All About Judge Jules
Judge Jules [Audio]: Still a wild DJ
by angy on August 29th, 2007
He's one of the most outspoken identities in dance music, and he's also maintained an enviable position as one of the most popular DJs around the world for over a decade. Love him or hate him, you can't ignore Judge Jules! [more]
Judge Jules weighs in
'Judge 'Jules' O'Riordan is undoubtedly fond of Australians, and our country. So much so that he's been here sixteen times at last count. ITM catches up with the shop-a-holic DJ for a chat on the eve of his tour with Two Tribes 2003. [more]
When you talk about "Old School" DJs one name appears at the forefront... Judge Jules (Better known as Jules Oriordan to his mum). He has been part of the music scene for more then a decade and is still one of the busiest DJ's and radio hosts in the industry. [more]
ITM's Raveprincess catches up with Superstar DJ Judge Jules on the eve of his impending Australian journey for Christmas and New Years. [more]
South American Dance Music Conference: December 2004
by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com) on January 10th, 2005
Jonty from Skrufff.com contributes his thoughts on the inaugural South American Dance Music Conference, held in Buenos Aires in December, 2004. [more]
The name Judge Jules is synonymous with the glasses wearing tattooed smiling superstar DJ. ITM's Nazzz investigates. [more]
Judge Jules vs Grant Smillie at the cricket
In one of the more bizarre cases of the dance scene's increasing commercial exposure, it's been revealed that outspoken UK trance DJ Judge Jules will be going head-to-head with our own man-of-the-moment Grant Smillie... at the cricket! [more]
Summafieldayze set times announced
Are you ready for Sunshine State's biggest dance event this summer? We hope so! But to get you even more in the mood, we've got the set times for the 12 hour event ready and waiting for you to drool over in anticipation. [more]
Summadayze Set Times
Summadayze takes place this Sunday, January 7th, at the Supreme Court Gardens in Perth. Spread over three stages, there's something for everyone amongst this MASSIVE lineup. [more]
Set times revealed for Sunbeats NYD at Coogee
UK superstar DJ Judge Jules is the big drawcard for this New Years Day party at Selinas near Cooogee Beach, and set times have just been released for punters who plan to be in attendance. [more]
Famed for his notoriously outspoken views on fellow 'superstar DJs' in the global dance scene, the Judge himself will be returning to Australia this summer to spend the holiday season sunning himself on our fair shores once again. [more]
Don't feel like going up against the swarms at other NYD events, but still want to continue the party from the night before (or maybe kick your partying off in style)? [more]
Summadayze returns to Perth in 2007 with an impressive line up of big names. [more]
If you like the idea of spending Christmas Day with a couple of thousand other party people on Bondi Beach, then you'll have no doubt heard about the Sunbeats party happening at the Bondi Pavilion. [more]
Following his headline set at Sunbeats in 2004, UK DJing legend Judge Jules will return down under in December for another tour, once again playing the Bondi Pavilion Sunbeats event on Christmas Day. [more]
Adelaide's favourite New Years Eve party returns this December 31st, with Adrenalin set to make a homecoming to St Pauls. This will be the first time Adrenalin has held an event at St Pauls in two years, and will be a party no raver should miss! [more]
Spending Christmas Day at Bondi Beach has become an institution for travelers and party-goers in Sydney for many years. Every December 25th the Bondi Pavilion is transformed into a massive party venue where people from across the globe can comes together and have some fun in the sun! [more]
Judge Jules talks up trance
Judge Jules headlines the upcoming Trance Awards at Ministry Of Sound’s Gallery tonight, Friday November 21st, and chatting to Skrufff he suggested a simple explanation behind the genre’s enduring popularity. [more]
Judge Jules joins global AIDS campaign
Judge Jules is to become an ambassador for AIDS awareness organisation Dance4Life, joining forces with Paul van Dyk and Tiesto in helping to promote safe sex around the world. [more]
Eddie Halliwell out of Radio 1
Britain’s #1 broadcaster Radio 1 have given Judge Jules and Kissy Sell Out better slots and dumped rave-tastic veteran Dave Pearce and trance star Eddie Halliwell in the latest programming changes. [more]
