Annie Mac

It, well, I'd heard about these.

Uh, the DJ Annie Mac started a trend called Before Midnight a few years ago for, um, women and men of a certain age who might have responsibilities and kids and want to still go out nightclubbing but be home by midnight.

And I thought, "God, that is so sad and middle-aged." And I, I was, did one on Saturday, my friend's hen, hen day rather than hen night.

It was absolutely brilliant.

You should listen to her.

She did a great podcast with Annie Mac all about this, and it's very, very interesting.

And I was like, it's nice to be seen.

I mean, you can, you can kinda see why they wouldn't, they wouldn't touch on it.

Welcome to Sidetracked.

My name is Annie McManus.

Hello, I'm Jack Rooke.

Woo.

Um, okay.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Annie.

[clapping]

So how did it land for you? What was your expectation and, and what, where did we get to?

I think, you know, and, and I, I, I said it on the blog, you know, when, when I first heard Garden Song when Annie Mac played it in the, the spring of, of 2020, I remember exactly where I was standing in my house.

You know, like, it, it re- it really hit me, and I think that, you know, obviously I got into Punisher, um, and, uh, then got into her first album, um, Stranger in the Alps.

Uh, Smoke Signals was like, like, did the same thing to me, um, as Garden Song.

I'm Nick Grimshaw.

My name is Annie Mac, morning.

And this is SideTracked, um, where we meander through our weeks in the world of music.

Mm-hmm.

I didn't have a sticker, uh, because we, like, came in-

Yeah

... like, you know, through the Annie Mac entrance.

Yeah.

The two newest signings to Radio 1.

Sheffield, somebody go crazy for Scream and Bangla.

Select to do it put your hands up in the air put your hands up put your hands up in the air put your hands up put your hands up in the air put your hands up Will somebody give it up for Annie Mack, please? Will somebody give it up for Pete Tong, please? What's going on? Travelling through space and time And you're the only thing that's on my mind You make me smile, you take me high It's like some people wanna be alone Somebody put your hands in the air for Screamin' Banga

If you make money, please start saving them.

I used to go through in the rain.

Well,

that was a bit special.

Once again for Screamin' Benga! And Annie Mack as well.

Mm-hmm.

Annie Mac lived there.

[laughs] Um-

Yeah, but I knew it sort of.