Peak Time – Emma Warren on Total Refreshment Centre

In its too-brief run (2012-2018), London's Total Refreshment Centre made an indelible impact on the music community of the city. Housed in a converted factory in Hackney that once operated as a Caribbean social club, the venue and recording studio was intrinsically tied to the city's cultural past; as such, it was the ideal home to nurture the city's burgeoning jazz renaissance and to provide a space where the likes of Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia could connect with the past while creating their sounds of the future. This spring, music journalist and RBMA lecture host Emma Warren released (via her own publishing platform, Sweet Machine) her book centered on the history of this storied venue, _Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre_.