MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
I interviewed dubstep/D&B duo Nero about LARPing, Nero-esque tendencies and their forthcoming album, Welcome Reality. I don’t think they were quite ready for this: I read a tweet the other day about a famous band whose rider stipulated that it must include ‘a locally sourced present’. ‘We had something like that in New Zealand. I [...]
This month, I got the chance to chat for an exceedingly long time about what every superstar DJ dreams of talking about in an interview: Basingstoke. Or as James Zabiela, my incredibly patient DJ interviewee likes to call it: Amazingstoke. But aside from talking up my home town, he also chats about his new label, [...]
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 [...]