jonattonyeah That’s just baffling to me - a DJ playing multiple gigs across different cities. It’s obviously doable over there (and seemed common). The geography, the space between cities, over this way makes it unheard of, really.
They must’ve made loot.
There were a whole bunch of DJs that got (somewhat disparagingly) called ‘The Motorway Jocks’ in Mixmag. People less famous (at the time) than Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong etc, who could presumably pull in a big fee for just one set.
It was people like Tall Paul, Seb Fontaine, Sonique, Allister Whitehead et al - sort of the ‘next rung down’ in terms of fame (in the UK) at the time.
Any weekend you could see them on three-four different flyers. Tall Paul used to do GodsKitchen on a Friday (early set, resident for a while) and the Gallery @ Turnmills (his dad owned the place and he was resident and always played a very late set, like 3am till 5am or something), somewhere like Cream/Passion/Slinky/Golden on the Saturday (possibly two - an early set somewhere then a late set somewhere else). They would just be driven up and down the motorways all weekend. Sounds quite a miserable existence.
They were making bank though. How much were DJs like that getting paid per set at the time? Maybe £5,000? £20,000 for a weekend’s work is not bad.
