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1/2/2010 9:00 PM at PETE TONG
Villa Nightclub, Perth, Western Australia 6000
Cost: $55+BF
Deep breath. It’s the biggest, best, most exciting act to hit Perth this decade. Are you ready? Pete Tong. The world’s best loved and most listened to DJ is coming to Perth for the first. Time. Ever. Playing exclusively at Villa.
The most popular DJ in the world, Pete Tong has conquered each and every form of media and audio-visual mediums in existence. He’s created and played at thousands of live gigs across the world and is the host of BBC Radio 1’s ‘Essential Collection’ – the most groundbreaking and successful radio show of its kind and downloaded across the world more than any other. Ever. He spearheaded and remained a music executive at his own record label, FFRR Records (Salt ‘n Pepa, Brand New Heavies, Fine Young Cannibals, Orbital, Armand Van Helden, Carl Cox, DJ Icey, Jay Z, Sasha and so, so many more) and as a promoter, booked the Culture Club as one of his first acts at his own club before he turned 20. Before he rocked our eardrums, he ruled the written world as an editor at Blues and Soul Magazine.
Pete Tong is the man. He is the business. He is Lord of the Dance (real nickname).
If anyone would need any more convincing, Pete Tong is such an icon he is part of the English vernacular with the phrase ‘It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong’, where his name is used as cockney rhyming slang for ‘wrong’. It’s All Gone Pete Tong is also the title of a 2004 film which portrays a fictional DJ’s experiences as he realises he is becoming deaf – a film where Mr Tong briefly appears as himself, so indeed add movie star to this resume. And musical director – creating the soundtracks on films Human Traffic and The Beach.
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