Andy Bell on new solo album ’10 Crowns’, working with Debbie Harry, and Brighton Pride 2025 performance

Andy Bell (Image: Sean Black)

“I said to Boy George, ‘Don’t worry about it – it’s fantastic that you’re doing it, and it’s really brave,’” says Andy Bell, remembering a late-night 1980s moment in legendary London club Heaven as George was emotional over the lack of support for his anti-section 28 anthem ‘No Clause 28’. “We’ve been pals since then.”

It’s a reminder that the dancefloor is where queer people have also gathered, grieved, and resisted. That spirit lives on through 10 Crowns, Bell’s new solo album, a record that arrives at a time when queer joy feels quietly radical again. Though the album has been over a decade in the making, its timing couldn’t feel more apt.

We meet in a hotel lobby near the Tower of London, with

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