As part of our first ever Skiddle Summit earlier this year, Angie chats to Eoin Bloor, founder and director of LDN DV8 Bass Face, a DNB & Bassline events company that has grown from strength to strength. They're also joined by Lisa Connelly, founder of The Bechdel Sound Test, a festival dedicated to celebrating women and gender minority talent in m…

This month Angie chats to some key figures involved in Record Store Day this year, including Megan Page, Marketing Manager at Record Store Day UK, Emily Waller who is the Marketing Manager at Rough Trade stores in the UK and Jeremy Pritchard, bassist of the hit indie rock band, Everything Everything.…

We’re back. It’s series 3 and times have already changed since our last episode with the further lift in restrictions, allowing mixing indoors, indoor hospitality, and live entertainment… If you’ve been hiding under a rock (no judgement from us btw) then you might not have heard about the recent government pilot events in Liverpool, and two of thes…

We take The Going Out Podcast conversation in-house this week as we chat to our very own Ella Green, Skiddle’s Head of Customer Care. Ella lives and breathes Skiddle and is one of our longest-serving members, so it felt only right that we start off the conversation by checking in on how Ella is and what it’s been like working through the various ev…

We welcome UK rave scene legend, Bez, to The Going Out Podcast. We started the conversation by talking about Bez’s first going out experience in his local area of Walkden and jumping between rooms at Pembroke Halls, listening to all genres from disco to northern soul. We chatted about what it was like for Bez going out during Madchester, the first …

For episode 5 of The Going Out Podcast, we welcomed DJ and radio presenter Emerald Rose Lewis. We chatted about Emerald’s first nights out at Oceana, pub lock-ins and her journey from her first Rinse FM show 6 years ago to now. Emerald explained how she got to tour with music powerhouse, M.I.A, and how she’s adapted her ‘Afters’ series across the p…

This week we welcome Josh White to The Going Out Podcast, one member of the English, electronic DJ and production duo, Hybrid Minds. We chatted about Josh’s first experiences of drum and bass, travelling into London to go to DnB nights at Fabric, and raves in empty fields with friends. Josh speaks of his time studying how other DJs mixed their tune…

The Going Out Podcast continues this week with Serra Petale, one-quarter of the psychedelic meets Cumbia band, Los Bitchos - think, ‘Sims, Elevator, Caribbean Cruise’ vibes… Originally from Perth, we chatted about Serra’s first going out experiences in Australia - we’re talking 45-degree festivals and life as an Aussie fresher - then we dove into l…

The Going Out Podcast is on a roll with our 2nd episode of series 2, and this week we welcome Defected’s first lady, Sam Divine. An incredible DJ, label owner and radio presenter, Sam Divine chats about growing up in Weston Super Mare going to old school raves, her very first experiences in Ibiza which then led to many seasons working alongside the…

This month Angie is joined by Helen Sartory of The Rattle, Dr. Jonathan Lindley of Sunbird Records in Lancashire and Halina Rice, an independent electronic artist paving the way for augmented reality livestreams. The team chat about livestreams, music and gaming and the future for music tech.Von Skiddle

The Going Out Podcast is back for another series, and who better to kick off series 2 with than Parklife and The Warehouse Project co-creator and Manchester’s Nighttime Economy Advisor, Sacha Lord. In this mega first episode, we chatted about Sacha’s first nights out at the Hacienda, reviving Sankey’s Soap, being neighbours with Johnny Marr, someho…

Episode 6 sees the Guest List with an all new host, Skiddle's Angie Bhandal, talking to Vick Bain, the creator of the F-List - a directory of female musicians as a resource for the music industry to encourage diversity. They're also joined by Alexandra Ampofo who sits on the board at the F-list and is a promoter at Metropolis Music. We chat about w…

And just like that, Series 1 of The Going Out Podcast has come to an end. In this short episode, we discuss our favourite moments of of the series, classic WFH events and even a couple of our own going out experiences. We can't wait to return very soon with some more amazing going out stories, and some very cool guests. Thanks to all who's listened…

For episode 8 of The Going Out Podcast, we continue our conversations with Thom Rylance, lead singer of The Lottery Winners, a British indie band from Leigh, Greater Manchester. We talked to Thom about his experiences growing up in Leigh going to underage music events before he moved onto the proper clubs, listening to Nirvana and The Smiths, and e…

For episode 7 of The Going Out Podcast, we continue our conversations with East London born, Birmingham raised rapper Kofi Stone. We talked to Kofi about his experiences of growing up in Birmingham going out on Broad Street, performing at his first ever open mic gigs, supporting Mac Miller (wow), and partying in Chelsea with Fat Man Scoop & Migos. …

For episode 6, we continue our going out conversations with London based rock/alternative duo, Nova Twins, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South. We talk to them about their experiences of growing up in South East London, attending Katy Perry and Beyonce concerts and playing their very first gigs across pubs in the…

Episode 5 gives us the chance to speak to Danielle Moore - DJ & Crazy P front woman, born in Greater Manchester and now living in Birmingham. Having met her bandmates on the dance floor of Manchester night clubs, Danni Moore is in a great position to chat to us about how our going experiences shape our lives in some way. Meeting like minded people …

For episode 4, we continue our going out conversations with Manchester based Mason Collective, headed by Blair Suarez, Adam Myles and Omar Guedar. The dynamic trio is known for their presence in the underground music scene and their signature high energy explosive DJ sets. We chatted to the boys about growing up in Sankey’s, what it’s like to throw…

For episode 3, we continue our going out conversations with Glaswegian DJ and curator La La, the alter-ego of Lauren Andrew. We started the conversation by talking about La La’s first going out experiences, she told us tales about her nights at The Arches, a club she became a regular at from the age of 14. From there, we chatted about her first eve…

Drag is much more than what we learn through Ru Paul. Cheddar Gorgeous joins our open conversation about going out experiences and we come to the conclusion that there’s a host of responsibility that comes along with a night out. Cheddar Gorgeous explains, through her own experiences, the importance of community in night life spaces and how the que…

Episode 5 brings together Niks Delanancy (Black Bandcamp), artist manger Charlotte Caleb (Kobalt), and Sacha Wall (Data Transmission) to discuss raving, race and responsibility at this year's Brighton Music Conference, in collaboration with shesaid.so Brighton.Von Skiddle

This episode was recorded live during a Skiddle webinar on 23rd July 2020. The live sector has, like almost everything else, been left devastated by the ongoing Coronavirus crisis; venues are closing, people are out of work, businesses are going under. According to one estimate, 80% of UK music venues are under serious risk of permanent closure and…

According to the Music Venue Trust, over 550 grassroots venues in the UK face the very real threat of permanent closure in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The knock on effects, culturally, are hard to imagine. So how are venues up and down the country coping and responding to the situation. How bad is it? What can we do? And how might the los…

With the industry in turmoil following the outbreak of COVID-19 and countless postponements and cancellations, we want to see how festival organisers are coping and responding to the situation. Is it reasonable to expect any festivals to go ahead this year? How different might the festival experience become in the wake of the outbreak? And how have…

As the music industry pledges to tackle institutional racism in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests which have erupted across the world, Skiddle’s David Blake is joined by three guests - Amanda Maxwell (Shesaid.so/Freelance Queens), Kwame Kwaten (Ferocious Talent/consultant/producer) and Kitty Amor (DJ/Mother…