Skepta cover story for the Guardian
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 […]
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The Prodigy for The Guardian
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 […]
Gone To A Rave #13: Acid Techno
Easily, and bizarrely, the most popular piece I have ever written. Read it over on Ransom Note to enjoy the comment thread packed with misty eyed ravers (and a few […]
Just Jam for The Guardian
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 […]
2014: The Year Grime Won – for i-D
Originally appeared on i-D over here In February of this year, the City of London police decided to indulge in a spot of traditional bullyboy tactics. Deciding that the Just […]
A Short History of the Weekender for Bloc
The weekender occupies a special, hedonistic place in British culture. A festival for the working man, weekenders are there to dance away the grit and graft of the week, to […]
Night Slugs Cover Story for DJ Mag
Raised on soundsystem culture, deep bass and inventive, cross genre music, Night Slugs co-owners and DJ/producers L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok have created a label, musical family and aesthetic steeped […]
England’s Dreaming : The Free Party Monster
This week saw the media, in the grip of a typically slow summer news cycle, offered a tragedy they were powerless to resist – the death of a teenager at […]
Gone to a Rave #1
Ian McQuaid’s Gone To A Rave* *In his bedroom For the last 5 years I've been meaning to archive my bloated, ever growing collection of rave records, only to be […]
Ashley Beedle for DJ Mag
We catch up with Ashley to learn about his DJ roots, new ‘Yardism’ solo project and more… Ashley Beedle is a don. In a time when the dance world is […]