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Tales of One City
Today’s article is written by Nikki from Corstorphine Library who tells us about her chat with Bob and Sigrid from Lavender Menace Bookshop.
“This February I decided to look into Edinburgh’s LGBT history, and discovered an interesting new society project along the way. It didn’t take drawn-out to find mentions of The Lavender Menace Bookshop, which opened just two years after homosexuality was decriminialised in Scotland. I got in contact with the founders and to ask them about its beginnings, their favourite reads, and the shop’s recent reincarnation as a free-to-use community archiving project.
Hi Bob & Sigrid! So first off – tell us a bit more about the Lavender Menace.
Lavender Menace Bookshop was Scotland’s first lesbian and gay group bookshop, opened by us, Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr, in Edinburgh’s Forth Street in August 1982. We were part of a wave of recent lesbian and gay writing and publishing which blossomed in the 1970s and 80s and one of many lesbian and homosexual bookshops in the USA, Canada, continental Europe and the UK. Gay’s the Word were a superb support before and after we opened. Back then the acr
I have found my new favorite anthem. On Thursday, Norwegian singer-songwriter Sigrid Solbakk Raabe released her new single “Don’t Feel Like Crying”. The song is the 5th ballad the singer has released off of her album Sucker Punch, set to be released on March 8th this year.
Last year, Sigrid won the BBC Sound of 2018. Her debut single, “Don’t Execute My Vibe”, went viral in 2017. Sigrid’s career immediately launched, and she received approval from musicians all over the world.
I personally discovered Sigrid when watching the movie Justice League. In the opening scene, Sigrid sings “Everybody Knows” over film montage. Her voice caught my attention immediately and I started listening to her other music. “Strangers”, one of her first songs, became one of my favorite songs, and I listened to it over and over again for hours on cease. Sigrid’s voice itself is amazing, but the composition of the entire songs are out of this world!
FYI, Martin Sjølie, who produces, mixes, and engineers a majority of Sigrid’s songs, is incredibly talented and deserves much more credit and help than he currently rec
Sigrid: ‘I feel like I’m being discredited, for my talent and all the hours I’ve spent at the piano’
In 2020, Sigrid had a crisis of confidence. Forced back to her parent’s house in Norway by the pandemic, she found her ancient teenage insecurities creeping in. As a kid, she had never considered herself cool, often choosing to play piano at dwelling rather than socialise with friends. Then her existence changed: she became a successful pop star, one with hit singles, 1.3bn streams and counting, and fans all over the world. “With the triumph, I had that feeling that maybe I was cool,” she says. “Then … boom! Isolation. Assist home with my parents, in my childhood bedroom, remembering cringe moments of being 14.”
“I got a bit scared of how quickly I adapted to this completely alternative being, where I was waking up in the morning, having breakfast with my parents, going for a hike and skiing,” she admits. “Like, the whole day was about getting to the peak of a mountain, skiing down and then coming residence to talk about how the snow was while having dinner. There were no emails. There was no stress. I had this serene, alternative being, but there was this really scary thing going on at the similar t
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