Another day, another festival announces its lineup. Or at least the first phase of the lineup – telling people everything they’re actually paying for in a ticket expensive enough to buy a small country...
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Straight from the horse’s mouth! Derrick May and his “passport” girlfriend are back in touch – just don’t expect craven DJ Mag editor Carl Loben to ask about it (or anything else, for that matter)
I think Derrick May is trying to troll this blog. Having tried to maintain a masquerade online over the past few months by limiting comments on Instagram and deleting anything which remotely mentioned the...
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Pa Salieu claims “the authorities have decided” he can’t do his Coventry gig on November 27th – so nothing to do with charges of wounding with intent and possessing an offensive weapon, then?
A rapper called Pa Salieu – no, me neither – has been grumbling on social media recently that a forthcoming gig, due to take place in Coventry on November 27th, has been cancelled. He...
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Wednesday Whisper #24 – the DJ trying to emphasise his Irish connections to get a St Patrick’s Day gig in Dublin… but there’s just one problem!
Which American house DJ is already hawking around for a St Patrick’s Day gig next year? The festival for the patron saint of Ireland (oh, and thanks to some Irish bishops, Nigeria too) takes...
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Buying tickets at the door for a night out? Not if you live in Ireland, as government announces tickets must be bought at least one hour ahead…
Those of who live in the UK know all too well what it’s like to live under a government which is constantly changing its mind on things. One minute, they’re really keen to do...
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Get Henry Hoover and clean behind this bar! Is Nottingham’s Pryzm closing tonight in solidarity with the needle spiking boycott of clubs – or just a PR stunt to get some good press and not have to pay wages?
If you’re in the fine English city of Nottingham this evening and you were hoping to visit Pryzm for a few drinks and some dancefloor action – why they couldn’t just spell Prism properly,...
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Rebekah is due to speak at an Most Wanted: Music event in Berlin about the Me Too movement in dance music today – so can the founder of #ForTheMusic get the beleaguered movement going again?
Rebekah isn’t much of a fan of this blog. On September 30th, I published an article asking just what she was doing working with Francesco Tristano – a known friend of Derrick May. Seeing...
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How’s your campaign to raise the calibre of music journalism going again, Whitney? Resident Advisor has time to report on a fashion show in Detroit with a light installation from Carl Craig – but doesn’t have time to talk about Derrick May…
I haven’t taken much of a look at Resident Advisor lately – a quick look confirms the website is full of the usual content. Mostly of the variety designed to tick boxes and make...
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Things That Dance People Think About, an occasional series: Kenny Carpenter writes about his “final resting place” – but does anyone dig the grave subject matter?
We’ve all seen those adverts on the telly. They mostly appear during daytime TV, but can also be seen at other times. It seems that from the moment you turn 50 years old, the...
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It will all end in tears – again! Derrick May is back in touch with Greek girlfriend he calls his “passport”, so WHAT does she see in the balding 58 year old (mostly) out of work DJ?
Quite what women find so alluring about Derrick May is quite the mystery to me. Perhaps it’s his penchant for going out with broken glasses? Maybe it’s the fact he has lots of money...
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On and on indeed! Jesse Saunders takes issue with Spin magazine claim that Farley Jackmaster Funk was the first to play early house records – so what does Farley himself say?
What happened in the early days of house music? Well, we know that much of what has been chronicled about Detroit techno, for example, was rubbish. The Belleville Three story, which lazy journalists continue...
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Understanding vaccine passport rules is enough to drive you to drink – and now government documents reveal not only could they do precisely that, but they could INCREASE Covid transmission rates too…
Every evening from around 10pm, the front pages of the following day’s newspapers start to come in. I occasionally have a look at them, and whilst taking a peep last night, I caught the...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: finding a deep underground gem on an MTV Ibiza compilation? It used to happen, you know…
For this week’s edition of the series, I’m going all the way back to the year 2001. For me, this was the year I was doing my GCSEs, so music’s importance to me started...
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As EDM festival Electric Daisy Carnival holds a virtual event on gaming platform Roblox, is there a lesson here for other areas in dance music?
I started secondary school back in 1996. The structure here was very different to primary school – lessons now were delivered at set times each day and different teachers did different subjects. Hence why...
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Because you couldn’t get spiked by a woman, could you? The well intentioned but hopeless plan by Nottingham’s Playwright to hold women’s only nights – just don’t expect to get a bite to eat!
I read over the weekend that a pub in Nottingham has decided to start holding women only nights. That’s right – not a single man will be permitted entry onto the premises. And that...
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The staggering story of how Universal Music Group tried to crush a startup company over just one 30-second U2 video – demanding 50% of their company or they’d revoke their licence
The major labels are run by a pack of bullies who aren’t terribly bright. And frankly, it’s a miracle they’re still in business at all. This has been my opinion of the majors for...
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