...with THE NIALLIST

Jan 31 2025 47 ep. 54 mins 1
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Welcome to the podcast channel of THE NIALLIST, featuring episodes of ISLINGTON MILL IS QUEER, a series documenting the history of one of the UK’s most beloved art institutions (Islington Mill) and the individuals who have helped shape that history, as well as episodes of the ongoing queer sexuality chat show BODY TALK.

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ISLINGTON MILL And... #25 DEAD AIR

Jan 31 2025 47 mins  
For this episode of ISLINGTON MILL And..., we meet the team behind DEAD AIR, the Mill's weekly livestream and queer music community project with DJs Niallist, Klitbait, Meatmarket and Year Of The Rat. Visit the DEAD AIR website for links to the Instagram and YouTube profiles, where you can watch live every Wednesday and check out previous sets and streams. CONTENT WARNING: listene

ISLINGTON MILL And... #24 HomoMill Pt 2: Bummer Camp

Aug 30 2024 57 mins  
In the follow up to this month's earlier podcast about the HomoMill project I speak to Rebecca Power who has been employed to run Islington Mill's club space, as well as reminiscing on BUMMER CAMP, the legendary queer summer party that has made its return to the Mill this Pride. Note: this episode was due to drop before Bummer Camp but my schedule has been crazy so I didn't get it

ISLINGTON MILL And... #23 "HomoMill" Club Space Project

Aug 03 2024 36 mins  
After a summer hiatus the Islington Mill community podcast is back! This episode I speak to the Mill's Bill Campbell and HomoBloc's Sophie Bee & Rod Connolly about the "HomoMill" project that is going to be making use of Islington Mill's club space after the recent departure of the Partisan Collective.

ISLINGTON MILL And... #22 COLLYN MIZRAHI

Apr 30 2024 73 mins  
This month’s podcast is epic! At the behest of Tranuary’s Liv McCafferty, the microphone is being turned on (spoiler warning) me to give me a chance to talk about my history in ballroom/vogue culture in the run up to Manchester’s first Kiki Ball on June 15th, and my party CVNTY at Derby Brewery Arms this Friday (May 3rd). I hope this knowledge might be useful to any qtipoc li

ISLINGTON MILL And..#21 SHREK666

Mar 30 2024 73 mins  
In January of this year I sat down with the Scottish performance artist Daemon Clelland -aka Shrek666, then the current artist in residence at Islington Mill - to do an interview that was ostensibly about the Tranuary event (also previously covered on this podcast). But our chat quickly escalated into an epic interview about life as a queer person living in various cities including

ISLINGTON MILL And... #20 VENN SMYTH

Feb 28 2024 61 mins  
In this month's episode, I speak to VENN SMYTH; queer synth pop singer/saxophonist, composer, performer and the current artist in resident at Islington Mill (you can find their music on Spotify and Bandcamp). Venn recently travelled to San Marino to audition for Eurovision and we had a great chat talking about what happened there, as well as the politics of Eurovision in general. T

ISLINGTON MILL And... #19 TRANUARY

Jan 31 2024 40 mins  
This past Saturday saw the second annual instalment of the trans-centered festival TRANUARY at Manchester's Soup venue. I caught up with the festival's director & producer Liv McCafferty, as well as some of the performers and hosts of this year's event (Shanika Sunrise, DJ Luvable & Violet Blonde) to talk about what Tranuary means to them.

NIALLISM Ep.#1 - Welcome!

Jan 30 2024 33 mins  
After the unfortunate passing of Fi Barret in 2023 I have decided not to continue with my Liner Notes podcast (even though my Album Of The Month Club is still ongoing over on Spotify). Instead I have decided to start a new irregular podcast where I talk about my life, my music, my friends and all the good stuff that inspires me - welcome to... NIALLISM!

ISLINGTON MILL And... #18 TOPS

Dec 31 2023 47 mins  
For this month's show I speak to Ames Pennington about their new film TOPS, which had it's Manchester debut at Islington Mill on Thurs Nov 30th, along with Oskar Marchock one of the subjects of the documentary. TOPS is a hilarious and touching look into the lives of four different people who have each had top surgery, with Ames asking "What is the top you were most looking forward

ISLINGTON MILL And... #17 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CONSENT

Nov 27 2023 58 mins  
This Thursday Nov 30th sees Islington Mill hosting the International Day Of Consent with a series of events happening from 12 noon til 10:30pm. For this month's podcast I asked the even organiser Jenn Wilson to join me to talk about the events, including the launch of their new "consent compass". You can find more information at: https://idoconsent.org and also on Jenn's own site: