Ezra Collective interview: ‘Politicians aren't gonna be the saviour of our communities’
This time next week, London will have elected its Mayor for the next four years. But despite the outcome being somewhat predictable, Sadiq Khan had better keep an eye on a surprising last-minute entry to the race. ‘Maybe I will run for Mayor of London,’ contemplates Femi Koleoso, drummer of the UK’s most in-demand jazz quintet, Ezra Collective. ‘I can’t afford the Tube. Tap, tap, tap, what do you mean £17!? Under-18s should travel for free so they get to whatever school or youth club they wanna get to. And I’d get rid of peak times. You’re just punishing all the people who have got to get to work at 9am.’
That’s not all on Femi’s manifesto. ‘I would make London noisy again. I would disregard any noise complaint made to an establishment that was there before you lived there. If you chose to live next to Fabric [nightclub], that’s on you.’ He’d also scrap the 20mph speed limit in Islington and bid for the World Cup: ‘It’d be good for morale.’
