Can one consider Perth ‘humble beginnings'? Maybe so if you're talking about the coffee company in the midst of taking over the world. And what does it feel like for a born and bred Western Australian boy to be driving this pop-culture juggernaut?

The hottest clubs on the UK is indeed where it's taking off again, together with those across Europe and North America — the places dance music trends for the coming party year are etched in stone.

It used to be cut and dried. We walked into a store and bought a 7-inch single or videocassette if we liked a song or movie. None of us had the means to reproduce it in the sort of numbers that would hurt copyright holders too much. But nowadays, an eleven-year-old on the family PC can copy and distribute anything to billions of otherwise paying customers.