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Notion X Lovebox | True London Loves Inspirations from the love of our lives, London, and the many wonderful creative grouped around here, to celebrate our partnership with the city’s best music festival, Lovebox.
London is our true love: we love the city. The best place in the world, where you’re
our True London Loves we’ll be marrying that celebration with our own passions,
never far from inspiration and possibility; everywhere you look, someone doing
showcasing amazing talents and their brilliant inspirations, and revelling in the
something new and amazing. It’s a place of diversity, flamboyance, creativity,
scope and diversity of the festival itself.
authenticity and discovery. We wouldn’t be the magazine we are if we weren’t here, We talk to big names on the Lovebox line-up and some of our own featured stars
in this big messy mass of people and hope.
from this issue about their True Loves tracks, and chat with two of our favourite We’re super thrilled to continue and expand our partnership with Lovebox this
young artists on the bill about how their inspirations work. James Baillie, curator
year: the only festival that really gets what London is, celebrates it with love.
of Lovebox Sundays, goes in deep on the flamboyant and diverse highlight of the
We’re perfect party-mates: marrying music, fashion and culture over three days
weekend. And we look at the brilliant young menswear talents exploding out of London
that celebrate the underground, the mainstream and out’n’out fierceness with equal
Collections: Men as the shows start in mid-June, a wonderful melange of home-grown
relish, bringing everything together in superb and joyful creative presentation,
talent that we can’t get enough of.
bound together with fun. True London Loves looks at just a handful of the bright and beautiful creative The palette of London that we and Lovebox adore is drawn from the life in the
talent emerging from the city and a mere snapshot of the bold and bonkers worlds
clubs, studios, galleries and public spaces of the city, those places where anyone
of Notion and Lovebox: we seek inspiration here and hope to pass on something to
and everyone can meet in the quest for random acts of kindness and absurdity,
you of London, our true love.
making things and experiences not to an end, but just because. True Loves is what we think of the people who inspire us having with the work they do and the
We at Notion are co-hosting the VIP area with acclaimed music promoters
things they make, marrying authenticity and innovations – and that’s what we’re
Kubicle on Saturday which will obviously be completely amazing.
celebrating over these ten pages, the power of inspiration. The good news is you can actually buy VIP passes, getting access to exclusive areas Lovebox’s True Loves celebrates the music that has inspired the artists of today,
from rave-up tents to chill-out lounges and fast track access. Come join us!
whose music will in turn inspire the artists of tomorrow. Over these pages of
www.mamacolive.com/lovebox/vip-tickets/
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Notion X Lovebox | True London Loves The music that inspires the artists of Lovebox and Notion Inspiration makes our world go round. On our very cover you’ll see the words ‘Inspired by Music & Fashion’ every issue: because what we hope is that in our constant search for inspiration we find artists, designers and work that can inspire you too. Lovebox’s True Loves celebrates the music that has inspired the artists of today, whose music will in turn inspire the artists of tomorrow. Together, we’ve asked a whole range of artists – from those playing the festival to those featuring in the pages of this magazine, showcasing the full range of talent on display – to tell us what their True Loves track is. What is the track that’s inspired them beyond all others, and why? With any luck you’ll find some inspiration here. On this page, discover True Loves selections from artists featured in this issue of Notion, and on the facing page, from artists performing at Lovebox
MIGUEL JT’s favourite man bringing back RnB is the cover star of this magnificent issue of Notion. For a man with such a unique sound, it’s unsurprising he couldn’t just have one True Loves track. “Oh man, one song! The Hunter by Bjork. Even that… it’s not even, like, that crazy for her, but it’s just so spot on. There’s a song after a movie title, it was never released as part of an album: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Jay Electronica. Listen to that song! It’s incredible. “Biggie Smalls – Gimme The Loot. Just because, allegorically, he’s playing two different people in the song, and it’s just… all the descriptions, the attitude and personality between the two characters that he’s telling the story is incredible. “Good Thoughts Bad Thoughts by Funkadelica, which I name a lot, I think that’s my favourite song ever, period. That’s more because of the sound of it and the subject matter – it’s like, wow, you can really just talk about anything. I think that will always be the perfect description for my life.” Notion’s incredible cover feature and photoshoot with the main man Miguel begins on p.40
WE WERE EVERGREEN The supremely chic and charming French pop-world-dance trio each give a that inspires them, showcasing their brilliant and peculiar three-headed democracy. Fabienne: Baxter Dury. One of the tracks off Len Parrot’s Memorial Lift. He makes me think about simplicity and assumed sounds – simplicity in the best way. It makes me understand that you can basically have just a few things in a song that are assumed, without covering or hiding things. William: I always say it and it’s common, but 2=2=5 by Radiohead, because that made me finally think that we could do pop, rock and electro, but dramatic and dance music, all in the same song. That was pop for me. Bjork did it even better. Michael: If it is about a song that really moves me, it is a song by Daniel Rossen [of Grizzly Bear] called Waterfall. It’s a cover of a song by Judee Sill, a girl from the 90s. It’s very moving and simple, and he approaches it all abot voices and Disney-like choirs. It kind of evokes something from childhood, because of the very dark Disney thing, but in a very humble way.
