Say what you like about Danny Rampling – and this is an excercise this blog partakes in frequently – but he’s consistent. That is, mostly consistent about being behind the times. On July 19th,...
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Message to Belfast: furlough ends next week! Nightclubs in Northern Ireland are STILL closed after Stormont advises no changes to restrictions – and no word on how they’re meant to pay the wages…
I’ve lived in Northern Ireland now for over a decade. Lovely place, but with seriously strange politicians arguing over decades old rows. One thing they all have in common, however, is a horrendous sense...
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The perils of being in the plague rave business! Agency which tried to silence this blog has had to pay out a five-figure sum to someone who got Covid and spent three weeks in hospital – after catching it at their event…
A lot of people in dance music work in the shadows. And they prefer it that way – there are few things they hate more than sunlight, and I mean that in a few...
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See which way the wind is blowing yet? Whilst England sticks vaccine passports on the backburner, Wales announces it’s following Scotland and introducing them from October 11th…
Well, this wasn’t a terribly surprising development, was it? Wales has announced that vaccine passports are about to become a thing in the country – just weeks after Scotland confirmed they were doing it...
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New York’s Electric Zoo is linked to a Covid cluster of at least 16 cases after eight people turned up at the three-day festival contagious with the virus – so just how many have been infected?
One thing I must say has surprised me over the past few months is how few cases of Covid-19 have emerged out of nightclubs and festivals. We’ve been told since the pandemic started that...
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Now who’d have thought Boris Johnson would lie, eh? England’s Plan B if Covid is rampant this winter, according to the government, includes the vaccine passports they said on Sunday were dead in the water…
Well, this story just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? After weeks of going cool on its own proposal for vaccine passports to enter England’s nightclubs, the Health Secretary announced on his media...
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Is there anything you can ever commit to, Boris? Now the British PM and his ministers – who were defending them only last week – are doing the Hokey Cokey over vaccine passports…
Whenever the Johnson government tells you something, the lesson of this week is not to necessarily believe it. Vaccine passports are a perfect case in point of this. Back around January or February when...
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Dancing at a wedding is fine, but dancing at a nightclub isn’t – the bizarre situation as Northern Ireland ease off on more Covid restrictions
Northern Ireland’s utterly bizarre approach to relaxing Covid-19 restrictions continues unabated. A few weeks ago, I blogged about the true oddity of how the province appeared to be lumping nightclubs in alongside ballroom dancing...
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As Sunday Times runs report claiming Boris Johnson is scrapping vaccine passports for England, a Spanish court rules they’re illegal and could actually INCREASE the risk of catching Covid-19
Update – barely an hour after posting this story, the government confirmed that they’ve been ditched. Didn’t even give the ink a chance to dry! I woke up this morning to see the front...
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And there was me thinking you were competent, Nicola! Scotland paves the way for vaccine passports for nightclubs – whilst not actually knowing what a nightclub is…
England and Scotland’s approaches to the vaccine passport for nightclubs couldn’t be much different, could it? In Boris Johnson’s England, he announced the plan on July 19th at a press conference on the TV....
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Does the government’s own webpage about the NHS Covid Pass inadvertently reveal that vaccine passports are virtually unenforceable? See what you think…
Vaccine passports for nightclubs continue to be a big topic in the news this week. It doesn’t help that the government in London keep blowing hot and cold on the idea – and I...
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What do clubbers think of vaccine passports? Amidst debates over whether to introduce them for nightclub entry, the question no one’s curiously bothered to ask…
Amidst the vaccine passports debates currently happening in England and Scotland, there are two questions which remain unanswered. The first one was – if clubbers have to be double vaccinated against Covid-19, will the...
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It’s a miracle they didn’t crack under such pressure! London nightclub The Egg’s MD Hans-Christian Hess reveals they lost £100k per WEEK during lockdown – meaning a potential loss of £7million…
Big numbers have been a thing during this pandemic. Big numbers of people have fallen sick. Big numbers have died. Big numbers have been spent on furlough schemes around the world. And big numbers...
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Double jabbed to get into clubs or no entry, paying festivals £75k to plug the vaccine rollout – why are governments so determined to treat younger people like fools?
Over the weekend, I read in the Belfast Telegraph about a forthcoming event called Emerge. It’s taking place at Ormeau Park in south Belfast on September 17th and has the likes of Mella Dee...
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Could Northern Ireland’s nightclubs be about to mount a legal challenge on Stormont to force a reopening? Rumours abound of solicitors getting ready to act…
I’m hearing some interesting rumours emanating from Belfast this weekend. Word is that a couple of different companies are threatening to mount legal challenges against the Northern Ireland Executive over their continous failure to...
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As Mixmag are paid to write a puff piece for Departure in Mexico, what could possibly be the reason they didn’t mention most of the line-up are plague rave DJs?
Lesson of the day – whenever you see the words “in association with” at the start of an article, especially where the name of who wrote it typically appears, beware. This is essentially an...
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