I think what's so magical about a place like London is the promise of what the city represents rather than what it can actually meaningfully offer people...

And, that might sound like a strange distinction, but for me London was always the place that I was going to run away to in order to become the person that I was meant to be. And it was here that I was going to live out my dreams and have every success in the world.

And, in some ways it didn't matter that all of those things didn't happen to me, because the magic of the city still drew me to it.

For many it still holds this promise.

In fact, it was this way for this week's guest, the artist Recognition.

London gave him this vast city where he was anonymous and able to play around with his own concept of who he was.

He did that through dating apps (of course), but also through queer sports clubs, and the many bars and nightclubs in the city.

In our chat we talk about age-gap relationships, dark rooms, and taking your shirt off on the dancefloor of the lost space XXL...

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