Debut 6th Borough Project in shops in May

On the ninth of May the 6th Borough Project will release their album. The guys have named it One Night in the Borough, and it will be released by Delusions of Grandeur (which is a wicked name as far as I’m concerned). The album is set to feature fourteen tracks. The band consists of Graeme Clark and Craig Smith, the former from the band The Revenge.

One of the tracks is called If the Feeling’s Right, which stems from the saying If the feeling is right, by God, don’t do it, which dates from the pre-Stonewall era. If you are a gay man, especially back in the day (but even now, look at Kurt in Glee!), you had to go by your gut instinct. And if the feeling was right, you went for it and saw whether the guy was, ehrm, game. So Peter Farwitz saw a young, feminine guy, the feeling was right, and he walked up to that person and chatted that person up. When this guy noticed what was happening (and sometimes you have to make it soooo clear), he got mad, and he tried to throw Farwitz on to the street. Now, Farwitz weighs about 210lbs, so he wasn’t going anywhere, but emotionally this made a huge impact.

Farwitz poured his heart out over tea and some exquisite coconut biscuits at Judith Butler’s place, and she gave him the advice, Now, a feminine man is more threatened because he feels more of a need to prove his masculinity than a masculine man. So honey, if the feeling’s right, don’t do it. Farwitz nodded, the advice made sense. He went out, saw a very masculine man, talked him up, he thought it was going all right. At one point the guy noticed what was happening, put his arm around Farwitz, choked him, and then stole the recipe for coconut biscuits. Which is an act of needless criminality because straight men can’t do pastry.