Club Classics

Legendary DJs Bill Brewster, Fabio and Terry Farley talk about how London’s night clubs changed the face of the city

Second Home
Work + Life
24 min readNov 22, 2016

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Bill Brewster, co-author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, invited acid house legend Terry Farley and drum n’ bass icon Fabio, to Second Home to discuss the past, present and future of London club culture.

Bill Brewster: We’re going to talk about London underground clubs from Crackers onwards. I want to start by explaining why I think Crackers is important. It was the first modern club and the precursor to acid house, techno, drum n’ bass, dubstep, all of that really grew out of this one little club in Soho. You look at all of the different people that were dancers and DJs there – Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson was a DJ there, Carl Cox, Fabio, Colin Dale, Jazzie B, Norman Jay and Terry used to go as well. So many people went to Crackers nightclub and went off in different directions in London over the next 20 years and made such a huge impact.

“Crackers was important for a generation of black youth in London that were the first ones to make a break from their parents and from West Indian culture and start to forge an identity that was uniquely black and British”

I think it was also important for that generation of black youth in London that were the first ones to make a break from their parents and from West Indian culture and start to forge an identity that was uniquely black and British. I think that’s another reason why Crackers is important. I want to ask Fabio, first, about going to Crackers for the first time and why you had to keep it a secret from loads of your friends in Brixton.

Fabio: First time I went I was 12 actually, no joke! My aunt was a real soul girl and she used to go Lacy Ladies and the 100 Club, but she used to specifically talk about Crackers all the time. So she said to me, ‘We’re going to kit you out’. She bought me this little skinny tie and a tartan shirt and jazz slippers, and I was kind of like, ‘Boy, I’m not really feeling this style…’. I was a reggae boy really.

The thing is, at school reggae and soul was, like, mods and rockers — if you liked soul you were seen as a peasant basically, not one of the mans, basically. It was really like that. So I had to keep it a secret. I used to wear Farah slacks, this thing called a sticks bag — which guys used to use for robbing because it had loads of compartments in it [laughs], that’s why they called it a sticks bag — and snakeskin shoes. So at the weekend I was going to blues dances.

“I’m 52 now and I’ve not actually stopped clubbing, that’s the most amazing thing. I don’t think I’ve taken more than a month off since I was 12” – Fabio

Then, my aunt was like, ‘Come down to Crackers’, because I had this love of soul music, and I was like, ‘How am I going to get in there?’. I walked in and I just couldn’t believe it. The first record I heard was Hi-Tension, which was a black, British funk tune and it was a big tune at the time. But ever since that day, my first club experience, I’m 52 now and I’ve not actually stopped clubbing, that’s the most amazing thing. I don’t think I’ve taken more than a month off since I was 12.

Crackers was really inconspicuous, it wasn’t a nice club, it wasn’t a very particularly nice arena space, and there was 100 Club that was on on a Saturday as well, but Crackers forged a lot of people that loved soul music.

You’ve got to remember as well [that] if you wanted to hear soul music back in the day — I used to have to listen to Radio Luxembourg, which was a pirate station, on a Sunday night just before I had to go to school — my mum didn’t know, there wasn’t the internet and all that, I had a transistor radio that I used to put under my pillow which meant you couldn’t get the reception. So I had to do it at a certain angle.

“I had a transistor radio that I used to put under my pillow which meant you couldn’t get the reception. So I had to do it at a certain angle” – Fabio

So I was listening to this guy, it was a four-hour show, who was the Billboard 100, I couldn’t hear what the fuck he was saying, and I could just about barely make out the tunes. But that’s what you had to go through to listen to soul music [laughs]. That is the truth, because Radio 1 weren’t playing it, and there weren’t pirate radio stations per se.

Crackers was as good as it gets for funk. It had the vibe of acid house, it had dancers… I think I saw Terry in there because I think he was the only white guy that was a dancer [laughs]. You didn’t even care about girls, strangely enough, because by the time you finished dancing and sweating they weren’t interested. So yeah, it was really a proper labour of love, man.

Fabio

Bill Brewster: Terry, how did you first discover Crackers?

Terry Farley: The truth about Crackers really is that there wasn’t really white boys in there and nearly all the white boys danced on the carpet because if you went on the dancefloor you had someone in your face trying to take you on in a battle, and you had someone — Horace Carter or Jabba — burning you off and you’d just be embarrassed badly.

