Vaccine passports for nightclubs continue to be a big topic in the news this week. It doesn’t help that the government in London keep blowing hot and cold on the idea – and I...
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La Toilette sont pleines de merde! Tone deaf French club collective stage a rave near a refugee camp – and one of the DJs booked was not the least bit happy…
The mainstream press take the very polite view that the majority of promoters are very clever – mostly because they hold far too much sway over the dance music scene and they fear their...
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Can we drop the idea dance music is a safe space yet? An astonishing 84% of respondents to a Ballantine’s True Music survey say they’ve seen discrimination on dancefloors…
The dance music world is filled with types who like to think their favourite genre is a safe place where everyone is free to be whatever they want to be. This line of thinking...
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Is there any DJ out there who CAN convey a message these days? Eric Prydz sends out a tweet about techno music which has everyone scratching their heads…
I first encountered this particular one a few days ago, but I held off publishing. Frankly, I couldn’t quite work out what I made of it all – but last night, I had one...
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As Ash Lauryn’s latest EP gets a glowing review from Resident Advisor, a question – isn’t it a conflict of interest for them to write about music from their own contributors?
I made emphatically clear in the past few days that I will continue to cover things that go on inside the dance music press. Whilst I accepted a recent post on Resident Advisor’s editor...
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