Believe it or not, but there was once an artist called Joey Negro. When I first learnt that the word “negro” had racist connotations, I found it utterly bizarre that no one ever batted...
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I feel you’re holding back there, Simon! Defected’s boss doesn’t take kindly to a troll suggesting his sons benefitted from nepotism…
Music is often something which runs in families. If someone has a taste for music, it’s probably because they got introduced to it by a relative. Which means it’s not always easy to tell...
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“Uh oh, DM’s in the building… watch out ladies” – how disturbing these words about Derrick May appearing at a Berlin club by Cisco Ferreira posted THREE years ago now look
Back in 1989, the world knew very little about Derrick May. Other than the spin put out about the Belleville Three by journalist Neil Rushton, he was in many ways an unknown quantity. Many...
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Have things REALLY changed since the days of Yvonne Turner? Now even Jameela Jamil is getting stick from people who claim she couldn’t possibly have worked on her boyfriend’s album…
Back in the 1980s, there was a female producer and remixer called Yvonne Turner. You might not have heard of her – I only discovered her existence around three years ago – but she...
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What IS going on at Glasgow Underground? Rattled record label posts rant about Danny Tenaglia’s “hate campaign” – and then a producer claims he hasn’t been paid for his releases
Update (14/12/2021) – Kevin McKay points out that T Markakis was in fact paid shortly after he went public with his allegations. Happy to correct the record. As I write on this Monday morning,...
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Are Berghain looking for new door staff? House and garage don Scott Diaz looks like the perfect sidekick to the notorious bouncer Sven Marquardt in a new photo…
Back in 2018, Scott Diaz received an email from someone who wanted to book him for a show. Given he’s a DJ and that’s what DJs do, this is hardly breaking news. But it’s...
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R Kelly’s streams went up by 22% in the week after his conviction for sex trafficking, and his album sales rocketed by 517% – so it’s no wonder Daniel “Mr Burns” Ek refuses to take his songs off Spotify!
Money means everything to the people at the top of the music world – and quite a lot of those below the top. This is one thing that you must remember about the music...
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Some people really need more things to do! Oakland Toy Lab discovered some years ago you could play vinyl records using two pencils and your teeth…
This blog believes that there are a lot of people in the world who simply haven’t got enough things to do with their time. Maybe it’s because I’m one of those people who likes...
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Maybe one of them knows where he can find an optician? Derrick May’s latest hobby is spending time with white men in glasses – and one of them appears to have an Insta-crush on him!
Derrick May is not a man who thinks a great deal of white people. When allegations surfaced last year in the mainstream press – months after journalist Michael James started talking about the subject...
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Did you travel back in time to get the money, Duane? Sterling Void tells followers it’s been a “great day” alongside a picture of a bag full of money – which first appeared online in 2009…
Sterling Void is a man known for telling stories which later turn out to be nonsense. I should know – he once asked me to remix a song which he told me was coming...
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Is that what all those plague rave DJs were doing? Belfast Telegraph publishes article which bizarrely promises to tell readers “how to avoid an accidental rave”…
Sometimes, I wake up in the morning and start looking through the news – and I get even more convinced that during the night, the world went just that little bit further into the...
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The Saturday Recap – 9th October 2021
So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is having the week off – so let’s quickly recap some of what’s been on Amateur’s House...
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Do they use the same publicist as Diplo? Sacha Lord’s Warehouse Project FINALLY speak out about what happened at the club two weeks ago – and it quickly became a PR disaster…
Two weeks ago, a 20-year old man died at the Warehouse Project after taking drugs. The club made no comment on their social media pages, something which irked me on the Sunday after it...
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Something new for him to get upset about! As World Health Organisation approve a malaria vaccine for use in Africa, why isn’t anti-vaxxer Danny Rampling foaming at the mouth with indignant anger yet?
Believe it or not, but there was a time in history when the arrival of a vaccine against a terrible virus or illness was viewed as a positive development. Let’s take smallpox, for example....
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She’s only done it again! DJ Rebekah – figurehead of the #ForTheMusic movement against sexual assault of women – was pictured last month with ANOTHER friend of Derrick May…
It was Edgar Allan Poe who once said “If a man deceives me once, shame on him – if he deceives me twice, shame on me”. And if that’s really the case, DJ Rebekah...
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Did someone tell them the furlough scheme has ended? Northern Ireland’s nightclubs can FINALLY reopen from Halloween – over three months after England unlocked the doors…
England reopened their nightclubs on July 19th. Wales reopened theirs on August 7th and Scotland followed on August 9th. Clubs have also opened up in much of Europe, the USA and other countries. High...
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