The year 2020 is probably one which Boiler Room would rather forget – but so long as Ears To The House is around, we’re happy to remind them of it as frequently as possible....
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Boiler Room cancel weekend London event – smart move?
People on the internet do like to get irrationally angry about things, don’t they? The dance music community is little different in that regard – hence why quite a few people are losing their...
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Is THAT what DICE saw in Boiler Room? Survey by IFPI reveals 65% of people will continue to watch music live streams after the pandemic ends
There are some out there that would have you believe live streams will never catch on. You should question why these people are saying such things. Maybe it’s because they personally don’t like them....
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They’d have been stuffed without DICE, wouldn’t they? Boiler Room made a whopping £11million loss up to October 2020 – and still no word on how much founder Blaise Bellville is making out of the deal…
Last week, I was looking on Companies House when I discovered a curious notice saying Boiler Room’s accounts were late. Surely some mistake? One email to the press office confirmed accounts had already been...
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Whilst Boiler Room show their new owners around, are there implications for that £800k bailout from Arts Council England they got last year?
Since the news broke on Friday that Boiler Room has been bought by Dice for an undisclosed sum, there are a number of questions which remain unanswered. How much independence will Boiler Room have...
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Boiler Room has been purchased by London-based, venture capitalist backed ticketing company Dice – but how much will founder Blaise Bellville stand to make from the sale?
Well, it’s looking like I might have to create a new picture for the blog whenever I write about Boiler Room. One with money in it. In a rare piece of decent journalism –...
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What happens when cheapskates meet other cheapskates? Possession Techno want people to rig up technical equipment and staging for a Boiler Room event – but offer them no money…
Why are there so many people in the music business who think they’re owed freebies by everything around them? If your car tyres need changing, you don’t expect your local garage to do it...
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Boiler Room – where the DJs aren’t paid (except by the odd sponsor here and there) and their Chief Operating Officer has literally zero concept of irony…
Boiler Room don’t exactly get an easy time on this blog, do they? And they’d better get used to it, because that won’t change anytime soon. Recently, I queried some of the more amusing...
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Boiler Room said they launched Honey Dijon’s career in order to get a government bailout last year – but just one question: did you really, Mr Bellville?
Yesterday, someone sent me some documents relating to the bailouts Arts Council England gave Boiler Room in 2020. And there are quite a few things which you curiously won’t find mentioned by themselves or...
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Simmer slowly for one Sunday article: taking a closer look at the people (and companies) behind the beleaguered Boiler Room…
Last year, several companies in the dance music world ran into trouble. This shouldn’t be a surprise – a pandemic with an uncanny ability to effectively close down huge swathes of this sector will...
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