What is Deeper Into Out of Space?
Deeper Into Out of Space is about electronic music, club culture and the relationship between our nightclubs and the towns and cities that house them.
If you’ve been following me on Instagram, or forced to put up with us in person, then you’ll probably have been exposed to a blizzard of promo hype about my first book, ‘Out of Space | How UK Cities Shaped Rave Culture’.
Published by Velocity Press in July 2022 (and then re-upped in 2024), it was born out of my own experiences in nightclubs in a range of different places and spaces. The book was researched and written over five years, with the idea being to shout about the clubs that lived and breathed outside of conventional ‘dance music narratives’, explore the challenges they have (and continue to) face in keeping their doors open alongside what their collective futures might look like.
After it was released and the dust settled on the little tour we did to promote it, it felt like there were still plenty of stories, venues, promoters and DJs who have great things to say about ‘the club’.
Which is where Deeper Into Out of Space comes in.
What kind of content will be published?
I’ll be publishing a mixture of interviews, Q&As and essays around club culture as well as showcasing some of the features I’m putting together each month for other publications.
I freelance for a range of different sites but I wanted to do something fresh that enabled me to write more freely outside of the decisions of other editors. I’ll include any interviews with anyone else who is wetting my whistle alongside some of the material that didn’t end up in ‘Out of Space’. I clocked up almost 150 interviews for the book, some of which are still in the vaults… (Disclaimer: I don’t have a vault. But I do have a rickety dictaphone stuffed with stuff which hopefully won’t give up on me just yet…)
Who I am…
I’m Jim, a freelance music journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing for the likes of Mixmag, FACT, Resident Advisor, Hyponik, the Quietus, MusicTech magazine and more. Alongside journalism, my dalliances in dance music include getting loose everywhere from cutlery factories in South Yorkshire to warehouses in Portland, Oregon.
As a distinctly small-time DJ, I’ve played records to people in a variety of places stretching from Sheffield to Berlin, broadcast on Soho Radio, Melodic Distraction and promoted early gigs from the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and more.
Buy my book
The website of publisher Velocity Press is your best bet although it is available on A****n and other online outlets.