Superstars confess to dancing (badly)
Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers revealed he still enjoys going out dancing this week, and insisted he’s not self-conscious at all about fellow clubbers watching him. [more]
Boy George’s troubles escalated this week when he was served with a writ for £36,000 by a lawyer who dressed up as a clubber and handed it to him as he DJed in Manchester nightclub Essential. [more]
Judge Jules called on punters to dob on smelly clubbers this week, complaining that the UK’s recent smoking ban is causing people’s body odour to ruin otherwise great nights. [more]
The world’s most popular DJ Tiesto chatted about the secrets of his astonishing success this week and suggested fans love him for his honesty and his superior performance skills. [more]
Britain’s hugely influential radio station Radio 1 announced more changes in their late night schedules this week, concentrating their dance music shows on Friday night, leaving Saturdays to be filled with ‘black music genres’. [more]
Skrufff contributors Princess Superstar and Judge Jules returned from Miami this week and both agreed that this year’s Winter Music Conference was genuinely exceptional. [more]
US journalist Jean Carey labelled Paul Van Dyk, Fatboy Slim, Tiesto and Paul Oakenfold a ‘cold-blooded cadre of dinosaur DJs’ this week and suggested they face a ‘looming extinction’. [more]
South Coast clubbing organisation Slinky are seeking a new venue, after the owner of their home for 10 years, the Opera House, announced he’s rebranding the Bournemouth Hall as a ‘Victorian style’ comedy club. [more]
Judge Jules chatted to Skrufff this week about his upcoming artist album ‘Proven Worldwide’ and qualified a recent statement he made to new London magazine Base.Ad in which he said personality behind the decks made up 49% of what comprises being a go [more]
Dave Clarke, Judge Jules and Princess Superstar are joining the Skrufff team as regular contributors, sharing opinions, news and views about the club scene, club life and Skrufff’s regular diet of sex, make-up and music. [more]
Three British youths were shot and wounded, one seriously, in Ibiza’s San Antonio this week, after gunmen in two cars clashed on the clubbing resort’s seafront, on Avenida Doctor Fleming, close to Eden, Es Paradis and Manumission’s Bar M. [more]
Judge Jules played a wildly successful gig for Crobar in Beirut recently just days before the country was almost totally cut off by an aerial bombardment launched by the Israelis. [more]
Judge Jules brushed off questions about DJ earnings this week, telling Skrufff ‘I couldn't tell you if DJing's as lucrative these days, because I don't pay any attention to what I get paid- that's a matter for management. I just play my music.” [more]
Radio 1 announced this week that theyre to stage a whole week of broadcasts from Ibiza in August, transmitting 36 hours of dance music from the Mediterranean party island. [more]
A list breaks DJs including Stanton Warriors, Krafty Kuts and Plump DJs will be joining the likes of Christopher Lawrence and Eddie Halliwell at Judge Jules' latest season of Ibiza parties Judgement Sunday, which runs for 15 weeks from June 11. [more]
Pacha brand director Danny Whittle and Judgement Sunday promoter Judge Jules both lent their support to the construction of a new six lane motorway across Ibiza this week, despite thousands of local people demonstrating against the new road in massive protests at the weekend. [more]
Ultra-confident though much maligned Radio 1 star DJ Judge Jules has confirmed he'll be releasing a brand new solo artist album next Spring and also revealed that he's surprisingly sensitive to personal criticism. [more]
Mainstream newspaper Scotland On Sunday published a classic 'dance is dead' feature this week, using the recent turnaround in Scotland's live scene to launch a woefully inaccurate tirade against the country's still thriving club scene. [more]
Organisers of Argentina's second annual South American Music Conference (SAMC) have confirmed that this year's 25,000 capacity rave will be limited to house, techno, trance and prog, explaining 'those are the strongest genres in Argentina'. [more]
Judge Jules was criticised in a British court this week after neighbours of a Buxton hotel told licensing officials his 'noisy' set at the venue had ruined the tranquillity of the usually sophorific Peak District town. [more]
