Kate Stephenson's dangerous obsession with music and words has taken her to every corner of the globe in the quest for the filthiest bassline. Heralding from the mean streets of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England, she earned her raving stripes in the early 2000s at celestial institutions like Back to Basics in Leeds and Bugged Out in Liverpool, standing in queues snaking for hours round the block in freezing February nights before she knew how to hustle a guestie.
Having decamped to (slightly) more clement temperatures, Kate now calls the outstanding city of Melbourne home, feeling oh-so-very-welcome in a place where you are actively encouraged to party from Thursday to Tuesday. Kate stays alive on a strict diet of techno,jungle drum and bass and cheeky garage remixes, smooshed in with a little bit of everything in between. You can either find her with hands in the air, by the front left speaker or typing up a storm in bed drinking Yorkshire Tea by the gallon.
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I was beginning to feel a little disillusioned with how our beloved festival scene was being treated after it had suffered so many brutal king hits in the last few…
It’s the day before The Prodigy’s ‘No Tourists’ tour kicks off in Australia. I naturally find a tired Liam on the other end. It’s clear they’ve certainly got a soft…
Going out on New Year’s Eve is so *ahem* last year. Try telling #newyearnewyou that as you take another swig from the bottle of bubbles at 12.01 and your friends…
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Greg from Ulterior Motive may have underestimated the Australian winter. ‘Really?’ Bring a coat?’ he asks as I tell him his upcoming tour of the southern hemisphere will be chillier…
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James Zabiela is in his home town of Southampton eating falafel. When I tell the self-confessed night owl it’s 6.15am in Melbourne he calls me a lunatic. ‘It’s 7.15pm here,’…
elrow CEO Juan Arnau Junior takes us on a whistle stop tour of Spanish electronic music culture in the lead up to his first ever Australian tour, as we spread…