There was two eras of Crackers — the first time I went we had seen a little advert in Blues and Soul magazine for Crackers on a Saturday night. I think it was Mark Roman, and I think it said something like, ‘We’re the best prancers and posers in England’, so we thought, ‘That’s us!’. I mean, we weren’t, we were, like, 17 I think and we drove up from Slough and went on a Saturday night and got turned away. There was big security on the door.

“The first time I went to Crackers, I remember there was a guy dressed like a French sailor doing a kind of jive with a little soul girl with sort of pre-punk clothes on. We didn’t have gay people in Slough. I just thought, ‘This is brilliant, this is for me’” – Terry Farley

Crackers was in Wardour Street right by Oxford Street, there’s a Peter Stringfellow’s lap dancing club there now. It was in the basement and it was open seven nights a week. When we finally got in, and I remember walking in there — it was the first club I’d ever been to in Soho — and I remember there was a guy dressed like a French sailor doing a kind of jive with a little soul girl with sort of pre-punk clothes on. He would’ve been about 35 I reckon, which was really ancient for someone in a nightclub, and it was the first gay person I’d ever been in the vicinity with. We didn’t have gay people in Slough [laughs], we didn’t have people who were 35, my dad was probably not even that age! I just thought, ‘This is brilliant, this is for me’.

Don Letts working at Acme Attractions

We were chatting to people in there and there was this group of kids in the corner who were all in kind of 1940s/1950s demob suits with big trilby hats on. We were talking to them and saying, ‘Yeah, you’ve got to go down the King’s Road, there’s this shop called Acme Attractions where we get all our clothes’. We went there and Don Letts was the shop assistant down the bottom with a little girl dressed as a really kind of New York mob — little leather skirt, it was before punk but she was very punk — her name was Jeanette Lee (who also worked at Rough Trade and was a member of PiL).

Tuesday night, you went down there and I think when George Power took over Crackers, Mark Roman had been thrown out, I think, because his nights were attracting too many back boys, and basically no one drunk. It was owned by a chain called Wheatley Tavern, so they were all about selling their beer.

So they threw him out and put him out to a nightclub in Leytonstone called Jaws, and so everyone followed him to Leytonstone and that was a real schlep — above a pub, and I think the pub’s still called the Heathcote Arms. Also that summer “Love Hangover” came out — the disco version of Jaws — and we all went there. In the end, they never got the people in so they invited George to come and be the DJ. I think he stipulated that he would only do it if they stopped their — they had a quota, even on a Tuesday, it was, like, 70% white, 30% black guys. They would definitely be stopping people coming in. George broke that kind of colour bar they had there.

The club got younger, there were schoolboys in there, a lot of kids, whereas before it had been kids that had left school. But it was a real education. 1975 was a kind of breakthrough year for loads of different kids that hit 18 and they’re all going out and they’re all into soul. So they were playing a lot of records that came out bewteen ’71 and ‘74, because they were new records to us. So the music was really special in there.

Fabio: I think what you said about 1975 is important because “Love Hangover” came out, which was one of the first disco records I ever heard. It’s still possibly my favourite record of all time. I remember the disco explosion happened around the same time as punk because when I used to go to the 100 Club on a Saturday there used to be a punk thing [that] used to happen afterwards.

So we used to come out and we used to see all the punks outside and fuck me, they were terrifying, no, seriously, when you look at punk now and you look at it as this slightly playful, people with pink hair… But this was the ’70s and we were black, and there was the National Front around it, and there was a lot of oppression, and everything white was scary.

They scared the fuck out of me, I’ve got to be honest with you. I remember walking down the street, and they were very pleasant in general, they just looked weird [laughs]. I loved the music, I remember being into X-Ray Spex and seeing Sex Pistols mug off Bill Grundy on the Today programme. There was a side to me that really loved it, because as much as I loved disco, it wasn’t rebellious, not really. You walked and you danced, you got a girl and that was it.

“Punks scared me. This was the ’70s and we were black, and there was the National Front around it, and there was a lot of oppression. Everything white was scary” — Fabio

Punks in 1975

But there was something about punk that I thought was really cool — the way they were — and it leads on [to the fact that] I had that feeling when acid house started, when we were wearing bandanas or walking into Sainsbury’s barefooted on a Sunday afternoon when everyone was going to work. That feeling is a really good feeling and kids don’t really have that anymore — that feeling of ‘screw the world’.

