Playlist: Music To Cut Hair To with Stuart Patterson

Music

A trip to the hair salon is rarely just purely functional. When in the right setting, it becomes a shared and social experience. Hairdressers behave like friends and counsellors. The salon is a place for relaxation, self-reflection and a good ol' conversation.

Therefore, there is nothing more annoying than bad music. OK, the stylist can be forgiven if they have as much personality as a wet blanket, so long as the haircut is to a certain standard, but if I hear them banging an EDM number or the latest pop drivel, it’s just unacceptable. Not only is it an interruption of what we believe the salon atmosphere should be but when you are working up to 12 hours on your feet, do you want to be listening to rubbish? No thank you.

Here at the About This Place, a salon headed by the Hair Mistress, Victoria Saunders has perfected that blend. She cuts the hair of half the DJs in London and apparently the reason they keep coming back, aside from a damn fine haircut and our ability to talk bollocks professionally, is the fact the music is spot on – hence being asked by R$N to compile a fortnightly feature for them. Music To Cut Hair To, a selection of some great music played in the salon alongside some appearances from friends…

"Mr Stuart Patterson has done a lovely playlist for me. I asked him to do one to celebrate my 50th year on the planet. Boy did he come up trumps. When someone's such a good mate and you had lots of fun in their company you kinda forget that he really does know his onions. Isn’t it always the music that brings us back and connects us. So I wanna say a massive thank you to him for this playlist. also the shits & giggles and the lifelines he has thrown me in the very long time we have known each other. Big ups you silly sod."