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NETSKY The Hospital records Belgian DnB wunderkind’s effect on a dancefloor has to be seen to be believed. Perhaps that’s inspired by his feelgood True Loves track. “I think for me personally it’s always just been really important to have the right people around me and supporting me; the friends back home and my family who really supported my dream and helped me out when I needed it.
I think that’s
really what keeps me going, or what gives me the energy to tour. “I’m a huge reggae fan, and I grew up with a lot of reggae. I think if I had one record to take with me to a desert island, it’s probably going to be a Bob Marley record; I think ‘One Love’ or
PLAN B Self-reinventing music maestro, film maker and allround renaissance man Ben Drew on the track that taught him that to make a hit song you can do just about anything. “Tracy Chapman ‘Fast Car’. I know you might think that’s a strange choice, but I just love what the song is about. She’s talking about her dad being an alcoholic and her having to look after him and that. It’s quite dark - quite real subject matter in the lyrics. Her voice is unique and that guitar loop underneath is so fucking addictive. It’s the culmination of everything, I don’t know… I think that taught me that you can have a successful mainstream song and have it be about something real, like something really personal, and it can still be mainstream and it can still be a hit and still work; so it really did inspire me. “And also the structure is completely different to the pop structure - ‘So you got a fast car’ is basically the chorus. It’s kind of like a hook line,
but she says it in the verse, and then there’s this build-up at the end, which I argue about with my
something like that.” Netsky will be playing live on the main stage, and DJing at the Hospitality stage on Lovebox Saturday 20th July
friend. My friend says ‘oh that’s the chorus’, but I say ‘that only happens once, so how can it be the chorus?’. So that’s what I love about it – it’s a really weirdly structured song, but it was a hit, it really worked, and it was about something really personal and dark. “So if you think about the song in that way, rather than thinking about the musicality of it and being inspired by the music within it, but just everything it stands for and everything it achieved as a song, that didn’t conform structurally or any other way – if you take those teachings, then it really inspires you to take risks with your own music. So even though I know that the song’s got to be 3 and a half minutes long, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the standard structure that everybody else uses. If a song’s good enough, it can be completely different. So it did inspire me probably more than any other song.” Plan B headlines Lovebox main stage on Saturday 20th July
PBR STREETGANG Two superlative house music rock/n/rollers (named for the boat tripping down the river in Apocalypse Now) PBR Streetgang keep one foot most definitely in the rave. Here the Leeds duo Tom Thorpe and Bonar Bradberry spill on the tracks that inspire whatever their mood. Bonar: “Alicia Myers – I Want to Thank You. Love records that make you feel different after listening to it, no matter what mood you’re in. That’s a sign of greatness for me. If I could do that with every record I make I’d be a happy man.” Tom: “It would be ‘This Must Be The Place’ by Talking Heads. It gives me goosebumps every time I play it, it’s a massively inspirational track for me. Plus – David Byrne is a total dude!” PBR Streetgang play Hot Creations’ arena on Lovebox Saturday 20th July.
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Notion’s True Loves Of Lovebox Going deep with a couple of our favourite up-coming artists about their influences and True Loves.
LULU JAMES
electronic music and soulful harmonies, I love story-telling and when I put them together it’
Are there any particular tracks that set you
off on your musical journey when you were young? A track that taught you something about music?
