Tinnitus Trips Up Another Top DJ

Tinnitus Trips Up Another Top DJ

Big beat/ house DJ Jon Carter has cancelled his next three months of DJ dates after reportedly developing tinnitus (News Of The World).

The husband of celebrity radio DJ Sara Cox joins numerous other big name jocks to have developed the debilitating condition characterised by ringing in the ears, including Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter and Mauro Picotto, who himself took several months off last year.

"Mauro gets severe earache basically and the doctors are really worried, as I am, about long term problems for his hearing," Mauro's manager Jake McNeill told Skrufff last year.

"It's been an ongoing issue for quite some time, basically it's been brought on my too much flying and too much listening to loud music, just general pressure on his ears, his doctor's are concerned about him developing tinnitus," he continued.

"He wears those special earplugs but he's only started wearing them recently. Hearing is one of your senses and they'll come a time when every DJ is going to want to hang up their headphones and get on with a normal life," Jake predicted.

Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter quit DJing altogether because of tinnitus problems two years ago, explaining "I've given up because I want to protect my ears, music is too loud in clubs' (Mixmag), though according to Slam's Orde Meikle has now recovered sufficiently to return to making music.

"I think he's better now and they're working on the third album, but he had a bit of a scare and thought he'd damaged his ear and had to take obviously reasonably drastic steps to see how bad the damage was," Orde told Skrufff last month.

"I don't think it was as bad as he at first thought. So as far as I know they're back in the studio," he said.

Jon Carter regardless of this is about as reliable as British Rail

in jon carters case it's nowt to do with flying or loud clubs it's the loud wife

He takes being thumbed to another level....

mauro turns it up louder than any dj i've ever seen

gg 02 the sound guy came on and made him turn it down, when he fucked off, mauro cranked it up even more than it was before, probably the loudest ive ever heard music being played, his rmx of born slippy at that volume tho

did Jon Carter Play Liquid recently?

Funny as fuck that mind mate.

cool. I hope your still laughing when you loose your hearing.

We will sort the volume out at Twisted from now on for fucks sake.

What do people want fucking set on walkman speakers ??

When its far from noisy then people complain, when its too loud people complain

I have been to Promise / Gatecrasher / Amnesia in the past and had my ears ringing for days afterwards but i just deal with it...

Some people are just fussy as fuck....

haha....how angry have you all been this week?

Just from what people can gather on the board, is it dark where your head is ??

haha...im jusy having a bit of crack. Its fukkin boring when eveyone just bums each other. at leat its only my own arse hole im invading.

time to get those earplugs fitted

Exactly. A load sound system doesn't necessarily mean a good sound system. Liquid, for example, seems to be far too bassey (sp?) for my liking. On the other hand, the Mono system isn't quite bassey enough (hence why we've just bought two brand new subs and a new amp! ).

I think the liquid sound system is one of the best in town!

However, its VERY loud, and as such, I never go in without earplugs.

Theres no excuse to moan about it being too loud, if (like me) you are concerned about your hearing or just generally don't like it so loud, take earplugs.

At £15 (inc delievery) for 200 pairs, it's hardly going to break the bank.

The sound guy at Privelige was also telling Mauro to turn it down I believe

Remember when Picotto blew a speaker @ Promise/GG last October