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Invest SHARE OFFER now OPEN in community Generate Clean Energy solar power Tackle Climate Change 4% return INVEST FROM £50 egni co-op From the award-winning Awel Co-op team www.egni.coop · [email protected] · 01639 830870 01 XCLUSIVEON 005 Agenda> NewsOn 007 Live> Nugen 009 FashOn> LGBTQA+ 011 Issue> 5 Ways 013 Interview> Skye Sweetnam 015 Report> Stonewall 017 Xclusive> Demi Lovato 02 WHATSON 019 Best Of> 2019 Reviews 023 Annual> Jan & Feb 025 Annual> March & April 027 Annual> May & June 029 Annual> July & Aug 031 Annual> Sept & Oct 033 Annual> Nov & Dec 03 GUIDEON 037 Best Picks> Briefing LIL NAS X Jobs Since coming out as gay 053 Classified> last year, 20-year-old 063 SceneOn> Reviews Montero Lamar Hill, known as Lil Nas X, has continued 065 Take10> LGBT Workplace to challenge perceptions of rap and hip hop stars. He’s 066 WinOn> PlayOn broken the record-books, scoring the longest-running number 1 in American chart history, and is up for 6 Grammys. 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Let's all celebrate those who are breaking ground in their field. Sam Alim with the stars of the festival scene! .guide BEST ARTIST> LEWIS CAPALDI BEST BAR> SUN ON THE HILL 5 The down to earth Lewis Capaldi A lively atmosphere which attracts continues to belt out heartbreaking a cosmopolitan crowd. The smash hits. He is most certainly atmosphere of a local at the heart whatsOn striking a chord with our current of the city centre, blasting all your times. He is also one of the most favourite tunes every night. Having cheerful and funny people in the recently been refurbished, expect music industry at the moment. to be entertained. BEST NU GEN> BILLIE EILISH BEST CHARITY> CRISIS Billie Eilish is the first millennial Charity Crisis aims to end the artist to achieve a number one suffering for homeless people. The album. She is recognised for her progress made by Crisis is only original style and her first song possible with the generosity of the became a breakthrough smash hit, public. Information and education clocking up more than 10 million about the issue is key. Help give a hits. voice to those without one. BEST BOOK> THE TESTAMENTS BEST CLUB> FABRIC The hugely anticipated follow-up Possessing a certain mythology, to The Handmaid’s Tale took the Fabric personifies good times and world by storm. The stories vividly is a platform for the world’s newest show a society gone very wrong material. A lot of exciting moments and how the cruelty against women with a new wave of music. A unique has affected all of Giled. It’s dark, feature of the club is the vibrating relevant and it’s grippingly terrifying! floor in Room One, known as a 'bodysonic' dancefloor. BEST FILM> AVENGERS: THE ENDGAME BEST FESTIVAL> WOMAD We needed a good understanding Uniting the world of music, arts & of the Marvel Cinematic Universe dance. It brings together artists, to truly understand what these dancers and musicians from all over characters were going through. the world with global arts & food. It Endgame, Marvel studios’ grand aims to excite, to inform, and to conclusion to 22 films, sees the create awareness of the worth and Avengers assemble once more in potential of a multicultural society. order to undo Thanos’ actions. BEST HERO> GRETA THUNBERG BEST RESTAURANT> HARE & TORTOISE The Swedish school girl has With an open plan kitchen seen from received worldwide praise for the dining area. It’s one of London’s initiating the school strike for coolest group of restaurants. They climate movement. Her protest have a great range of Chinese & began in 2018 outside Sweden’s Japanese food at very reasonable parliament. This year over 1.4 prices. Their sushi is freshly made million students around the world & the portions are huge. joined her call to strike. BEST ICON> STORMZY BEST SHOP> PEOPLE TREE Stormzy is the voice of the youth People Tree is a pioneer in and reiterated his previous public Fair-trade & sustainable fashion. support for Labour leader Jeremy They make beautiful garments, Corbyn. Describing him as ‘the handcrafted, organic cotton using first man in a position of power traditional skills that support the committed to giving the power rural community in Bangladesh. back to the people’. LIVE Dispatches Make way for the new generation of talent. The rising stars shaping our world, and making moves. More live videos at youtube/whatsonuk .guide 7 whatsOn Femi Oluwole Naomi Ackie The Jacques A political activist and co-founder This actress sprung into success London four-piece have established of the European Union advocacy through her role as Bonnie on the a devoted following in both the UK group, Our Future Our Choice TV series End of the F***ing World, and Europe since their formation (OFOC). He’s an articulate, informed for which she won a BAFTA for five years ago, particularly in France critic of Brexit polices and right-wing most promising newcomer. Her where they are true indie-heroes. politicians. Femi is prolific on Twitter blockbuster debut in Star Wars: The Latest release ‘I Never Want To Be and made numerous appearances Rise of Skywalker has put her in the Your Boyfriend’ follows the band’s on TV, as a voice of interrogation or Hollywood spotlight. Coming from previous singles ‘Alka-Seltzer’ – opposition to various politicians and Walthamstow, London, Ackie nearly which premiered on BBC 6Music commentators, famously taking on gave up on acting before landing with Chris Hawkins – and ‘Kiss the likes of the racist Katie Hopkins. a role on the Chanel 4 hit series. The Pharaoh’. The band have also To get insightful takes on day-to-day We’re glad she’s sticking around! announced an extensive tour for politics, give him a follow. > Instagram: @Naomi_Ackie March. > @The JacquesUK > Twitter: @femi_sorry Easy Life Nadia Whittome E^st This Leicester band rose to fame At just 23 Nadia was elected as Fresh from her recent single ‘Talk last year. They’ve been supported by Labour’s MP for Nottingham East Deep’ which Popjustice hailed as Radio 1, performing for Jack Saunders with a majority of 17,393, and as the “Song Of The Week by about half and on Later… with Jools Holland. youngest is now known as the Baby a mile”, and which also hit triple At Glastonbury, they headlined the of the House. Nadia admitted that j’s Most Played list, 21-year-old Introducing Stage. Their hit track, before winning her seat she’d been Australian pop maverick E^ST (aka Nightmares, is a chill, thoughtful looking for temporary Christmas Mel Bester) has shared her follow-up track that’s gained over 11 million jobs, and has pledged to give back ‘Flight Path’. The two tracks provide streams on Spotify. They describe a significant chunk of her £79,468 a taster of her full-length debut their sound as “your favourite old jazz salary to the local community. album ‘I’m Doing It’, which will be record mixed with the dirty wonders Raised in a single-parent house, released this year. She’s also set to of modern production techniques.” she is a former hate crime support announce some key live shows. > Twitter: @easylife worker. >@NadiaWhittome > @iameastoffical IF YOU would like to appear on WhatsOn Live, please email : [email protected] FASHION LGBTQA+ whatsOn 8 .guide FIGHT FOR RIGHTS There has been a worrying lurch to the right in our politics, as certain figures stir up intolerance and use anti-diversity rhetoric for their own gain. To counter their hate, we should instead celebrate the many forms of love in our society, and what makes us all unique. We’ve come so far since the Stonewall riots 50 years ago, but let’s keep up the fight for LGBTQA+ rights. 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