Over the weekend, my inbox has been deluged by people getting in touch about the news Derrick May is due to perform at Shelter’s 30th birthday party on September 17th. A number of the...
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Sterling Void celebrates his birthday by raising money for a children’s hospital – but with his big day being 2 weeks away and a piddly £146 target, is Duane up to his old tricks again?
Regular readers might recall the particularly bizarre story of how Sterling Void wanted to raise $152 to pay for his mother’s funeral – after she suffered the terrible misfortune of dying for the second...
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All that sun must be going to his head! So, what did Danny Rampling do on the day England’s lockdown lifted? Er, he went to an anti-lockdown protest to demand lockdown was lifted…
Say what you like about Danny Rampling, but when it comes to keeping up with the news, there’s truly no beginning to his talents. On Monday, he attended yet another anti-lockdown protest in central...
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Keep on playing, Father Billy O’Dwyer! Father Ted favourite won’t be affected by South Korea’s latest peculiar Covid restriction…
In a classic 1996 episode of Father Ted, Ted discovers a leak in the parochial house roof. He comes up with the idea of holding a raffle, and obtains a car as a prize....
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Bet he’s wishing he’d just backed the Italians instead! The American DJ complaining about British colonialism – yet who also supported England’s Euro 2020 bid to get more bookings…
Okay, I admit it. This one would be the perfect Wednesday Whisper – but the column’s full up for the next six weeks. So it was either post this in September, or today. So...
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Isn’t it strange you forgot to mention these details, Christina? DJ Empress ranted about a New York promoter being “sexist” – but the truth portrays her in a VERY different light
DJ Empress won’t welcome the attention this post will bring. Apparently, she’s decided to stop talking about it because “it’s not part of my mindset of abundance” – which, roughly translated, means “I’m going...
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Save Our Scene UK are holding a temper tantrum in London this weekend with a star-studded (well, ish) line-up on – but what point are they actually trying to make?
Since the announcement from the government last Monday that England’s “Freedom Day” was being postponed, a lot of seemingly sensible music types have lost their marbles. The Twitter feed of the normally well-mannered Low...
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Where artists can owe labels money (albeit on a technicality) – a glimpse inside the weird world of releasing music from personal experience
Some of you might not be aware of this, but I’ve been making music for the past five years. That endeavour is currently on a hiatus whilst I get this blog to where I...
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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?
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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Would you really bereave it? Washington’s Bobby McKey’s piano bar denied payout by government fund – and I bet you’re dying to find out why!
We may all speak different languages and live in different countries, but there are some things universal to the human experience, no matter where we are. We are all born, we all die in...
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Aren’t there already millions of sampled clap sounds online? Yet another pointless plugin is released to help producers waste time trying to make that “perfect” clap sound
This is one for those of you who have more money than sense – and let’s be honest, there’s more of them in dance music than anyone would admit. You can now actually buy...
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He sure is taking a long time to fix his sink! DJ Sneak’s day of freedom from Traxsource slips further away
Since January, this blog has been helping DJ Sneak to keep to his vow. He effectively made it his New Year’s resolution to have all his music removed from digital stores. And I thought...
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EXCLUSIVE: Just what was the setup for Derrick May’s orchestral shows? Technical rider comes to light – but with no mention of whether the man himself can play
With May’s recent failure to complete a challenge where he had to prove that two instruments playing in a different key on the same song wouldn’t result in a horrific mess, the question has...
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The fall and fall of Danny Rampling: his journey from okay-ish DJ to full-on Covid denying conspiracist
Those of you of a certain age will probably know Danny Rampling as that DJ who used to have a show on Radio 1 called “The Love Groove Dance Party” – a name that...
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That’s set the cat amongst the pigeons! Burning Man considering mandatory Covid jab to get in – as CEO claims they have a “civic responsibility”
The Covid deniers were right, for once. Which brings the number of things they’ve been right about during the pandemic to, let me check… one. When even a stopped clock is right twice a...
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What a load of clap!
I’m really thinking that I should make this into some kind of series. More and more frequently these days, I come across adverts for increasingly ridiculous plugins. I had a quick look recently at...
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