MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
“I love playing on Sunday,” gibes Canadian sonic polymath Chilly Gonzales. “You’ve already taken all of your drugs, so I have you right where I want you: almost sober.” The audience titters, even though he is selling them a little short. For once, the posters dotted around a dingy venue urging gig goers to be [...]
These days, it’s quite the thing to be in a band and, like, make sweet music with your spouse. But crucially, couples are doing so without a hint of Abba-shaped novelty. Even King Hippy himself, Devendra Banhart, is in on it all: just look at him frolicking around in the nude with his girlfriend in [...]
I like Red Bull. I like Red Bull a lot. And they like Innerpartysystem, who are newly signed to Red Bull Records. Did you know that they like hats, playing live gigs on their iPhones and making things out of rubbish? Neither did I. But I wrote about that and some other things I didn’t [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Should nu-disco be filed under so last year? Well, judging by the biggest dance track to turn up the heat this summer, it’s not ready for the bargain racks just yet. For anyone who hasn’t turned their ears onto Tensnake yet, the Hamburg-based producer has cooked up a deliciously infectious slice of nu-disco, ‘Coma Cat’ [...]
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 [...]
I interviewed trance’s answer to Matt Damon, Armin van Buuren, ahead of his headlining set at the South West Four Weekender and the release of his new album, ‘Mirage’, which features pouty pop dame Sophie Ellis-Bextor. But it’s not a mirage though, is it? Is it, Armin? After all, he’s so nice and clean cut [...]
This piece on Lovebox is coming out in my Clubbing section in Time Out next Tuesday. But here’s your sneak preview right here!
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, [...]