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Jacquie Brown meets Boy George

Boy George is playing a DJ set in Auckland tonight, and Jacquie Brown caught up with him for a chat.

Boy George ‘paparazzied' in Auckland

UK singer, DJ and gay pop culture icon Boy George arrived in Auckland on Wednesday, and has already been paparazzied – while sitting outside Ponsonby Road's mixed hangout SPQR, says his minder.

Julian Haldane says he took George to SPQR for lunch. “It was funny actually, as we were sat there, George said ‘look behind you'. I turned around and there was a guy with a telescopic lens the length of my arm standing across the road. He was pointing it down the road, but every 30 seconds or so he'd point and flash it at us. We've been paparazzied!”

George enjoyed their ‘Citrus Bitch ‘ cocktail, “so we had a few of those,” says Haldane.

Yesterday afternoon George filmed interviews with Campbell Live and Nightline, scheduled to screen on TV3 this evening, ahead of his DJ set at Auckland's St. James Theatre tonight.

The R18 event will also feature Ministry of Sound DJ's Kid Kenobi and MC Shureshock, with a heavyweight local DJ line-up.

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British pop singer/DJ Boy George attending the launch night of 'Kylie - The Exhibition' at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, 06/02/2007 

dernieres photos diffusées du 2 fevrier dernier lors de l'exposition des costumes de la tournée de Kylie Minogue.

After years of rumours, Boy George comes to New Zealand for the first time ever to DJ at Auckland's St James Theatre on Friday 23 February. 

Djs: BOY GEORGE / KID KENOBE / MC SURESHOCK / DIRTY SOUTH To win a ticket to this ENTRY CODE: MOSBOY07 Tickets:Tickets are available now at the St James Box Office and Ticket Direct. Phone 0800 4 TICKET or book online at www.ticketdirect.co.nz  

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 The influential singer/songwriter/producer/DJ/author/journalist/actor/fashion designer/household name, who was outed as one of the 100 greatest Britons of all time in a huge poll conducted by the BBC, will be DJing at the massive Ministry of Sound event at Auckland's St James Theatre on Friday 23 February. 

 Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): Where are you at right now in terms of splitting your time between DJing and all the business?

Marc Vedo: “It's been an interesting start to the year, I've been looking after Slinky interests for a month now which involves running the label, for which we're just finishing off a compilation which is due to come out at the end of March. As well as marketing it, I'm also mixing it myself and that will be my actual debut compilation. Alongside that we're launching the Slinky record label which I'm fronting and looking after then on top of that we've got all the Slinky international events plus lots of tours up and down the country (UK). That's one project, then I've also got Koolwaters, which is my own baby, which has also been taking off. We've had so many different events popping up in the last few days from Shrewbury to Haverford West, in Wales. Nottingham, London. We're also currently putting together a massive tour for Boy George in Canada. I've just taken on a full-time guy for Koolwaters to handle a lot of that stuff. My other project is the Escape Club in Swansea which is the biggest club in Wales- I've just been made brand manager for there for the next two years, so I'm now having to develop that brand and take it forward.”

Skrufff: Have you had any periods in your career when you've had crises of confidence or gigs have dried up?

Marc Vedo: “Oh yes, but you end up coming out with more drive at the end of it.”

Skrufff: What kind of situations knocked your confidence?

Marc Vedo: “The whole Boy George bust incident in New York last year was a massive blow to be honest. We were touring the world, life was great, we'd just done three years of travelling with fantastic gigs then George went and got himself caught by the police in New York, as you obviously know. He cancelled three months worth of gigs following that, which was about 20 gigs which totally destroyed my plans for that three months. It also dented my confidence a lot, from a DJ point of view. Not because of the money but because you're at home at the weekend thinking ‘shit, I should be out playing, it's Friday, it's Saturday'. I wasn't so I started doubting my ability thinking ‘why aren't I out? Is it because people don't want me to play?'. All of those doubts crept in but the reality was that I was put in a situation through someone else's actions. That sounds like I'm shifting the blame but if George hadn't pulled out of all those gigs I would have still been DJing. So some insecurity crept in during that period.

Afterwards though I became even more determined and independent to make sure that I'm never going to be reliant on someone else like that again. I supported him for years and he exposed my name all over the world for years, which was hugely positive but I needed to learn a lesson which was I needed to stand on my own two feet which is what I'm doing now.”

Skrufff: Are you still friends with George now?

Marc Vedo: “I am, and we're going on tour again in April.”  

http://dancemusicblog.com/2007/02/19/dj-marc-vedo-interview

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