You might remember that yesterday, I told you about Judge Jules and his then forthcoming appearance on popular ITV game show The Chase. That went out tonight at 5.30pm and before you ask, yes,...
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Staying home and complaining about rubbish TV it is, then! Danny Tenaglia cancels his Christmas Day gig at New York’s Hard & Soul – and more will depressingly join in the coming days too…
A number of people contacted me three weeks ago today after this blog published an article about Danny Tenaglia staging a night out at Hard & Soul on Christmas Day. Some of you appeared...
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A mince pie for Santa and a carrot for his reindeer! As Mr Claus starts his journey to bring presents to the world’s children, take a guess which gangster is having an early night too…
So it’s Christmas Eve. If your tree isn’t standing tall by now, it almost certainly isn’t going up this year. By now, you’ve probably got all the stuff you need for a table-groaning dinner...
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Two months after Traxsource gave garage its own category on the site, this blog takes a look (with a little statistical help from Danny J Lewis) at the current state of play – part one of two…
Two months ago, the result of a few years of campaigning produced results. Around five years ago, a new movement started to circulate within dance music – it was called garage house. It was...
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The Saturday Recap (on Friday!) – 24th December 2021
So that’s another week almost over – but if any of you seriously think I’m going to spend Christmas morning preparing this column, you’re wrong! So here’s this week’s Saturday Recap a day early…...
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Glad I’m not the only one who noticed! Whilst Travis Scott took the heat over Astroworld tragedy where 10 people were trampled to death, promoters Live Nation kept their heads down – and now the US Congress wants to know what’s going on…
When news emerged late on the night on November 5th that something had gone seriously wrong at the Astroworld festival in Texas, the world wanted answers. We later discovered a crowd crush had taken...
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Nice to see you remembered to apply for permission first this time! Tomorrowland confirms they’ve been given clearance by authorities to hold an event over three weekends in 2022…
The following might show a degree of naïvety on my part here, so feel free to correct me. I personally would have thought that if you wanted to hold an event involving a large...
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Is it aimed at DJs in clubs or the ones in their kitchens? Beatport recently unveiled a new $9.99 streaming plan – which just leaves me with more questions than answers…
Someone somewhere is benefitting from streaming. But whom? It’s certainly not the artists whose music is on such services. They’re being paid a pittance for the use of their work. And it’s not even...
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Let go of the knife and fork and get back on the road! The less than eloquent advice from two anti-vax friend of Danny Rampling “concerned” about his recent weight gain…
I have to admit to displaying some hesitation before making the decision to publish this story. Typically, this blog doesn’t care about personal questions like how someone looks or what they weigh – I...
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Will he win big money or will a chaser make the judge budge? The question as Judge Jules reveals he’s appearing on a special festive edition of ITV’s The Chase on Christmas Eve…
At the risk of looking terribly old, I remember looking at the Christmas TV guide in early December as a child. Like a lot of people, I was also curious to see what was...
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A (mostly) normal service, a few extra columns and Christmas themed fun: here’s what YOU can expect from Amateur’s House over this festive season…
There’s just a few days now until the big boned bearded man in red comes down the chimney and drops off his presents. Yes, it’ll be officially time to find out whether you’re on...
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Wednesday Whisper #32 – the DJ desperate to avoid his girlfriend finding out what he got up to with an acquaintance at a Christmas party…
Which DJ is currently trying to stop news from getting out about a recent sexual encounter? And it’s not just because the prospect of what his girlfriend will do when she finds out absolutely...
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There’s money in old rope! Why this blog’s statement about veteran house producer Michael Gray doing well out of remixing archive tracks during 2021 is correct…
Last week, this blog published an article about the Traxsource Top 200 chart of 2021. I commented on the large number of remixes of old tracks in the chart – and pointed out that...
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I want your love! Roger Sanchez wants to be 2Gether with Kristen Knight as she says yes to his proposal of marriage – so will they have a partee over Christmas to celebrate?
Congratulations is due today to Mr Roger Sanchez and the soon-to-be Mrs Kristen Knight. Just four days before Christmas, they’ve announced to the world that they’re engaged to be married. As someone who tied...
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Hyperbole or the grim reality? The insider returns to comment on the Night Time Industries Association’s claim one third of nightclubs could close forever in just four weeks time…
Back on Monday morning, I started this unexpectedly busy week by covering an email sent out by the Night Time Industries Association on a Sunday night requesting replies to a snap survey by noon...
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He might block people he doesn’t like these days – but a Muzik Magazine column by Yousef in 2000 showed he once had a much healthier attitude to criticism…
There are some people in the dance music world who start out humble but change over time. They enter a world where they’re constantly travelling around and never get told no to any request....
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