TRIPPIN

is fabric the most overrated club in london? alice bloomfield thinks so, and she reckons the city's best nights are south of the river. on a weekend you'll most likely find the director and illustrator in the bermondsey triangle: avalon cafe, venue mot and ormside. hopefully she won't unwittingly be snogging someone with a cold sore, though. alice's work is shaped by the weird, the unruly. her figurative illustrations often drip with distortion, what she has described as 'sleazy, perturbing and

are the uk's cities becoming suburban? one in every hundred pubs or venues in london is unable to open late or has faced closure due to noise complaints. as people increasingly move to areas known for nightlife and complain about the noise, late-night culture is coming under pressure across the uk. #london🇬🇧 #londontown #london #nightlife

can you feel drawn to a place you’ve never been? swedish-ugandan singer namasenda was dreaming of miami when she wrote her debut album ‘limbo’, even though it's a city she’s never visited. she has been to la though - and moved there to pursue music when she was a teenager, then signing to pc music before arriving her current home at cult swedish label year0001. but despite the glamour and industry hype of the west coast, she’s realised we can pursue our dreams from home. besides, who needs la wh

was indie sleaze the last cultural bastion of the human-driven internet? like many teenagers at the time, dorian electra first got into bands like horrors and klaxons through platforms like myspace and music blogs - when online culture was shaped by human thought over automated algorithm. indie sleaze has since evolved into an umbrella term for an aesthetic born in the early 2000s characterised by messy vintage looks, amateur flash photography and hedonism. #indiesleaze #indiemusic #indie #nosta

can you be proud of being british while also being ashamed of it? sheffield artist corbin shaw navigates the contradictions of englishness. his work interrogates the many facets of british culture, from folk art traditions to st george’s flags. working across a range of disciplines - installation, fashion design, performance - he explores the complexities of national identity and how symbols of exclusionary nationalism can be re-contextualised to critique the ideas of englishness they represent.

is everyone leaving berlin? around ten years ago, it seemed like the german capital was a cultural epicentre for independent and diy art, music and nightlife movement. but has the moment soured? juliana huxtable sees it more as a wave, rather than an end. that cities inevitably change, with their next chapters defined by influxes of new people, new ideas and new music. #berlin #berliner #electronicmusic #dancemusic #techno

from swampy louisiana environments to metal festivals, phoebe collings-james tells us the places that shaped her deeply personal brand of artistry, combining sounds and sculptures to explore non-linear stories and the emotional tensions that can be found and created within objects. hailing from the now rapidly-changing east london area of forest gate, her work taken her on travels from guayana to georgia while her honorary 'roadie' status with doom metal act divide and dissolve has further shape

sega bodega has moved around: galway, glasgow, london - now the irish-chilean producer has settled in paris. one half of the paris-based kiss facility, their textured, arabic-sung indie has resonated with diaspora communities not just in paris - but across the world. in the trippin with booth, he shares the trials and tribulations of his new adopted home - and shares up his view on the city's endless fashion weeks: “it happens a lot. the name would suggest its one week every year not ten weeks

are rude waiters in paris just a psy-op? parisian multi-disciplinary artist crystallmess just takes it as part of her city's charm - so don't get offended. her experimental night of club music and live performances edging_edging has recently debuted in new york after successful paris and london iterations, with more in the pipeline soon. #paris #parisfashionweek #frenchfood #parisfrance #parisienne

did dorian electra just write england's next football anthem? the hyper popper confesses their bonafide 'angloboo' sense of self, from reading up on manchester's storied communist history to scouting out london's best wetherspoons. in this episode of trippin with, they join us in the booth to chat english football chants and tentative plans to join the balamory reboot. #london #england #electronicmusic #pop #wetherspoons