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The Haçienda Disco V Fiasco!

by on 19. Apr, 2012 in DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Manchester, The Eighties

Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or cry! Following on from February’s post about the extraordinarily ill-conceived Haçienda DJ Booth (original side of stage location), I’ve since found out something that takes the entire bungling tale, as slapstick as it already was, into a whole new realm of ineptitude!

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Sub-Sonic Force

by on 04. Apr, 2012 in Black Culture, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, The Eighties

When I was in Adelaide in February I received an email from DeFacto, the Nottingham based creative agency whose accounts include the Fred Perry clothing brand. They’d already approached me to appear at one of the monthly Fred Perry Subculture nights they hold at The Garage in London, presenting Reels Of Steel for the first time in the capital, so we’d been discussing a possible line-up for a date later in the year. However, they’d just learned of Afrika Bambaataa’s availability for their 20th April date and, quite rightly, saw this as a perfect fit with me, given my Electro-Funk background, with Bambaataa very much a key inspiration (not to mention that, as serendipity had it, this was exactly 30 years on from his era-defining single with the Soul Sonic Force, the mighty ‘Planet Rock’).

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Eve Arnold

by on 10. Jan, 2012 in Black Culture, Fashion, Photography, RIP, The Fifties, The Sixties

The acclaimed American photographer, Eve Arnold, died last week at the grand old age of 99. Best known for her photographs of Marilyn Monroe (taken over a 10 year period), especially those on the set of her final film, ‘The Misfits’ (1961), she had unrivalled access to the movie icon with her shots, often candid, capturing the human side of the Hollywood legend.

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Remix, Cut ‘n’ Paste, Mash-Up and Edit

by on 07. Dec, 2011 in Documentaries, DVD, Hear, Records, Remixes / Edits, The Eighties, Video

As I navigated the winding country lanes on my way to the M5 from Minehead, where I'd been playing the Sunday night 1.00am-3.00am closing slot / graveyard shift at the inaugural ‘House Of Fun’ weekender, I was pleased to discover that there was a programme on the radio about the JFK assassination 48 years ago in 1963. Always a subject of fascination, this would help me whittle away half an hour of journey time as I weaved onwards towards the motorway.

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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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Hazy Cosmic Jive

by on 07. Oct, 2010 in Hear, Mixes, Records, The Seventies

Beats In Space, the cult New York radio show hosted by Tim Sweeney, has a dedicated audience of groove aficionados, and is held in high regard by the underground dance community worldwide. Tim asked me to do a mix for the show as far back as 2006, but a US tour that was in the pipeline never materialised, so the idea went on the backburner and, although my intention was to find the time to do something special for the show, life moved on and, before I knew it, it was 2010.

With a series of upcoming dates in the US providing the motivating factor, I seized the opportunity to finally get this nailed and, I’m pleased to say, the mix was broadcast on September 28th, just over a week ago.

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