Saturday 16 June 2012

Gaydar Radio: "Amazing"

'Gaydar Radio started life 11 years ago as an audio player in the corner of dating site Gaydar, which operates from the floor above where I am today. The station's ambition was to be little more than background music for users to enjoy while searching out chaps to cuddle. Back then, Robin says, the station was a CD jukebox on a table propped up by a copy of Spartacus International Gay Guide, and the music policy wasn't particularly well-honed, often defaulting to a mix of boybands and divas.
These days the music is a well-defined mix of upbeat, club-based pop in the day, and harder house sounds at night. Robin says the BPM never drops below 128, which strikes me as being one Keanu Reeves appearance short of an amazing film idea. I start to wonder what sound Gaydar Radio would make if it exploded. A Kylie ad-lib, perhaps...'

Peter Robinson does Gaydar Radio for his cleverly titled Radio Daze series in The Guardian Guide
Doff doff doff doff etc.

PS I love it when journos call Gaydar a "dating site". 

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