Lazy Dog claimed to end

LAZY DOG ENDS AFTER FIVE YEARS

After five untouchable years, Lazy Dog, the club night started by DJs Ben Watt and Jay Hannan in west London in 1998 is to end on May 16. It will be almost exactly five years to the day since Ben and Jay started their phenomenal success story at Notting Hill Arts Club on Easter weekend 1998, but acknowledging their joint desire to move forwards and onwards into new projects, they intend to part company and leave Lazy Dog at the top, a small pinnacle in the capital¹s clubland history.

Both Ben and Jay have laid the groundwork for a raft of new ventures. The first of these will be Jay's new Sunday night, which opens under a new name at the Notting Hills Arts Club on May 11, where he promises to continue the music and vibe he established in his own solo journeys within the Lazy Dog sound. Ben meanwhile, makes a clean break and will announce details of his new plans shortly.

Two final farewell parties are scheduled, embracing the venues where they have made their name: one will take place at the Notting Hill Arts Club on April 27, with the final event celebrating both their 5th Birthday and the end of an era at The End on May 16. Advance tickets for The End will be made available soon.

Lazy Dog almost singlehandedly invented modern Sunday clubbing in London, and has gone on to sell over 100,000 copies of its compilation CDs, Lazy Dog Volumes 1 and 2. It has spawned Ben¹s string of acclaimed remixes for Sade, Maxwell, Sunshine Anderson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sandy Rivera and Terri Walker, and inspired Jay¹s soon-to-be-released remixes of Jill Scott and Terri Walker. It has broken tracks such as Tracey In My Room, Kim English¹s Been So Long, Lone Cat and Kascade¹s It¹s You, It¹s Me. Ben and Jay have also thrown a succession of roadblocked spin-off parties at London¹s premier nightclub, The End, and toured all over the world, culminating in a show-stopping appearance at Miami WMC 2002 and a near-capacity crowd at the massive Wiltern in Los Angeles last December.