Robin Howells

Corsica studios is spot-on as a club. They have Funktion One systems in both rooms, and both are really well set up. In one room in particular, the bass (from a row of subs hidden at one end) is pretty much physical. I wish it was like Howl's Moving Castle and would walk to somewhere other than Elephant and Castle, on big mechanical legs.

The main problem with the T-Bar is the sound. There are four huge speaker stacks on the dancefloor, facing inwards from the corners of a tiny square of floorspace. If you're standing in the magic spot in the middle, it sounds great. Anywhere else in the bar (and the music is fairly intrusive all over) it sounds like vomit.

You can get full details about real meat raffles (including the seafood equivalent) at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_raffle. Apparently, it's popular in Australia, but if you win seafood you MUST leave the pub immediately in case it goes rancid. Don't stay around to drink. Can you imagine?

DJ Undecided is amazing! Go to his MySpace and download a mix.

The George is a great pub, something that's totally apparent if you turn up, say, on a Tuesday afternoon. But go at a busy time and you'll find braying people, from 'creatives-only' flat-shares in Dalston, have already occupied all the available space.

This will irritate you, unless you're a person from a creatives-only flat-share. And punctual.

Saw Drop The Lime at Lovebox earlier this summer (2008). When this was written, to be honest it felt like he was at most dabbling with bassline.

He seems to have come on a lot, though -- and is even spearheading the introduction of the sound to the US via the Trouble & Bass night. His DJing mixes it up with Baltimore club music, but couldn't be any more obviously smitten with the new export of our own ex-industrial cities.