You’ve got to remember as well, ’75 was a very interesting time because politically one minute it was Labour, then it was Conservative, as kids we didn’t really have an identity up until — I used to go to blues dances and things like that, but soul was an identity. You had skinny ties, a certain way of dressing, it was very uniformed, and that’s what made it special to me because the fashion — as Terry will tell you — is just as important as the music, because if you weren’t fashionable, even if you could dance, you weren’t cool.

One day there was a guy called John O’Reilly, he was the greatest dancer I’ve ever seen, I was about 13 and I decided that I could bust the moves now. So I went in the corner and there was all these jazz dancers — Horace, all of these guys — and John O’Reilly came over and picked on me, came over to me and started doing this dancing, and I froze. Because I’m from Brixton I just thought, ‘Alright, you want a challenge?’… He burnt me, man, he absolutely demolished me.

It’s like when you’re younger — you know if you have a fight and you get beaten up and you say, ‘How did I do?’, and everyone’s [like], ‘Yeah, you did alright’, that’s the same thing. I remember that more than anything else to be honest. I remember walking in there and hearing “Running Away” by Roy Ayers as well. What year did that come out? ’77? That must’ve been the first time I went, because I heard Roy Ayers — “Running Away”, and “Do What You Wanna Do” by T-Connection.

Terry Farley: You have to remember as well that most people went to the clubs like Crackers, like the 100 Club, Upstairs @ Ronnie’s, because of the dancers who went. They would go, ‘All the best dancers go here so we’re going to go there’. George Power was lucky because he had those dancers, but if they had left he would’ve had an empty club.

Bill Brewster: Were they the star attraction then rather than the DJ?

Terry Farley: 100% because all the DJs, to a certain extent, are playing the same records. You’d go to Contempo Records at Hanway Street and on a Friday — it’s a tiny little record store — and they’d have a count-up, and they’d put a record on, and they had the same culture selling records as what the reggae shops had. So you’d stand there, they’d put the record on, and it would be on for, like, 20 seconds, then they’d take it off and you’d get a pile. No one would talk, no one talked in there, and no one wanted other people to know what your pile was. So it just went like that and then you kind of pushed it over and they’d tell you how much you’d got and you’d go, ‘Ah fuck it, take one of them back’ [laughs].

So most DJs had the same playlist — 80% the same playlist — these imports came in from America on a Friday and at the weekend everyone’s playing. There was no such thing as a promo, there was no such thing as acetates, I heard that people like Chris Hill or Robbie Vincent maybe got some little exclusives off of people they knew — because they knew the person [19.49–50] — but mostly it was the DJ’s taste that was great, and it was the dancers.

If the right dancers weren’t in there the atmosphere was down and people were like, ‘Oh man, you’re thinking I’m in the wrong place now’, ‘They’re all at Global Village now’, and people would go to Global Village. You had this core of about 50 top dancers — none of them worked, they all went out six nights a week.

Terry Farley

Bill Brewster: Did they get paid for being there?

Terry Farley: No, no, and most of them were funding their non-working by semi-criminal activities [laughs]. My next-door neighbour was a kid called Dave Bachelor and he funded his clubbing by nicking coffee [laughs]. Coffee was really expensive in the 1970s; I don’t know why but it just was. They would go into these wholesalers — there was no security, no tags, no anything — with sports bags, and they would just pile them up with stuff and run out. Then they would knock on everyone’s door, they used to knock on my mum’s door and my mum used to go, ‘Dave’s here, he’s got more coffee!’ [laughs] and they’d be selling these big jars of coffee.

Someone told me a story that they went to Hemel Hempstead on a Monday to scam, and they were walking down the high street — the club opened at, like, nine o’clock — the clubs opened really early and shut really early, so they could shut at one o’clock, so at eight o’clock it would be packed. They saw Gary Haisman who made the “[We Call It] Acieeed” record, in a white coat coming out of the equivalent of Curry’s with a fridge. He’d put theis coat on and walked down the high street with it. He’d sell that and could go out for, like, a month dancing.

Bill Brewster: There was a strange thing about licensing laws in the UK and Ireland in the ’70s where places used to stay open late if they offered food, and this was the same all over the country. I remember going to nightclubs in the ’70s and ’80s and you got a voucher, and you’d go to this hatch and get sausage and chips, in a club. Every club I went to in the early ’70s and early-‘80s smelt of chips. Was it the same at Crackers, did it have the horrible chip smell?

