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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Is it to buy more cola or just make things easier? CamelPhat are liquidating their own company – now let me tell you why this story isn’t quite as exciting as it first sounds…
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about DJs over the years, it’s that the bigger they become, the more prickly and bad tempered they become. Whilst there are a few exceptions to the rule...
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Is Scotland a bit too cold for you, George? Mystery as to why Save Our Scene UK never bothered holding a temper tantrum there like they did in London
Back on July 14th, this blog posed a question – when Save Our Scene UK did a poll about doing a “Freedom To Dance” event in Scotland, as they called it, were they being...
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Wednesday Whisper #13 – the DJ who urges people to “be kind”, yet does precisely the opposite with nightclub staff…
Several DJs have spent the past few weeks telling everyone to be kind as nightclubs reopened across England. But which British DJ has not been practising what he has preached through his social media...
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As De La Soul finally get control of their masters and songs like “Me Myself & I” will be available to a new generation soon – why do record labels still insist on owning masters for such long periods?
This blog has dealt with the subject of the ownership of masters in the past. To put it succinctly, with one or two very specific exceptions, I’m totally against the idea of record labels...
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So what happened to the £200k Scotland’s Sub Club raised last year to save themselves? Looking at the company raises more questions than answers…
It hasn’t been a good few days for Usman Khushi. In the early hours of Friday morning last week, his Range Rover went up in flames. It’s understood he’d only moved to the west...
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Have Louie Vega and Derrick Carter started thinking about the polar bears yet? My insider reveals what the DJ scene intends to do to reduce their carbon footprint – here’s a hint, it’s not much…
Back in April, Clean Scene released a report which revealed some of the most gas-guzzling DJs in the world today. Richy Ahmed topped the list, travelling over 790,000km during 2019. Rebekah, Steve Lawler, Louie...
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Learning to live with the virus or rich (mostly) white men wanting to get back to making lots of money – what’s REALLY motivating the guests behind the “Co-Existing With Covid” show?
Over the past week or so, I’ve seen this programme being promoted quite heavily on social media. Which is ironic, because the show itself is much longer than anything normally being pushed on the...
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Isn’t £2.6billion enough money for you to live on, Daniel? Now Spotify is making clear it’s only interested in helping people out with money, questions are asked about what new artists should do…
Yesterday, I wrote about the Campaigns feature which Spotify are currently allowing a limited number of artists to test out – because they’re kind like that, obviously. This would basically put Spotify into a...
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Scotland has been closed for the past two years? Either Resident Advisor has an exclusive not even the Scottish press could find, or their headline writer’s on a day off…
Resident Advisor have an amazing exclusive on their site today. It appears that Scotland has now reopened after being closed for almost two whole years. And somehow, no one in Scotland or indeed the...
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Kelli Hand worked two jobs as well as being a DJ and producer, whilst the next generation’s elite earn bucketloads with a fraction of the talent – what gives?
The untimely death last week of Detroit producer and DJ Kelli Hand at the age of 56 helped focus the mind. Hand did not come from a background of money. She had to work...
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As Carl Cox gets behind the Covid-19 vaccine programme, where is the leadership from other DJs at the top of their game on this issue?
Leadership is something desperately lacking in the night life world. There are few out there speaking out on behalf of this, aside from the likes of the awful Sacha Lord. This is one reason...
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It’s official: Derrick May IS playing at Club Shelter’s 30th birthday party despite his name being taken off the flyer – and wait until you find out whose idea that was!
Ever since I saw Derrick May’s name on that Club Shelter flyer for their 30th birthday party, I knew it was suspect. Everything with Derrick May’s name on it is suspect. And it’s even...
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