He’s just turned into the BBC’s ‘spokesperson for a generation’ rolled out anytime wants a rent an opinion on Punk.
He’s not the only one, but it is a bit tedious
I have a suspicion that he has a self anointed nickname.
Shows, tours, fans. It’s horrific to read.
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Or, a 'performance '.
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They are taking a usb stick and some headphones to go and play other peoples music (unless Todd Terry) in a pub in Bradford. They are definitely not The Rolling Stones on tour.
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i’ve calmed down about it now, but i used to really hate that one-syllable musical slang. “ooooh, gonna play hot licks on my axe at the gig. just wrote some kill riffs!”
Noone’s done anything wrong so to speak but to expand on the flippant original post, I suppose it’s just that he never really had an operational sound system, is an industry player, pathological self promoter, and generally doesn’t pay the respects to all the humble legends that actually were, and are the working backbone and creators of reggae culture in the UK.
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There’s always one guy who says ‘Not a mobile phone in sight’ when someone sticks up an old rave video from the late 80s/early 90’s.
Yes, that’s because it was the late 80s/early 90s and the tech wasn’t readily available.
Utter wands.
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Didn’t her mum have a restaurant in Exeter??
Fireworks season. Diwali & Guy Fawkes, of course. But it’s just been weeks of it now.
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“people losing themselves in the moment instead of filming it” - how are you watching this, then…?
I mean I loathe a group selfie in the middle of the club as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend it wouldn’t have been happening thirty years ago if it could have.
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I know some guys here in the US who are big on the dance scene and the way they prepare a set is just the antithesis of what it should be.
Their rules are:
Start with your biggest song.
Plan every transition and record beforehand, even going as far as editing some together. From what I could tell there wasn’t any beatmatching, just drop after drop after drop and the microphone is very, very important to hype the crowd up,
I asked them what happens when the crowd isn’t into it, do they ever change their set and the answer was no. That’ll just be a bad show and that’s that.
It’s not very acid house.
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Christ, that sounds horrendous!
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Yeah, it shows from watching them. Apart from lots of pretending to twiddle knobs for no apparent reason, they never appear to be doing any actual work(DJing) up there. Norman Cook used to be a bit guilty of this. Seeing him DJ used to drive me up the wall, but you could see that many people love the larger than life stage presence approach.
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Possibly down to how a lot of nights are presented these days, DJ on a stage and everyone facing the front like a concert
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Yeah, a live music venue/Mexican restaurant. I never went.
Seem to remember him DJing on what appeared to be an ironing board during the Olympics opening ceremony.
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I think he is the last DJ on earth I would choose to listen to. I hope he is proud haha
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I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong to plan a set, Baldelli did it too and i quite fancy some of those live mixes. If it’s boring it’s boring but i believe you can plan a fun set if you do it right.
I agree but these are planned to the minute when they jump up on the table, what they say, etc. but to be fair to them the lighting and pyro are all preplanned as well so spontaneity isn’t really possible.