Get the latest gossip

‘The most important DJ in the UK’? Live streamer takes music to streets


DJ AG has built a huge audience by inviting performers such as Skepta to join him in London and elsewhere

The DJ, real name Ashley Gordon, has garnered more than 385,000 followers by doing something incredibly simple: playing music outside and allowing people to perform alongside him while he livestreams the results. He has pitched up on a traffic island in the middle of Wood Green in north London, outside Brixton tube station and on a busy corner in King’s Cross. MC Fizzy from Genius Cru performed the UK garage classic Boom Selection, and the grime artist Lethal B played his 2004 hit Pow!

Get the Android app

Or read this on The Guardian