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bosstrabs Jeremy Healy really coined it early on. Remember reading in Altered State about him playing four gigs in one night at £5k a pop in 95. Fatboy Slim took it to a whole new level when he played four Cream nights on NYE 99. You’d have to pay me to watch them now!

    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.

      bosstrabs Kemistry & Storm

      Their DJ Kicks in an all timer.

      And yes that does not sound like fun.

        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.

            • Amps replied to this.

              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.

              • Amps replied to this.

                  Smallman1 Dave’s correct, but, putting that to one side for a moment:

                  When it’s your 10th flight of the week, there’s no lounge at the airport and no business class on the plane… everyone jumps in the car.

                    He did something with Smokin Jo on Ministry.

                    Dreadful minimal tech nonsense.

                    bosstrabs Apparently her driver was speeding/driving eratically and dislodged a cats eye that came through the windscreen and killed her.

                    I’m no detective but I’d doubt it was the fault of her own driver, had to come from a car in front dislodging the eye and sending it back. I remember reading about it at the time and thinking that would be such an unlucky way to go, just after you’d turned up the music and horsed in a line too. Final Destination type shit.

                        LT42 Yes, reasonable point, didn’t think when I was typing it.

                          Flying cats eye smashed through the windscreen and killed her instantly.

                            bosstrabs I noticed on Morillo’s wiki the other day that he supposedly sometimes played 30 gigs per month somehow.

                                Didn’t the back wheel come off the car driving Sasha to Gatecrasher from Liverpool on Millenium eve?