Vaccine passports look set to become a thing in England this week. Scotland and Wales introduced them in October, and Northern Ireland are enforcing them from today. And unless the House of Commons vote...
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Mousse T calls out Glasgow Underground boss Kevin McKay for doing a “proper ripoff” of his 1999 remix of Moloko’s “Sing It Back” – and just like the Danny Tenaglia controversy, it’s getting very messy…
Update – (14/12/2021) Kevin McKay points out that T Markakis was in fact paid shortly after he went public with the allegation. More than happy to correct the record. So it looks like I’m...
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Well, this blog’s faith has been well and truly lost! Faithless rinse yet another song from their back catalogue – by giving David Guetta the chance (and money) to remix their 1998 hit “God Is A DJ”…
Let’s talk about Faithless. They created the since massively overplayed “Insomnia” back in 1994. Island Records were originally meant to release it, but they admitted several months after signing the contracts that they had...
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And how many of your lawyers were sitting just out of shot? Travis Scott sits down in cosy interview with Charlamagne Tha God to deny blame for stampede at Astroworld which saw 10 people die…
We live in a painfully stage-managed world these days. So much so that it’s often becoming hard to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t. For example, whenever politicians sit down to do interviews,...
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Was this email typed up by the work experience kid? The Night Time Industries Association want people to lobby their MPs against England’s move to Plan B rules – and grammar is the least of their problems…
One thing about email which particularly bugs me is spelling mistakes. I can forgive them to an extent on messaging services – the communication is more instant and mistakes more likely. But email? When...
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No, he’s still a mug! Maceo Plex insists it was a PLASTIC cup he threw into Waring Beach audience, injuring a woman – and mentions (as if it isn’t plain weird) he likes to throw headphones into the crowd too…
This blog frequently talks about the fact that many of the big name DJs live on a different planet to the rest of us. They’re like this because they spend all their time on...
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DJ Sneak gets into the Christmas spirit by flogging some T-shirts from his online shop – and there isn’t an overpriced baseball cap to be seen anywhere near it!
If there’s one thing we know about DJ Sneak – other than the fact he loves a good row with his fellow DJs, or the fact he still hasn’t delivered his vow to remove...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 11th December 2021
On the week that some poor sod in Australia was given the job of getting two women pregnant at exactly the same time, I go through the final batch of records for 2021. See,...
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The Saturday Recap – 11th December 2021
So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s quickly recap some of what’s been on Amateur’s House during the...
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I told you these people can’t take criticism! Now Jeff Mills switches comments off on his Facebook page after swipes at his laughable defence of doing MDL Beast Soundstorm festival rumbles on…
This blog is beginning to suspect that one person is looking forward to Christmas even more than normal this year. And that person is Jeffery Eugene Mills, 58, from Detroit in Michigan, USA. He...
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Who seriously cares? My own question for Music Business Worldwide as they ask whether Universal or Spotify will be worth more at 2021’s end…
Back on Monday, Music Business Worldwide asked what they thought was an important question concerning Universal Music Group and Spotify. “Which of music’s two giants will be worth more at the end of 2021?”,...
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What a right mug he is! Maceo Plex drinks from a glass whilst DJing in Brazil and decides to fling it into the audience – injuring a woman in the process…
This blog works on the basis that the majority of big name DJs are idiots. Many of them go around the world collecting huge amounts of money playing what is, at best, average music....
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Just as the shameless DJs playing the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival thought they could take their heads out of the sand, the French arrest a suspect in the Jamal Khashoggi case…
The DJs who are playing at MDL Beast Soundstorm’s festival are a curious bunch. Lured there mostly by the gargantuan fees the Saudis offer in exchange for being used as regime propaganda fodder, they...
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No time for sleep until Monday! Beleaguered #ForTheMusic and 23×23 campaigner Rebekah Teasdale is fighting back after a difficult few weeks – so can a touring DJ really juggle all these commitments?
Has this blog been too hard on Rebekah Teasdale, founder of the #ForTheMusic movement and co-founder of 23×23? This is the question I’ve asked myself more than once lately after reading a few pieces...
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A bit more trouble coming your way, Mr Johnson! Sacha Lord isn’t happy about England’s new Covid rules and intends to “ruffle some feathers” – so what has he got in mind?
Sacha Lord is not a happy bunny, and he doesn’t seem to mind who knows it. This blog has criticised Lord on more than one occasion – whether it be his club issuing a...
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The old ones are the best – for repackaging and making money from all over again! Pete Tong and his orchestra go back out on the road to rinse classic tunes out yet again…
One thing which streaming did to revolutionise the music world – and not necessarily for the better – was to allow people to easily listen to old records. Time was if you wanted to...
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