Back on July 29th, I wrote about how 51st State Festival had changed their minds over their own entrance policy. They initially demanded either a negative Covid test no more than 48 hours old...
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Digital drum kits are two a penny these days with new and old available freely online – but back in 2000, a surprising name in telecoms was offering its own drum machine…
The software vs hardware debate has raged for years in dance music, and will probably go on forever. For every person who swears that the only way to make music is to get a...
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Derrick May isn’t appearing at Shelter’s 30th birthday party, says their promoter – so why does he refuse to speak to this blog, then?
Back on August 9th, the mystery of whether Derrick May was playing at New York City’ Club Shelter’s 30th birthday party was solved. Despite his name being removed, he was secretly still on the...
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Who was to blame for the charity event at The Cause which never was? The DJs who said they’d appear are firmly on the firing line…
This is a question which has been on my mind for a few days now – was I too hasty to criticise London club The Cause for a charity event that never happened? I’m...
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Dance to save the polar bears! The innovative new way Glasgow club SWG3 will use clubbers body heat to cut their own energy bills – now will Louie Vega and Derrick Carter want to boogie for the environment?
When I started Amateur’s House a few months ago, I wasn’t expecting to end up writing about the environment. Still, it shows you what I like about running this blog – no two days...
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Wednesday Whisper #15 – the DJ who struggled to get into a photoshoot for new snaps, and how he annoyed everyone else who lived nearby in the process
Which DJ has recently been driving his own neighbours absolutely mad? During lockdown, he observed that his photos for the press, social media and so on were getting a little dated. He had changed...
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As the government’s silence on vaccine passports for nightclubs continues, have they been quietly shelved – and does the Events Research Programme have a clue in it?
Just before the British House of Commons went for its summer break in July, Boris Johnson announced plans to require those going to nightclubs in England to be double vaccinated from September. His reason...
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Ever wanted to see Justin Fletcher (known to millions of kids as Mr Tumble!) and Judge Jules on the same lineup? No, me neither – but that’s precisely what’s happening this weekend!
These are strange times we’re living in. For example, Paris Brightledge’s prophetic lyrics about “dictation being enforced in Afghanistan” appear to be once again coming true. The world is trying to come out of...
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Which is the more shocking story here: Priti Patel justifying extra powers for police using dodgy data – or Mixmag doing good journalism for once?
It would be churlish of me not to start this Wednesday by saying I’m mightily impressed with Mixmag’s latest scoop. It’s a good one, gathered using freedom of information requests – politicians and the...
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Is it the Paul Johnson effect? Chosen Few DJs are putting on an event strictly for the double jabbed this weekend – and other venues in Chicago could introduce the same policy…
The house music scene in Chicago has been in a reflective mood recently – and much of it has come from the recent death of Paul Johnson. He died aged just 50 on August...
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Will it be dessert tomorrow? Another day, another meal for Simon Dunmore as he uses Instagram for its intended purpose – to show us his dinner!
To borrow and somewhat tweak a line from classic BBC comedy The Fast Show – this week, Simon Dunmore has been mostly eating. Over the weekend, he seems to have decided to cook an...
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As nearly 5000 cases of Covid are linked to a festival in Newquay, have there been any outbreaks associated with nightclubs? You might be surprised by the answer
Let’s face it. This was inevitable, wasn’t it? After England scrapped almost all Covid-19 restrictions last month, it was only a matter of time before a mass gathering somewhere was blamed for a big...
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Would you have bought this at Peckham market off Del Boy? Wiley once remixed a rap over the Only Fools and Horses theme tune – so here’s a reminder of something he’d rather forget…
This blog always enjoys going through the archives of what producers, singers and the like have made in the past. You can learn things like where they’ve come from, how their sound has developed,...
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As Kenny Dope of Masters At Work calls the Detroit techno originators “my brothers”, a question – why DOES the DJ world cowardly refuse to speak out against Derrick May?
To say that the world of dance music DJs is a weird one is a massive understatement. Most of them know the gossip about one another – they know what’s being said about them...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: what happened when Todd Edwards took a terrible remake of “Love Can’t Turn Around”…
Every now and then, a remix comes along that totally turns the original song on his head. Most of the time when this happens, the results are terrible. But occasionally, this approach can bring...
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Things That Dance People Think About, an occasional column: Hannah Wants makes a fruity disclosure…
As I mentioned earlier today, this blog covers stories that range from the deadly serious to the ridiculous. And here’s one which manages to cover a bit of both, weirdly enough. As I mentioned...
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