A booth with a view
These are my two favourite views from the booth of recent gigs. Wedding in Cornwall. As much as I love a disco light and a dancefloor, you can’t beat a beach. Fitting song (it was this or Belinda Carlisle’s Circle in the Sand, so think yourself lucky) 28 floors up in London town. Glorious greenery...
Oh! De Gaga
I love Lady Gaga. I think she’s amazing and bonkers and made pop interesting at a time when it looked like it was going a bit saggy. But I don’t want to smell like her. Although I’ve never met her, so maybe I do. Maybe she smells incredible. I don’t think she smells bad; she...
Olympic Fever
I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t have any symptoms leading up to the games. Quite the opposite in fact. I was all, ‘Transport will go into meltdown!’ ‘London will collapse!’ ‘How will anyone get to work?’ ‘Why can’t I walk down this road anymore?’ ‘Too much money spent on showing off!” (who am I...
Barcelona: me encanta
Yes, that’s probably dreadful Spanish and grammatically incorrect, but the sentiment remains. Barcelona: I love you. I’ve been lucky enough to go there fairly regularly for the past four years or so to play at the Guilty Pleasures residency at Razzmatazz. It’s not a bad life is it? Each time I try to extend the...
Palaces, Disco and Mud
I’m djing at a Palace tomorrow. Not THE palace, but A palace is good enough for me. It is in fact Fulham Palace. This is what it looks like It’s pretty. I thought all palaces looked like this (or a version of it with turrets and decorative balls): So I’ve learnt today to not presume...
Is my livelihood under threat?
Paris Hilton has turned her multi talented hand to the art of playing records. Clearly this is another area she will master judging by her debut: She can’t work out what speed to have her records at, but then that was something John Peel used to suffer from (playing 33rpm records at 45rpm). Not that she is...
All hail the Queen
Grace Jones at Gary Barlow’s can-I-have-a-knighthood-now-please Jubilee concert. Nothing about this is not amazing. Look at her. Look at her thighs. She is 64. Hula hooping and singing at the palace. AMAZING.
