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I think a lot of people
see Camden as their home.
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It's just been this place
of such radical acceptance,
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and I feel lucky
that I grew up around Camden.
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It's really cool.
You can be anyone you wanna be.
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The second you walk into Cyberdog,
it's an insane sensory overload.
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And coming here as a kid was, like,
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overwhelming,
but in the best way possible.
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It's this real expression of freedom
and rave culture, club culture, disco,
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everything merged together, that I think
is so representative of Camden
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and all the tribes that have,
kind of, made a home here.
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From the ravers to the punks to the goths,
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everyone coming in
and just claiming a little part of it.
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Really anything goes.
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I've always been
into the future of music.
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I was all over it from day one.
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Now I have to pinch myself many times
based on what I still do today,
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and then to look back on
how everything became.
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Camden allowed you freedom
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to be whoever you wanted to be
in that moment.
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I found something. I found a community.
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I found music that just excited me,
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and it felt like
it was the music of the future.
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It made my world a lot bigger.
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It was the reflection of the zeitgeist
that was, for me, life-changing.
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It's all about
wanting to belong to something,
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and there was this freedom
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and this kind of rawness that was like,
"Ooh, I want some of this."
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Everyone was welcome.
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All you had to do was bring a smile.
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Bring your own drink.
Bring your own drugs.
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It's just party.
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That's the one word, the universal word,
that everybody understands.
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So many good names
of records and bands.
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Oh, here we go.
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I mean, look at that. That's amazing.
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♪ Don't put your head on my shoulder ♪
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♪ Sink me in a river of tears ♪
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It's all about pushing the boundary,
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being gender nonconforming.
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This was 40 years ago,
and it was happening right here in Camden.
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These things were being, you know,
celebrated and accepted,
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and he's so unapologetically himself.
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- Quiet, please, next door.
- Shut up!
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Camden, what a dump!
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Join the National Front!
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The National Front is a white man's front.
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Join the National Front!
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You bastards!
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The '70s was just
a really nasty, weird decade.
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People are getting quite appalled
at the way homosexuality is spreading
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in the United Kingdom.
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People just said what they wanted to say,
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and people weren't shy of calling you
a faggot or a queer or a pansy,
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or whatever they-- You know,
there was every name you could think of.
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It's an abomination.
It's of the Devil.
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I think man ought to go with a woman,
and woman ought to go with a man.
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Growing up as the kid in suburbia,
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even long before I got famous,
it's like, "George is a poof."
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It's like, "That's what he is.
Let's not talk about it.
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What do you mean
you want to be a pop star?
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What do you mean you want
to work in fashion? Grow up."
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You got knocked back by everyone.
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But then I kinda knew that
I was interested in exotica,
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the bohemian lifestyle.
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So I used to get Red Bus Rovers
and go up to Camden.
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So, you know, Camden Town
was just where you went to see bands.
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Where you went to, you know,
pick up guys if you go to a gay pub.
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Then, you know,
go to the market on a Sunday,
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you know, just to kind of dress up
and show off.
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You know, it was just a way of being seen.
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Sometimes you didn't buy anything.
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And, at that time, it was all about
what you wore was such an identity.
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It was just anything
that sort of had a sense of rebellion,
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and you could definitely play around
with your identity.
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And it was all Camden's fault,
facilitating the madness.
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It was the place where it all happens,
you know? It really was.
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I've always loved Camden.
I feel lucky that I grew up around Camden.
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It's busy and it's loud,
and there's a lot going on.
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In Camden,
anyone can be whoever they wanna be.
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I think seeing that so young,
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that kind of unapologetic presentation
of who you are,
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makes you believe in yourself.
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Let me take you back.
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When I first was gigging in England,
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I was stranded because someone
had stolen my passport and all my money.
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Fortunately, I had an amazing girlfriend,
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and she took me out
to see her favourite band,
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which was called Roxy Music.
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♪ It ain't no big thing ♪
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♪ To wait for the bell to ring ♪
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♪ It ain't no big thing ♪
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I'd never heard of them...
