One issue that Ears To The House used to cover quite a bit in our early days was plague raves. For the benefit of newer readers, allow us to explain – plague raves were...
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DJ agency which previously threatened to gag Ears To The House is in financial difficulty – and we’re not at all smug about it…
Those of you who have been with us from the days before we were even called Ears To The House might remember a story we originally published in May 2021. After publishing the anonymous...
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Mixmag, illegal raves and total plague rave amnesia
Illegal raves aren’t exactly a new thing. When house music reached British shores in the 1980s, there were few legal avenues who seemed willing to get behind it – hence why the genre’s history...
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Annabel Ross attacks Solomun’s plague raves – but where was she in 2020?
We’ve all had plenty of fun at the expense of Solomun over the past few days – as Ears To The House covered yesterday – and we somehow doubt that was the last of...
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Pandemic Moments They’d Rather Forget – Part 3
This week, Ears To The House ran a little series all about things which happened during the pandemic – which we accept isn’t over, before anyone asks – that the dance music world would...
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The dance music press attitude to Covid? Here’s a clue…
Was it always like this? This is the question posed about the dance music press – known mostly for being craven sycophants afraid to ask anything remotely difficult or controversial. The richest people in...
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So it wasn’t just disease the plague rave DJs brought to Tulum! Murders in the Mexican town rose by 80% between January and September this year – and it’s no mystery who was also in town back then…
The plague rave DJs who went to Tulum to play amidst a huge wave of Covid-19 earlier this year have a few things in common. They all left their consciences at home. They all...
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Danny Rampling did “a secret free party” in the woods last weekend – so was he making some kind of statement or confirming speculation that the phone line for bookings has stopped ringing?
Time for a little bit of Danny Rampling on a Monday. What’s he been up to lately? Well, it appears that last weekend, he did a rave in the middle of nowhere – or...
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Raising the calibre of music journalism by leaving details out of their reports – it’s Resident Advisor dealing with protests in the Netherlands…
Resident Advisor are a curious lot, aren’t they? Over their 20 years in existence, they’ve got to know the tactic of selective reporting very well. You see it all the time in their news...
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Hands up who thinks being associated with an illegal rave is a good idea? Not even the DJs going to the event want to talk about Save Our Scene UK’s temper tantrum this Sunday…
Save Our Scene are having their big temper tantrum on the streets of London this coming Sunday. But things aren’t going to plan. The media aren’t exactly bending over backwards to report the story...
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EXCLUSIVE: Wondered why the plague rave DJs do what they do? One of them agreed to speak to me – and you’ll get to read it tomorrow…
Do you remember a few weeks ago that I threw the gauntlet down to the plague rave DJs to explain themselves? Well, much to my surprise, one such DJ agreed to do so. And...
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Can Yousef defend the indefensible? Silence from Circus on why they’ve booked plague rave DJ Sven Väth for Liverpool Covid test event
This Friday night, an important event is taking place in Liverpool. It’s happening at Circus, who are hosting the First Dance Event. No social distancing will be required, but a negative Covid result no...
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Parklife – rewarding plague rave DJs one step at a time
Here is the lineup for the Parklife festival, due to take place in Manchester later this year. As you can see in the flyer, they’ve obviously focused on having a smaller number of artists...
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A positively glaring flaw in this plan!
I’ve been thinking about this one since Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned it on Monday. He claimed that the way to get nightclubs open again was to use lateral flow tests. You can read...
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