BabyStep Team
- Jun 27, 2020
Watch: Block9, the clubbing utopia that took over Glastonbury
In this FACT Original Production the focus is on Glastonbury Festival’s Block9, a clubbing utopia with its roots in rave and queer culture. Glastonbury Festival isn’t just a performing arts event – it’s a temporary city. The headline performances broadcast across the world are just the tip of the iceberg: over 200,000 people pack into the 900-acre site to enjoy five days of music and art across over 100 stages and hidden areas, some of which only come to life when the Pyramid
Joe Childs
- Jun 26, 2020
BabyStep's New Music Friday #2
We're delighted to bring you another week of of our top picks released this Friday. It's been an eventful week where Boris Johnson's easing of lockdown restrictions were maybe taken a bit too literally as thousands of beach-goers reenacted a game of Where's Wally in Bournemouth's beaches, whilst Jurgen Klopp shed tears after Liverpool's 30 year wait for a league win. Indeed, it has been a surreal week, one where the realities of no longer being furloughed and returning to w
BabyStep Team
- Jun 26, 2020
Fontaines D.C announce UK Headline Tour
Fontaines D.C. have announced new UK tour dates for May 2021. The new dates will also include the band’s biggest headline UK show to-date at London’s Alexandra Palace. Dates are as follows: 7th May – Manchester Academy
10th May – Leicester De Montfort Hall
11th May – Leeds O2 Academy
12th May – Newcastle O2 City Hall
14th May – Glasgow Barrowland
17th May – Cambridge Corn Exchange
18th May – Sheffield O2 Academy
20th May – Birmingham O2 Academy
21st May – Cardiff Grea
Josh Crowe
- Jun 26, 2020
Mamilah announce open-call to remix 'Talk Less' EP
Mamilah are a Leeds based group of musicians, producers, DJs and songwriters. Collectively composing their songs has given way to a whole host of musical influence, walking through genres of soul, jazz, latin music and R&B. The band are moving from strength to strength with official remixes of the 'Talk Less’ EP coming out in the next few months. The EP was one of our favourites we've heard in the past year, being streamed by thousands and got plenty of airtime with the likes
Josh Crowe
- Jun 25, 2020
Label Spotlight: Yellow Island Records
Yellow Island Records is a Brazilian record label who we've followed right from the start. Inspired by the creative and chaotic environment of their environment Felipe Bortoloti, better known as Nørus and Flávio Albino, aka Albin, founded the platform in 2018 as a way to connect artists from different parts of the World. We spoke to them about the journey they've been on so far and what's ahead. Hey guys, thanks so much for talking to us. We wanted to start by asking what Yel
Josh Crowe
- Jun 22, 2020
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Launch 10th Anniversary T-shirt
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (LNADJ) is a charitable foundation who have for the last ten years been creating unique fundraising initiatives for the electronic music industry and beyond. LNADJ supports children in crisis and their families through linking with various grassroots projects around the world. The foundation’s original aim was to create positive change through harnessing the creativity and energy found on dance floors worldwide and within the electronic music co
Josh Crowe
- Jun 22, 2020
Titchats looking for more tits
The wonderful Harriet Hornby & Sydney Gilbride are the people behind Titchat, a group formed through a need to discuss feminism on an everyday basis. It's been a project that has massively grown in the past few months as a result of both it's founders blossoming creativity and sheer commitment to running a collective that has provided us and many others with plenty of insight and inspiration. Since launching there has been an upwards incline of support & notoriety within the
Joe Childs
- Jun 19, 2020
BabyStep's New Music Friday
In todays world we find ourselves digging for tracks and discovering new music in a medley of ways, whether it's taking advantage of Spotify's recommended playlists, Shazaming a tune at an afters or finally having all of those B's answered on the IOM group. There are just so many ways of discovering music that it appears that a lot of the most organic ways of doing so have been shunned, like heading to your local record store. As I write this I realise I am very much guilty o
BabyStep Team
- Jun 19, 2020
Bandcamp are waiving their fees for NAACP Legal Defence & Educational Fund
Bandcamp is once again waiving its fees, this time to celebrate Juneteenth, the day that marks the abolition of slavery in the United States. Rather than donating fees to artists or labels, Bandcamp will instead donate its share of sales today to the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a long-running and influential civil rights organisation supporting Black people in the US. Artists and labels are marking this Bandcamp day differently. Some are releasing new music and al
Ethan Moxam
- Jun 18, 2020
Resources for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement
Since his tragic murder at the hands of Minneapolis police, the death of George Floyd has become
the cornerstone of the Black Lives Matter movement. The protests have gone global, with people
taking to the streets not only in the US and UK, but also in Sydney, Brussels, Rio De Janeiro and
Seoul. Not only has the movement raised awareness towards police brutality, the protests have also caused us to question our cultural identities, particularly in western Europe, highlight
