The End Is Nigh- The Prodigy's Dad House: Electroclash Still Not Dead: Homelands Loves Live: Vin Diesel's Tunnel Vision

"Clubs are hugely important but if you only have clubs things get stale. I'd be worried if Fabric, Turnmills and the End were the only places to go out in London." (DJ Magazine)

The End co-owner Layo is impressively honest about London's need for free parties and underground clubs.



"That kind of Ibiza music, that shit that Pete Tong plays, I hate that shit. I sound like my Dad, but it's fucking music by numbers. The lack of imagination does my brain in." (The Guardian)

The Prodigy's Liam Howlett continues his crusade against house music.



"What is still big- I can report from the streets- is two-toned hair, dyed one colour underneath and another on top (preferably one of the tones is dark and the other blond)."

Sunday Times Style hackette Bethan Cole predicts 'the style hangover from electroclash is not about to go away." (Sunday Times)



"A few years ago, when I started promoting the Homelands dance festival, I could get 40,000 kids in and the idea of a live band would horrify them. Nowadays it's half and half between live bands and DJs, with even Homelands playing host to guitars." (Guardian)

Mean Fiddler promoter Vince Powers says live music is benefiting from fewer big name DJs coming through.



"I was the ringleader, I guess I would try and avoid trouble. So if there were 15 guys on one side and nine bouncers on the other, if I could get away with negotiating our way out of it, I would." (Big Issue)

Hollywood hardman actor Van Diesel recalls working the door at New York night spot the Tunnel.


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