I’m in my late 20s, but my parents still control my life. The dilemma I’m in my late 20s and live and work abroad.
My parents live in the UK and are very overprotective and controlling. Mum does everything financial for me – she has all my bank passwords; the statements go to her address and she controls my savings. I am a teacher with a reputable international company, but my parents don’t like my job and regularly tell me I need to come home. They refuse to use my girlfriend’s name and repeatedly refer to her as “your friend”. Our relationship is generally one of obligation. Whenever my parents want me to do something they guilt-trip me and call me immature until they get what they want. Mariella replies So, stop. Much of what you describe is multilayered, historic and challenging to unpick, but not being so passive is simple and long overdue. You’ve already made a pretty big bid for freedom, and your move abroad must have partly been informed by your desire to escape your parents’ reach.
Boiler Room Seoul: Warehouse Party. Discwoman, A Guy Called Gerald + Pxssy Palace discuss nightlife past + future at Nightlab - Nightlab is a creative platform and forum powered by Mixcloud and Eventbrie that brings together the leading thinkers, promoters and entrepreneurs from across the UK’s night time economy and event industry.
For the debut event in March 2018, Nightlab presented talks on the future of the cultural spaces. The second, on 28th November at Tanner Warehouse in London, will focus on the past and present of club culture. Split into two evening sessions across three-plus hours, the first (above) looks back three decades of dancing with A Guy Called Gerald and Greg Wilson, hosted by Bill Brewster. The second (above), titled ‘Building A New Underground Resistance’, looks forward with four cultural activists involved in parties with a purpose.
The panel includes: dance music academic and Room 4 Resistance co-founder Luis-Manuel Garcia; Discwoman co-founder Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson; Ryan Lanji, head of queer club night HUNGAMA; and Pxssy Palace co-founder Nadine Artois Comments are closed. Pxssy Palace DJ Set. Courtesy of Pxssy Palace Approaching the close of In formation III, Pxssy Palace present their club night centering care, freedom of expression and compassion.
Founded by Nadine Artois and Skye Barr, Pxssy Palace is a woman-led collective working to eradicate sexual violence and misogyny from club culture and wider society. A Complete Guide to Chengdu's Underground Music Scene. The ancients who proclaimed “the young never come to Sichuan, the old never leave” (“少不入川老不出蜀”) clearly predated an era of all-night raves and high-rise buildings.
The proud, open-minded capital Chengdu is both spicy and sincere, and now, in an era of immense mobility and connectivity, the city has become a bubbling hotbed of creative music culture. Partygoers at .TAG Chengdu, 2018 (photo by 陶韵 ) With inner-city development sweeping away the dank vestiges of the past, Chengdu remains rough around the edges. It confidently grows more sassy and refined, following her instinctive passion for shuǎ (耍; Sichuanese for “fun”) — widely accepted to mean good times, good food, and good company. Female-led collectives UK: 7 shaking up the club scene. In the Normal Not Novelty radio show this month, host Kamilla Rose explores the rise of the collective – crews of female, non-binary and LGBTQIA+ artists that are addressing imbalances in the music industry by carving out their own creative spaces.
She’s joined by 6 Figure Gang, one of the UK’s most exciting new collectives bringing an energy boost to bass-heavy scenes, plus DJ/producer Jubilee sits down to discuss why she’s pulling together a crew of her own. Collectives are an empowering force. DIY to the core, they provide ways of sharing resources and creating opportunities in spaces that are free from discrimination and harassment. No two are the same: some champion arts across a range of disciplines, some focus on skills sharing and workshops, and others put on club nights. Community spirit: How DIY culture is transforming Leeds' music scene - Scene reports.
The Leeds music scene had an uncertain start to 2019 with the looming closure of two of its most established clubs.
Mint Club went down fighting with star-studded closing parties; Canal Mills is hanging in there, delaying its fate until June. Both are victim to property developers, who represent a very real threat to Leeds’ music venues (and wider community programmes like the MAP charity). Then in March, more upheaval followed as the stalwart Back To Basics crew announced the closure of the grand Church venue with little explanation. Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds. BBC Radio 4 - The House of the Windy City - Dance Music's Forgotten Heroes. The History Of House Music - Mixed In Key Community. Origins of the term The term "house music" is said to have originated from a Chicago club called The Warehouse, which existed from 1977 to 1983.
Clubbers to The Warehouse were primarily black, who came to dance to music played by the club's resident DJ Frankie Knuckles, whom fans refer to as the "godfather of house". Frankie began the house trend by splicing together different records when he found that the records he had weren't enough to satisfy his audience. He would use tape and a knife to accomplish this. A brief history of club culture in 13 unmissable clips from the BBC archive - BBC Music. These photographs depict the gentle and free spirited youth of Florida. “It began with me looking at sensationalised narratives about youth in Florida and asking how I could use my lens to offer something different,” says Josh Aronson about his new photo book, Tropicana – which is released today.
