MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
During this posting frenzy, I’ve just found out about some of the distant countries that I’ve been published in. And I didn’t even knows it. Here you go. Here’s Mumbai. Mumbai! (They like Snow Patrol). And Istanbul. And here, it’s still Istanbul, but I’ve been translated into Turkish. The middle one is on alternative (read: [...]
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, [...]
There still ain’t many compared to the blokey blokesteppas, but here’s an article I wrote on women in dubstep for Time Out in 2008, including Ikonika. I think it’s still relevant. www.timeout.com/london/clubs/features/5005/Women_in_dubstep.html
I’ve been saying since I was 15 that I was going to get a tattoo. Taunted my mum with it. Tacked up pictures of lovely swirly tats all over my bedroom walls (OK, so it was just Brandon Boyd’s, whatever). So writing this feature on London’s best tattoo shops and tattooists, including Into You, Frith [...]
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 [...]
Beat that for search-engine-friendly titling! Ahem. Anyway, it’s always really lovely to be asked to come and do nice stuff by nice people whose nice music you put on mixtapes for your boyfriend (guilty). Today I went and giggled all over the microphone at a live recording of the super-beardy 2 Bears‘ radio show on [...]
Time Out and Smirnoff released their iPhone App in January this year. You can download it for free and it’s super-useful.
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 [...]