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and they're amazing.
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♪ Aggravated
Spare for days ♪
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♪ I troll downtown
The red-light place ♪
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They were wearing
couture-looking clothing.
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I was like,
"Who goes to a show like this?"
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♪ And I need to score ♪
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After I saw Roxy Music,
I went down to Camden,
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which somebody told me was where
all the cool record shops were,
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and I looked up Roxy Music albums,
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and they had high-fashion models
and Playboy bunnies on the cover.
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I was like, "Wait a minute. Wow."
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I called my partner.
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I said, "Man,
we gotta do the Black version of this."
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This all ties back to Camden.
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I mean,
had that not been the cool part of town,
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had I not saw Roxy Music albums,
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started Chic, gone off on this path,
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where-- where would my life be?
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My '70s and '80s
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was all about understanding
and learning the culture of music
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and what it meant to other people
who basically dressed for the occasion
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and lived for the occasion
at that particular time.
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I mean, I was a consummate soulboy.
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I would only go to events that would
basically play Black music,
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because that connected with me
at the end of the day.
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I mean, you can go Camden in the daytime,
as well as go Camden at night-time.
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You'd get a lot of punks.
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And then you had the,
you know, the mods and rockers.
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And then you had the skinheads,
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and you had soulboys.
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It's like being on planet Mars.
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And, as an individual,
you had to kind of, like,
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manage through all of these types of music
to know what connects with you.
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I suppose there were characters like us
that were a bit more like,
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"I don't have to be loyal to
any kind of look or sound." You know?
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So there were some people that were just
like, "Fuck that. I'll wear what I want,"
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and took the consequences.
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What is fashion?
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How important
are the clothes that you wear?
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Clothes should be fun
and not taken too seriously at all.
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You think people
do take clothes too seriously?
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- Yeah, I do. Yeah.
- Yes.
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You do dress outrageously though.
Why do you dress like that?
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Because I want to.
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- That's it. You know?
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I remember doing a lot of running
at that time.
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Running across bridges, running from
people that were gonna kill me,
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whether it was Teddy boys
or casuals or skinheads.
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Your radar had to be so alert.
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People would get on the bus
to punch you.
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I think that was the general theme for,
like, us lot.
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We were too much for everybody.
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Too much for the punks.
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Too outrageous for the straights.
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And it was just, like, you ended up
being in this weird no man's land.
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So, we were out for something different.
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Over the past few weeks...
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...the pop music scene and the fashion scene
have been influenced by a new youth cult,
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the New Romantics, or the Blitz Kids,
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whose devotees claim that their movement
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will be as influential as punk
and far more positive.
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They're a mixture of students,
fashion designers, musicians
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and those with routine jobs
that they escape at night
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by dressing up in extravagant costumes.
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The architects
of this curious, optimistic movement
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now spreading across the country,
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are Steve Strange and Rusty Egan.
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It wasn't godlike genius
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that Steve Strange and I created
something from nothing.
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We went looking for
alternative places to go,
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because there was nowhere to go
where you could fit in.
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They started the new club scene
by running nights at London clubs
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like Billy's, Hell, and the Blitz,
from which the Blitz Kids took their name.
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Steve hosted,
and I played the music.
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The story of that song
is what the movie's about.
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So that was the start
of my clubbing deejaying.
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One moment.
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I heard about the Blitz,
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and I moved into Kentish Town,
which is sister neighbourhood of Camden.
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There was a, kind of, feeling of safety
when you're with a load of other people.
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You know, you were a mob.
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New Romantics against everyone,
you know?
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The Blitz was
an absolute hit-winner.
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I mean, I didn't feel a part of that
really, but I understood it,
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because people could
then be themselves, show out.
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But it was something which, kind of,
spawned so much in new music.
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That's what I respected
more than anything else.
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They played their style of music,
but it was electronic, New Romantic sound,
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and I really enjoyed that.
