It was good. Published here – https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/31/vince-staples-review-kentish-town-forum-big-fish-rapper It’s rare to find a club-ready rapper who cites Joy Division and David Bowie as influences, but then, Vince Staples is a rare […]
Originally appeared in The Guardian Guide, August, 2016, the week before Skepta won the Mercury Prize. You can read it in original form (and enjoy the mad bastards commenting below […]
The Prodigy are sitting around a table in a King’s Cross boozer, riled by what’s become of rave culture. “Dance music at the moment is so fucking dead,” spits Liam […]
This October, grime veteran Skepta snatched a Mobo award with his That’s Not Me video, directed by the scene’s go-to creatives, Tim & Barry. Looking like it was shot on […]
Rappers love giving props to God. Regardless of content, you’d be hard-pressed to find a hip-hop album of the last 20 years that hasn’t shouted out the Big Guy in […]
Behind me a pair of perma-tanned hulks alternate between chugging on a weight-gainer drink called Mass Fury, grunting, and battering punch pads. Elsewhere, muscles bulge, chrome contraptions creak and manbeasts […]
Take any musical revolution of the past 100 years, and you can bet it’s been driven by technology. From Dylan’s electrical blasphemy to kids in Chicago squeezing a bass synth […]
From Pink Floyd soaring off into Interstellar Overdrive to Bootsy Collins tripping balls on the lysergic mothership, psychedelic drugs and pop go together like tangerine trees and marmalade skies. The […]
Published in The Guardian, Feb 2014. If 2013 saw Daft Punk usher French dance music down a cosy dad-disco cul-de-sac, 2014 looks set to be the year when a […]
“It sounds funny to say but the Queen was really cute…” Published in The Guardian, January 2014