Sasha @ Ministry 12th Nov

Dry-Tinder So remind me again, what has he earned?

The right to call in sick or put his family above all else because hes been at the forefront since the beginning, the pros vastly outweighing the cons but go ahead if you want to whine like an idiot.
Nobody on here or anywhere else for that matter condoned him for throwing a CD into the crowd, at least not that I saw. Kudos for shoehorning that into your post, I thought the issue was you claiming he chalked off a gig because be wanted to go to a football match? (Which you made up btw)

LT42

Being at the forefront of anything isn’t a good enough excuse to shake down your fans, which he has done time and time again. Actually I didn’t make any thing up. He also chalked off his gig at the Troxy earlier in the year. Why was that, oh yes, because he wanted to watch a fucking football match. And as people have previously stated it would sound a lot more legitimate if he had chalked off all of his gigs this weekend for family commitments instead of just the day Liverpool were playing at home. You sound like one of those sycophants that think It’s a crying shame that he hasn’t got a knighthood yet.

The problem is like any career path. You can aspire to do something and be passionate about it in the beginning, but most people reach a point where the shine wears off. In an ideal world, you would jack it in and just do something else, but if it is tied into the maintenance of your lifestyle, you’re gonna have to ride the waves where sometimes it is bearable and other times a massive ball ache. In Sasha’s case, he started his DJ career when it was a lot simpler and all about doing something that was about the ethos of rave. Now it is so commodified with social media stats, ticket sales etc etc it just makes it all about the business side.

This is based on the very limited things he said in interviews, but my guess is that after years of caning it and being in a high pressure career with huge demands on your time, that he had bouts of depression and anxiety that forced a review of his life and a reconciliation that it is just something he had to do if he wants to maintain his career, even if he would rather be doing something else musically.

I’ve dipped out of dance music a few times but I was able to because I don’t rely on it for my income. There’s a linked question about whether you should trot out mediocre crap if your heart isn’t in it, but I suspect that unless the bookings and demand for him dried up, he will keep it going.

he used to get so spangled at shelleys and train wreck really bad. Unlike Ratty who was a true professional. Also most classic sasha mixes which got exported down south from that era are actually dj vertigo.

Was a gent towards the ladies when he was calm though, I’ll give Alex that.

Eh? What Shelley’s nights were you at? I have no recollection of him having trainwrecks there and I went most weeks.
There’s probably 30 + tapes of evidence too and I’m going to say I can’t think of a single one on them either.
His most notable train wreck was at an MOS festival, Castle Morton from memory with Judge Jules in 92 and then he had a stonker at Tyrant in 97 which I was at where he puked up over, then passed out on, the decks and had to be held up by John Graham and Parks and Wilson, to carry on. Which he did !