David Hoyle is appearing at London’s Soho Theatre at the end of this month in a new show called Ten Commandments. Here, for posterity, is an early interview he granted me in his Divine David days that wasn’t previously available online. Mark Simpson meets the leggy, legendary performance artist David Hoyle.… Read More »An Audience With Divine David
I recently got around to watching the video for ‘Spent the Day In Bed’, Morrissey’s first single from his new Low in High School album. Since writing Saint Morrissey – which was something akin to an exorcism – I’ve taken a somewhat more leisurely approach to the Stretford Bard’s output.… Read More »Morrissey & David Hoyle Spent The Day in Bed
The Naked Civil Servant is the best and funniest TV drama ever made. And I’m sorry, but it’s a scientific fact. And like its subject it could only have been made in England. Even if Crisp said he hated England – and he did, over and over again. So many lines… Read More »Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp
The teenage Tom of Finland’s gay fantasies from the 1940s of sensually muscular men have come to define a mainstream view of masculinity, says Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in The London Times, Nov 2008 ) The first time I saw a Tom of Finland drawing was in a well-thumbed, seventh-hand… Read More »From Finland With Lust – How Tom Re-Designed the Male Body For Pleasure