Original post here – http://undeleted.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/hip-replacement-4-hip-hop-by-chris-cuevas-atlantic/ IT WAS a long, sultry summer evening in Leeds, the kind of perfect night that just seems to go on forever until you blink and suddenly it’s midday. Nicki’s mum was having a party in the back garden of her house on Spencer Place. All manner of mad-heads, oddballs, students,… Continue reading Hardcore Leeds
Year: 2019
Recommended 1990’s Albums
Some of the best Indie and Dance albums from the 1990’s We were there. You may have been, or maybe you want to know what we were listening too. We’ll be doing a list of recommended oldskool mixes, but for properly released albums we wanted to reflect the breadth of music that was around. None… Continue reading Recommended 1990’s Albums
S’Express and Mark Moore
Melody Maker | Sidelines | 2 April 1988 Original Post here – http://www.pushstuff.co.uk/mmfeatures/sexpress020488.html S’EXPRESS FULL THEME AHEAD Do you ever get to see daylight, Mark? “Sure. Every morning. Just before I collapse into bed.” Mark Moore is a professional nightclubber. As a DJ at London venues like The Mud Club, Heaven, The Wag, The Fridge… Continue reading S’Express and Mark Moore
Love Decade
Original post here http://undeleted.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/feature-ten-years-on-from-love-decade/ [This piece originally appeared in The Big Issue in the North in July 2000] IT WASN’T so unusual that someone threw a party in Gildersome, just south of Leeds, 10 years ago. What was unusual was the fact that 836 people were arrested for attending it. The party wasn’t for anyone’s… Continue reading Love Decade
Mixmag – UNACCEPTABLE IN THE NINETIES
Original post. He’s wrong obviously. Mixmag | UNACCEPTABLE IN THE NINETIES. With the retooling of 90s-style house and garage by the likes of Disclosure, a 90s fashion comeback and a renaissance of 90s legends like MK, Sasha, Masters At Work and EZ, you might be forgiven that the decade before the millenium was the UK’s… Continue reading Mixmag – UNACCEPTABLE IN THE NINETIES
How Techno Unified Berlin
The Story of How Techno Unified Post-Wall Berlin | THUMP. How Techno Unified Berlin Gas masks and overalls worn at Tresor nightclub. Renovations continued right until the opening night. In some ways it was pure coincidence. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, there was already music from Detroit – futuristic, industrial, and energetic – that… Continue reading How Techno Unified Berlin
25th May What’s Going On Review
25th May were one of the great lost bands of the 1990’s. Not that you’d think so from this review from Select magazine in Dec 1991. Note that If? are also reviewed, plus The Moonflowers. Strong month all round
Up Yer Ronson Tony Hanon
http://www.mixmag.net/words/from-the-archives/classic-features/april-1993—king-of-clubs Words: Adriana Hamacher Photos: Mark McNulty Published in Mixmag April 1993 It’s April 1993 and in clubland two names are standing out brighter and louder than any others. While others are scrabbling to survive the recession, two club runners are caning it. Sean McClusky has Merry England and Love Ranch in London and Tony… Continue reading Up Yer Ronson Tony Hanon
History of Back to Basics Leeds
Lots more about Basics here on our site, and make sure you check out Ralph Lawsons blog here A Basic History Here is the piece I knocked up for the Myhouse fanzine. I first met Dave Beer at the Warehouse club in Leeds in 1990. Leeds had been much slower than its rival city Manchester… Continue reading History of Back to Basics Leeds
Leeds Love Parade 2000
We were at the Leeds Love Parade It was a strange day, we couldn’t really get into it, the weather didn’t help. It was obviously a bit of history (250k people) but we couldn’t even make it down to where the floats were as you would never have seen your mates again. After about 4… Continue reading Leeds Love Parade 2000