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ONES TO WATCH - Milk Van

There's a new buzz going around London called Milk Kan and they’re breathing a breath of fresh air amongst all the indie, post punk/new wave bands currently on the circuit. If you can imagine the truly dynamic sensation of The Streets jamming in...

Ronke Osinowo

My inspirational journey: Ronke Osinowo

RONKE OSINOWO“I had an unusual upbringing - I was fostered before the age of one to a white working class couple in Tilbury, Essex. My foster mother was a chronic asthmatic and couldn’t have children of her own due to her condition. My birth moth...

Beardyman

My inspirational journey: Beardyman

BEARDYMAN“I recently toured New Zealand and Australia with Bacardi. I travelled on a train for two days, up the South East coast of Australia from Melbourne to Sydney, stopping off to play two gigs a day. It was crazy. The bands I was touring wit...

Marcas Lancaster

My inspirational journey: Marcas Lancaster

MARCAS LANCASTER“I’ve never been a fan of ‘touristic’ travel. I prefer to visit countries when I’m working or to be with people who live there. I’ve never developed an interest in ‘places of historical interest’ just because I’m on holiday. I fin...

Jazzie B

My inspirational journey: Jazzie B

JAZZIE B“Most of the journeys I’ve made over the last 15 years have been to Antigua, where I travel to at least five times a year. All my brothers and sisters live in the UK, but I’m related to practically everyone on the island. My mother used t...

The European exchange

Dance music, as we know it, may have been forged in the white heat of America’s discothèques, but it was the early electronic experiments of Europeans that laid the foundations. Russian inventors like Leon Theremin, French and German avant-garde...

Here come the dubsteppahs

Once a marginal music made by stoned geezer boys in the concrete-coated suburbs of South-West London, Dubstep has evolved into a worldwide movement run by an ever-increasing army of obsessives. Warm and easy!Dubstep, some say, should come with a...

 We Could Be Heroes: Lola Olafisoye on Fela Kuti

We Could Be Heroes: Lola Olafisoye on Fela Kuti

Lola Olafisoye is the steamy front person of UK Punk/Funksters Spektrum. Their new remix album Death of the Gymkhana Club is out this October on Stop/Start Records. “Fela Kuti’s music was always around my house in south London when I was growing...

We Could Be Heroes: Paris Trading on Sadie Frost

We Could Be Heroes: Paris Trading on Sadie Frost

Leeds-bred singer/songwriter Paris Trading is the latest additon to London's indie pop scene, and is about to clean up. One-time member of The Kooks, Paris Trading has talent and looks that would make Pete Doherty blush with envy. “I first met Sa...

GORDON RAPHAEL

GORDON RAPHAEL IS THE PRODUCTION TALENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STROKES’ FIRST TWO ALBUMS THIS IS IT AND ROOM ON FIRE. GORDON LIVES IN BERLIN BUT HAS RECENTLY BEEN WORKING IN HIS EAST LONDON STUDIO WITH SLEEK-HEADED SINGER SKIN FROM SKUNK ANANSIE AND...

Come together - Part four

STELLA MCCARTNEY & ADIDAS A merger of two sides of the fashion market (couture/sportswear) is not unusual. Alexander McQueen worked with Puma creating the ManCat brand - slick sneakers for posing, not running around the block in - but it has...

Teens of Thailand

What’s your name and what does it mean? Teens of Thailand. It’s a song title from Queens Of The Stone Age front man Josh Homme’s side project ‘The Desert Sessions’.How many are you? 2What is it you do? DJ and throw last-minute all-night parties w...

Cassette Playa

What’s your real name? Before she was Hoxton’s day-glo queen, Cassette Playa was just plain ol’ Carri Mundene from Brighton.How many are there? Cassette Playa is a single label run by a single fluorescent female, with a little help from her Nu Ra...

Namaleelovespop

What’s the night called and what does it mean? Namaleelovespop! and it’s an international celebration of everything pop and colourful in the world, including MacDonalds, Lidyl, and Victoria Beckham.Where and when is it on? Ghent, Belgium and Lond...

BOSH!

What’s the night called and what does it mean? The night is called ‘BOSH!’. BOSH! is an exclamation of wickedness. If we collectively agree that something is 8.5 out of 10 or above in terms of its radness then it gets a ‘BOSH!’.Where and when is...

Anti-Social

What’s the place called and what does it mean? Anti-social - Its a club for the ASBO generation.Where and when is it on? Every Saturday night @ Bar Music Hall, 134 Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, London.Who is running it, and why? We do - YR MUM YA DADww...

Mouiss London

What’s your name and what’s it mean? The name is Mouiss London, I called it Mouiss because that is my cats name, and London cos I’m from, well, London. And my name is Hannah Denton.How many are you? It’s just me designing at the moment, it keeps...

Kitsunè

Kitsunè are a 6-piece, multi-national, creative dream team. They are Gildas Loaec, Masaya Kuroki, Patrick Lacey, Kajsa Sthale, Benjamin Reichen and Maki Susuki. Gildas and Masaya are Paris-based while the others reside in London. Over the past 4...

Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker who calls herself a Scottish Calvinist Muslim. She grew up in Glasgow, has worked for many years in India and now lives between Bombay, London and Wales. Her collections of poems include...

Sophie Woolley

When Sophie Woolley gets on stage she shape-shifts from smart looking London girl into – well, whoever it is she’s being. The one-time journalist now performs acid monologues and has just written a one-woman play that she’s touring at The Edinbur...

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