Did anyone go to this?
Along_the_Wire I was there. Fucking nightmare getting home.
Wasn’t it.
I had to get back to Hampton Court after.
Took me about 4hrs IIRC.
I was at the gig in Birmingham that Sasha did before he went down to play on the EM at Ally Pally that same night.
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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.
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.
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Also Kemistry (co-founder of Metalheadz)of Kemistry & Storm fame died on the motorway speeding between gigs, remember it well because I was in a club at the time and the DJ got on the mic and gave a minute’s silence before playing an absolutely sick d’n’b tune even though he was a house dj.
Apparently her driver was speeding/driving eratically and dislodged a cats eye that came through the windscreen and killed her.
I was over in east London that night raving to a load of drum n bass. That line up at Alexandra Palace looks superb
bosstrabs They where all at it for a bit, maybe for 18 months or so, and then people got fucked off with going to see Oakey, only to realise he was playing 10-11.30, and then fucking off to the other end of the country and do 2-4 or something at another club. Lots of them getting helicopters during the festival season too. Easy money though, and being sat in the back of a Merc isn’t that miserable compared to how hard most have to work for that amount of money. Beats sitting in an airport surrounded by whoppers.
Sasha would ask for and often get as much money as Oakie for just being exclusive to one club. He was rumoured to make £150k on NYE 99
Would I rather sit in a car to go and play in a club in a Liverpool or sit in an airport to go and play in a club in Ibiza?
Not the toughest of choices.
But Smallman, everyone knows Cream in its heyday knocked anywhere you’ve ever been into a cocked hat.
Amps They where all at it for a bit, maybe for 18 months or so, and then people got fucked off with going to see Oakey, only to realise he was playing 10-11.30, and then fucking off to the other end of the country and do 2-4 or something at another club. Lots of them getting helicopters during the festival season too. Easy money though, and being sat in the back of a Merc isn’t that miserable compared to how hard most have to work for that amount of money. Beats sitting in an airport surrounded by whoppers.
Saw Oakey playing to an only half-full student union, Perfecto Tour, he played around that time slot then fucked off somewhere. So all the idiots who had tickets but showed up late got Dope Smugglaz (Live PA) followed by Dope Smugglaz DJ set. LOL.
He did something with Smokin Jo on Ministry.
Dreadful minimal tech nonsense.
Along_the_Wire Always from that place.