Fabio: I can’t remember the chip smell.

Terry Farley: Crackers smelt of teenage testosterone — seriously, you walked in there and it was a wall of BO, teenage testosterone and smoke. Everyone smoked in there, most of the really good dancers danced with no shirts on dancing non-stop, it really oinked in there. The sound system was appalling, really loud and tinny, and you’d come out, you’d stink…

“Crackers smelt of teenage testosterone — you walked in there and it was a wall of BO, teenage testosterone and smoke. The sound system was appalling, really loud and tinny, and whe you’d come out, you’d stink” Terry Farley

Bill Brewster: What I wanted to ask you, Fabio, is about the fear of being thought of as a soul boy. I remember you telling me a story once about going back to Brixton and somebody recognising you from Crackers, and you denied that it was you.

Fabio: I still do things like that every now and again. Yeah, I really was — on a Saturday night I used to sneak out and go to blues parties, because what people don’t really think about is that blues parties were everywhere — they were on every street corner — we had blues parties all around.

What I used to do was very strategic because my dad used to lock the front room, so of course I got a double cut, and when he used to go to sleep — it was so strategic — I used to have to get dressed, I’d sneak in the front room, I’d sit down for about 20 minutes to see if I heard him walking around, I used to have to open the window really, really slowly, leave that open, and then — with my Burberry mac and snakeskin shoes on — I used to dive out the window, front first [laughs], fall onto the ground and then wait, pull the window down and literally go around the corner into this mad world — a blues party in a house, a normal house, used to pay £2 to get in, and we were the youngsters.

An English rude boy in the 70s

Bill Brewster: What was the mix of people like at those parties?

Fabio: You’ve got to remember interracial dating was frowned upon. It didn’t really happen a lot, it happened in soul circles. If you liked reggae, it didn’t happen, simple as that. In the ’70s if you were different you could get beaten up. There was gay-bashing, there was the whole National Front thing, if you didn’t like something you’d go on and do something about it. That was the mad thing about that time, interracial dating, especially amongst people who liked reggae music, it just wasn’t happening.

But then it was a whole new world because when I walked into Crackers and 100 Club that’s when I thought, ‘This is for me. This is my kind of thing’. That was one of the things that attracted me — seeing black and white people together — which then moved onto that acid house thing. It was the first time I’d seen it, because when I used to go and listen to Jah Shaka and Sir Coxone, you didn’t see white people. When I went to blues dances you didn’t see white people. When I walked in there, there was just harmony, and I was like, ‘Wow, man’.

“One of the things that attracted me to Crackers was seeing black and white people together. When I walked in there, there was just harmony,. I was like, ‘Wow, man’” – Fabio

At school you had lots of white friends at school, but clubbing, as soon as you finished school or you’d go to the local youth centre, it wasn’t like that at all. That’s another thing that really attracted me.

Terry Farley: I think a lot of the clothes that the black soul boys were wearing were quite feminine, and especially at Crackers, it was kind of a little sanctuary where the very first punks went, you’d get gay guys there, in fact, a lot of the black dancers acted gay even though they weren’t — there was a very kind of feminine thing going on. It was a big thing about guys doing the bump together.

I know black guys who actually left home — places like Brixton — and got changed on the bus. And then got changed back on the bus [into] clothes to walk back to Brixton, because there was a big thing. I used to wear plastic sandals and pink peg trousers and stuff like that, and we used to get the bus into Slough to get the train into London and there was a pub on my estate called The Jolly Londoner, and they were anything but jolly [laughs]. The abuse we used to get was unbelievable, and in the end we had to stop getting that bus and we had to walk, like, another two miles to get into town another way because of just the clothes we were wearing — we were open to being beaten up. A lot of the original punks were ex-soul boys, that caused the really big split when punk came along, because loads of the really kind of cool dressers who had been dressing in Sex and Acme Attractions would’ve jumped on the punk ship. Us lot were all there kind of keeping the faith and we saw them as kind of traitors.

