Keith Prodigy's Hidden Reality, Keeping Ice T Real, Groove Armada's Long Term Memory Problems, Ian Van Dahl's Benidorm Birth, Bill Brewster's Prissy Morality, Ibiza's Adultescents,

'An old chap here had his 80th birthday recently and that nice boy gave him a bottle of whisky. We couldn't ask for a better neighbour'
Keith Prodigy reinterprets Ice T's Bodycount classic There Goes the Neighbourhood (Loaded)


'I called him Tracy. And he hates being reminded that his real name's Tracy Marrow. It's such a terrible name.'
Cocaine dealer turned Brit TV celebrity Johnny Vaughan recalls interviewing Ice T (FHM)

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'I was in HMV the other day and I didn't even recognise it as our record for two minutes. It sounds weird but I was thinking 'That's a nice song' and then realised we did it.'
Groove Armada's Tom Cato admits he's 'lost contact' with the band's biggest hit to date, 1999's At The River (Jockey Slut)
Groove Armada's new album Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) is out on Monday September 11th on Zomba (UK)


'It was huge in Benidorm before it was anywhere else. Obviously everyone is playing it but the DJs in Benidorm have got a very commercial ear- they don't care how cool a record is, or how uncool. They just want to know whether or not it is commercial.'
Benidorm is the new (major label A&R) Ibiza, according to the sales success of Ian Van Dahl's cheese-tastic trance anthem Castle In The Sky (Music Week)


'It is believed that the reason we humans began to grow crops was not so that we could enjoy potato stew, but rather that we could get off our heads on psychedelics.'
Jockey Slut's veteran journo Bill Brewster pleads for aging anti-drug clubbers to 'keep their prissy morality to themselves' (Jockey Slut)

<http://www.jockeyslut.com>

'I've been going to Ibiza since I was 25- I'm now 33 but don't see why I should stop! I tend to stay somewhere a bit more plush these days, though.'
Giveaway phrases for spotting 'adultescents', advertising agencies' new term for the estimated 750,000, 26-44 year old British clubbers who still 'love to stand out in a crowd' (The Guardian)

<http://www.theguardian.co.uk>

Jonty Adderley

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