Argus - What’s On - 30th May 2008
Dynamite Boogaloo @ Arc
This was the relaunch of Dynamite Boogaloo at the Arc. We moved on from Audio where a combination of smoking ban, credit crunch and change in licensing laws meant our attendances took an absolute hammering. We struggled on for about a year at the Arc and then gave up. I was ready for a change anyway - so didn’t mind too much.
The photo of Dolly Rocket was taken by by Russ Bell at the monthly Dynamite Boogaloo Saturday Seaside Special at Komedia.
“Biz” box on The Sun - 14th September 2005. The feature was acheived by my so-called “press agent”. This was practically the only press he got for us (this was the re-issue of my debut single “Rocksteady” originally from 2001) and the one thing it did achieve was I got a live agent who got me a few gigs across the country to promote the album.
Brighton & Hove bus adverts featuring Boogaloo Stu and Dolly Rocket.
All photos were taken by Russ Bell - this was photographed and filmed in April 2010 and it was bloody freezing!!!
Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. Anthony collaborated with Queer in Brighton on our first commissioned project ‘Not Going Shopping’ to explore the lives of LGTBQ+ people in Brighton.
Anthony invited eleven participants to meet him and bring photographs that told their story, and they were encouraged to consider what being queer means to them, and to photograph their experiences and the things they are interested in. The group met regularly to discuss their work and share photographs, and created self-portraits in a photo booth on the North Laine, which led to discussions about photography and identity.
Anthony said of the project: “the prospect of creating this work seemed to me to offer a useful way to further my inquiry into participation and self-representation with groups of marginalized individuals, and at the same time provide an opportunity to confront my own views of queerness as a gay man… Images play a powerful role in the stories we tell about ourselves and the histories told about us. Not Going Shopping expresses the points of view of the participants and myself about what it is to be Queer in Brighton.”
This collection of images depicts the exhibition in the public realm in Brighton for Queer in Brighton, where it was displayed from 7th March 2014 - 31st March 2014.
F*@K Magazine - Dynamite Boogaloo @ Audio Brighton
Photos of Dynamite Boogaloo at Audio (now Patterns on Marine Parade) would be from 2006 I would say. Taken by Charlie Langridge.
Original photogrpah of Boogaloo Stu (Stuart Alexander), his parents, Dolly Rocket and Gwendoline Christie
This was taken in Stu's flat on Donald Hall Road in Brighton, by Monica Curtin in 2003 or 2004. We did lots of photos in the other rooms, while my Mum and Dad sat having a cuppa in the lounge. Then Monica said that a group photo just had to happen…! Gwen was a really good friend of mine for many years but we’ve lost touch now.
A 2004 article about Boogaloo Stu's debut album release. The album is titled The Glambassador. The picture in the article is by Toby Amies and was taken in 2002 taken Lighthouse Studios on Middle Street in Brighton.