I'm not sure which names you are talking about (I could hazard an educated guess though!) but most of the artists we put on at the Holodeck have probably had their rate actually cut in the last decade....certainly it's not really gone up, and in at least one case I can think of we pay around half of what was first paid by a friend to a particular DJ in around '98. That may just reflect his pulling power or status though I suppose.

Certainly the big names - Clark, Cox, Vath, Picotto, Hawtin have probably had wider exposure to bigger audiences through Ibiza and so now probably command way bigger fees.....but we don't book those kind of dj's - too much of a risk in Cardiff and not really our crowd anyway...

Personally I think most 'name' techno DJ's normally charge around 5 - 800 quid for an average size venue which seems reasonable