This blog, as a rule of thumb, generally doesn’t like the idea of gloating over someone’s misfortune. But in Derrick May’s case, I’m more than happy to make an exception. 2021 wasn’t a good...
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Looks like Booker T and Ten City WILL have to wait a little longer after all! The Grammy Awards announce the January 31st ceremony has been postponed – and there isn’t even a new date in the diary this time…
Praise must surely go to Billboard after they ran a story a few days ago correctly predicting that the Grammy Awards would end up being postponed again this year. Given the Omicron variant of...
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I suppose all those sinks won’t fix themselves! One year on from his vow to remove his music from the digital stores, exactly how is DJ Sneak getting on with the task?
In the dying days of 2020, DJ Sneak posted a few musings on his social media pages. The pandemic had given him time to think, and he’d decided he would be doing things differently...
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Wednesday Whisper #33 – the manager, the aroma and the fishy comments about his office…
Which manager in the dance music world has been attracting complaints of a malodorous nature over the past few weeks? It all started at the time he was given an early Christmas present by...
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What HAVE they been smoking? The dance music press would have you believe you can now smoke pot in London without risking arrest – but this isn’t the full story…
This week, the hopeless organism that is the dance music press have been getting overly excited by political news straight out of London. They seem to now think anyone caught in possession of cannabis...
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Is there anyone who ISN’T running their own course at the moment? Now Carl Cox joins in the latest fad where he invites you to learn about, er, himself…
Traditionally, the start of a brand new year would herald that annual batch of weight loss videos. This usually consists of some smug, high-minded type exercising in exceedingly tight lycra to make you feel...
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Scotland’s nightclubs are indignant at Nicola Sturgeon singling them out for closure yet again – but why has Glasgow’s Sub Club chosen to remain silent?
Nightclubs in Scotland (along with Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, France, Portugal, Greece, Germany and your pick of any number of other countries) aren’t best pleased with the hand they’ve been dealt...
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Will Booker T and Ten City have to wait to find out if they’ve won? It’s “looking likely” the Grammy Awards will be delayed – and it’s no mystery what’s to blame…
Back in November last year, the Grammy Awards confirmed the nominees for each and every one of their roughly 42,000 categories. They also mentioned the show would take place on January 31st – whilst...
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Scott Diaz castigates “sanitised artists who don’t have the capacity to have an original thought about anything” – but will his shiny new blog deliver on its big promises?
If what you want to read about isn’t being written, do the job yourself. This is why this blog came into existence – I was fed up of reading the sanitised dance music news...
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New year, same old tired tactics! The DJ who publicly posts anti-vaxxer propaganda yet had his booster jab last month – and he’s threatening to sue anyone who publishes his name…
It might be a brand new year and everyone might well now be packing away the dreary song that is Auld Lang Syne until the next New Year’s Eve, but some old habits from...
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After London says goodbye to another club with The Cause’s closure, is it sad news for the charities who benefitted – or jumping the plank before being pushed by the licensing authorities?
This blog came in for some stick when I reported on the troubles that London club The Cause were having last year. I initially ran an article on August 2nd last year about the...
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As Defected’s Simon Dunmore reveals he’s retiring from the touring DJ world, how long until one of the last barons of house music hands control of his empire over to the next generation?
Last summer, I received a few emails alerting me to a whisper going around that Defected boss Simon Dunmore was going to announce his retirement this year. After much thought, I decided not to...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: when Adam Freeland’s breakbeat hit “Supernatural” met the house sound of Tom “Cosmos” Middleton…
For this week’s column, I bring with it a revelation that isn’t entirely high on the credibility stakes. I originally read about this single somewhere in late 2003, but with this being the earlier...
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As Kym Sims announces she’s “officially retired” from the music business – whilst leaving the door ajar saying she can “pick and choose what gigs are fit for me” – will we ever see the likes of her in house music again?
Think of the name Kym Sims. I know who she is, but even if you don’t, you’ll almost certainly know “Too Blind To See It”, a song which she released all the way back...
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Are New Zealand’s media losing the plot? DJ Dimension may well be a rule-breaking entitled idiot – but this pile-on for bringing Omicron to Oz is just ridiculous…
Those of you who’ve been reading for a while will no doubt know I don’t particularly have a problem with mocking DJs. This especially applies to the ones in the higher echelons, most of...
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Oh to have been a fly on the wall! Sony boss Rob Stringer gets a CBE in the New Year’s Honours – but what DID Universal’s Lucian Grainge (who got one in 2010) make of it?
Over the weekend, the New Year’s Honours list came out. To those of you from outside the UK, honours are handed out by The Queen twice each year in recognition of various achievements or...
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