Feature: Lovebox goes gay (kinda) for the day
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The NYC Downlow at night
This piece on Lovebox is coming out in my Clubbing section in Time Out next Tuesday. But here’s your sneak preview right here!
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MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. RIOT. LONDON TINGS I LIKE. SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION.
July 9th, 2010
Glasgow’s Numbers at Fabric on Friday
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Glasgow's Numbers crew © Sam Robinson
By Kate Hutchinson
Like its name suggests, there are numerous complex elements that add up to create Glaswegian collective Numbers‘ scene-defining and widely-aped parties and quality record releases.
The hipster hook-up between the city’s edgiest electronic club nights, musicians and labels has six people at its core (from left to right, Bobby Cleaver, Goodhand, Spencer, aka Calum Morton, Jackmaster, Richard and Nelson) but includes countless more coolsters who DJ their parties or release on their new label.
The latter was born out of three of their original imprints, Stuffrecords, Dress 2 Sweat and Wireblock, and is now home to such underground names as Deadboy, Lazer Sword and one of my local favourite DJs (‘the new Diplo!’) Offshore.
So, to celebrate being so freakin’ awesome and to cheer on seven years of shaking up the UK’s clubbing soundtrack, Numbers are kicking off a marathon week at Fabric tonight.
It’s their third party at the clubbing mecca on a weekend that includes Herculean bash Fabric ON from Saturday to Sunday afternoon, Wet Yourself! on Sunday night and Benji B’s Deviation on Wednesday.
It’s more that just a birthday celebration for Fabric, however, who were recently pulled out of administration (hurrah!), helped by private investor Gary Kilbey, and continues business as usual with musical direction intact.
Here’s seven (well, it is their seventh birthday) reasons why you should like them a lot after the jump.
July 9th, 2010
Interview: Riva Starr headlines Nite Sessions on Friday
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Riva Starr interview with Kate Hutchinson in Time Out, July 2010
I’m not having the best of days: angry emails from jumped-up and ungrateful promoters; listings system crashing on deadline day, that sort of thing. But I’m really looking forward to sinking some serious Mojito-age at East Village tonight.
I’ve picked some DJs. We’ve put them on. And I think they’re rather ruddy brilliant. So I hope that you all come and jiggle with me.
I interviewed headliner Riva Starr for the magazine this week, talking about his single rerelease on Postiva/Virgin, ‘I Was Drunk’, in August and being a smash in Ibiza. He makes quirky squelchy beats that make me want to do the Cotton Eyed Joe around the dancefloor.
Batty Bass mistress Hannah Holland is jetting in from Berlin to join him, as is bemasked dubstep voodooist SBTRKT. He’s very scary – and so is his music. Upstairs, one of my fave ladies of ’lectro, Captain Magic, who runs Peanut Butter Jelly Time, will be guiding the bassy house ship with a host of guests and live acts, including recent Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs collaborator, Lulu and the Lampshades.
I hope I’m not dancing on my ownsome.
July 2nd, 2010
Radio tings: I’m interviewed on BBC Radio London
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Birds of a feather
I’ve been superwank (like supergeil, but superwank) at updating my blog recently. I went to Sonar in Barcelona, which was a great trip, but I’d only recommend going for the Friday night 30,000-people-heavy rave-up. On Thursday things are only warming up and come Saturday, everyone is too knackered from the night before. But Friday, in a ma-hoo-sive aircraft hanger the size of Kanye West’s ego, was sweet. And I was somewhere in-between thousands of sweaty Spaniards to watch LCD Soundsystem punk the funk, which was a pretty awesome place to be. (Some pics to come, I imagine). Other than that I’ve just been lying on my sofa sweating and sweating hard at the amazing heatwave I’ve returned to.
But on Sunday morning (yes, at 9am) I went on Lesley Joseph (best known for her role as Dorian from ‘Birds of a Feather’)'s BBC Radio London show to chat about the pick of the week’s cultural events. And I think it might become a regular fixture if I don’t babble too much and I don’t talk about Time Out events in such a geeky vernacular.
Still, you can listen to it if you wanna.
June 28th, 2010
The green DJs, they take over Landan!
