Nick Luscombe

Nick Luscombe is a music curator, DJ, broadcaster (Radio 3 Late Junction) and the brains behind Flomotion Radio, a genre-bending musical minsetrone that lives online. He performs live and has been heard on XFM, NME Radio and is probably coming to a frequency near you soon. Nick has been working with Unity on PizzaExpress New Generation nights and and a tasty playlist for the Living Lab in Richmond.

If you had a festival what would it be called and what would happen?

I'm planning to organise a London wide bandstand festival putting electronic music artists on in parks across the city. I love the idea of updating the bandstand concept, and messing with it a little. As to a name.....hmmm... Electrobandstandival?

What’s your specialist subject in Mastermind?
The life and times of Gram Parsons.

What would be in your rider?
Asahi Super Dry. Plymouth Gin. Tonic water. Lemon. Ice. Ice-cold glasses. Two Arne Jacobsen Egg chairs. Nintendo wii - with Mario Kart Panasonic 50 inch TV. You know - the usual

What’s your hangover cure?
Cups of tea and edamame with mayonnaise.

Favourite year to be reincarnated?
2300 - so I can learn how the music of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries became approximated in history and also to hear what crazy sounds were being played on the radio.

First single you ever bought?
Giorgio Moroder "From Here to Eternity" 7" in WH Smiths. Still got the receipt....