The electro-soul chanteuse from the North-East is on
becomes 21st Century Soul. I am influenced by
the up-and-up: first making waves last year with a
everything around me, music, relationships,
What and why?
lush low-key EP of croons, wails and heart-ache over
snatches of conversation on the street, real
If I had to answer this in a song it would be
sparse progressive electronica, she’s come out with
life experiences. It is a combination of all of
‘Take Me To Beautiful’ – India.Arie – it made
one of the leftfield tracks of the year in ‘Closer’
these that influence my music.
me feel like it was a place I wanted to get to
– a drama-banger that combines huge classic soul vocals with the glitchy post-bass of Mount Kimbie.
Do you look more to the past for influences or
Throbbing rhythms and beats, pulsing atmospherics,
with? Your music is a fascinating, stripped
contemporary artists? Or the people you work
and it made me feel safe and it inspired me to create. Songs are such a powerful thing – I have one for every mood and I’m very moody so there are way too many to mention, hahaha.
and classic song-writing and lyrics: a great
down electronic soul so I could imagine a mix.
mix, especially when supporting Lulu’s big, bold
I look to the past for judgement and to the
voice that she deploys with coy, sad restraint.
present for feel – I think song writing of the
With such an amazing and unusual sound-palette,
past helps me to make a better judgement of
and made you the artist you are?
it’s unsurprising that a lady who makes what she
what I am doing in the present.
My True Loves track would be ‘Willhelm Scream’
calls ‘21st Century Soul’ draws on influences both soulful and, er, 21st Century.
Who have been your musical ‘true loves’ – the
You described your first EP as ‘21st Century
Prince, Amy Winehouse, Gil Scott Heron , James
What influences have gone into making your music?
are all artists that I am addicted too and that
artists you just can’t quit?
Soul’ – what elements go into making that up?
Blake, India.Arie , Joe Goddard, Mount Kimbie
I don’t make it up – it just happens, I love
I can’t go a day without hearing
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What is your ‘true loves’ track? What is the
track that impacted the direction you are taking
– James Blake, because when I saw and heard him on Jools Holland he blew me away with. It’s fragile, it’s emotive, it’s strong and it’s haunting – a bit like me. LULU JAMES plays the Annie Mac presents… arena on Lovebox Friday 19th July.
GOLD PANDA Having already wowed us with a debut album (Lucky Shiner) of hyper-caffeinated chop and mangled sampletastic electronica, Derwin Panda returns this summer with a masterpiece in the shape of Half of Where You Live. A huge step forward by taking a step backwards and reducing the chaos of his debut has resulted in something sublime. In part about his three years
I think I enjoy making tracks. I don’t listen to
Actually, I’m kind of an albums person. I got into
music and then try to make a track that sounds like
certain specific albums by people and then didn’t
something. I enjoy mucking around on the equipment,
really follow up. So, certain albums I pick from
or having a track finished just through mucking
people I like, then completely ignore the others.
around, rather than trying to set out and doing
There’s two that I think of specifically, that I
something. I enjoy the process much more than the
listened to back to back when they were released,
finished product, and I guess that’s why I lose
the two Interpol albums – Turn Off The Bright
confidence a lot of the time in my own work – because
Lights and Antics.
once I have got the finished product I guess the process for me is over, so I’m no longer enjoying
And then, a record by Mobb Deep – Hell on Earth.
that moment, and I want to move along to the next
Infamous. So bleak and dark. It was just great –
thing. I think that’s why making music and releasing
everything I hated about hip hop at that time was
on this incredible record.
it is quite a weird concept, because by the time it
the way it kind of melded with RnB and have a tough
comes out it’s already six months old or older – and
rap chorus and then Brandi and Monica would come
A lot of the new record is your reflections on
you’ve lost any connection with it!
in and sing the chorus, and I would be, ‘ahh fuck
It’s cities really. Asian cities. I think Singapore
Was there any track, or any tracks in particular,
of touring the world off the back of his debut, he gets down to unpacking the inspirations of travel, equipment and analogue house that have come to bear
travelling. What’s inspired you there?
was the last one that made an impact. It’s totally different to what I was expecting, but everything that I wanted it to be in this weird, overbranded megalopis – a stupid, overbranded future city that you don’t want to exist, but then when you actually
that you feel set you off on your musical journey when you were younger? A track that taught you something about music?