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A species of DJs often found on hot days with headphones in parks
This is a rubbish scan. I blame Jimi Mistry wot scanned it. But I wrote a piece on different DJs doing different nice green things for the environment in a recent issue of Time Out. We called them: eco DJs (oooooh, aaaah). It was up the front of the magazine, where real people can see it and everything. What will they think of next – pedal powered decks? Oh, wait: you can already get those.
For links to what they’re all up to, if you can’t read the text (which I can’t):
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Jimi Mistry, Danny Rampling, who missed the shoot, Nancy Noise and Mark Wilkinson)
10:10 (Tom Middleton, red cap)
Shellac Sisters (vintage ladies with things on their heads)
June 7th, 2010
Feature: African House
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The Secousse Soundsystem © Dave Swindells
I don’t really ‘do’ football. I mean, I love to play and run around and kick people, but not many other people like it when I try. And so, in light of the World Cup starting this week, I thought I’d do a li’l swot up on something not-really-football-related in Time Out, but definitely related to its host: South Africa. The biggest scene there are the moment is African house, which sounds happy and driving (shove that in your tech-hole Hawtin) and some of my favourite LDN DJs, Radioclit and Sinden, told me all about it. Ah, in’t that nice?
The whole darn thing is right on this link. And all Secousse pics have been taken by the fabulous snapper and writer Dave Swindells.
June 7th, 2010
Interview: Sinden on Grizzly Recs and, erm, ‘Hutchface Sounds’
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Sinden is usually much cheerier than this
I’ve got lots and lots of time for (Graeme) Sinden. An illuminating DJ and genre-mangler, he’s got a regular show on Kiss Fm; he ran a successful dubwise house night with Sinden, Get Familiar, at Fabric; he got some of that chart and mainstream success with pal Hervé as The Count & BEEPER BEEPER BEEPER Sinden; and now, not content with all of the above and with being generally awesome, he’s only gone and launched his own label.
Grizzly Records is the name. And it’s Grizzly by nature too, chopping up a variety of electronic-edged tropical, bass, global and native London sounds (2step, jungle, dubstep and other hippity hoppity club sounds).
Check out Sinden’s taster of what it’s all about via this lovely Fader mix and this mash-up for FACT.
But you can read a mahOOOsive interview with him and me and him if you click the link below. Go on; it’s well good.
May 28th, 2010
Radio show: Oops, someone let me loose on London Fields Radio
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I went on the radio and did my first show and it's finally up and I say UHM a lot
My first solo radio show on London Fields Radio is finally HAR. Is finally online and is has lots of nice music to wiggle around your bedroom to.
It’s called Nite Bites (because it’s a nightlife show in a café with bitey things like muffins innaah?) and I play loss of good choons and I talk to Tony Hornecker about his uh-mazing always-sold-out supper club, The Pale Blue Door. The tracklisting is below – is a bit out of date now, but three weeks ago, these choons were HAWT.
I hope you like. I will do some more if you like. Listen to the other podcasts too – they good.
http://www.londonfieldsradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/nitebitesvol1.mp3
Tracklisting info after the jump, yar?
May 24th, 2010
New Club: La Belle Epoque
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I like green dwinks. You like green dwinks.
You can find my wee trend article on brand spanking new (but, like, totally vintage) club night, La Belle Epoque. Trust me: you’ll have a Wilde old time, especially after 10 absinthes or so, in Time Out‘s spangly (yes, it well is spangly) Clubbing section tomorrow.
Read all about it first, in full, HAR and you too can party like it’s 1899.
May 10th, 2010
Interview: DJ Yoda
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He smiles when he DJs! He smiles when he DJs!
Last Friday, DJ Yoda headlined Time Out Live‘s first Nite Sessions at East Village. He smashed it. He tore the basement a new…
I was drunk and messy and slobbering over my poor boyfriend. But I did notice the above with bleary eyes and I’m super happy that people liked the DJs wot I picked (Doc Daneeka, Greenmoney, CNTRST/SDUK and Heavenly Jukebox were all rather smashing too) and lost their shit and lost half their body weight with sweating so much.
Anyway, I interviewed the lovely DJ Yoda (aka Duncan Beiny) before the show. You can read the short and sweet version in Time Out (Issue 2072), but you can read the full –and ohmygodyouresuchanicemanyoda– interview after the jump. Or, if you click on the jump. Or jump on the jump.
May 10th, 2010
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