So it’s official. Nightclubs were closed last month in three of the UK’s four countries I response to the Omicron surge. At the time, the anti-vaxxers were foaming in the mouth and telling us...
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Is there a Novak Djokovic in dance music’s ranks? As tennis player is deported from Australia for being unvaccinated, some people are keeping very quiet about their own indiscretions…
Last week, the news was dominated by a surprisingly small number of stories – and one of those was to do with a tennis player. Novak Djokovic went to Australia to play at The...
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As Boris Johnson ponders scrapping vaccine passports for England – if he’s still in his job next week – have they actually done anything to reduce the spread of Omicron?
These days, how much time he spends talking about Covid restrictions is the easiest barometer for measuring how much politcal trouble Boris Johnson is in. We saw this last month – during the first...
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Aren’t this lot spending £37billion on a test and trace regime that doesn’t work? Sacha Lord’s freedom of information request on the Downing Street parties has been turned down – because it would cost too much to answer it..
The journalists who are meant to be covering British politics have been shown up over the past month as being almost as useless as those in the dance music press. They were hesitant to...
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What WOULD his old friend Paul Johnson say? After DJ Sneak outs himself as an anti-vaxxer, his comments have been badly received in his native Chicago – a city which lost one of its legends to Covid last year…
Those of you who use Facebook or Instagram this week might have been forgiven for having a startled moment upon seeing posts on Paul Johnson’s socials – they’ve been active again. The man himself...
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As the Night Time Industries Association launch a push to challenge Covid restrictions in Wales, their template email to politicians assert it’s England who have it right – seems convenient for them…
Devolution has been a thing in the UK since the 1990s. The Scottish and Welsh parliaments were launched in 1999 and the Northern Ireland Assembly the year before. These legislative bodies have control over...
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What a carnival! Departure postpone festival start by 24 hours AFTER everyone’s arrived – and cancel entirely the next day due to Mexico changing their Covid regulations…
As far as farces go, this one is quite the whopper. Last September, Departure announced they were holding an event in Mexico’s Playa Del Carmen in January – and a big event it would...
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A basic income pilot is due to start in Ireland later this year, and is likely to be set at €325 for cash-strapped artists – just don’t tell Danny Rampling about it…
It’s lucky that Danny Rampling was born in London rather than Dublin. Had he been, he would probably have burst a blood vessel after he’d read what I’m about to write. Allow me to...
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That’s another one into the Danny Rampling bus! DJ Sneak outs himself as an anti-vaxxer – but is he just jumping on a bandwagon that some of his colleagues joined two years ago?
What would happen if you stuck all the anti-vaxxers in dance music on Danny Rampling’s Love Groove Dance Party bus? Aside from the rest of us hoping Rampling drives it straight into the Bermuda...
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So how bad DID things get for Resident Advisor in 2020? Companies House statements reveal a £575,000 loss for the year – yet the number of employees on the payroll actually went up…
This blog is not typically known for being gentle on Resident Advisor, dance music’s self appointed answer to a question no one asked. Indeed, I’ve questioned the £750,000 bailout they got in October 2020,...
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But I thought you said we shouldn’t comply? Danny Rampling’s hypocrisy is clear once more as he’s due to perform in Brighton nightclub where Covid passes will be enforced…
From time to time, Danny Rampling’s stance on the pandemic bumps into this thing called reality. Such as the moment his ramblings on the current health situation clash with his real life obligations –...
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Looks like Booker T and Ten City WILL have to wait a little longer after all! The Grammy Awards announce the January 31st ceremony has been postponed – and there isn’t even a new date in the diary this time…
Praise must surely go to Billboard after they ran a story a few days ago correctly predicting that the Grammy Awards would end up being postponed again this year. Given the Omicron variant of...
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Scotland’s nightclubs are indignant at Nicola Sturgeon singling them out for closure yet again – but why has Glasgow’s Sub Club chosen to remain silent?
Nightclubs in Scotland (along with Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, France, Portugal, Greece, Germany and your pick of any number of other countries) aren’t best pleased with the hand they’ve been dealt...
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New year, same old tired tactics! The DJ who publicly posts anti-vaxxer propaganda yet had his booster jab last month – and he’s threatening to sue anyone who publishes his name…
It might be a brand new year and everyone might well now be packing away the dreary song that is Auld Lang Syne until the next New Year’s Eve, but some old habits from...
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Are New Zealand’s media losing the plot? DJ Dimension may well be a rule-breaking entitled idiot – but this pile-on for bringing Omicron to Oz is just ridiculous…
Those of you who’ve been reading for a while will no doubt know I don’t particularly have a problem with mocking DJs. This especially applies to the ones in the higher echelons, most of...
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Told you it wasn’t just him! This blog has found Danny Rampling a new friend in the form of old ravers Baby D – and their views on the pandemic are almost as crazy as his…
Whatever you choose to call Danny Rampling – the Runny Dumpling, Danny Rambling and other less printable suggestions have been made by others – there’s one thing you can’t deny. He loves being with...
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