MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
I interviewed dubstep/D&B duo Nero about LARPing, Nero-esque tendencies and their forthcoming album, Welcome Reality. I don’t think they were quite ready for this: I read a tweet the other day about a famous band whose rider stipulated that it must include ‘a locally sourced present’. ‘We had something like that in New Zealand. I [...]
I like Red Bull. I like Red Bull a lot. And they like Innerpartysystem, who are newly signed to Red Bull Records. Did you know that they like hats, playing live gigs on their iPhones and making things out of rubbish? Neither did I. But I wrote about that and some other things I didn’t [...]
During this posting frenzy, I’ve just found out about some of the distant countries that I’ve been published in. And I didn’t even knows it. Here you go. Here’s Mumbai. Mumbai! (They like Snow Patrol). And Istanbul. And here, it’s still Istanbul, but I’ve been translated into Turkish. The middle one is on alternative (read: [...]
Ever heard of Cheryl? It’ll ruin your life, apparently. I caught up with one of the party’s founders, Nick Schiarizzi, about Lady Gaga, crafting up your outfits and Anne Hathaway-in-tin-foil. Read some more – go on, it’s fun, after the jump. Or on Time Out, here.
Somewhere in the gray area between Bob Dylan writing “Masters of War” and the 2004 presidential elections, singing songs about the things that matter got very uncool. Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, and Bob Marley were the hip, countercultural voices of their generation, but, up until recently, protest music has been the reserve of crusty punk [...]
I interviewed PJ Harvey for Drowned in Sound. It went down a little something like this: Polly Jean Harvey’s illustrious career makes the kind of Herculean reading that causes our over-anxious generation of success-hungry twentysomethings to quake in its distressed leather army boots. At 42, she has released eight enviably diverse records, won the Mercury [...]
Last week I interviewed rock royalty PJ Harvey about her forthcoming (eighth) album ‘Let England Shake’ for Drowned in Sound. I fought the urge to call her ‘Peej’ and instead chatted politics, gothic churches and Harold Pinter. All very high brow, you understand. Read an extract from the interview HERE HERE HERE. And expect the [...]