MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
I’ve also just found the first Mixmag piece I wrote this year on the delightful house DJ Cassy as part of their ‘Queens of the Underground’ cover feature in May. At some point, I’ll post the interview in full because she was quite simply just awesome. But for now, here she is talking about Miami [...]
I interviewed James Priestley and Giles Smith at length about their innovative all-day Sunday rave-up Secretsundaze for Mixmag. It originally appearred in the magazine’s August issue, but I’ve just found it online too. SPECIAL. Here is a snippet about Carl Craig getting down on his knees: “I’ve made Carl Craig crawl through a fence before [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I went to review End of the Road festival for Drowned in Sound. I was an organisational disaster, but it was a super-lovely weekend in the end, and, best of all, I got to DJ with Anthony Chalmers from God Don’t Like It inside a boat suspended above a flashing [...]
Look how excited he is! Yes, Mylo, he of “Da da da da, drop the pressure” fame is back. He has been, like, throwing underground parties an’ that at Dalston Superstore in east London for most of the year. But on October 8, he gonna take it to XOYO once more with Ed Banger young [...]
Online video/radio broadcast The Boiler Room is so hot darn exciting it makes me feel funny in my ladyparts. They take some of the best cutting edge DJs from London and beyond, stick ’em in a south London warehouse in front of a webcam to spin their heart out and let lossa dubstep fanboy tweens [...]
Miaow. I am writing this from the future, even though it will (hopefully) publish in the past. I’ve been so terrible at updating this blog with all my work over the summer, but there’s no time to start like a cold Sunday night in on the sofa, and I’m going to backlog as much as [...]
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’ve started a weekly international clubbing column for Red Bull, Blog on the Dancefloor. Check it. On Justice’s return… On women in dance music… On Diplo… On Dalston’s Bar A Bar…
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 [...]