Informed by a plethora of undiluted underground influences, the current wave of British popular music is in its healthiest condition for years. Just a few years back, aspiring musicians would need to fork out for a range of studio instruments. Now an emerging producer can craft huge ideas from little more than a laptop and some software. Similarly, geographical proximity was vital: a factor that is now almost entirely irrelevant. All three of these concepts feed into the back story of electronic due BLONDE.Like so many others, Leeds-based student Jacob Manson was looking for an outlet for his production work which he created under the pseudonym Thieves. He drew up a list of like-minded blogs to approach and ultimately picked Eton Messy, a YouTube channel which existed to promote