The Pete Tong DJ Academy

Will probably get a lot of criticism, but if I was younger and had the time/money I’d be interested in this. Maybe not from Tong directly, but imagine an hours tuition with Carl Cox ? Would be helpful for sure

Pete Tong teaching me how to beatmatch? TAKE MY MONEY!!!!

I don’t like any of their DJing (Tong, Cox and JJ). Could never understand the deal with Jamie Jones other than track selection. The same with Cox. When he played at bedrock it was dreadful. One track prog, one track techno, repeat. It didn’t work and brought an awful crowd.

Old-Dutch I remember a group of us listening to an essential mix that had Pete Tong doing a bit and we were genuinely impressed he managed to do a mix in time given his reputation. Then one of my mates said, “Yeh, but he’s probably sweating it out with 20 beat matchers in front of him.”

Tong must’ve been breathing a sigh of relief when cdj’s & sync buttons turned up.

I’ve got a lot of time for Tong, he’s done a lot for the scene - however I saw him at a festival last summer. He came on i think 5th or 6th on the roster. Every DJ up to that point had 100% flawless mixing, all software based of course. Tong comes on and of course his very first mix had a beat clash! I couldn’t help but grin a little

Saying that - the quality of the tunes he played was an improvement on those DJ’s before him, so it wasn’t all bad

gcw sounds like a top festival alright. What time did Mr Tumble come on?

Jamie Jones has got some audacity being on that

Millsy the headline act was Faithless, and then on the day it turned out to be Sister Bliss with ‘a Faithless inspired dj set’ which turned out to be an insipid set of average house and then Insomnia tagged on the end

gcw fucking hate Faithless. Garbage.

Millsy fucking hate Faithless. Garbage.

Totally agree. Maxi Jazz was 54 when he was talking over Insomnia. Dogshit, all of it.

Smallman1 Saw Sister Bliss at The Cross years ago and she was good.

Cheers!

She always looked like one of those rough-faced 40 year old birds from a council estate.

The sort that would tell you to ‘fuck off’ when you reminded her ‘today is bin day’.

They were great at GCSSS in 01 or 02.

Sister bliss has been on tinder hasn’t she? Got caught being a bit economical with her age.