Holly Dicker (GB)

Holly Dicker is a club culture journalist, independent radio broadcaster and hardcore historian, author of Dance or Die: A History of Hardcore (2025) for UK music book publishers Velocity Press. She has bylines in The Wire, The Guardian, Mixmag, Electronic Beats, DJ Mag and Resident Advisor, where she was a former staff writer and regular contributor to the RA exchange series, including conversations with original Tresor Records manager Carola Stoiber, Awakenings founder Rocco Veenboer, and a rare interview with Warp Records producer and multi-instrumentalist Squarepusher. Holly has hosted various conference and festival panels covering hardcore music scenes past and present, the changing role of women in the dance music industry, and the harder styles revival that has defined club culture around the pandemic. She has written long form pieces on historic techno and rave institutions such as Tresor and Thunderdome, and is an authority on Dutch gabber subculture as curator of the multimedia exhibition “A Brief History of Gabber” for Google Arts & Culture. Holly lives in Rotterdam.