So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s quickly recap some of what’s been on Amateur’s House during the...
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We know dance music is a sausagefest, but this is ridiculous! Unspoken rule suggests to get ahead in house music, you have to eat meat… and LOTS of it!
I like to try and learn something new every single day. Those lessons vary from brilliant insights which I can rely on until the day I die to utterly useless information which stays in...
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Is that it then, Rebekah? Today’s “huge announcement” to save the flailing #ForTheMusic movement is… a short video – and the campaign’s founder expects YOU to pay the €10,000 required to produce it!
Some years ago, a special episode of The Apprentice went out in the UK. It was a special edition filled with so-called celebrities. They were tasked with putting together an event aimed at raising...
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Breaking up is so hard to do, isn’t it, Patricia? Nyaera rose from the Transmat ashes earlier this year – but Derrick May’s ex-manager forgot to scrub the YouTube channel’s grubby history…
Earlier this year, mysterious things started happening within the Transmat Agency. All the artists on the roster – with the sole exception of Derrick himself – left suddenly. No explanation was ever provided for...
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Somewhere, a village is missing its idiot! Man who moved to flat next to iconic Night & Day café in Manchester’s Northern Quarter during lockdown complains about noise – from the Night & Day café…
There’s stupid, there’s really stupid and then there’s a special level of stupid only reserved for particularly dim-witted individuals. And the individual in this story well and truly belongs in the third category –...
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As MPs get ready to vote on Kevin Brennan’s renumerations bill next week, will they listen to the artists who want a fairer share – or major label lobbyists who don’t?
One story that’s been bubbling away in the background over the past year or so is the #BrokenRecord campaign. The mission behind this crusade sounds like a simple one – streaming doesn’t pay artists...
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Will A Guy Called Gerald ever release any new music again? The question after he says “commercial exploitation” has left him “feeling empty”…
2021 has been an eventful year for A Guy Called Gerald – real name Gerald Simpson – in more than one way. It’s been the year he revealed to the world he’s never been...
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Is this REALLY the best dance music can do? David Guetta and Marshmello nominated for Grammy Awards… but at least there’s some hope with Ten City and Booker T also listed
So the Grammy Awards have released the full list of nominations for their show, currently due to take place on January 31st next year. Their official website claims to have 86 different categories –...
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Who’d have thought taking a cut from other people’s events would be so lucrative? Resident Advisor’s ticketing business made £1.5million in 2019 – and “strong growth” is predicted for 2022…
It’s safe to say the pandemic hasn’t exactly been good news for Resident Advisor. When it first hit, they were reduced to asking people not to ask for refunds on tickets – an act...
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Is there ANYONE left in dance music with any principles, part five: MDL Beast Soundstorm – whose lineup is a who’s who of dance’s biggest earners – claim to “amplify the unseen”… and even Ri-Chun Hee would struggle not to laugh
Whenever North Korea has a big announcement to tell the world, they always bring in the lady dressed in pink. Her name is Ri Chun-hee – and if their latest dictator has died or...
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Wednesday Whisper #28 – the DJs whose found the best way to maintain distance between themselves and the crowd… is to literally let out some stinkers!
Which DJ just can’t stop farting? If this question looks familar to you, that’s because it is – it’s the same question I asked all the way back on Wednesday Whisper #22. Sadly, this...
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As Rebekah and Sacha Wall’s #ForTheMusic talk is set to happen this Friday after being delayed twice, here are a few questions the movement’s leader WON’T be asked in the puff piece interview…
Time appears to be running away from player of dubious techno music and very occasional campaign leader Rebekah Teasdale. The DJ, known simply by her first name, has now twice failed to appear for...
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As Faith fanzine attempt to justify their interview with Carl Cox – as one their founders criticises his appearance at a Saudi Arabia festival – doesn’t this prove the irrelevance of the printed press?
Last night, I published an article criticising Faith fanzine for running an interview with Carl Cox whilst at the same time, one of their founders is criticising his appearance at a Saudi government backed...
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Is there ANYONE left in dance music with any principles, part four: the dance music press staying silent on MDL Beast Soundstorm criticism has not gone unnoticed…
A lot of people aren’t best pleased about this MDL Beast Soundstorm festival, due to take place in Saudi Arabia next month. The guestlist is a who’s who of dance music’s richest players –...
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The double standards of Faith: Defected backed fanzine plug Carl Cox T-shirts on Instagram – whilst creator Terry Farley attacks Saudi festival Soundstorm… where Cox himself is playing!
It doesn’t take long for people to reveal their true selves – in this day and age, it’s simply a question of knowing exactly where to look. But even by the duplicitous standards of...
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Do we need yet more reasons not to tune in? The Brit Awards tinker about with gender neutral categories – yet the biggest winners of this plaster sticking exercise will be four white men!
One of the things that bugs me about the times we live in is an increasing tendency to tinker pointlessly with the edges whilst not addressing the central problem. You see this in politics...
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