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 [...]
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 [...]
Drum ’n’ bass’s brightest spark, Sub Focus, headlined Time Out Live‘s latest Nite Sessions club night at East Village last Friday. Needless to say, he tore the Shoreditch club a new earhole – albeit a very blokey, very bolshy earhole. Since Ram Records boss Andy C tracked him down after being handed a demo tape [...]
Dear God. Someone gave Peaches Geldof permission to unleash her ‘neogothicpostironicimmateswithcarlbarat’ bile on the publishing world and MTV thought it would be, like, sooo entertaining if they made a documentary, ‘The Magazine: Peaches, Disappear Here’, all about it. Cue the trials and tribulations Geldof experiences while producing this ‘proper’ magazine – the name of which [...]
I buzzed the dance music granddaddy after touch down in London to talk about the success of his Wonderland night at Eden in Ibiza and what it’s like to be back at Ministry of Sound.