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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.

  • Dave Jenkins
  • 12 August 2012
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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.

 
 
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