Blogging: New Red Bull column
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…
MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
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…
By Kate Hutchinson Like its name suggests, there are numerous complex elements that add up to create Glaswegian collective Numbers‘ scene-defining and widely-aped parties and quality record releases. The hipster hook-up between the city’s edgiest electronic club nights, musicians and labels has six people at its core (from left to right, Bobby Cleaver, Goodhand, Spencer, [...]
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 [...]
London’s fiendish frolickers from all walks of deviance donned their fanciest frilly pants, glossiest latex couture and artistically challenged make-up for Bizarre Magazine’s first ever Ball last Friday. Read my full review at Time Out London here.
“I know I’m a genius, but some people think I’m shit,” says Scottee over a plate of posh chips. “But I love that people hate me, babes.” He’s half taking the piss and half deadly serious, but whichever way the 22-year-old performance rebel (and long time Run Riot contributor, we might add) is taking over [...]
Step back nine decades to a time when nightlife was alluringly illicit. Forget oversized tee shirts and spandex leggings – dinner jackets and luxurious gowns beaded to within an inch of their thread count were the only club wear of choice. Long evenings were spent soaking up dazzling chorus girls and blue comics or, across [...]
Superstar DJs-in-the-making Crookers (aka Italian duo Phra and Bot) knock out soaring, bouncing, choppy electro club belters hinging on heavier than thou hip hop, from MC vocal lines to grimey Miami bass jitters, that’s hotter than Beyoncé’s G-string. They’ve been all over Europe this summer – I caught their blazing sunrise set at Melt Festival [...]
28-year-old Saam Farahmand, a former Goldsmiths student, has directed ace music videos for Simian Mobile Disco (yes, that ‘Hustler’ one with all the Girlcore ladies going at it), Janet Jackson, New Young Pony Club and his mates Klaxons, for which he has won awards. Now signed to Partizan, there are big projects ahead. I caught [...]
An article on the new neo-burlesque phenomenon that has swept the country in the past two years and how it has second wave feminists turning in their wheelchairs. Alternative performance art is running riot in the London. On any given day you can find Mexican wrestlers battling it out, drag queens voguing, overweight ballerinas screaming [...]
This was such an interesting article to write, based on the Soul Jazz/Heatwave compilation ‘An England Story’ on the history of MCing in the UK. Apologies to Roots Manuva, Estelle and YT, who did not make in. We’re dancing in the intense main room of Herbal to the eruption of elephantine sub dubstep basslines, adrift [...]