The festive season is still packing them in to the Bless. When I first went in, it took me a few minutes just to get to the DJ booth, it was so packed!
Again, a lot of requests for stuff that I’ve played before. This is both good and bad: good because it means people are [...]
Archive for December, 2003
The night started off slowly but soon picked up and turned out pretty brilliantly in the end. No trouble, good music and loads of people shaking their asses. Yes!
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George & Gertrude - Why British Gas Was Right To Murder Them
Published by December 23rd, 2003 in Rant.“The discovery of two pensioners who died weeks after their gas supply was cut off because of an unpaid bill of £140 led a coroner to call for a review of the law yesterday.
George Bates, 89, and his wife Gertrude, 86, were found on 18 October in the living room of the house they had [...]
Why You Should Be A Laptop DJ (and how to do it)
Published by December 23rd, 2003 in DJing, Geek and Rant.UPDATE! Screen grab from 24/9/08, please see end of post!
(This article was originally written in 2003, update at the end!)
It’s 3.33am. I should be asleep, tucked up and dreaming of Crimbo pressies.
But I’m still up and wired from DJing, which I got back from three hours ago.
Like most DJs, I started off as a [...]
The good news is that, as is apparent from every lowbrow comedy show, Saddam Hussein has been caught and will hopefully be tried for the atrocities he committed. Perhaps then the gassed Kurds, murdered Shiite rebels and other victims of his tyrannical regime will receive some posthumous justice.
The bad news is that posthumous justice [...]
My god! It’s the fullest I’ve seen the Bless in a long time. It was absolutely rammed. Hence, I had to play a lot of requests. In fact, I didn’t manage to play all the requests, there were that many.
I had some very lovely people come up asking what I was playing, and requests [...]
What makes a great pop band?
Is it an ease with catchy riffs, a lyrical dexterity, an innate understanding of rhythm? Or an effortless blending of all that?
Whatever it is, Komeda have got it. They’ve got so much of it, they should start lending the surplus to more disadvantaged groups.
The first time I heard [...]
First time I’ve seen them in ages and it was a storming gig. Good thing I had my ear plugs in.
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Bit of a hectic night, trying to see two different gigs in different venues before heading off to Screamadelica.
Malc was providing some sterling DJing upstairs at Susumi but I had to leave because it was so bastard smoky. That room is like being shut in a baked bean can with Dot Cotton and 400 [...]
Woah!
A very busy night tonight and therefore loads of requests of bands/tracks I’ve played before. But I still managed to fit in a lot of recent new releases. I think this’ll be more of a problem next week when everyone will be in a very Christmassy mood - I don’t want to appear too [...]