Top 12: Badly behaving DJs
Late and loaded in a Scandinavian city, Iranian prog-houser Omid found the club, got on the decks, rocked it, then headed to the promoter for his cash... only to find that while he had indeed rocked it, unfortunately it was in entirely the wrong club.
12 Omid 16B
Late and loaded in a Scandinavian city, Iranian prog-houser Omid found the club, got on the decks, rocked it, then headed to the promoter for his cash... only to find that while he had indeed rocked it, unfortunately it was in entirely the wrong club.
11 Rob Tissera
When cops gatecrashed his party, Kissdafunk's favourite son grabbed a mic and screamed, "If you want this fucking party to continue, keep the bastards out!" And they did… apart from one undercover bastard already in, who filmed it all. Rob got three months pleasuring Her Maj.
10 Dave Beer
The Leeds promoter may celebrate the idea of getting Back To Basics, but his own life tends towards the surreal. One DJ's missus left her hubby home alone with Mr Beer. On returning, she found Dave surfing down the roof of their house on an ironing board, wearing her lingerie. Gnarly!
9 Moby
Knocking back pills and crème de menthe? Yeah, big deal. Except Moby was 10 at the time. The booze was pilfered from his parents, the pills were for someone in a psychiatric hospital. Not surprisingly Moby had given up booze and drugs by 13 and eventually became a vegan.
8 Lisa Lashes
The world's biggest female DJ, Lashes always puts on a show. One night in Ibiza's Amnesia, she stage-dived from the 30ft high DJ booth, caught her foot in some loose rope and was left stranded, swinging high above the dancefloor like a twatted trapeze artist.
7 Bez
Once upon a time in New York, a music conference organised a Mancs vs Scousers pub quiz hosted by Bez. But Bez had ticked 'yes' next to the question about bringing narcotics into the country. Customs found he had indeed cunningly concealed some. In his pocket.
6 DJ Harvey
At the Meredith Music Festival, disco aficionado Harvey insisted on having a rare Bozak mixer. Luckily a kindly local lent his own, the product of years of sourcing and tweaking the device. Harvey then proceeded to smash it at the end of his set.
5 Grooverider
In clubland, Grooverider is a d'n'b legend. In Dubai airport, however, he was plain old Raymond Bingham and the authorities didn't look kindly on finding porn and a minute amount of cannabis in his record box. In the UK we call that a Friday night in. In Dubai it's a four-year sentence.
4 Seth Troxler
He may have calmed down of late, but young Troxler may never live down the psychedelic interview he gave poolside in Miami early in his career – wearing his girlfriend's knickers and talking about cleansing galactic souls while ducking to avoid imaginary bats swooping from palm trees. Acid house.
3 Sasha
How we love a DJ who walks it like he spins it. The morning after one typically barnstorming gig in Ibiza, Sasha was found upside down in a ditch in desperate need of a cuddle, cash spilling from his pockets and fluttering away on a Balearic breeze. He blamed it on too many shots
2 Fatboy Slim
Teetotal, healthy and carefree he may be now, but as a lad Norman Cook was a poster boy for misbehaviour. Our personal highlight is his tales of late nights banging the white stuff with some close friends – from off a railway line behind his house. Snow on the tracks indeed...
1 Brandon Block
Never mind the time he drunkenly thought he'd won a Brit Award and stumbled onstage to collect it. The 90s Ibiza superstar's descent into an ounce-a-day cocaine addiction is documented in his self-published biography The Life And Lines of Brandon Block: 'I was chatting to some girls on the terrace of BCM Mallorca when a piece of my septum fell out. Several of those lady friends vomited, while I calmly put the mangled piece of flesh, gristle, blood and white powder on top of an empty bottle of beer." Charming
