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Pete Tong tour: Chicago, Toronto, and Washington DC

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Onto the final stage of my tour and I am playing in three cities with a strong dance music heritage, and two with Obama power.

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Pete Tong tour: Las Vegas

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Travel observation of the day. Why are there no Pharmacy’s or camera shops at US airports? Ever noticed that? Is it a illegal or something?

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Pete Tong tour: Mexico and Los Angeles

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Bad weather forced Pete Tong to make an unscheduled stop in San Antonio, Texas, this weekend, but he still managed to make it to Mexico for a Day of the Dead party, and to Los Angeles for the 12th annual Monster Massive Halloween bash.

Click through to read how his Halloween weekend went.

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Pete Tong tour: Miami, Austin, and Denver (sort of)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Pete Tong meets two nuns who want to start a rock band in Miami, discusses the results of the DJ Mag Top 100 poll (he expected a certain Frenchman to win), reveals his current DJ set up, and cancels a gig in Denver due to a horrendous snowstorm, all in this blog dispatch from the North American continent.

Plus he reports back with some killer tracks that did wonders for him during his club sets.

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Pete Tong tour: New York

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Britain’s Pete Tong landed in New York City last Sunday for the start of a two week North American tour.

As usual the dance music treasure is keeping the Beatportal community up to date with his thoughts and tales from the road throughout his trip.

Read on for Pete’s first post from the road, which includes three bombs straight from the floor of Cielo.

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Pete Tong’s Ibiza 2009 and Top 10 chart

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

A funny thing happened to me the other day. I went for lunch at my favourite beach restaurant in Ibiza and someone had taken my reservation pretending to be me!

The owner was not at his usual post and the blaggers managed to fool his understudy. Despite the mild annoyance at the time, my sense of humour returned when I was relocated and I almost felt like taking them a bottle over later and giving them a hand slap for the cheek of it! Go on my son!

I’m telling you this because it’s indicative of the type of summer we are having in Ibiza. Everyone’s ‘at it’, some for the better, some for the worse. You need your eyes and ears peeled. Ticket prices, drinks, guest lists, things are not always as they should be.

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