MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
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, [...]
I’m not having the best of days: angry emails from jumped-up and ungrateful promoters; listings system crashing on deadline day, that sort of thing. But I’m really looking forward to sinking some serious Mojito-age at East Village tonight. I’ve picked some DJs. We’ve put them on. And I think they’re rather ruddy brilliant. So I [...]
I’ve been superwank (like supergeil, but superwank) at updating my blog recently. I went to Sonar in Barcelona, which was a great trip, but I’d only recommend going for the Friday night 30,000-people-heavy rave-up. On Thursday things are only warming up and come Saturday, everyone is too knackered from the night before. But Friday, in [...]
This is a rubbish scan. I blame Jimi Mistry wot scanned it. But I wrote a piece on different DJs doing different nice green things for the environment in a recent issue of Time Out. We called them: eco DJs (oooooh, aaaah). It was up the front of the magazine, where real people can see [...]
I’ve got lots and lots of time for (Graeme) Sinden. An illuminating DJ and genre-mangler, he’s got a regular show on Kiss Fm; he ran a successful dubwise house night with Sinden, Get Familiar, at Fabric; he got some of that chart and mainstream success with pal Hervé as The Count & BEEPER BEEPER BEEPER [...]
My first solo radio show on London Fields Radio is finally HAR. Is finally online and is has lots of nice music to wiggle around your bedroom to. It’s called Nite Bites (because it’s a nightlife show in a café with bitey things like muffins innaah?) and I play loss of good choons and I [...]
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 [...]
Hallo again. So, this week I meant to publish my Kissy Sell Out interview before his label launch party at Vibe Bar on Brick Lane with Mixmag today, but I had an epic blog fail. I will will will will publish it in full, but Sinden scanned in the e-d-i-t-e-d version and you should all [...]