Book description
"It was about larging it. It was about pulling out a wad of
20s when you were buying your champagne at the bar. It was about
buying your cocaine in an eight ball. It was about wearing designer
clothes. At that top tier of that club scene, it was about giving it loads."
With a foreword by music journalist, Miranda Sawyer, Superstar DJs
Here We Go! is the full, unexpurgated story of the biggest pop culture
phenomenon of the 1990s: the rise and fall of the superstar DJ.
During the 1990s big names such as Sasha, Jeremy Healy, Fatboy Slim,
Dave Seaman, Nicky Holloway, Judge Jules, and Pete Tong exploded out
of acid house, becoming international jetsetters, flying all over the
world just to play a few hours and commanding up to £140,000 a night.
The plush, heavily branded 'superclubs' where they performed - clubs
like Cream, Ministry, Renaissance and Gatecrasher - were filled with
thousands of adoring clubbers, roaring their approval of their DJ
gods.
For the DJs and promoters, it was a licence to print money and live
like a rock star. For clubbers, it was a hedonistic utopia where
anyone and everyone could come together to look fabulous, take drugs,
and dance the night away. But underneath the shiny surface lurked a
darker side, a world of cynical moneymaking, rampant egos and
cocaine-fuelled self-indulgence that eventually spiralled out of
control leaving behind burnt-out DJs, jobless promoters and a host of
bittersweet memories.
They went from having the clubbing world at their feet to the
world's biggest comedown. Dom Phillips - former editor of clubbers'
bible Mixmag - reveals an enthralling and at times jaw-dropping
account of flawed people, broken dreams and what really happens when
it all goes Pete Tong.
Dom Phillips has been involved in dance music since 1988. He was
editor of clubbers' bible
MixMag
throughout its 1990s heyday, and since worked as a freelance writer for
publications as diverse as the
Guardian
,
Observer Life
,
The Face
,
The
Big Issue
,
Q
,
Arena
and was for two years style columnist for the
Independent on Sunday
. He has also made a number of documentaries for Channel 4 and for Radio
1.