Based between Brooklyn and his hometown Miami, Aronson took his first steps as a photographer by portraying the Floridian local fashion, music, and art scene. Inspired by the work of fellow photographers Mark Steinmetz and Ryan McGinley as well as the cinematography of Oscar nominees The Florida Project and Moonlight, Aronson’s self-published project “adds something beautiful, luscious, and queer to the canon of Florida imagery.” Featuring young artists, activists, and local talent, Tropicana immerses the readers in colourful scenes of harmony and play capable of challenging the stereotypical depiction of the Sunshine State — from “Florida Man” to Spring Breakers, and XXXTentacion.
Featured in Tropicana are young local talents, artists, and activists. UK's nightclubs suffer as young people seek less hedonistic pursuits. An estimated £200m has been wiped off the value of the UK nightclub scene in the past five years as partygoers desert the dancefloor in search of new pleasures.
More clubs closed in 2018 as people swapped thumping bass for alternative entertainment including indoor golf, trampolining and, in east London, a vegan food festival described as “the wildest plant-based party” in the capital. Clubs that shut this year included Venus in Manchester and Undr and Proud Camden in London. After a final New Year’s Eve blowout, Venus was turned into a gym. The Arches in Glasgow reopened as a food market with coffee roasters.
A new breed of nightlife is taking their place, with food, games and even exercise trumping the hedonism of dancing to DJ mixes. He said the willingness of people to choose games for a night out, rather than supposedly cooler dance music, showed that the young generation had the confidence to pursue what it really wants. IMS Business Report 2019 vFinal. How To Become A DJ. How to become a successful DJ As the UK’s highest rated DJ academy, based on real reviews from our students, we are often asked what it takes to become a successful DJ.
It’s a hard question to answer because there are so many different ways to do it, and everyone's experience is unique. However, there are some things which every DJ should think about and we’ve listed them here in a bitesize blog to help you on your way. The Death of UK Nightclubs. The news of our favourite clubs and venues closing down can certainly be an absolutely heartbreaking experience. Especially for those who have been frequenting the same venues for long periods of time – watching their doors shut for good can be truly heartbreaking; while the music scene simultaneously dwindles in response.
The increase in club closures are attributed to a number of factors, a response to our current socio-economic environment – as new generations grow older, the definition of “clubbing” is changing along with them. Recently, a document provided by International Music Summit allowed an insight into the future of clubs and the factors that are causing their closures, in their annual industry summary. One of the most prevalent examples of club closures, according to the document, is staggering 21% drop in clubbing venues in the United Kingdom by the end of 2018. This of course is not the only factor as nightclubs continue to decline. UK's nightclubs suffer as young people seek less hedonistic pursuits. The disco club set up to support female DJs.
Image copyright Aga Kryspin Twin sisters are fighting back against a gender imbalance in Scotland's music scene. Musicians Frankie Elyse and her sister Jozette found that only a very small proportion of DJs in their home city of Dundee were women. Now they have set up the Polka Dot Disco Club - a collective encouraging more women into the city's music scene. Working with with Dundee University Students' Association (Dusa), they offer free workshops supporting women interested in becoming a DJ.
Their first graduates played their first live set at the union's annual gig celebrating International Women's Day. Image copyright Lauren Kellie. Nike AIRMAX 270 AD Campaign on Behance. Connecting Cultures Worldwide. The 1975 win British Group. Test Your Gender Bias With Honey Dijon, Smirnoff & Spotify's Equalizer: Exclusive. So you call yourself a feminist, but what do your streaming habits say? In 2017, ten out of the top ten streaming artists on Spotify were men, even in the face of tremendous success by female artists like Cardi B, Camila Cabello, and Taylor Swift. That's slightly horrifying, but since March is International Women's Month, Smirnoff has teamed with Spotify and Chicago-bred, NYC-based DJ and producer Honey Dijon to level the playing field.
Enter the Equalizer, a web-based platform that links to your Spotify account and analyses the percentage of music you listen to created by men versus women. Maybe 40 percent of your listening is to female artists already, but maybe it's closer to zero. "We are the Manchester station..." - interview with Limbo Radio - The State Of The Arts : The State Of The Arts. Abbie and Connor. Credit: Annie Feng, www.anniefengphotography.com For anyone that has recently lived in Fallowfield, the student neighbourhood of south Manchester, the name and logo of Limbo Radio will be recognisable. On stickers in pub toilets and the Facebook feeds of DJ-ing friends, the cartoon cigarette-and-smile is ubiquitous in the area.
