In the past, we’d never have been able to verify what exactly happened – the word of a cop against drunk party-goers will always be stronger with the public – but thanks to camera phones, a number of videos have been made available. Listen out for the tazer in the third video as a girl shouts “What are you doing?”, that’s the 14 year old boy being electrocuted into a corner by Officer Rodriguez. (incidentally that MySpace poster initially got shut down and had to open a new page)

Pitchfork has an interview with the band’s manager.

At least we can perhaps explain why Rodriguez was on his own… because all his colleagues were prepping for a sting on another club in the city the very next night.

I am so going to miss going clubbing when I move to the US, I’ll have to start listening to country music and going to line dances, my iPod loaded with techno. See them catch me :-)

All ticket holders were given a choice, get 20 francs back from the 35 they paid to see the support act and hear an indy DJ afterwards, or get all the money back and go home. It was hard to tell, but it appeared that at least half those that turned up wanted to stay and hear the Veils (or ‘ve whales’ as the Swissies call them) anyway.

If that had been my party, I’d have had records on as everyone arrived. If I’d been the Veils, I’d have taken the headline opportunity, played a longer set and tried to get the crowd jumping.

As it happened, we entered to a silence which carried on for half an hour. The Veils played the least dancy set I have probably ever stood up to see, and afterwards the DJ continued the stoned out slow tunes, refusing even to play a Libertines song for the disappointed fans. I was home by 1am. Just like the AVO Sessions…

But, despite being a viral, and being from Sony, Toon Crisis is actually rather good. As you would expect from a music player advert the ‘toons’ from Gogol Bordello are brilliant, setting a manic ‘Turkish bazaar’ background to the 2.5D shoot-em-up action. I’m definitely gonna get some of their track for my iPod :)

I haven’t had this much fun with a flash game since that monkey asked me to spank him…

I mean first of all, look at all that tobacco he's piled in, spare some room for the herb my man! Then he proceeds to spill most of it on the decks and overrolls it so it's mostly paper.

Clearly stoned from hash fumes before completion of the joint, our hapless hero fumbles the filter and then sheds so much gear onto his slipmat that he could have rolled that up and smoked it instead.

Ah, that's entertainment!

I've had Stanton's Final Scratch version 1 for a couple of years now, but its marriage with my PC has been a rocky one…

First of all, I needed to have Linux running on the PC for it to communicate with their proprietary sound card, the ScratchAmp which in turn connects to my turntables. Then I had to allow the software to analyse and create a waveform for every track I thought I might play, which takes some time for full resolution WAVs… and I can't do anything else in the meantime cos my PCs running bloody LINUX!

Finally ready to play some tunes, I discovered that the version of Traktor DJ Studio that shipped with the hardware has been emasculated. Worse, it's the only version that will run with the hardware. No loops, samples, nothing you'd expect to be able to do with digital tracks. I might as well have bought CD mixers. Which I did.

Having spent twice as much money as I wanted to, and still without the solution I desired, I was quite sick to discover what Rane Serato had come up with in Scratch Live. Simply put, it's genius.

The interface is not just better than Traktor, it's more powerful – the seemingly superficial act of rotating the the waveform displays and putting them together in the centre of the screen reveals a visual beatmatching technique that almost makes your ears redundant. Having just bought myself a Pioneer DJM600, I am doubly sickened to discover this new product integrates Serato scratch with a bloody nice mixer, and puts the most essential PC interface elements like samples and loops above the crossfaders.

So now I'm in a quandary. Do I sell Final Scratch and both my 4 channel mixers and get the 2 channel Rane and a new laptop, or build this little beauty into my existing setup and get to keep the DJM600s which I love? Suggestions and donations to the usual email address…

Though not an impossible concept, having heard some of their 'Beta' ringtones I am sceptical as to their efficacy. Even if they do work, for them to be effective your phone would have to be ringing almost all day – not something that will endear yourself to your chosen mate.

Good job they're not yet available on Jamba otherwise we'd all be falling in love with MTV ad-breaks every two minutes…

t's all under wraps right now so I can't blab the name (although the clue's in the title, Admiral). They expect to open in mid february, so I'll get details up in advance for my local readers. The venue is sweet – spacious central bar, enclosed beer garden out back and plenty room for comfy seating.

The DJ booth is all brand new equipment and will have sofas beside it so my groupies don't get tired. They're also planning wireless internet, which means I can hang out there in my spare time too!

Music style will be mostly Brit-pop, indie and alternative but I foresee a lot of requests for cheesy top 40 and classic pop which I'll have to slide in between the good stuff to keep the girlies jumping. It will be a process of education, refusing to play the truly awful shite while conceding to a few pop-hits and following them with quality tunes to drive the point home.

This will be a lot dfferent to my previous residency which was a nightclub and involved early-morning 8-10 hour sets which were exhausting and stopped being fun after about 4am.

I won't have to play any Latino music either, one of my pet hates! Another of those hates is being asked to operate the microphone… I hold the firm belief that DJs should be silent, all communication coming from the discs they spin – even spoken word. But a bar environment is not a club, so I'll be needing to make promotion announcements and birthday shouts to the crowd. One of the ideas forming in my head is to create a soundboard and some idents to use, like we do on the radio.

I'm also looking forward to remixing some of my favourite club tracks to work in a pub environment. Should be fun! More information as it becomes public ;-)