Love & Dancing & Horse Meat & Disco
As if the four superstar gay DJs behind the Horse Meat Disco brand (that would be James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Severino and Luke Howard and no, we don’t know which is which in that picture) weren’t genius enough with their global gay disco that pops up in London, Berlin, New York, Lisbon and at The Downlow during Glastonbury, they have now become even more genius.
Aficionados of pure and gorgeous disco music along the lines of Diana Ross’s The Boss, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) by Sylvester and Was That All It Was by Jean Carn (all songs we regularly play at Jake events, not that we’re copying), they have now put their skills together and come up with their own album of original music called Love & Dancing. And it is superb! As if someone found an old album from 1977 and put it out.
Featuring the voices of, among others, Kathy Sledge (one of the great under-rated soul voices of our time on songs like We Are Family and Thinking of You) and N’Dea Davenport of Brand New Heavies fame, it is a slab of disco that your kitchen, car and earbuds are crying out for. Don’t deny them.
Oh and if you want to celebrate (hear!) the album as it’s released this Friday, hop down to two special socially-distanced launch parties at Vauxhall’s The Eagle (where else would it be?) this Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th (having booked tickets in advance on Eventbrite of course).
Love & Dancing is out on Glitterbox on Friday, October 2.