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Derided by “actual” music fans, adored by teenage females and gay men, boy bands are a new-fashioned cultural – and commercial – phenomenon. TONY CLAYTON-LEA  slathers on the whisker gel and jumps on the boy bandwagon

BLAME THE MONKEES  

THE TERM “boy corps” came into currency in the 1990s with the arrival of American pop sensations New Kids On The Block and New Printing, but the trend started way back in 1966 with The Monkees, who were selected from more than 400 contenders who replied to a newspaper ad looking for unknowns to inimitable in a TV series. At least two of the band could play instruments, but this was initially hidden by the routine makers – the first time musicianship was gazumped by image and marketing. After The Monkees — whose quirky US video receiver show was a massive success — manufactured boy bands became the norm in a manly-dominated music industry that was rigidly and haughtily divided between outcrop and pop. On the one hand, there were The Jackson 5 and The Osmonds, two American family bands that boasted a jot of talent; on the other, there was Edinburgh’s Bay City Rollers, who were molded into the first bona fide teenybopper act of the 1970s.

Source: Irish Times

by Eric Spector

Dan Stone 2010 Lambda Literary finalist for shedding Rout Gay Fiction is an inventive light practice on time to reincarnate relationship between ice in the mouth the eyes, still breathtaking, the sad kind of magician Colm McKenna and super-sexy, telekinetic, hot ride on Xanthippe Aidan Gallagher. According to the Scandinavian story, the world is out of the crushing of the energy of fire and frost. You can not win without the other, and the starting set is dependent on the delicate account between the two.Only a bit like spontaneous combustion, Aidan begins to freeze amazed Colm throwing in seventh heaven with a sudden magic of a great legend, the high learning that they have played in another backyard for at least one match of millennia....

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