“A lot of the original punks were ex-soul boys. That caused the really big split when punk came along, because loads of the really kind of cool dressers who had been dressing in Sex and Acme Attractions would’ve jumped on the punk ship. Us lot were all there kind of keeping the faith and we saw them as kind of traitors” – Terry Farley

Teddy Boys in the 70s

But you could get beaten up. It wasn’t punks and it wasn’t skinheads, it was teddy boys. Teddy boys were the fuckers. There’d been a big teddy boy revival in the early ’70s, and I was far too young to even notice at the time, but since found out there’d been a teddy boy concert at Wembley Arena. Malcolm McLaren had a stall and it was his first ever bit of clothing — him and Vivienne Westwood — ever did, a t-shirt for this thing. They had Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, everyone there, and there was something like 50,000 teds there, there was millions of teds. They were really racist.

We would go to Crackers on a Sunday night and we’d have to get the last train home. We’d go up to Tottenham Court Road to get the central line to Paddington, and there was a pub opposite called The Tottenham and there was a teddy boy night on there. Invariably you would just hear, ‘Oi!’, and you’d run down onto the platform and just hope there was a train there. They were really nasty people.

Bill Brewster: So where was the first place you heard house music?

Fabio: There were so [many] barriers, even coming again to liking and loving house music — the black community didn’t really take to it in the ghetto so much. But I remember the first night I properly went to a house night was Spectrum on a Monday.

All I remember was it was the first time I’d ever seen a DJ like a preacher. He was up there and Heaven used to have these tungsten lights that used to flash and blind you. We looked up — this is really what happened — the smoke cleared and I just saw this shadow. I was like, ‘Oh my god’, it was like an epiphany, ‘Who the fuck is that?’. And I said to this guy, ‘Who is that?’, ‘I don’t fucking know mate, I’m off my fucking nut, I’m off my head, I don’t know’ [laughs]. So I went to the barperson and I went, ‘Who’s that playing?’, and he said, ‘Paul Oakenfold’.

I remember walking back out — we were dressed like gangsters, seriously, because we didn’t know what was going on. We liked house music, we walked in, and we were just standing there and there was literally thousands of people just going mad around us. It blew me away, hearing this mixture of Balearic and house. I profess I knew very little about the music, but Spectrum just changed my world. I decided to go hard and get knowledge about the music, then we found the whole Detroit techno thing and the rest is history, man.

Club Flyer for Heaven 1988

Bill Brewster: Terry, what about you?

Terry Farley: I was DJing at Spectrum, and I remember when Ian Paul opened the club with Oakey. At that time there was about 200 people who were into [what we] called it, the Ibiza thing because most of them had been workers in Ibiza the previous year, and they’d been going to Amnesia. So they were all into this kind of hippy stuff, and they all came from places like Roundshaw and Bromley and all these suburban places in London.

And he said, ‘I’m going to open up the biggest thing in the world, this acid house, biggest thing in the world. I’m going to do Monday nights at Heaven’, and we’re going, ‘Right…’. He went, ‘I want you to play’, and I was fitting gas meters, ‘I’ll give you £50 a night’, I went, ‘Yeah, alright’. So the opening night they had the main room open, Trevor Fung and Paul [Oakenfold], and they had the VIP where I was with Alex Paterson from The Orb, and we were playing reggae. In the VIP there’s a glass thing and you can look down on the floor, and the doors opened, I’m looking down, it’s like two hours later and there’s no one there at all.

Then, about 12 o’clock, he had this idea. People started coming in, and everyone that would come in, they gave an E, and they were really expensive — 1988 an ecstasy tablet cost £25 and there was no kind of like, ‘Oh you can get it cheaper there’. They were really expensive, most people were earning £80 a week, so £25 on an E… And they gave away an E to everyone who came in — they had 123 people in there. I ended up going downstairs and it was fucking amazing.

“People started coming in, and everyone who would come in, they would give an E. In 1988 an ecstasy tablet cost £25 and most people were earning £80 a week. They had 123 people in there. I ended up going downstairs and it was fucking amazing” — Terry Farley

The next week there was 130, the next week there was 140 people, I think they had lost literally thousands and thousands. Richard Branson owned the club, and for some reason they had convinced him to just go with it.

Then all of a sudden one week you noticed other people round the edges who weren’t there, and they were kind of looking at people kind of, ‘How do I do that dance?’, and you just kind of thought, ‘Well, you know, there’s 250 in here tonight’, and he was like, ‘No, this really is going to be the last week’. So I’m thinking, ‘Oh okay’, parked down the car, walked down the ramp that goes down Charing Cross Road and there was about 1,000 people there. You just walked in and it was like, ‘What?’.