Probably the ‘Akira’ soundtrack, to the animation. It’s by a group called Geinō Yamashirogumi, a Japanese group,
this, this is shit.’ I was really rebelling at that time, and I wanted something that had loads of swearing and violence. So if there was a true loves track that was really inspiring you at the minute, and inspiring this
record, what would that be? One of those wonderful
like it you feel guilty because it’s horrible.
a band of weird musicians, who mainly make scores – well,
Berlin analogue house vinyls?
traditional sounding stuff. I didn’t really think about
Anything by Kyle Hall… I’ve got this record by Louis
Has anywhere de-inspired you? Uninspired you, or
the soundtrack too much when I saw the film, but then
Haiman called ‘Soul Purpose’ and it’s got a screen
I ended up humming it, and then getting the soundtrack.
printed bear on the cover. That’s really nice.
Yeah – when I first moved to Berlin I felt like that,
The tracks on there are just incredible. And I think
There’s a label called ‘Office’, with two 12”s.
that sparked off my interest in those oriental scales
They’re both in a brown sleeve with no info, but
and sounds. Yeah, so I’d say that entire soundtrack.
it’s called Bazz – What About / Talk About 1 and 2.
Who do you think have been your musical true loves –
GOLD PANDA plays the Noisey stage on Lovebox Friday 19th
made you unable to make music?
actually. I moved here because – I met my girlfriend in Hamburg, and moved here to be with her. At the time I didn’t really get on with Hamburg either, though I can see the good points now I’ve moved away. That tends to happen – you can see the bigger picture. But
those artists you just can’t quit, always go back to?
yeah, when I got to Berlin… I think I just didn’t integrate that well. A lot of people actually come here for music, but I didn’t. It was hard for me to find what I was looking for here. Ive finally found my favourite places to hang out and to go for tea every day. It’s now working, but it took me a lot of time to adjust. I didn’t find it particularly inspiring visually, or the atmosphere. But then I found a record shop near me that stocks – as they all stock – a lot of house and techno. So I bought loads of house records and Berlin IS a dance music city, and no matter how you try to avoid it it gets into your bones and you become involved in its love of dance music – even if you’re not going clubbing, you somehow manage to absorb this music. So I was just buying all these records by people I’d never heard of on white labels and getting all this vinyl that sounded really good, this warm analogue house music. And that made me think that I should look at my own music and maybe, I think I was going before for something where I thought electronic music had to be technically clever, and I was forgetting about certain things I liked about it. Which is more influential – the actual equipment and the process of using it, rather than the specific music you were listening to? Or vice versa?
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July. His album ‘Half of Where You Live’ is out now.
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LCM Preview : True London Talent By the time you read this, London’s third season of menswear shows, ‘London Collections: Men’ will be have already happened. The greatest showcase of menswear on the planet once again proving London’s position as the centre for creativity in menswear. In an extension of last year’s feature with the fashion extravaganza that is Lovebox, we caught up with our favourites, the ones whose collections we’re most excited about seeing this season about what it is about the great city of London in summer that gives them so much inspiration.
IMAGE / Kaye Ford
MATTHEW MILLER
What are you looking forward to most about LCM? As a designer you’re most looking forward to getting it over with. You wear your heart on your sleeve twice a year and asked the press to criticize you. It’s an adrenaline rush and crash in a 48 hour period. So if I’m honest I’m looking forward to the rush.
What’s your track of the summer? This year has been phenomenal for music, to choose one track is incredibly difficult, but at a push I would have to choose ‘Giorgio by Moroder’ (ft. Giorgio Moroder) by Daft Punk. It’s such a clever and deep piece, I’m hooked. I wish the whole album had been semiIMAGES / Nick Shand
JAMES LONG
What¹re you looking
autobiographical scores.
What do you love most about London in summer? Experiencing multiculturalism through food and drink.
forward to most about LCM?
IMAGE / Kaye Ford
I think it’s always exciting to see what the new designers IMAGE / Laura Lewis
are doing at the
SIBLING
show which is where
What’re you looking forward to most about LCM?
Fashion East MAN I did my first show.
We love doing catwalk shows for menswear as the
Also I love to see
general vibe is very chilled, supportive and
Lou Dalton, Sibling,
energising all at once. We find it very inspiring
Christopher Shannon
especially being being part of the minority
and all the young
providing buyers an almost urban sportswear
independent British
We are looking forward to working with the
alternative to the suits and tailoring designs
designers that I have
creative set design Thomas Bird on our
also presenting: LCM is a great mash-up and we
been showing with for
presentation installation, which will echo the
are proud to be included. Also looking forward to
a few years now.
inspiration behind our Summer collection, and
the general prime-time TV, Daily Fail reviews:
What¹s your track of
BAARTMANS & SIEGEL
What are you looking forward to most about LCM?
also to seeing many of our designer friends’
can they top the insane, uninformed horror of
the summer?
