MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
A version of this article first appeared in Time Out’s Valentine’s Issue, 2011. It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day and everybody is doing it. DJing, we mean. You filthy lot. Like rockland, clubland also has its Gwen Stefanis and Gavin Rossdales (minus the love children, we imagine) and many of them are playing at parties [...]
Like Hyperdub, Hotflush, Hemlock and other labels beginning with ‘H’, Hessle Audio is redefining the sound of UK dance music. It procures a futuristic blend of homegrown genres like dubstep, house, garage and jungle – a genreless smörgåsbord represented in mainstream by BBC Sound of 2011 winner James Blake, who released a single on the [...]
“I love playing on Sunday,” gibes Canadian sonic polymath Chilly Gonzales. “You’ve already taken all of your drugs, so I have you right where I want you: almost sober.” The audience titters, even though he is selling them a little short. For once, the posters dotted around a dingy venue urging gig goers to be [...]
I was on the panel of judges for The Independent‘s round-up of the country’s best bars this year. Check out the cocktail shenaniganry HERE.
These days, it’s quite the thing to be in a band and, like, make sweet music with your spouse. But crucially, couples are doing so without a hint of Abba-shaped novelty. Even King Hippy himself, Devendra Banhart, is in on it all: just look at him frolicking around in the nude with his girlfriend in [...]