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- EntertainmentThe Independent
‘It was a breaking down of racial barriers like never before’: Why Brit-funk matters
It’s been cited by Tyler, The Creator as a major influence but the groundbreaking, distinctly British Seventies sound has never really got its due. Gilles Peterson and Bluey are hoping to change that with their new duo, STR4TA, they tell Marcus Barnes
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
‘There were pitched battles, fist fights’: how Britfunk overcame racism to reinvigorate UK pop
‘There were pitched battles, fist fights’: how Britfunk overcame racism to reinvigorate UK pop. Blending jazz-funk, glam rock and punk energy in the late 1970s, Britfunk crash-landed into the charts and inspired club culture. The musicians relive one of the first homegrown Black music scenes
- EntertainmentPA Media: Entertainment
Edith Bowman: new podcast is ‘wonderful opportunity’ to dive into new music
Bowman said she is also thrilled to be able to shine a spotlight on new music.
- EntertainmentPA Media: Entertainment
Gilles Peterson: Arts funding must support fringe as well as traditional venues
The DJ said he believes the future for music is positive.
- NewsPA Media: UK News
Woman convicted of stalking BBC DJ Gilles Peterson
Sarah Jayne Rook hurled 'all kinds of abuse' outside his family's home.
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
My Splendid Isolation: Gilles Peterson – 'I am studying legends Bill Withers and Tony Allen'
What I’m watching Being a DJ, I’ve never stopped travelling for pretty much 35 years. Suddenly, I’m home all the time, which is as odd for my family as it is for me. It’s something I have been longing for in a way, although not under these circumstances. I’m trying to stop watching the news, which was a bit of an obsession at the beginning. But I have been finding it difficult to lose myself in contemporary American and British dramas that already somehow feel like they belong to another time. T
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Gilles Peterson: ‘This period is going to be one of nostalgia'
Gilles Peterson: ‘This period is going to be one of nostalgia'The founder of eclectic radio station Worldwide FM on experimental subgenres, looking back and music as therapy
- NewsEvening Standard
‘Stalker yelled you’ll die at BBC DJ Gilles Peterson as she waged month-long vendetta’
BBC Radio DJ Gilles Peterson was harassed by a stalker who shouted “you will die” at him as he left the corporation’s central London HQ, a court heard.Peterson, 55, and his wife Atsuko, 53, were bombarded with abuse by a woman who repeatedly turned up outside their family home, it is said.
- EntertainmentEvening Standard
Cross The Tracks 2020 line-up: Khruangbin and The Cinematic Orchestra announced as headliners
Khruangbin and The Cinematic Orchestra have been revealed as headliners of this year’s Cross The Tracks.The Brockwell Park festival, which returns for another edition on June 7, had already confirmed the likes of Madlib, Sister Sledge, Tinariwen and Gilles Peterson for 2020.
- NewsHuffPost UK
DJ And Producer Andrew Weatherall Dies, Aged 56
This management confirmed he had suffered a pulmonary embolism.
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