The return to live music - the return to normal life even - has been hard. At home we were having discussions with ourselves: “Is it safe to go?” and “what mitigating steps would can we be taking to make it safe?” For some, it can be anxiety inducing. On the other side of that ordeal, though, are the scenes we love. Scenes filled with the music, people, and energy that thrills us. Scenes that m...

"It changed me", Nix Northwest told us as we spoke to him after his gig, wrapping up our first live show back post-Covid, and marking the dawn of a new era of gigs and live music. You can watch our full interview with Nix covering this and a whole host of other musical topics, but what he was referring to , of course, was the creation of his debut EP: Life's a Bitch, I Just Need an Early Night....

It felt only right and proper that the first rave since the world collapsed - indeed 'the first Thursday of dancing in almost 18 months' as described by The Cause - was Chase and Status. We had the pleasure of seeing them once before at a RTRN II JUNGLE event, but the giddy excitement at the prospect of seeing some of the best in the business do their thing in the flesh still felt as novel and ...