The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Fans pay £30 to see waxwork Calvin Harris (but can YOU tell which superstar DJ is real one...?)

- By John Dingwall

IT looks like a typical night for the world’s most successful DJ, standing behind his mixing desk amid a flurry of disco lights as the crowd goes wild.

But this Calvin Harris gig is far from ordinary – for the figure behind the turntables is not the Scottish superstar but an astonishin­gly lifelike waxwork.

And fans of the multimilli­onaire musician from Dumfries can now book tickets for a live show hosted by the lookalike dummy.

The real Harris, whose current single One Kiss featuring singer Dua Lipa has spent two months at No1, performs around the world and hosts a regular club night in Las Vegas.

From next week his wax replica, created by Madame Tussauds, will be drawing the crowds in New York and Berlin.

In Berlin, through the use of groundbrea­king augmented reality, visitors will be able to ‘rock the decks’ beside Harris or be part of the audience.

At Madame Tussauds in New York’s Times Square the waxwork will form part of a Silent Summer Club Series, with visitors paying $40 (around £30) to listen to electronic music on headphones while apparently dancing in silence in front of Harris’s static figure.

Tussauds says the series ‘will consist of three silent disco parties throughout the summer that will transport guests to the ultimate dance festival, rocking with the world’s biggest stars and a new Calvin Harris figure in a flood of neon lights and mind-blowing EDM music’.

Harris is one of three DJs, along with Steve Albini and Martin Garrix, to be given a wax clone, perhaps the logical next step for 34-year-old Harris who has raked in tens of millions for his work and now lives in California.

According to Forbes, Harris earned £34 million in just six months last year.

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