Free festival, 7 August

London is generally a fantastic city for free events but unfortunately, music festivals here don't tend to come cheap.

So hurrah for east London, which is playing host to the Little London Fields Festival on Saturday 7 August - a brand new, independent, freebie event that runs from 11.30am to 8.30pm.

The organisers claim it will host 'contemporary art, cutting edge fashion and dynamic new music'. At risk of sounding sour, I must admit I'm wary of events that mix fashion and music - it smacks of hipsters more concerned with appearance than getting sweaty to a filthy bassline. But perhaps this ghetto approach betrays my 90s roots. Either way - this bash is free, it has a dance tent and my mate Allan is going, so I'll be there!

For more info, visit the (rather sparse) festival website.        

2562 is the magic number

Dutch producer 2562 is causing people to go all wobbly on the dance music scene.

A few weeks ago I went to the launch of his second album (under the 2562 moniker), 'Unbalance', at the grimey but really quite wicked south London club Corsica Studios.

I followed the DJ Mag crew down, though I didn't know much about the night, We Fear Silence. I asked clubs editor Allan if the music was good. His reply: 'Do bears shit in woods? It be DEEP.' So I went.

Don't let the toilets at Corsica Studios put you off.

Anyway, God knows why he's called 2562, but his real name is Dave Huismans and he makes slow, atmospheric, daaarrrrrrkkkkkk dubstep.

This is his track 'Moog Dub', which appeared on the 'Dubstep Allstars 6' compilation - there is another video floating around on YouTube but it had an evil clown face which was just too freaky, so here's the safe version: