Judge Jules has accused a Sunderland club promoter of surreptitiously recording his set last weekend and this week apologised to fans for walking out of the club after just 20 minutes.
“About 5 tracks into my set, I found a hidden high quality mp3 recorder, secretly recording my set without permission,” Jules reported in a statement posted on his online blog.
“This is strictly prohibited by the contract, as earlier in my career I had a big problem with promoters secretly recording my sets and selling them, I can’t find a better way to explain things, other than saying that the promoter was totally taking the piss. I immediately stopped my set and left the club,” he explained.
Jules’ decision to leave mid set happened on the same night that indie rock icon Morrissey walked off stage just 9 minutes in Liverpool after a fan threw a pint of beer at him which hit him on the head. Jeff Mills was similarly targeted in Liverpool when he DJed for Yousef at one of Circus parties two years ago, prompting an angry response from the Liverpool promoter/ DJ.
“Jeff didn’t get a bottle throw at him; Jeff got a plastic cup thrown at him,” Yousef told Skrufff, following the incident.
“It was launched by a techno purist who decided he didn’t like the fact that Jeff played the original version of Strings Of Life. Jeff let it slide once, then the same techno purist did it again. Needless to say Jeff was not having it. He switched the music off and explained to me what had happened,” he said.
“Personally if someone did that to me, the music wouldn’t have been switched off, the purist would,” Yousef added, “I eventually got back on the decks and turned the night around so it worked out okay. We did get a lot of negative press but shit happens,” he noted.
http://tinyurl.com/denvnj (Jules in full: ‘Only once before in my career (around 15 years ago) have circumstances forced me to stop djing mid-set and abandon the turntables, in protest at treatment received by a promoter or venue. This happened (for the second time) in Sunderland on Sat 7th. To set the scene . . .')
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