Next week there was 2,000, next week there was 2,000 locked out. It was just utter chaos. 3:30 on a Monday night they were getting 2–3,000 people in there, 1,000 people out, then everyone would be on Charing Cross Road having a party. The police were trying to clear the streets and it was just utter mayhem because they’d all done pills.You’d walk into Trafalgar Square in the summer, the sun would be coming up about four o’clock — people all round Trafalgar Square, just, sitting there getting high, man.

Fabio: Yeah, yeah, that’s true. I was one of them!

Terry Farley: It went from something that was nothing — 200 people — to explosion in, like, six weeks

Raving at Fabio’s RAGE club night in the early 90s

Bill Brewster: Can we talk about Rage? Because that’s another story involving Heaven. When you first took it over was it Trevor Fung and Justin Berkmann?

Fabio: No, it was Trevor Fung and Colin Faver, they played downstairs. It was a real purist night, it was a real — they used to play a lot of New York underground house, and Colin Faver, God bless his soul, amazing DJ.

We used to play at the Star Bar, which was upstairs, they had a little room with about 200 people, and we used to go in there and play kind of techno and breakbeat kind of stuff. We got the gig and in the first couple of weeks there was, like, 50 people up there, then it was 100, and then, by week six, you literally could not get anyone else in that room. It just took on a life of its own.

So you had Colin and Trevor playing downstairs, and you had me and Grooverider playing upstairs. I remember Trevor and Colin, they must’ve had a gig in Los Angeles or something like that, and the owner, Kevin Millins, came up like, ‘Look, you guys want to fill in for the night?’. It’s a big thing, these guys were real Gods — especially Colin Faver.

So anyway, we did the night and we smashed it. I’ve got to say we smashed it. He came up to us at the end of the night, he was like, ‘Look, do you guys want the gig? I want you to be the main DJs’, and I was like, ‘What about Colin?’, and he was like, ‘What about him?’, and I was like, ‘That’s a bit harsh…’. After about 15 seconds I went, ‘Yeah’, and we took the gig.

RAGE flyer

We got hated on by the real purist — Kevin used to say a lot of the guys don’t want to come down here no more, you guys are playing Belgium techno in here, but he didn’t mind. He gave us free reign to do what we want because it was working — it was absolutely packed. We used to get a lot of the ICF lot coming down, you used to get the rude boys from Brixton. Remember Betty Boo? She came down, and there was a vibe in there, man, there was a real vibe in there. That’s kind of how jungle started — we were fusing techno and breakbeats together. I don’t know how it happened, but we got everyone on the dancefloor shouting “Jungle” to “We Are E” and tunes like that. Then the movement just started from there.

“That’s kind of how jungle started — we were fusing techno and breakbeats together. I don’t know how it happened, but we got everyone on the dancefloor shouting “Jungle” to “We Are E” and tunes like that. Then the movement just started from there” — Fabio

But Rage was a special — Heaven was a special club, wasn’t it? It was for the time, it was so far ahead — there wasn’t Ministry, there wasn’t fabric, there was Heaven. It had this amazing sound system, these amazing lights, and probably the best years of my life DJing in there — the two and a half years we were there were the most magical, because we created something — we created a whole new genre by accident.

Bill Brewster: Were you conscious of what you were doing when you were doing it?

Fabio: Not at all, we didn’t know what the fuck we were doing. We were playing tunes, we were playing techno tunes and breakbeat tunes and they were clanging but people were dancing so we didn’t give a shit.

I remember a DJ said to Kevin Millins, ‘What the fuck are those two guys doing in there? Because they sound fucking terrible’, but we didn’t care. It really was an experiment to nearly 2,000 people every single week that went along with us. That was the magic. We were young as well so you really don’t care. Me now, I think twice about everything I play, probably because of weed as well… Then, you didn’t care, because you don’t sit down and think about the future or the repercussions of fucking up, you just don’t, you just do what you’re doing. That’s why it was so magical. Best years of my DJing life, definitely. You look like you’re going to start crying, Bill — that, or you’re going to kiss me, one of the two!

All proceeds from the talk went to the Kibera Hamlets school in Nairobi, where Second Home has funded the construction of a new school building designed by our architects Selgas Cano.

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