international news _ 12th December, 2006
Oakey Dreams Of Ditching The Decks
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Paul Oakenfold admitted this week that he’s been making a ‘conscious effort
to move away from DJing’ for the last 3 years and is hoping to become a
Hollywood film producer instead.
"I still enjoy DJing, but traveling is getting me down a bit,” the nowadays
LA based British superstar DJ complained in an interview with the Glasgow
Daily Record, “I don't enjoy spending every single weekend living in
airport. It really does wear you out and stress you out."
London based Oakenfold peer Judge Jules was sympathetic, telling Skrufff ‘I
think being away from home territory every single weekend would be extremely
difficult. On average I'm only away about 5-10 nights per month, which is
workable.”
“The only way to deal with long haul touring is to have unglamorous two to
three hour naps constantly, often during the period when a promoter is
offering to take you out to dinner,” Jules added. “I'm always having to turn
down the offer of dinner in favour of pre-gig sleep. It worries me that
this will be perceived as rude, but the body wouldn't be able to cope
otherwise,” he said.
As well as moving into movie production, Oakenfold told the Daily Record he
hopes to spend more time with his family, a sentiment shared by DJ Tiesto
who last week admitted he ‘fantasizes about marriage and children’.
In a frank interview published on his own website’s forum, the Dutch
superstar spinner chatted about his recent split with his girlfriend of 5
years supermodel Monique and said he’s enjoying being single though hoping
to meet a ‘beautiful, intelligent woman’ in the future.
“But it should be an independent woman. Who doesn't wait on the couch till
Tijs (his real name) gets home,” Tiesto added, “Because often that's at 6
AM. Broken and empty. And I only want one thing: sleep.”
Paul Oakenfold also appeared in the list of Grammy nominations this week,
with A Lively Mind making the Best Electronic/Dance Album category, going up
against Zero 7 (The Garden), Goldfrapp (Supernature), Madonna (Confessions
on a Dance Floor) and Pet Shop Boys (Fundamental).
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