About

Kate Hutchinson is a freelance writer, editor, broadcaster, podcast creator and DJ based in London.

She has covered the cutting edge of music and club culture for over 15 years, first on Time Out’s Nightlife pages, then as the Guardian Guide’s Deputy Editor, and now as a freelance journalist, presenter and podcaster.

Kate’s work has taken her from Uganda to Ecuador, Pakistan to China, and has made several front pages of The New York Times, as well as been published in The Sunday Times, The Independent, Q, The Wire, NME, Dazed, i-D, Konfekt, Vice, Stylist, Mr Porter, Mixmag, Songlines, The Quietus, BBC and more. She is a regular music critic for the Guardian and Observer New Review and has appeared as a pundit on Sky Arts, 6Music and Radio 4’s Front Row.

In 2019, Kate launched the acclaimed award-winnning podcast-portrait series The Last Bohemians. It includes interviews with cultural luminaries such as Marina Abramović, Pauline Black, Zandra Rhodes and Cosey Fanni Tutti, bringing their worlds to life in an intimate, imaginative way, bringing aboard a totally independent, all-women team of audio whizzes.

Kate has been broadcasting on Worldwide FM since 2017, bringing a varied roster of artists onto her monthly show in-depth conversations, ranging from Stewart Lee, Seun Kuti and Shabazz Palaces to Anoushka Shankar, Floating Points and Jayda G. She has hosted live broadcasts on Piano Day and from the Worldwide and We Out Here festivals. She has also hosted shows for NTS (with Neneh Cherry, Bobby Gillespie, Richard Dawson and Fat White Family), Beats 1 and for Extinction Rebellion on Soho Radio.

Kate speaks regularly at festivals and universities and, over the years, has hosted talks, podcasts and web series with some of the most exciting women in music, including Annie Lennox, Haim, Kelis, Feist, Tegan & Sara and Shakespears Sister and for the likes of Sonar, the BFI, BBC Introducing, Ibiza’s International Music Summit, The Beat Hotel and The Great Escape. Her Q&As with DJs such as The Blessed Madonna and Sama Abdulhadi have been must-attend sessions at dance music festival Lost Village, where she also curated the talks tent in 2017, 2018 and 2021.

Kate can be often found behind decks at audiophile bar Spiritland, while her DJ sets have taken her everywhere from Glastonbury’s Beat Hotel, Bestival, Field Day and Lake of Stars Festival in Malawi to, last year, her living room for a Boiler Room session, which has had nearly 15,000 views on YouTube.

From 2014-2017, Kate oversaw The Music Circle’s Rumble In The Jumble event with broadcaster Gemma Cairney, which raised over £100,000 for Oxfam and featured donations from Kate Moss, Elton John, Florence Welch, Noel Gallagher, Mark Ronson and more.

Photos: Craig Bernard