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Whatever Happened To The Soul?

by on 27. Oct, 2011 in Black Culture, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Hear, Records, Remixes / Edits, The Eighties, The Seventies

Earlier this month Leftside Wobble shared an edit of Man Friday’s ‘Love Honey, Love Heartache’ on his SoundCloud. I left a comment highlighting the history of this track, which read as follows:

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Manchester Vibes In The Area

by on 11. Oct, 2011 in Black Culture, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Interviews, Manchester, Remixes / Edits

Last April the city was once again where I went to try out a new idea - Reels Of Steel, where a further visual element is introduced whilst I DJ , the chosen venue being the recently refurbished Band On The Wall. I’ve since presented Reels Of Steel at Glastonbury and Bestival, and I’m back at Band On The Wall for a second instalment this Friday. This quartet of appearances are the prelude to the full launch of Reels Of Steel next year, giving me the opportunity to further develop the idea and iron out any rough spots in the process. Here’s some footage from last time that’s just been uploaded onto YouTube:

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Music Is Better Re-Edited Highlights

by on 27. Sep, 2011 in CD’s / Digital, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Hear, Manchester, Mixes, Remixes / Edits

Just dug out a copy of the Music Is Better CD, a limited edition of 500 that followed my DJ comeback on December 20th 2003 at the Music Is Better night in The Attic, Manchester. It’s now been made available on my SoundCloud as exclusive content (which means you can’t see the waveform to stream/download unless you’re signed in).

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Legend – Manchester’s Other Club

by on 23. Aug, 2011 in Black Culture, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Hear, Manchester, Records, The Eighties, Video

For my 100th blog post thought I’d flag up another personal anniversary this month.

Everyone has heard of The Haçienda, but not many people know about Legend, which could well be described as Manchester’s other club of the 80’s – I was fortunate enough to be associated with both.

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Vintage Trilogy

by on 10. Aug, 2011 in DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Hear, Mixes

I’m back in London this weekend for the 2020 birthday party at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Sadly, given the events of recent days, I’m anticipating a very different London to the city I was in at the end of July for the Vintage Festival at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. I don’t think the capital will ever be quite the same again after what happened (I say happened in the hope that we’ve seen the worst of it now).

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Glasto Wow Downlow

by on 28. Jun, 2011 in DJ Appearances, Hear, Mixes, Video

Made my Glastonbury debut last Friday – a double-header kicking off with an evening appearance on the Wow! stage, before heading across to NYC Downlow for a late slot. Mixes from both have just been added to my SoundCloud page and are now available to download. The first is the full two hour recording from the Wow!, the second is the majority of my appearance at the NYC Downlow (missed the opening 15 minutes because I was trying to sort out a problem with my reel-to-reel).

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Festival Time

by on 14. Jun, 2011 in DJ Appearances, Hear, Mixes

Festival season is about to hit full swing with Glastonbury next week. My schedule between now and the end of July is as follows:

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Those Tokyo Cats Know Where It’s At

by on 18. Nov, 2010 in DJ Appearances, Hear, Mixes

Just returned from my third trip to Japan in the past couple of years, flying into Osaka for my first gig in the city (at Sound-channel) before taking the bullet train to Tokyo for two further appearances, at Seco Lounge on the Saturday and, forty eight hours later, Grassroots.

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San Fran Celebrates

by on 04. Nov, 2010 in DJ Appearances, Hear, Mixes

I’m writing this on the flight back from the US. It’s been a whirlwind nine days, with gigs in Boston, Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, Los Angeles and, concluding the tour, the spectacular Sunset Halloween Boat Party aboard the magnificent San Francisco Belle. Halloween is a big deal in the US, and nowhere more so than San [...]

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Bestival Betrothal

by on 15. Sep, 2010 in Animation, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Hear, Mixes, Remixes / Edits

I received an unusual request from Matt Lund via my SoundCloud page a few weeks – he told me that he’d got together with his girlfriend whilst I was playing at Bestival last year, in the Rizla Arena, and had decided it would be the perfect time to propose to her during my spot twelve months on, this time in the Bollywood Tent. He asked if I could play the edit of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell’s ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ (aka BT Edits ‘Mr Marvin & Ms Tammi’), which he’d heard me play in 2009 and has been such a showstopper for me during recent years (thanks to Michael Cook for putting me on to it). That would be his cue to get down on one knee and pop the question.

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