AW13? We do hope so as it makes us properly LOL.
Anything by John Maus. I
What’s your track of the summer?
like the National Demons
Talking Heads – ‘Naive Melody’
What’s your track of the summer?
Missy Elliot – ‘Get Your Freak On’
What do you love most about London in summer?
at the moment too.
What do you love most
shows and presentations.
What do you love most about London in summer? Often we escape London in the summer and head
The fact that it’s freezing cold and wet and
about London in summer?
generally the weather is a disgrace and…. we
I like all the
have BBQ picnics on the Heath with Noodle our
have sweaters to sell. Hurrah!
festivals in the parks.
mini dachshund.
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to Amsterdam, but when we are here we love to
MARTINE ROSE
What¹re you looking forward to most about LCM? I think it’s always exciting to see what the new designers are doing at the Fashion East MAN show which is where I did my first show. Also I love to see Lou Dalton, Sibling, Christopher Shannon and all the young independent British designers that I have been showing with for a few years now. What¹s your track of the summer? Anything by John Maus. I like the National IMAGE / Laura Lewis
AGI & SAM
What’re you looking forward to most about LCM? For it to finish and for us to have a holiday.
Demons at the moment too.
What do you love most about London in summer? I like all the festivals in the parks. IMAGE / Kaye Ford
What’s your track of the summer?
Azari & III – ‘Reckless With Your Love’
What do you love most about London in summer? Girls on bikes. IMAGE / Village Press
LOU DALTON
What’re you looking forward to most about LCM? At current, I’m completely focused on just completing the collection on time. There is a great buzz surrounding LCM, I won’t fully appreciate or enjoy it unless I finish the job in hand...
What’s your track of the summer? I’m liking ‘Do You Feel What I Feel’ by Rex
OLIVER SPENCER
the Dog, and also ‘Get Lucky’ by Daft Punk
What’re you looking forward to most about LCM?
has been played hard throughout the studio.
The party which I’m throwing with Men’s Health
It’s a jolly little track & you can’t help
at Liberty’s department store after our show and
but wiggle along to it.
will be a great way to end the show, and day.
What do you love most about London in summer?
What’s your track of the summer?
Having time out to sit at my local, The
Noah & the Whale – ‘There Will Come A Time’
Charles Lamb in Angel, with endless glasses
What do you love most about London in summer?
of Prosecco surrounded by my nearest &
The green parks of London, they are a major
dearest, with those two elements I’d be happy
asset to the city!
anywhere in the world.
IMAGE / Laura Lewis
XANDER ZHOU
What’re you looking forward to most about LCM? This time I will be showing in the Old Sorting Office, a much larger venue than the Hospital Club. IMAGE / Becca Naen
That is something I am looking forward to very much.
JOSEPH TURVEY
I’m listening to XXYYXX a lot lately, so I can
What are you looking forward to most about LCM?
What’s your track of the summer?
imagine my track of this summer will be one of his.
Obviously presenting a new collection is always
What do you love most about London in summer?
exciting and I love being a part of such a
I must confess last summer I did not pay much
strong cohort of British menswear designers.
attention to the weather... It seems it don’t
What’s your track of the summer?
really an impression of London in summer yet. I
Beyoncé – ‘Grown Woman’
will
be more attentive this time. Having lived
What do you love most about London in summer?
in northern Europe for some time, I know how
Going to the zoo.
much we should cherish good summer days there!
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IMAGE / Laura Lewis
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Inside Lovebox Sundays A chat with James Baillie, the programmer behind Lovebox’s out and out fierce Sundays. “Sunday, Sunday, here again with tidy attire,” Damon Albarn sang, not
JB: I would say Heavy Rock. Other than that we are open to most genres. NOTION: Who would be on your ultimate dream line-up of acts to headline
realising quite how ‘tidy’ – and, indeed, flamboyant, extragavant and
Sunday?
the last day of Lovebox. Sunday is the day marked down in everyone’s diary
JB: David Bowie, Bjork, Prince, PJ Harvey, The late Donna Summer… We had
amazing – the polysexual parade of attire would be in Victoria Park on
for full-on creative fun: pulling together elements from the bets gay clubs, underground parties, cutting-edge fashion & emergent artistes. James Baillie, the man responsible for the programming, gives us the lowdown.
