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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Don’t these parasites EVER take a day off? “Two big influencers” want singer Jamie Mathias at their wedding in the summer – and the cheapskate couple are “not really paying the suppliers”…
Regular readers might remember a post I did back in October last year involving Brighton based singer and songwriter Jamie Mathias. He’d been on Twitter detailing just some of the occasions he’d been asked...
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As a new year begins, part two of this blog’s series glancing into a crystal ball to make some not entirely serious predictions about what 2022 might have in store…
Yesterday, this blog made its predictions for what was not especially likely to happen during 2022 from January to June. Today, the series concludes by going through the months from July until December… As...
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Who came up with that, Danny Rampling? Faith fanzine’s Terry Farley announces an event for Easter weekend – but the “Natural Immunity” name leaves a sour taste in the mouth…
It may be a new year, but it’s back to an old subject here – in more ways than one. With many hoping this is the year we can finally say goodbye to Covid-19,...
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Will 2022 be the year the Nervous ad department joins this century? Label finally responds to accusations of sexism, denying claims of objectifying women…
Ever since I started speaking out about the painfully outdated advertising that Nervous Records stubbornly persist in using, the label has responded in the way it always does – by doubling down on its...
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