About

I am a music and culture journalist, DJ and sometime radio presenter based in east London, with 10 years' experience working across print, online, radio and events.

I write about all things music, rave, events and nightlife, lifestyle and alt.culture for publications like Guardian Guide, Q, Time Out, Metro, Mixmag, Wonderland, Red Bull, Noisey and Drowned in Sound. Previous freelance clients, meanwhile, include The Times, Evening Standard, Dazed & Confused, The Quietus, BBC Music, NYMag.com, Clash, ASOS, Coggles, V Festival and the MTV EMAs 2012.

Before freelance life, I spent seven years at arts and culture magazine Time Out London, four of them as Clubbing editor across print and online. I also edited their Notting Hill Carnival Guide (circ. 200k) and co-edited the 2012 Festival Guide (circ. 100k). I also ran and programmed Hackney micro-radio station London Fields Radio, which is based out of the Wilton Way Café, for over two years.

I like to DJ, and have played at Field Day and End of the Road Festival and at the capital's biggest cabaret parties like The Last Tuesday Society, White Mischief and Torture Garden. Corporate DJ clients past and present include H&M, Farfetch and Monkey Shoulder.

As a cultural commentator, I have appeared on/in The Guardian and Observer, Music Week, BBC World Service, The Independent, Evening Standard, BBC London, Kiss FM, Ministry of Sound Radio, Amazing Radio, Bestival Radio and Capital FM. I am also a proud member of The Music Circle and organised one of their fundraisers, celebrity jumble sale Rumble in the Jumble #2, at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club in January 2013.

Email me: kate@katehutchinson.co.uk.

For a more formal CV, see my linkedin.