But behind this branding campaign is a modest force of young people who just want to soundtrack their community in the fairest, most fun way possible. Limbo Radio is an independent community radio station, specialising in offering slots to DJs wanting to practice and promote their mixing abilities. “We thought of the idea to start a station a few years ago because we felt as though we were surrounded by incredibly talented artists in Manchester and there wasn’t one platform for them all to come together on,” says Chris, who founded the station along with friends Sam and Jamie. Pernod Ricard partners Boiler Room to launch music festival. Pernod Ricard has partnered Boiler Room’s new youth-focused in-house agency Brand Labs to launch a series of music festivals across London. The Boiler Room Festival will be a four-day event covering jazz, rap, bass and club, which will be linked to the Beefeater Gin, Jameson, Ballantine’s and Absolut brands respectively.
The event kicks off on 9 October in Copeland Park in Peckham, London. Each brand will bring interactive and multimedia exhibitions that will tell the story behind each music pillar. Adidas Originals X MUFC: Barcelona '99. Adidas Originals Newton Heath. Shooting Video with an iPhone - Wistia Blog. How to Edit Videos: Shot List. Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Greenprint – Keep Hush. Meet London-based Collective Femme Culture. Introducing the all-female DJ collective championing women in music. Glastonbury 2019: Line-up revealed for Sisterhood - the 'women only' stage aiming to empower festival females - Somerset Live. The line-up has been revealed for the Sisterhood stage at Glastonbury Festival 2019 - a "women only" venue where men are barred.
Emily Eavis: 'There aren't enough female headliners' Image copyright Getty Images. About – FutureDJs – Learn how to DJ in school. 'It's an act of defiance': the rise of all-female festival lineups. In 2015, music blog Crack in the Road tweeted a doctored image of the poster for the Reading and Leeds festival, erasing all acts that didn’t include a female performer. El Dorado festival: Everything you need to know. Learning to DJ now qualifies for secondary education in the UK. Taking DJing as part of your music GCSE. Subscribe to read. DJ Annie Mac on the Death of Club Culture.
Celebrating five years of Dalston's queerest, most hedonistic rave. Lutz Leichsenring – Global Cities After Dark. B.L.O.O.M. 6 Female DJs from Europe Who Are Killing It Right Now. Femme-culture. Inside Keep Hush: the UK’s number one music member’s club. Kendrick Lamar joins stars trying to keep concerts special. Highsnobiety Soundsystem. Highsnobiety Soundsystem. Perspective: Reclaim the Club. How UK's clubbing will change: 5 predictions for 2020. Raves and resistance: the hidden history of Kings Cross. Music, fashion and town planning: how nightclubs change the world. Griessmuehle: Berlin mourns the loss of yet another club. EX is a film about the club’s most confessional space – its toilets. Find out where you can watch EX, a movie by Geroge Markakis. Venues and dates. — EX.
Coronavirus latest: Primavera Sound postponed until August. Disco's back as Nile Rodgers tops chart again. JME releases new album on physical formats only. Meet The Female DJs Equalising the Gender Balance. Normal Not Novelty workshops: RSVP here. How to create a brand name. Mantra and Highsnobiety Announce New London Residency at Phonox, Brixton. A film for SEPHORA – The unlimited power of Beauty. RIMOWA celebrates 120th anniversary with global campaign starring five global cultural icons. Meet Dance For Refuge and B.L.O.O.M., collectives celebrating International Women’s Day with a charitable double-header. International Women's Day 2020. Resident Advisor partners with Spotify to launch RA Tickets integration. The goldfish effect: social media shortens our attention span.
The scientific mystery of why humans love music. Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Rina Yang — Rina is a director of photography based in London. Female DJ workshops: Inside Bristol's Mix Nights. Free Women’s Only DJ Workshops! The NVSHU DJ Collective Wants to Empower the Women of Shanghai’s Nocturnal World. Discover the Best of UK's Multicultural Capital With Bossy LDN. AMP London. Universal Music CEO David Joseph: Why I'm standing up for difference. El Dorado Festival. Being a Female DJ in Bristol – Bristol Women's Voice. Peggy Gou x Potato Head. Mala Junta: the underground Berlin rave everyone's talking… - The Face. Peggy Gou Just Launched Her Own Label, KIRIN.
How the women of dance music have taken over high fashion - Culture. Designer Raf Simons pays homage to R&S Records in latest collection. 10 times DJs lent their talents to high fashion runway shows - Blog. Incandescent teacher: Honey Dijon is lighting up the world of dance music - Cover stars. 10 Albums That Redefined The Way Artists Release Music. Reading and Leeds Festival shows lack of female artists. The 1975 commit to playing only gender-balanced music festivals. HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media. Joy Crookes: Not enough women nominated for Brits. Science: You Now Have a Shorter Attention Span Than a Goldfish. Pete Waterman reckons 'music has become disposable'
How We Consume Music Has Changed Drastically Over The Past ... The Great Vinyl Comeback - Is It Here To Stay? - Magnetic Magazine. Lily Allen: Skepta, JME and Stormzy pose 'direct threat to music industry figures' How independent artists have changed the music industry. 403 Forbidden.