MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. RIOT. JOURNALISM
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NYC’s Drop The Lime’s a pretty fucking awesome be-quiffed DJ and he’s back in London this week, spinning at East Village in Shoreditch, London, tomorrow night. Read my mini-interview with him at the beginning of summer here.
Find info on the night here.
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I sit down with the Brazilian mentalists ahead of a one-off show for Xbox at Koko, London, to find out exactly what we don’t know about them. Turns out, it’s a lot. And they talk all over each other. All at once.
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London’s fiendish frolickers from all walks of deviance donned their fanciest frilly pants, glossiest latex couture and artistically challenged make-up for Bizarre Magazine’s first ever Ball last Friday.
Read my full review at Time Out London here.
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Dear God. Someone gave Peaches Geldof permission to unleash her ‘neogothicpostironicimmateswithcarlbarat’ bile on the publishing world and MTV thought it would be, like, sooo entertaining if they made a documentary, ‘The Magazine: Peaches, Disappear Here’, all about it. Cue the trials and tribulations Geldof experiences while producing this ‘proper’ magazine – the name of which is based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel ‘Less Than Zero’. Deep.
What emerges straddles ‘The Apprentice’ and ‘Britain’s Worst Teenagers’, as Geldof slags off her assigned magazine team to mentor James Brown, Loaded’s founder, and criticises them to their faces in a very Alan Sugar-like manner.
MTV bosses have called her a monster – and they’re quite right to. The only charming thing that emerges about her is her dress sense.
I know it’s oh so chic to slag off the Geldofs and blame them for world destruction, but the fact that the mini-tyrant is now working at NYLON magazine’s TV channel in New York is enough to make any journalist’s eyes bleed.
Had the NYLON editors seen this documentary beforehand, particularly the part where she insists on interviewing Tim Burgess, only to ask him innovative questions like ‘Where did the name The Charlatans come from?’, her career path would be a different story indeed.
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I buzzed the dance music granddaddy after touch down in London to talk about the success of his Wonderland night at Eden in Ibiza and what it’s like to be back at Ministry of Sound. Read more…
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“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 the capital, one oversized, sequinned bow tie at a time. Brash and fash, he’ll confront you with issues to discuss over your fois gras, while being deeply personal and subversively dark. His one-man show, ‘Buy A Better You’, comes to the Soho Revue Bar on October 24, so we caught up with him to stuff our faces and talk (a lot) about what he thinks about London’s performance art scene, why his work means something, and… Lisa Stansfield.
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Read my exclusive review of Pete Tong’s Wonderland at Eden, Ibiza, featuring Pnau and Crookers, on Clash Music.
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Step back nine decades to a time when nightlife was alluringly illicit. Forget oversized tee shirts and spandex leggings – dinner jackets and luxurious gowns beaded to within an inch of their thread count were the only club wear of choice. Long evenings were spent soaking up dazzling chorus girls and blue comics or, across the Atlantic, trying to find the savviest speakeasy bulging with liquor while dodging the police. Welcome to the golden era of cabaret.
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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 in Germany in July and went to Ibiza with them to see them spin at Eden last week and it was e.l.e.c.t.r.i.c.
Here’s the un-edited version of my Q&A with Bot, which appeared in short in Time Out last month.
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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 up with him to chat about his love of New Cross, his heroes and how people need to “wake the fuck up”.
(Interview conducted for Time Out magazine’s 40th Anniversary London Heroes Issue, published 24 Sep 2008)
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