Image Credit: Photo of Chang Kiha, 2026. Chang Kiha knows something about following the unexpected. The Seoul-born singer-songwriter originally set his sights on becoming a professional drummer, until focal dystonia forced a change of direction. What followed was quite the…
Image Credit: White Heat indie night at Madame Jojo’s. Photograph by Gregory Nolan, 2005. Long before she was curating exhibitions at the V&A, Harriet Reed was discovering the power of cultural spaces firsthand. Raised on a steady diet of museum…
Image Credit: Artwork for First Transmission, the debut live show on 18 June at Folklore, Hackney. Photographed by James Tye. Back in November 2025, when Run Riot first spoke to Beta Lucca aka WUNDER BETA, she was unveiling her debut…
Image Credit: Photo of Adem Holness, Head of Music, SXSW London Adem Holness’ journey into music starts where the best ones often do – not in boardrooms, but in everyday moments of connection. From weekend drives soundtracked by pirate radio…
Image Credit: Bishi, photographed by Fiona Garden. fionagarden.com Let’s just say: if Run Riot was an artists’ collective, we’d definitely want Bishi to be leading the way. This is her fifth interview with us since 2013 (we know, we know),…
Image Credit: Portrait of Oscar Farrell London-based producer, DJ and musician Oscar Farrell has quietly established himself as one of the most distinctive new voices in UK dance music – an artist whose work captures the emotional after-hours of the…
Image Credit: Meltdown curator Nile Rodgers receives standing ovation during 2019’s Meltdown. Photo by Pete Woodhead. From her teenage years discovering live music in Manchester and Liverpool, Jane Beese has been drawn to the singular, electric communion that only a…
Image Credit: Photo of Arthur Newman. Producer, songwriter and lecturer Arthur Newman releases his new EP ‘In Your City’ – a vivid, one-take recording that captures the immediacy and emotion of London life. The accompanying Super 8 music film, directed…
Image Credit: Nwando Ebizie, photographed by Tom Richards. Nwando Ebizie is an artist in continual evolution – a composer, storyteller, ritualist and researcher whose work dissolves the boundaries between myth, ecology and sound. Her new album The Myth of Thamesis…
Image credit: WUNDER BETA photographed by James Tye. Brazil-born, London-made and endlessly evolving, Beta Lucca, aka WUNDER BETA arrives at this moment with Live In The Now, the luminous closing single from her debut EP Love You To Beats. It’s…