoliadau LHDTC+, taflu goleuni ar eu hanes a chwrdd â'r rhai a wnaeth ein tynnu o’r ciw ac i mewn i anhrefn a llawenydd y gymuned cwiar y tu ôl i’w drysau
Yn y bennod olaf hon, rydyn ni’n glanio yn y presennol. Cawn gip ar sut mae gwerth ein lleoliadau wedi newid, gofyn sut mae gwlad y gân - Cymru, hynny yw - wedi dylanwadu ar ein cerddoriaeth, pwyso a mesur pwysigrwydd drag rhanbarthol a gweld beth mae'n ei olygu i fod yn Gymry ac yn falch yn 2024.
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More from Memories from the Dance Floor
In the last episode we talked all things super clubs, exploring the legendary Tunnel Club in Cardiff, and finished with the broadcaster and drummer Owain Wyn Evans, but don't think that's all he had to say.
In the first of our four-part series, we heard what it was literally like growing up as the only gay in the village. We also heard how the lesbian and gay community supported mining families in South Wales and how queer discos and dances were springing up in towns and cities across the country.
Back in London Damian turns his attention to The Black Cap. A Camden landmark for over 250 years and one of London’s biggest and most famous LGBTQ+ spaces for more than 50, which closed abruptly in April 2015, due to the ambitions of the owners to redevelop the building into luxury flats. But what they didn't account for was our community’s resistance.
Leaving the bright lights of London, Damian travels to Birmingham to The Nightingale Club. From humble beginnings the Nightingale has grown into one of the UK's most successful queer superclubs - well known in the city and nationally.