Music : All Music
After the now legendary grand re-opening of the infamous Sunrooms, we are back with the third installment
On the night, you can catch residents Travis & Stonefish along with Radio 1 DJ mary Anne Hobbs spinning some ecelectic urban beats taking you through til 3am
BIO
Mary Anne Hobbs: firebrand at the helm of Radio 1's pioneering electronic show (Thursday night - Friday morning 2-4am).
Mary Anne left school at the age of 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week. She quickly ran away to London with a hard rock band called Heretic and lived on a bus with them in a car park in Hayes, Middlesex for 12 months, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer and mechanic.
Her great ambition was to become a music journalist. She figured the next logical step would be to produce her own fanzine - Krush. She sent a couple of issues along with a demented CV detailing her adventures on the bus with Heretic to the Editor of Sounds music paper and landed a job with them at the age of 19.
At 21, having been profoundly influenced by a snapshot of Metallica, Mary Anne sold all her worldly goods and bought a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she lived in a garden shed. She spent a year as Sounds US correspondent in the dark underbelly of LA writing about the fledgling Jane’s Addiction, Guns N' Roses et al.
At Sounds Mary Anne met fellow teenager James Brown (legendary writer and publisher, not the Godfather of soul) who became a lifelong friend. James moved to NME as Features Editor and when Mary Anne returned to London from LA, he promptly poached her to work with him at NME, where everybody was afraid of rock. Mary Anne spent three years on the newsdesk and also worked as a major feature writer there, authoring their first ever Nirvana cover. She went on with James Brown to form part of the original team he put together to launch Loaded magazine. She worked there as Music Editor, and writing major undercover stories about private detectives, cocaine dealers to the stars and most notoriously a Soho sex club.
Mary Anne got her break in radio at BBC GLR on Sunday mornings alongside Mark Lamarr. She presented groundbreaking shows on XFM during their trail broadcasts, which helped to win their licence.
She was poached by Radio 1 in 1997 after a particularly confrontational interview with Radio 1's then Head Of Production (Trevor Dann) was bootlegged around the BBC and found the desk of the Controller of the day, Matthew Bannister.
Mary Anne's time at Radio 1 has been hectic… she has hosted shows from all the major award ceremonies: Q, NME, Brits, Kerrang, Mercury Music Prize and made documentaries about artists as diverse as David Bowie and The Sex Pistols. She championed comedy god Ricky Gervais in his pre-Office days, hosted a movie review show with Mark Kermode called Cling Film. founded and fronted the award-winning Radio 1 Rock Show for five years.
TV - there’s quite a lot, M.A. presented live coverage of the World Superbike Championship for British Eurosport and she made a series about global biker culture in India, Russia, Japan, the US and Europe for BBC Choice, Mary Anne's Bikes. She fronted 27 hours of live coverage at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC and has guested on everything from BBC2’s Never Mind The Buzzcocks to John Peel’s Record Box for Channel 4.
There is now far more beers and spirits on offer as well as brand new toilet facilities, new sound system, new bar, upstairs roof garden and brand new downstairs beer garden for the summer months
This will once again be a roadblock night due to the refurbed venue so please PM me for guestlist and get another glimpse of this revitalised bar/club
Peace!!