Radio 1 star Judge Jules chatted to Skrufff this week about his upcoming DJing trip to Thailand and revealed he's planning on being highly selective about which of the country's world famous tourist attractions he'll be indulging in. [more]
Following on from the successful launch of the inaugural South American Music conference held in Buenos Aires last year, this years edition is set to once again take place in the dance capital of Latin America. [more]
Radio 1 have confirmed details of the DJs spinning at their upcoming 12 hour special broadcast from Space Ibiza, which takes place on Saturday 13th August from 7pm to 7am (GMT +1). [more]
Judgement Sunday promoter Judge Jules chatted to Skrufff this week about the high cost of drinks on Ibiza and agreed that sky-high bar prices on the island remain a sensitive issue. [more]
Judge Jules chatted to Skrufff this week about the increasing selection of breaks DJs booked to play at his Ibiza weekly club Judgement Sunday this season and stressed the genre fits perfectly with the harder, faster dance music he remains best known for. [more]
Judge Jules narrowly escaped being crushed by a 200lb drunken woman just before Christmas as he and his family prepared for take off on a 747 bound for Australia. [more]
Judge Jules has categorically denied recent tales suggesting he's split acrimoniously with his Hi-Gate production partner Paul Masterton, telling Skrufff 'I don't know where these rumours came from'. [more]
Judge Jules told Skrufff he was present throughout the entire birth of his wife Amanda's baby girl Phoebe last week though revealed he didn't shed any tears. [more]
Famously fey fashion conscious DJ Judge Jules claimed that typical Australian male clubbers dress gay this week, and revealed that an unnamed local dance journalist agreed with his sartorial assessment. [more]
Judge Jules chatted to Skrufff this week as Ibiza venue Space prepared to kick off the new superclub season and revealed that he avoids the club's Sunday sessions including their fabled terrace courtyard. [more]
Radio 1 Executive Dance producer Matt Priest chatted exclusively to Skrufff this week about the major line-up changes taking place on the station from July and re-affirmed the station's long term commitment to dance music. [more]
Fresh on the heels of New Years Eve carousing, Summafieldayze was the perfect veneer to the celebratory seeing-in for 2007. The potential of seeing BK, Freestylers, Mylo, BodyRockers and more, was a booast to my enthusiasm...... [more]
The main stage was an impressive display, with a graphic screen providing accompanying visuals to the music, although perhaps some visuals left a little to be desired in a generation that expects their VJs to provide more than screen-saver league pac [more]
There are plenty of people for whom New Year’s Eve is simply a prelude to what is now Melbourne’s most popular way for hedonists to see in the dawn of a new year, Summadayze. [more]
It was everything else but quiet on New Years Day, and Sunbeats at Coogee Bay Hotel was no exception. Arriving there it was like a Kodak moment, with the beach views and blue skies. [more]
It is Christmas day on the shores of Australia's most famous beach - Bondi. There are families on the sand, couples in the caf and party people in the Pavilion celebrating a Christmas away from home as only they know how - by hitting the cans! [more]
Judgement Day had once again arrived for the Adelaide crew as Judge Jules rocked into Chemistry for a show which made me eat my words. [more]
Judge Jules - Proven Worldwide
Proven Worldwide is the highly anticipated debut album from Judge Jules. [more]
Various Artists - Judgement Sundays: The True Sound of Ibiza, Mixed by Judge Jules
For anyone who wishes they were in Ibiza, soaking it up both of these CDs will do their best to take you there without $5,000 sitting in your bank account. [more]
Another very good edition to the 'Clubber's Guide to...Ibiza' series of compilations from Minisrty of Sound. [more]
Judge Jules in Ibiza
Judge Jules takes us behind the scenes, giving us an insight into his busy life. Here we get a look at the Judge in Ibiza. Be sure to check out part 1 (in the kitchen) and part 2 (at BBC)! [more]
Judge Jules in the kitchen
Judge Jules takes us behind the scenes, giving us an insight into his busy life. Here we get a look at the Judge in the Kitchen! [more]
Judge Jules at BBC Radio 1
Judge Jules takes us behind the scenes, giving us an insight into his busy life. Here we get a look at the Judge in the studios at the legendary BBC Radio 1 in the UK! [more]