Update – barely an hour after posting this story, the government confirmed that they’ve been ditched. Didn’t even give the ink a chance to dry! I woke up this morning to see the front...
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Topless selfies from David Morales, Larry Levan posting Instagram reels from Paradise Garage and Louie Vega being slated for remixing Debbie Gibson – thank goodness social media wasn’t around the 1990s!
I had a discussion with a friend a couple of days ago. It was just what we needed to get through what felt like an incredibly long week. The debate was about social media...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 11th September 2021
On the week that Donald Trump dealt with the most important question of our times by stating he could beat Joe Biden in a fight, I present the latest records that’ll give DJs a...
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The Saturday Recap – 11th September 2021
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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As Massive Attack cancel their ACC Liverpool gig because the venue will host an arms fair next month, why can’t other DJs also lead with their principles for once?
Massive Attack are one of the more principled acts out there – although that’s not difficult in a field of about three. I wrote recently about how Robert Del Naja was selling limited edition...
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And there was me thinking you were competent, Nicola! Scotland paves the way for vaccine passports for nightclubs – whilst not actually knowing what a nightclub is…
England and Scotland’s approaches to the vaccine passport for nightclubs couldn’t be much different, could it? In Boris Johnson’s England, he announced the plan on July 19th at a press conference on the TV....
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Don’t write about controversial stuff and be nice about Mixmag, says a journalist to this blog – but has he ever seen this site’s tagline?
Journalists are a curious bunch, aren’t they? I took a look through the list of my email subscribers earlier this week, and discovered something quite astonishing. Several hacks publicly distance themselves from this blog...
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Does the government’s own webpage about the NHS Covid Pass inadvertently reveal that vaccine passports are virtually unenforceable? See what you think…
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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So what’s Derrick May been up to lately? Not a lot is the answer – and confusion reigns over whether he’s appearing at Shelter’s 30th birthday bash next week…
Things have gone pretty quiet in the Derrick May camp over the past few weeks. This is the main reason there haven’t been any posts here about the man himself recently – my sources...
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Wednesday Whisper #17 – the journalist being blackmailed by their own friend… because a DJ doesn’t want a corruption scandal being made public
Which dance music journalist – yes, you read that correctly – is currently stuck in a quandary caused by being too close to their subject? The journalist in question was recently sent an email...
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What do clubbers think of vaccine passports? Amidst debates over whether to introduce them for nightclub entry, the question no one’s curiously bothered to ask…
Amidst the vaccine passports debates currently happening in England and Scotland, there are two questions which remain unanswered. The first one was – if clubbers have to be double vaccinated against Covid-19, will the...
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Carl Bean – the man behind “I Was Born This Way” and a trailblazer of the LGBTQ movement – has died at the age of 77
The thing about trailblazers is they often don’t know that’s what they are. They’re either too busy doing it to spend any time pondering about how significant what they’re doing actually is – or...
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