Posts Tagged ‘interview’
‘What have I done?’ Hackney Mayor Caroline Woodley on her first 100 days in office
The former parks chief says a sense of duty overtook her initial reticence to run for the borough’s highest office
Read More‘You couldn’t pay me to write or read a novel set in 2020’: Homecoming author Luan Goldie reflects on the pandemic
The Stoke Newington resident spoke to the Citizen ahead of the paperback release of her widely praised novel
Read MoreInterview: Why Jon Burke, Hackney Council’s eco champion, wants solar panels to blanket the borough
Cabinet member also states he wants tutoring service to be set up through libraries and would be against nude swimming at lido – despite ‘place for everyone’ slogan
Read MoreToo late to stop Nao: interview
Nao is one of the brightest stars on the UK’s musical horizon, with a sound born of the hustle and bustle of East London
Read MoreToo late to stop Nao: interview
Nao is one of the brightest stars on the UK’s musical horizon, with a sound born of the hustle and bustle of East London
Read MoreIn a Land of Paper Gods author on ‘naughty children who disappeared from history’
Rebecca Mackenzie talks about writing her debut novel, synchronicity and growing up in an evangelical environment
Read MoreKeeping up with Owen Jones – new patron of Hackney law centre
The activist journalist knows the key issues inside out – but what will he bring to his new role?
Read MoreThe real mothers of invention
A Hackney historian challenges conventional thinking about the ‘eureka’ moment
Read MoreAsif Kapadia – ‘Something happened with Amy'
Camden, not Hackney, is the place with which the singer Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning, will always be associated. But for Hackney-born director Asif Kapadia, whose acclaimed documentary Amy tells the story of the singer’s precarious life and untimely death, Winehouse could have been “a girl from down the road”. Unlike…
Read MoreAnother string to Craig David's ‘bo’
Craig David was the pop face of UK garage, selling eight million copies of
his debut album. But his rapid rise to fame was followed by a dramatic fallout.
Now he is back to put the record straight with a new project combining
live performance with DJing and MCing
Another string to Craig David’s ‘bo’
Craig David was the pop face of UK garage, selling eight million copies of
his debut album. But his rapid rise to fame was followed by a dramatic fallout.
Now he is back to put the record straight with a new project combining
live performance with DJing and MCing
How singer Lovelace’s American adventure got tied up in Hackney
Musician’s New World odyssey comes via East End
Read MoreEerily well dressed men
Interview with designer and Hackney resident Katie Eary – a rising star in men’s fashion
Read MorePost War Years to release new album Galapagos
Hackney band Post War Years have put their past as hard- up musicians behind them with a new album
Read MoreLeyla Nazli – juggling myth and reality
Leyla Nazli manages to write plays about mythical creatures whilst simultaneously helping to run the Arcola Theatre
Read MoreVictoria Hume – songs of the psyche
Victoria Hume explores complex mental conditions using music
Read MoreNasir Mazhar – Eastern peaks
The Hackney Citizen speaks to East London milliner and king of re-worked sportswear, Nasir Mazhar
Read MoreToodar – a flood of success
Hackney-based ‘deeply personal pop’ duo Toodar emerged from the wreckage of a flooded basement
Read MoreFossil Studios fuelled by chart success
Music studio fast becoming Hackney hit factory
Read MoreKicking up a musical storm – Miranda Quammie launches Tempest
Miranda Quammie’s début album Tempest uses folk and classical influences to examine notions of identity
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