NOTION: What sort of experience do you hope to give to people when they come for Lovebox Sunday? How does it differ from the other days?
her booked to play last year with full band and orchestra. We had no idea she was ill until the sad news of her death to cancer.
NOTION: How did the way Lovebox Sunday works come about? What was your role in it?
JAMES BAILLIE: Each day is programmed differently. Its been said people today are looking for niche festivals and I think we have nailed it. The
programming on Friday will appeal to a certain audience, Saturday will
also be the flagship Lovebox day attracting our followers and picking up new ones on the way. Sunday is very polysexual. It attracts an interesting
crowd from across the country – even abroad. It’s a very colourful crowd from fashion through to club kids and it’s pretty outrageous. A well-known
booking agent once said to me that out of all the festivals they had ever
been to throughout their years they had never come across such a friendly colourful crowd that Sunday attracts. A review in one of the tabloid newspaper said about Sunday, “Victoria Park became studio 54 meets early Ibiza before it became commercial.”
JB: I had a vision, which I took to Lovebox back in 2009. The management thought my concept was interesting and greeted it with open arms. They left
me to carry on developing my ideas then I started to piece it together with
the rest of the Lovebox team. It has spawned a few other gay festivals –
Summer Rites is in its 3rd year and As One In The Park had their first event on Sunday Bank Holiday just gone [May 26th]. We are all very different. Summer Rites is more local based talent, As One is very generic gay brands and pop (which I hate), whereas Lovebox Sunday is a lot more cutting edge and – I hate using this word – a lot cooler.
NOTION: Are there different demands of putting on a gay-specific day at a festival?
NOTION: What’s different or new this year? What are you most excited about? JB: This will be DJ Harvey’s first and exclusive UK festival; It’s also the first time he’s ever done Sarcastic Disco in the UK. At the end of last year
he played at the Oval Space for Red Bull. It was one of the hottest tickets in town for a very long time. I heard rumours people were buying tickets for £500. Harvey has hand-picked his own DJ’s to play along with him… Prins
Thomas, Force Of Nature, Rub n Tug and the Idjut Boys. There are also my
two favourite club brands that join force in the House Of Diavia: Horse
Meat Disco and A Love From Outer Space. Before they kick off playing there will be a show brought to you by Jonny Woo. We are discussing his show at
the moment… It’s going to be pretty bonkers and wild. I’m looking forward to seeing Gold Frapp. My friend went to hear the album play back the other day and said it was euphoric, orchestral and amazingly good.
JB: I would say there’s nothing different. Like anything you have to know
your market. I work very closely with a few of the brands from the gay/gay friendly scene. Their opinion is very valuable when coming to programming
your artists. It’s also important to have them involved so they feel part of the day.
NOTION: Your background prior to Lovebox Sundays was in club promotion – what are the differences in booking for a festival?
JB: When you’re programming a festival you can’t be too precious, you have
to look outside the box, but I do have my own guidelines that I like to stick within. Where as my clubs in the past had a formula. Thursdays were catered for the student market but still had a strict music policy. Fridays was the drum n bass-hip hop-electronic night and Saturday I programmed good quality
NOTION: Does the line-up impact on what you do with the creative? Or does creative exist separately?
JB: We try to work hand in hand with the creative team. However our team
underground House. In fact Harvey was one of my bi-monthly residents from
96-99 at The Bomb. The press are saying Daft Punk has reinvented disco… Harvey was playing Nu Disco mixed with house way back then.
are very good and know how to deliver an inner city festival like no other.
NOTION: What are your favourite memories from the past Lovebox Sundays?
NOTION: Traditionally, Sunday is the ‘gay day’, how does this affect the
JB: The first year I ever did Sunday, standing on the main stage and looking
way you book?
out at all the smiley happy crowd going wild to Peaches, meeting Grace
JB: I try to make sure our day appeals to a wider audience not just a gay
crowd. I tend to stay clear of the usual pop, which the gay scene seems to have a been stigmatised alongside. ITS NOT TRUE!
NOTION: Is there anyone/artists/a genre you’d avoid?
Jones, Chaka Khan & Nile Rogers last year… Grace told me off for having mud on my boots, Chaka Khan was really sweet and very humble and Nile said it
was the best festival Chic had every played. He was also a total gentleman. NOTION: Amazing.
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IT’S THE ULTIMATE SUMMER CITY PARTY” - NOTION
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PAUL KALKBRENNER (LIVE)
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