It’s been quite a heavy-duty Sunday on this blog today, so let’s wrap things up for the evening with something a little bit lighter. On Friday afternoon, I wrote about the busy weekend which...
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Kappa FuturFestival confirm three-day Italian party will take place in July 2022 – so with no word of a lineup yet, what are the odds of Derrick May appearing on the bill?
The techno focused Kappa FuturFestival officially makes its return to the touring schedule of many of the circuit DJs next year. Which is good news for their bank balances, if not for all the...
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They bring it on themselves, don’t they? Now Universal ban artists from re-recording their music for longer – whilst profiting as Taylor Swift does exactly the same thing!
There are few people more cynical in the world right now than Universal Music Group. This one is a whopper, even by their standards. In 2018, Republic Records – whom they own – signed...
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How the once mighty has fallen: Derrick May appeared at a gig in San Francisco on Friday night – and like something grubby, he was listed as a “secret guest”…
I recently wrote that one problem with booking Derrick May now to play at your club was the fact you couldn’t promote the appearance. Because the moment you decided to do so, all hell...
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Is there ANYONE left in dance music with principles? MDL Beast Soundstorm 2021 lineup is like the McDonald’s of festivals – and the number of DJs prepared to accept Saudi blood money will shock you…
Back on September 6th, this blog posed a question. Do DJs care more about their bank balances than anything else in the world? For those in the upper echelons of dance music, the answer...
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Yes, people really are that weird! Kenny Carpenter was out and about this week – and couldn’t resist commenting on the utterly bizarre sights he was treated to…
Occasionally, you’ll encounter people in the world who play with your heads. With every utterance they come out with, you will inevitably start to wonder whether they’re going mad, or are they actually the...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 20th November 2021
On the week that a man was fined thousands of pounds for playing James Blunt’s music really loudly, I go through the records your neighbours may not mind you playing at high volume. Although...
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The Saturday Recap – 20th November 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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Nervous Records, the cartoon? Believe it or not, but this very prospect was on the table in 1993 with MTV offering “a decent sum” – yet label boss Mike Weiss turned them down…
Occasionally, you’ll find this blog berating dance music press journalists and writers for refusing to ask difficult questions of DJs and those more generally in the scene. Aside from potentially providing a very insightful...
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Vaccine passports don’t stop anyone catching or transmitting Covid-19 – so why has Northern Ireland become the latest in Europe to approve their use? Read on and you’ll find out…
A while ago, a friend told me “these politicians never think anything through these days, do they?”. And whilst my friend is indisputably correct with his observation, it also suggests there was a time...
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I didn’t know you could be in two places at once, Jules! Mystery as he has 2-hour show on Kisstory starting at 7pm on Saturday – but also has live show at 8pm with his band…
As a dad of three very young children, I wish I had the ability to be in two or even three places at once. If I did, one of me could spend his whole...
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Do these people think we’re idiots? Spend $49 to have 100 people listen to just 30 seconds of your song at Sounders Music – and “build your audience” despite their Facebook account having just 3 followers…
One thing which I keep seeing adverts for when scrolling Facebook at the moment is something called Sounders Music NL. Their advert makes the enticing claim that it could “increase your chances in the...
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Warner Music Group reached 249 million people last month on their own platforms – Spotify reached 381 million in that time… so is it time for Warner to say adios to Daniel Ek yet?
For the last few years, I’ve predicted that some kind of seismic shift is due in the music streaming world. The streaming sites don’t make any money, the artists don’t make any money. Only...
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As Defected’s promotion of Detroit continues, the REAL reason behind it is revealed – but have you also noticed one particular name has been missing from the moneymaking love-in?
It seems to be one of those weeks where I write about something at the beginning and it develops later. On Tuesday afternoon, I published a piece about Defected suddenly getting behind the city...
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Rebekah is due to talk tomorrow night with fellow #ForTheMusic colleague Sacha Wall – so can they finally put flesh on the bones of the beleaguered movement?
It’s no secret that this blog’s patience with the #ForTheMusic campaign has been stretched to breaking point recently. For the past few weeks, I have asked questions about why the movement appears to have...
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As Dublin rock group Girl Band rename themselves Gilla Band and issue statement saying sorry for “misgendering” – does anyone in the dance music world need a rethink on their branding?
When I first saw this story, I had to check my calendar – because for a moment, I thought April Fools Day had arrived early. A “post-punk and noise rock band from Dublin” called...
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