fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoBasslines over goalposts, cricket club bhangra nights: the gatherings where British diaspora music really grows
I don't learn about music from record shops or curated playlists. I discover it on muddy football pitches in east London, with the smell of chips drifting from the van at half-time; in rented cricket halls in Bradford where there is always a giant urn of tea bubbling in the corner. The sounds that have shaped me as a Black British person aren't designed by algorithms or commissioned by labels.
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