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The music, at the time, that Rusty was
playing was lots of these weird imports,
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but then you could go
into record shops in Camden
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and find these characters
that would tell you what you had to hear,
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on the recommendation of some mad guy
in Camden that knew everything.
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All we gotta do
is put one great record on,
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and another great record,
and another great record.
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So, when I'd deejay,
people started discovering.
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Every week, I found something new,
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and not only that,
I brought them to the club.
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If punk was all about rebellion,
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the New Romantics are all about style.
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It was just a real mixture
of these mad, creative people
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that all wanted to kind of go
to the same place...
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...and preen.
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The Music Machine
in Camden Town.
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A converted theatre,
once used for recordings of The Goon Show .
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The Music Machine
is the sort of establishment
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where the carpet tends
to stick to your shoes,
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and the prevailing atmosphere
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is a "punk-pourri"
of beer, smoke and disinfectant.
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Only a month ago, a 20-year-old youth
was fatally stabbed through the heart.
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The Music Machine was a tired,
falling-apart disco concept that was sad.
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Sticky floors and, uh, plastic palm trees.
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You know, it was like...
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Carry on that way for me.
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Security starts at the front door
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with a top-and-toe examination
of prospective patrons.
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Cropped heads
and steel-capped shoes are out.
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- Get outside, mate. Will you?
- Away you go. 'Way you go.
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Getting in the premises was one problem,
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but then dealing with who was in there
was another.
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I just used to think,
"What's your problem?"
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You know, "I look great.
Leave me alone."
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"Sleep with me. Buy me a drink.
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I don't know. Just--
Why you want to fight with me?"
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Can you take your drinks upstairs?
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Can you make a move now, please?
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The Music Machine
came to us and said,
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"Yeah, we wanna, like,
refurbish this place and try a new idea."
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And I went, "Oh, well."
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"I'm not interested."
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And then they came back and said,
"Well, what do you want?"
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I said, "I tell you what I want.
I want you to go on holiday to New York."
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New York, to me,
was way ahead of English clubbing.
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Everything that we dreamed of
was in New York.
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It's three in the morning
in Manhattan,
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and still at Studio 54,
people crowd the doors hoping to get in.
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The rewards for the lucky ones
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are a frenetic night of dancing in
a setting like something out of Star Wars .
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Now,
Studio 54 was before the Blitz Club,
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and they had this massive deejay booth
with, you know,
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three decks and cassette machines
and tape machines and lighting engineers.
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And the smoke and the strobes
and the music that you've never heard of.
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And then you go,
"Something happening here."
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Disco, in America, was,
in a strange way,
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the purest form of protest music.
238
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We were celebrating women's lib.
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We were celebrating gay lib.
240
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We were celebrating Black Power.
241
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So we felt like one unified force,
242
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and we talked about it through our music.
243
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"Studio 54ism"...
...became a thing all around the world.
244
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Every club started to do
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what people were rumoured
to be doing in Studio 54,
246
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and the rumours were not rumours.
247
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It was ridiculously outta control.
248
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This is exactly what you imagine
249
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when you see those iconic pictures of
everybody just dancing and being so free.
250
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All the debaucherous stuff that happened
251
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and the theatrics of music and theatre
and the nightclub and dancing and disco--
252
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Everything just came together
in one place.
253
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It has that euphoria.
254
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You just were enthralled
by the party, hedonistic,
255
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open and protective atmosphere
of Studio 54.
256
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Once you got beyond that velvet rope,
you were safe,
257
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and that was powerful.
258
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Six months later, and he came back.
He said, "We got it.
259
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We know exactly what you wanna do."
260
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The in place in London
at the moment
261
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is a converted music hall
called the Camden Palace.
262
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The man behind the phenomenal success
of the Camden Palace
263
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is Steve Strange of Visage.
264
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All of a sudden,
it's just, like, packed full.
265
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When Steve Strange opens up
Club for Heroes at Camden Palace...
266
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- Hi, Haley.
- Hello.
267
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...it was a kind of natural follow-on
268
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from what Rusty was doing at the Blitz.
