I wish I didn’t have to keep banging on about vaccine passports, but life right now is just like a box of Christmas chocolates – whilst you don’t know which one you’re going to...
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That moment when you can’t work out whether they’re stupid or just trolling you: PR firm keeps sending this blog a new song to review – by someone called DJ G-String…
This blog is proud to stand on its own. I don’t pinch stories from other people, I write about things in exactly the way I see them, I make all the editorial decisions and...
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A place where vaccine passports are in force but not in law and a parliamentary debate gets abandoned at 9pm after five hours following elusive “legal advice” – where else but Northern Ireland?
What politicians decree and what the law says often don’t match. This is something that’s become increasingly clear over the past nearly two years now. In England, for example, vaccine passports are due to...
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No, he’s still a mug! Maceo Plex insists it was a PLASTIC cup he threw into Waring Beach audience, injuring a woman – and mentions (as if it isn’t plain weird) he likes to throw headphones into the crowd too…
This blog frequently talks about the fact that many of the big name DJs live on a different planet to the rest of us. They’re like this because they spend all their time on...
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What a right mug he is! Maceo Plex drinks from a glass whilst DJing in Brazil and decides to fling it into the audience – injuring a woman in the process…
This blog works on the basis that the majority of big name DJs are idiots. Many of them go around the world collecting huge amounts of money playing what is, at best, average music....
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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…
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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Does anyone have a time machine I could borrow? Mixmag post article inviting readers to workshops on building your own club – that happened three weeks ago…
People sometimes ask me how they often find dance music stories on this blog before the mainstream press pick up on them. The answer is quite simple. Because the dance music press are hopelessly...
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The latest contradiction at the heart of MDL Beast? They’re hosting a conference on helping out the region’s music industry – whilst their Soundstorm festival is stuffed full of foreign DJs!
The more I look at MDL Beast, the more baffled I become. This blog has been writing extensively over the past two weeks about their Soundstorm festival, due to take place between December 16th...
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So what was the point of all this “research” again? British government release Events Research Programme findings… over four MONTHS after removing most of England’s Covid restrictions…
There was plenty in the news yesterday across Britain. For instance, had the conclusion of the horrific trial which found a 6 year old boy called Arthur Labinjo-Hughes had been tortured and killed by...
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Noticed your fans don’t like your decision, have you? Jeff Mills deletes his SECOND defence on MDL Beast Soundstorm attendance – oh, if only a naughty blogger had taken a screenshot…
For people who work in quite a technology focused genre of music, DJs and such show a considerable amount of ignorance sometimes. Take Jeff Mills, for example. He became known as “The Wizard” due...
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Wonder if he’s related to Todd Terry? LGNDS in New York on December 18th has Steve Lawler, Boris – that’s the Russian DJ, not the British PM – and some bloke called Todd Tery…
Nervous Records recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Whilst a label surviving so long is certainly something to celebrate in this climate, what remains something of a mystery is how they’re still here. It’s certainly...
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Isn’t it nice to know Comical Ali found a new job after the Iraq war? Music producer who’s clearly never read this blog has come up with a novel way to end the UK garage schism – let’s just stop reporting on it…
Back in 2003 during the Iraq war, a figure whom the public quickly came to know was Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. He was the Iraqi government’s Information Minister and was known in the press as...
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Turns out even he has his limits! King of the anti-vaxxers Piers Corbyn has released a song comparing mask wearing to farting in trousers – and it’s so incredibly bad even Danny Rampling won’t share it…
Mr Danny Rampling – known as The Runny Dumpling in certain quarters these days, I’m told – is known for sharing literally anything which supports his narrative on the Covid situation. Which seems to...
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Breaking up is so hard to do, isn’t it, Patricia? Nyaera rose from the Transmat ashes earlier this year – but Derrick May’s ex-manager forgot to scrub the YouTube channel’s grubby history…
Earlier this year, mysterious things started happening within the Transmat Agency. All the artists on the roster – with the sole exception of Derrick himself – left suddenly. No explanation was ever provided for...
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Somewhere, a village is missing its idiot! Man who moved to flat next to iconic Night & Day café in Manchester’s Northern Quarter during lockdown complains about noise – from the Night & Day café…
There’s stupid, there’s really stupid and then there’s a special level of stupid only reserved for particularly dim-witted individuals. And the individual in this story well and truly belongs in the third category –...
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Do we need yet more reasons not to tune in? The Brit Awards tinker about with gender neutral categories – yet the biggest winners of this plaster sticking exercise will be four white men!
One of the things that bugs me about the times we live in is an increasing tendency to tinker pointlessly with the edges whilst not addressing the central problem. You see this in politics...
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