- "You could feel the ground shifting beneath you." The long-time BBC Radio host talks about her All Queens party, her love for SHERELLE and music as a force for good.
- Resident Advisor continues its celebration of Women's History Month (and International Women's Day) with a special conversation with Mary Anne Hobbs. The long-time BBC Radio presenter has been a diehard documenter of music culture and a radio fanatic since she was a young girl. As she recounts in this episode, the transistor she kept in secret while growing up became her getaway to another universe, a beacon of hope that she listened to every night at home under the covers.
In 1996, Hobbs became a host at BBC Radio 1. It was a time when there were few women involved in the music industry in general, and few people at all championing leftfield electronic music. She famously started the Breezeblock show championing dubstep and grime, pushing new artists whose work she admired and helping usher them into the limelight.
Today Hobbs's iconic voice is still on the BBC airwaves every day—this time at Radio 6. She's currently leading an exciting project called All Queens, a platform that started as a radio show for women's music that has quickly turned into a touring club night and residency at fabric run by and starring women, from the sound engineers and the bouncers to the headliners. Hobbs discusses the platform and is joined by close friend SHERELLE, who dissects some of the nuances in representation the scene overlooks when discussing gender in nightlife. The pair recently performed sets together at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival. Listen to the episode in full.
This episode was recorded at Recorded at Pirate Studios – Recording, Rehearsal, DJ, Podcast and Dance studios spread across New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles and beyond. For more information, visit pirate.com.