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• Book: 'Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre'

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  EXCLUSIVE NEW MUSIC FROM ANGEL BAT DAWID, SNAPPED ANKLES' CHESTNUTT AND LUNCH MONEY LIFE accompanying new audiobook of Emma Warren's Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre.
  
  “An amazing book about an amazing venue.” Emma-Jean Thackray
  
  “Make Some Space captures TRC’s cooperative anarchy with such verve it leaves no doubt about the relationship between spaces and creativity and why this is vital for culture to thrive” Lloyd Bradley, author of 'Sounds Like London' and 'Bass Culture'
  
  Make Some Space documents the colourful community that ran under-the-radar music venue Total Refreshment Centre. It tells the story of an Edwardian factory that became an influential music space that was run on the shortest of shoestrings. It’s an insider guide that explains how TRC helped incubate the new London jazz scene, and which uses deep research to link Britain’s turn-of-the-century sugar rush to lovers rock and forgotten London venues. It’s a vivacious and idiosyncratic reminder of why we need places to gather.
  
  It combines narrative chapters with quotes from new London jazz musicians Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Joe Armon-Jones, Theon Cross, Kwake Bass, Henry Wu aka Kamaal Williams and The Comet Is Coming plus Gilles Peterson, Kieran Hebden, Glamma Kid, The Mighty Diamonds, Louie Vega, Snapped Ankles and Bo Ningen among others.
  
  Make Some Space uncovers the original inhabitants of the TRC building, which operated as a confectionary factory until the mid 1940s. It takes the reader back in time to Mellow Mix, who took over when the collapse of a gearbox factory left the building derelict and ran rehearsal rooms throughout the 1990s and 2000s for local and international reggae royalty, as well as pirate radio and grassroots theatre.
  
  The book contains a range of cameos including Bob Marley dipping into a Hackney after-hours spot; the Thompson Twins’ delay pedal; grime godfather Wiley; Johnny Rotten’s politics teacher and the 1912 Hackney Mayor.
  
  A bonus chapter explains how the book was written and calls on readers to document their own stories.
  
  “In this loving tribute to Total Refreshment Centre and the birth of the new London jazz scene we have an inspiring testimony to how community spaces can make culture come alive – and make the people that use them come alive, too. In a rapidly gentrifying city, it's a rare and beautiful thing.” Dan Hancox, 'Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime'
  
  “A lyrical testimony to the power of street-level social energy and creativity – and a considered and optimistic rebuke to the forces that continually seek to oppress it” Richard King, ‘Original Rockers’ and ‘The Lark Ascending’
  
  136pp paperback book, black card cover with silver print, including new and exclusive photographs detailing the colourful histories behind Total Refreshment Centre and London's new jazz explosion. ... more

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