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Has MDMA got stronger? The Loop are trying to find out…

Ears To The House Team 8 June 2022

Regular readers of Ears To The House might remember a post we published back in September last year covering the findings of UK drug harm reduction charity The Loop. They’d been inspecting MDMA pills...

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Tory MP complains about illegal rave – Britain tries not to laugh…

Ears To The House Team 6 June 2022

A prerequisite these days of being a British Tory MP is a complete inability to be able to see themselves and to defend literally anything that the leadership does, no matter how monumentally stupid...

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Is the war in Palestine over? The changing attitudes of Peggy Gou…

Ears To The House Team 26 May 2022

Those of you reading this site in November and December last year might remember we published several articles about MDL Beast Soundstorm – a festival paid for by the government of Saudi Arabia to...

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Nastia, Nina Kraviz and the interview that never was…

Ears To The House Team 23 May 2022

So since Ears To The House went on a sabbatical to make the changes you see before your very eyes today, a few things have happened in the world. The Russians staging what they...

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Are the Irish government trying to destroy the nightclub sector entirely? That’s the effect the midnight curfew is likely to have after Covid rules previously closed them for 586 days…

Ears To The House Team 28 November 2021

When I’m writing headlines for this blog, I always try to follow a few rules. I try to make sure that the banner actually reflects the content of the post underneath it. There are...

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Do these people think they work for the mafia? Crispin Hunt, campaigner for #BrokenRecord, given sinister warning “dark forces are out to get me” after pointing out UMG boss Lucian Grainge’s obscene £150million pay for 2021…

Ears To The House Team 15 November 2021

Back in 2002, a butler to the British royal family, Paul Burrell, was charged with stealing a number of Princess Diana’s possessions. The case came to court, but was dropped a few days later...

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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?

Ears To The House Team 6 September 2021

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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Texas promises $10k to anyone who shops a woman seeking an abortion attacks – isn’t it time DJs from the dance music world made their disapproval clear to see, or do they care more about their bank balances?

Ears To The House Team 6 September 2021

Anyone who cares about women’s rights should be extremely concerned about what’s happening in Texas right now. With the support of the US Supreme Court, the southern state has made abortion illegal in all...

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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?

Ears To The House Team 1 September 2021 1 Comment

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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As Northern Ireland eases some Covid restrictions today, why are they the only part of the UK that does NOT mention nightclubs in their plans?

Ears To The House Team 30 July 2021

As I’ve said time and time again on this blog, the dance music press typically only cares about what happens in London – mostly because they’re based there and it’s easy for them to...

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Is this what’s in store for England in August? The Netherlands reimpose Covid restrictions just two WEEKS after their own “Freedom Day”

Ears To The House Team 11 July 2021

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware of a post that I wrote on July 2nd. In it, I detailed how clubbers were being lined up to take the blame for the...

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Nightclubs in England can (probably) reopen on July 19th – let’s hope we don’t end up with a Covid disaster of Dutch proportions, eh?

Ears To The House Team 6 July 2021

Things are as clear as they usually get under the truly pathetic Johnson administration now – nightclubs in England will be, barring some last minute change of mind on the PM’s part, able to...

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Is someone in parliament reading this blog? Barely 24 hours after I ask what’s holding up the Events Research Programme, the question pops up in the House of Commons!

Ears To The House Team 22 June 2021

When I’m on my laptop later, I must check if any IP addresses who visited this blog in the past 24 hours originate from the British Houses of Parliament. Either someone in Westminster visits...

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Is mass law breaking REALLY likely to happen if England’s June 21st relaxation of Covid rules is delayed – or is it just a case of letting off steam?

Ears To The House Team 11 June 2021 1 Comment

There’s something weird in English water at the moment. I say specifically English, because – although there are signs of it in the UK’s Celtic nations too – people are starting to go a...

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As British musicians are told they can tour in the German principality of Liechtenstein, just HOW are they supposed to get their stuff there? And are the locals pining for British music anyway?

Ears To The House Team 10 June 2021

Before Brexit came along, going to Liechtenstein would have been little different in logistical terms to going anywhere else in the European Union. You could just load up all your stuff in a lorry,...

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Wales decides to keep Test and Trace until next year to crush post-lockdown outbreaks – so is Boris Johnson going to listen to such a sensible plan?

Ears To The House Team 2 June 2021

There is much frothing at the mouth for the Covid deniers and anti-vaxxer dingbats this morning. Whilst Boris Johnson rushes to get England out of lockdown entirely in less than three weeks, Wales is...

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