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‘Nepo babies should be doing stuff like this’: are rich people ruining or reviving UK club culture?
London’s underground dance scene is increasingly funded by inherited wealth. From Mike Ashley’s son to a Tetra Pak heir, monied promoters explain their motivations
Blaise Bellville, founder of dance music livestreamers Boiler Room is English gentry: the Marlborough College-educated son of Lady Lucinda Wallop (though he has said he “didn’t have any money” growing up). It’s made harder by the fact that clubbing, though an important part of British cultural life, is rarely supported by the kind of philanthropy that often props up visual art, theatre, opera or dance, nor does it tend to receive public funding. With Figura, Rausing’s support reduces the immediate financial pressure on the project, and gives Becker the freedom to programme more experimental events: next month’s Seeing in Dreams will have boundary-pushing musicians including Andy Stott, Crystallmess and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
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