MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
I can’t believe I haven’t updated since Febs. UGH. But, due to onset of further lazi-nests, here’s a linkstastic round-up off things I’ve liked in late February and March. And when I say liked, I mean, written about. An interview with Miss Beth Ditto “Can you give me a minute? I need to do a [...]
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.
Cramming Andrew Weatherall’s vast, multi-genred career into a teensy paragraph feels quite unjust. Not least because, while many of his acid house contemporaries have wafted away with the spirit of ’89, bushy-faced Weatherall has remained ahead of the curve. His sonic CV dances through helping to kickstart Britain’s rave-in-a-field dance culture as part of fanzine [...]
I’m on the air with Lesley Joseph on her BBC London show again talking about ice rinks and jazz, would you believe. One day we’re gonna have a rave in there, I swear.
I reviewed Ninja Tune’s exhaustive box set to celebrate 20 years of putting out experimental (but always groovetastic) electronica to digi-dancehall. You can read it here on Drowned in Sound.
I’ve just recovered from London Fashion Week, which ran (sprinted, rather) from last Friday to this Wednesday. I reported on some of the parties (thick-rimmed glasses; clipboard; pen-with-a-light-on-it-stylee) for New York Magazine. You can read some of my party reports below, on Grandlife‘s NewYork NewYork party at Maddox (puke) Club, AnOther Magazine‘s private dinner to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Beat that for search-engine-friendly titling! Ahem. Anyway, it’s always really lovely to be asked to come and do nice stuff by nice people whose nice music you put on mixtapes for your boyfriend (guilty). Today I went and giggled all over the microphone at a live recording of the super-beardy 2 Bears‘ radio show on [...]