MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
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 interviewed PJ Harvey for Drowned in Sound. It went down a little something like this: Polly Jean Harvey’s illustrious career makes the kind of Herculean reading that causes our over-anxious generation of success-hungry twentysomethings to quake in its distressed leather army boots. At 42, she has released eight enviably diverse records, won the Mercury [...]
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 [...]
I’m Station Editor at London Fields Radio, where I present an after dark-orientated show ‘Nite Bites’, as well as help curate and run the radio station. We have create everything from local sport to cookery via storytelling podcasts, all with excellent music on top. It operates out of Wiltons Café in London Fields and we’ll [...]
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 [...]
You can get the abridged version of this interview in Time Out this week, but to read it in full, check it after the jump. DJ History on the record player revolutionaries Some DJs are more than just nerdy looking blokes flipping records on and off some decks. Or, these days, should we say: more [...]
Last Friday, DJ Yoda headlined Time Out Live‘s first Nite Sessions at East Village. He smashed it. He tore the basement a new… I was drunk and messy and slobbering over my poor boyfriend. But I did notice the above with bleary eyes and I’m super happy that people liked the DJs wot I picked [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]