After five untouchable years, Lazy Dog, the club night started by DJs Ben Watt and Jay Hannan in west London in 1998 ended on May 16 2003 with a farewell closing party at The End in central London. It was 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 have parted company and left Lazy Dog at the top, a small pinnacle in the capital's clubland history.

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 spawned Ben's three-year string of acclaimed remixes for Sade, Maxwell, Sunshine Anderson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sandy Rivera and Terri Walker, and inspired Jay's 2003 remixes of Jill Scott and Terri Walker. It has broken tracks such as Tracey In My Room, Kim English's Been So Long, Lone Cat and Kascade's It's You, It's Me. Ben and Jay also threw a succession of roadblocked spin-off parties at London's 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 in December of the same year.

Ben and Jay would like to thank everyone involved since 1998, but in particular all the people who came to Lazy Dog over the years, especially all those who queued so patiently hour after hour in the line outside Notting Hill Arts Club, a gathering that became almost as famous as the club itself.

All the latest news on Ben Watt including DJ dates, record releases and events is now carried on the web site for his new record label, Buzzin' Fly.

For the latest news on Jay Hannan including DJ dates, record releases and events, visit his Underdog web site.

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