269
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You know, it was like suddenly this
movement is becoming worthy of a big club,
270
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'cause the Camden Palace
wasn't a small club.
271
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Right, so...
272
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You know, when you walked in,
it was like a ballroom going in there.
273
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They really turned it into something
very special.
274
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The clothes and the fashion
and the energy and bravado.
275
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It was kind of, like, mind-blowing.
276
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People went outta their way
to get in there. They dressed up.
277
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It was, like,
take some of that New York vibe,
278
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make people feel like
they were really lucky to be in the space,
279
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turn people away if they weren't
looking right, which is kind of horrible.
280
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But then, I suppose, if you were someone
that had been chased out of clubs
281
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and turned away for being a weirdo,
282
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it was suddenly interesting
to be in a space where it was like,
283
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"No, you're too normal."
284
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I don't feel I'm part of
the normal run-of-the-mill rat race.
285
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I just feel superior to everyone,
286
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all the little sheep
that are running around out there.
287
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Steve Strange
brought a kind of glamour to Camden.
288
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Okay, so this one. Visage. "Fade to Grey".
289
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This is like the anthem
for the New Romantics.
290
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What's really cool listening to it now,
291
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you hear all, like,
the drumbeats and the synths.
292
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I think it just really shows that kind of
beginning of house and electronic music
293
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and where it's all kind of stemming from.
294
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♪ One man on a lonely platform ♪
295
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Steve became famous.
296
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Steve had that song "Fade to Grey",
which was amazing and seminal,
297
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and I hated it at the time,
but now I look at that record
298
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and think it's so brilliant
'cause it really still stands up.
299
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It's like, "Oh, I wanna do that."
300
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♪ We fade to grey ♪
301
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♪ Fade to grey ♪
302
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Because we'd had
the worldwide success of Visage,
303
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so I was now really involved
in the record business,
304
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and the music of the Camden Palace
305
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was the same music
they were playing in New York now.
306
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- Who is it?
307
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The Danceteria deejay Mark Kamins...
308
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- One moment.
309
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...called me, 'cause we had things
like landlines in those days.
310
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He said,
"You have to meet my girlfriend, Madonna.
311
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She's a singer,
and I've done this track with her.
312
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You're gonna love it."
313
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- Okay.
314
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Okay.
315
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The Camden Palace on a Thursday
night was a sell-out no matter who was on.
316
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It could be Bowie. We don't know.
317
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Prince.
318
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You know,
people show up at the Camden Palace.
319
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Madonna didn't know anyone.
320
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She was just there with three dancers,
and I was in the deejay booth.
321
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She came out,
322
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and they just immediately loved her.
323
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I think club culture
was just such a big part of who she is,
324
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and she really just
came out on the scene blazing.
325
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You can imagine this going off
at Camden Palace.
326
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London was now in the throng
of great, talented people,
327
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and nightclubbing and fashion
was all a part of it.
328
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In those days,
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London had become caught up in itself,
up its arse.
330
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The suburbs were able to come into London
and have a big night out and spend money.
331
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Which, if you were urban, a Black kid,
you know, I never had a job.
332
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Most of the people I knew never had a job.
333
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,440
From my perspective, as a inner-city,
Black, working-class kid,
334
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as far as clubs went, apartheid was rife.
335
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A lot of London clubs
wouldn't admit Black kids, Asian kids.
336
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That kind of racism was there.
337
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And I thought, you know,
that's completely wrong.
338
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And the West End weren't having us
as Black deejays
339
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because they thought
we'd bring a Black crowd there.
340
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You know, "You play our music.
341
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You want the Black without the Blackness."
342
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,400
And that got me thinking, you know,
343
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I need to do something
where all my friends,
344
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you know, from disparate racial groups
or sexuality groups, can come.
345
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Camden became the centre of that.
346
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Goods Yard, where all the old steam trains
used to be kept,
347
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it was virtually derelict for years.
348
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One day,
I thought I'd come down and investigate,
349
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and I was petrified
'cause I know those sort of places.
