Discovering the back story to Spiller’s “Groovejet” was quite the revelation earlier this year. I knew that it was first played at Club Groovejet by Boris Dlugosch in 1999 and that’s how it got...
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Simmer slowly for one Sunday article: taking a closer look at the people (and companies) behind the beleaguered Boiler Room…
Last year, several companies in the dance music world ran into trouble. This shouldn’t be a surprise – a pandemic with an uncanny ability to effectively close down huge swathes of this sector will...
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Well, they do say the kids love techno! Is Timmy Regisford wanting to get more bookings in the popular genre the reason Derrick May was booked to play Shelter’s 30th birthday?
During the entire saga of Shelter announcing on their flyer that Derrick May was playing at their 30th birthday party, then their second flyer to say he wasn’t, followed by the discovery he still...
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Is that what three decades in the industry is worth now? Booker T pulls out of Beautiful People Festival citing after discovering he was only playing a 30 MINUTE set
Update – I’ve been asked to point out that promoter Alex Lowes was not responsible for booking Booker for the festival – something he mentions himself in the comments section underneath Booker’s post. It...
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After tragedy in recent weeks, London’s The Cause reopens with a fundraiser for drug charity The Loop – but shouldn’t clubs do these things more often?
When Bill Hodgson went out on the evening of Friday, July 31st to the Cause in Tottenham, I don’t think he nor any of his friends and family could have anticipated the tragedy that...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 14th August 2021
On the week that a man bought a fridge in South Korea and discovered $130,000 was taped to the bottom of it, I go through the records which are more likely to make you...
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The Saturday Recap – 14th August 2021
Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s start with a recap of what’s been on this site during the week. There’s something to read every single...
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Drug testing facilities? They’re not a new idea – they were being mooted all the way back in 1995 after the death of Leah Betts…
I recently wrote a spate of posts following the death of a 21 year old at The Cause in Tottenham – since named as Bill Hodgson. I won’t be commenting any further on that...
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Music lessons at A Level are in danger of dying out – and if my education was anything to go by, I’m just surprised it hasn’t happened sooner…
Birmingham City University put out an interesting report during the week – and I can’t help but think my take on it could be a little controversial. Some of the contents from the report...
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Eight months on, sending vinyl into the EU is still a laborious process – and the workarounds aren’t too viable either…
Who could honestly have anticipated that signing a deal to leave a major trading block on Christmas Eve in the middle of a pandemic whilst another wave was happening would be a bad idea?...
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Is it 1989 again? As Northern Ireland still won’t set a date for nightclubs to open, a curious section in a Stormont statement refers to “raves”…
Yesterday, Stormont met up to decide which sets of regulations to change and which ones not to. For some reason, Covid infection rates in Northern Ireland are currently nearly twice as high as England...
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Insert your own joke here: Peggy Gou’s new single was inspired at an airport toilet – but why are the press who hold her in reverence staying quiet?
One thing I’ve learnt about PR people over the past few months is most of them are absolutely terrible at their jobs. They promote things they know are rubbish just because they’re getting paid...
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall! A rare Shoom fanzine from 1988 is on sale on eBay – and Danny Rampling won’t be happy when he finds out who’s earning out of it…
There are times in life when a story arrives at the desk – well, inbox in this case – and you immediately feel compelled to write it up. This is one of those occasions,...
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Juan Atkins is doing a gig next week and invited Derrick May’s friend Ash Lauryn to tag along – it couldn’t be worse than Awakening 2010, surely?
Apparently, Juan Atkins is due to do his first gig in a long time next week. On August 19th, he’s due to appear at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre in Detroit. According to the listing...
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Less wearing your Rolex, more selling it! Wiley doesn’t seem to have quite as many gigs as he used to – I can’t think why…
Richard Kylea Cowie Jr. MBE might not be a name which immediately catches your attention. But I suspect it will ring bells when I mention his stage name is Wiley. Time was that he...
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Scotland’s nightclubs get to open tomorrow for their first weekend since March 2020 – so why is Glasgow’s Sub Club in no hurry to get the punters through the door?
England’s nightclubs reopened a few weeks ago – and boy did we know about it. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave them their date of July 19th, a highly orchestrated PR machine got to...
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