Claire Williams
Features Editor
Claire is a freelance journalist living, loving and havin' it large in hectic London town. As well as editing the Core website and doing all manner of important editor business on the printed publication, she also writes for numerous dance music publications and reviews clubs and restaurants for London guide, Fluid. When she's not beavering away on the mag or telling people off for bad spelling and punctuation, Claire likes travelling, long walks and throwing some serious shapes on the dancefloor.
Essential overseas date for 2011!
Colours Winter Party
When: Sunday 26 December 2010, 9.30pm – 4.30am
Where: The Arches, Glasgow
Music styles: trance, house, techno
Featured artists: Sander Van Doorn, Menno de Jong, Mauro Picotto, Umek, Fergie, Dave Spoon & D Ramirez
B2T, Ravers Reunited and Core… The Awakening
When: Saturday 1 January 2010, 6pm – 6am
Where: Gatecrasher, Birmingham
Music styles: hard house, hard trance, hardcore, hardstyle, bounce, filth, electro, funky
Featured artists: Lisa Pin Up, Andy Whitby, Dougal, Brisk, Ultrabeat
Cream Boxing Night Special
When: Sunday 26 December 2010, 10pm – 6am
Where: Nation, Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, L1 4JJ
Music styles: disco, trance, electro house
Featured artists: Calvin Harris, (DJ set), Eddie Halliwell, Afrojack, Gareth Emery, John Dahlback, Kim Fai, Andy Mac
Moondance NYE Party!
When: Friday 31 December 2010
Where: The Great Suffolk Street Warehouse, 29 Great Suffolk Street, Southwark, London, SE1 0NS
Music styles: old skool club classics, drum and bass, jungle, liquid, electro breaks, hardcore
Featured artists: Randall b2b Mickey Finn, Ratpack, Kenny Ken, Trix, MC Five O, MC MC, Loose Cannons, (Kiss FM), Jason Cadden, (Kiss FM), Hazard, Bryan Gee, IC2, Funsta, Ruffstuff
Hed Kandi raises the bar yet again
Massive global clubbing and fashion brand, Hed Kandi, has launched its first bar in the UK this November.
A Paul - Naked Techno
In an overpopulated scene where exciting new records are seldom found, there is a buzz happening around Portugal.
News and Clubs Editor Positions @ Core!
With increasing circulations and a bold brand building strategy, Core Music is on the lookout for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Clubs Editor as well as a similarly likeable News Editor.
Getting big, bad and heavy with Pendulum
For those of us who treat the festival season as an annual pilgrimage, who traipse through field after muddy field, in wind, rain and shine to dance under the stars – for those of us who take the whole festival season way too seriously (and for good bloody reason too!), we are the people who understand that there are some festival highlights that make everything else pale into insignificance.