Ears To The House

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McDonald’s have the same menu everywhere too! Secret Project tickets for Portugal go on sale tomorrow – and the lineup is as stale as a three day old Big Mac…

Ears To The House Team 27 January 2022

During the heights of the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival controversy last year, I described the event as being “like the McDonald’s of festivals”. I was commenting on what I was seeing as festivals started...

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No wonder he’s had to give up being a touring DJ! Simon Dunmore’s busiest week ever continues by announcing yet another event – a tie-up with Sacha Lord’s Parklife…

Ears To The House Team 21 January 2022

When speaking about Defected, all the sources who have provided this blog with information and insights on the label are united in one – they all say Simon Dunmore is probably the most hard-working...

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That brings the number of vaxxed big name DJs to one! Carl Cox announces his tour of north America – and it includes a date in New York, where if you’ve had no vaccine, you’re not coming in…

Ears To The House Team 21 January 2022

There are an awful lot of DJs in the upper echelons of dance music who filled their quiet time during the pandemic by training themselves up as virologists. Or so you’d be forgiven for...

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After Defected announce Phase 2 of their Croatia festival lineup, Danny Tenaglia’s appearance is confirmed – but whatever happened to his vow to “resign” from DJing a decade ago?

Ears To The House Team 18 January 2022

Danny Tenaglia was, for many years, one of the more hardworking DJs in the house music world. Like many of his era, he was a fan of doing sets that were around 412 hours...

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Not bad for someone who died this week! Carl Craig is the latest announced for Defected Croatia 2022 – and it won’t just be Unkle Carl representing Detroit…

Ears To The House Team 14 January 2022

This has been quite the eventful week for Carl Craig. It started with Craig complaining about a post on this blog with the juvenile “Haters gonna hate” caption. Then it emerged he had died...

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What, no discounts for the bus pass brigade? Danny Rampling’s (not very) busy schedule for 2022 includes a gig where the minimum age to gain entry is just 1…

Ears To The House Team 13 January 2022

There was a time, many years ago, when it was very profitable indeed to be Mr Daniel Rampling. He had a Saturday night show on BBC Radio 1 and a packed DJ schedule –...

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Who added the L in clock to this one? Clock Stock festival takes place in June – but you’d be hard pressed (if you can read it with that hideous font!) to find anyone who isn’t male and white on the bill…

Ears To The House Team 11 January 2022

If we’re now meant to be living in an age where we’re all inclusive and try our best to make everyone feel welcome, regardless of who or what they are, someone clearly forgot to...

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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…

Ears To The House Team 9 January 2022

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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Glad I’m not the only one who noticed! Whilst Travis Scott took the heat over Astroworld tragedy where 10 people were trampled to death, promoters Live Nation kept their heads down – and now the US Congress wants to know what’s going on…

Ears To The House Team 23 December 2021

When news emerged late on the night on November 5th that something had gone seriously wrong at the Astroworld festival in Texas, the world wanted answers. We later discovered a crowd crush had taken...

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Nice to see you remembered to apply for permission first this time! Tomorrowland confirms they’ve been given clearance by authorities to hold an event over three weekends in 2022…

Ears To The House Team 23 December 2021

The following might show a degree of naïvety on my part here, so feel free to correct me. I personally would have thought that if you wanted to hold an event involving a large...

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Turns out they don’t support freedom of speech either! MDL Beast Soundstorm’s prima-donna DJs are locking down their comments against criticism – proving they really do hold their fans in contempt…

Ears To The House Team 21 December 2021

In life, you’re occasionally going to have to make choices which could be divisive or controversial. Such is the way with the DJs who made their decision to go to the MDL Beast Soundstorm...

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As the controversial MDL Beast Soundstorm festival launches today, Human Rights Watch suggest DJs should “speak out about human rights abuses” in the country – so take a guess what they WON’T be doing?

Ears To The House Team 16 December 2021

So the disgraceful day is finally here. The DJs and other acts are getting ready to do their sets at the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival in Saudi Arabia. At the time of publishing, many...

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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…

Ears To The House Team 10 December 2021

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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Has Jeff Mills completely lost the plot? Now he posts ANOTHER defence of his choice to play high-earning MDL Beast Soundstorm gig – and claims his brand of techno provides “mental escape”!

Ears To The House Team 29 November 2021

So far, all of the DJs who are on the bill for the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival in Saudi Arabia next month are remaining quiet as the controversy over their appearances rumbles on. The...

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Is there ANYONE left in dance music with any principles, part five: MDL Beast Soundstorm – whose lineup is a who’s who of dance’s biggest earners – claim to “amplify the unseen”… and even Ri-Chun Hee would struggle not to laugh

Ears To The House Team 25 November 2021

Whenever North Korea has a big announcement to tell the world, they always bring in the lady dressed in pink. Her name is Ri Chun-hee – and if their latest dictator has died or...

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Is there ANYONE left in dance music with principles, part two: a closer look at the human rights injustices in Saudi Arabia, which begs the question – why would any DJ agree to play MDL Beast Soundstorm?

Ears To The House Team 22 November 2021 2 Comments

Yesterday, I wrote about something which has started bubbling up over the last few days – the lineup of the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival in Saudi Arabia next month. I posed the question of...