350
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Even though the gate's open,
351
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suddenly there could be attack dogs,
you know, from out of the blue.
352
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And I wandered down, wandered in,
had a look around.
353
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I thought, "Wow. This is incredible."
354
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My vision was completely set out.
355
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,520
I knew exactly what I needed to do
and had to do.
356
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I'd love to do a party here.
357
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And I used to give the postcode,
"just east of the west side".
358
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♪ Konk! ♪
359
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If you could suss that out...
...you were there.
360
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♪ Konk! ♪
361
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Everyone was welcome.
362
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All you had to do was bring a smile.
363
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It's just party.
364
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That's the one word, the universal word,
that everybody understands.
365
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We attracted over 2,000 people, you know,
366
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,400
and these parties would go on every
weekend through the whole of that summer.
367
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:24,880
If you really want free, you know,
liberating party, we're your people.
368
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,280
It was a fantastic time
to be around such great, creative people,
369
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you know, who treated you
and saw you as an equal.
370
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,120
Playing in that environment
371
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gave me the licence and the courage
to play whatever I liked.
372
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Fantastic nights
listening to Norman Jay play,
373
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,200
and the music he played was just exactly
what I wanted to listen to and hear.
374
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,840
Um, and he is still primarily
a funk and soul guy,
375
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,480
but he used to dip his toe in the water
with house music.
376
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,960
I love my soul.
I love my jazz and my funk,
377
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,800
but I was always open to new things.
378
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,800
We were playing dubs.
379
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,560
Dubs of house music that no one
in the country had got or even heard,
380
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,160
which I thought was really exciting.
381
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,440
It was like a revolution.
382
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,560
I went to America to look at the latest
sound to make an impact on the charts...
383
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...which has its origins
in Chicago's Black gay scene
384
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,840
and has come to be known as house music.
385
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,320
♪ Jack, jack, jack ♪
386
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,960
Chicago house
happens in the middle of the AIDS crisis.
387
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,760
It is gay. It is trans.
It is all of these things,
388
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:58,040
but it's also homophobes.
It's extremely religious people.
389
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,480
It's dudes on the down-low.
390
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,840
It happens in a period
where people would wait outside the clubs
391
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,440
to try to gay-bash people.
392
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,000
Right from the beginning,
Chicago and London were connected.
393
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,360
You saw Chicago deejays coming to play
in the UK immediately,
394
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,240
before they went anywhere.
395
00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:35,920
When we were starting
to get into Chicago jackin' house,
396
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,280
for me, it was the foundations of
everything to be able to play this music.
397
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,160
It was in the same warehouse,
398
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,880
but you would see the crossover
of what was happening,
399
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,640
and all the people that was basically
into the funk and groove
400
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,360
then started to kinda crossover into
the culture of electronic dance music.
401
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,600
I was all over it from day one.
402
00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,040
We were really just getting started.
403
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,640
We are the masters of the hybrid.
404
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,280
We experiment.
Nothing's too sacred for us.
405
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,720
We will play around.
We'll meddle with anything.
406
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,160
We were real trailblazers.
407
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,880
It was very exciting
for me discovering house music.
408
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,320
I first heard it
in actual warehouses in Camden.
409
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,240
And suddenly there'd be
this, sort of, jacking, weird track
410
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,600
with TB-303 noises in it
411
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,000
and drum machines
that come out of Chicago.
412
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,480
You think, "What is this sound?"
413
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,760
It felt like it had landed
from another planet.
414
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,160
When I first started going to raves,
I would say at least 20% of the thrill
415
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,440
was not getting beat up in high school.
416
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,920
Every form of dress, every political idea,
it's all here at once.
417
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,320
I was completely smitten.
418
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,760
And within a year,
I had dropped out of school.
419
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,560
I was working at raves.
I was selling mixtapes.
420
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,120
I was helping throw parties.
421
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:23,080
It felt like if you did really well,
422
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,720
then you could go to London.
423
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,200
And I did.
424
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,600
I still live
in North London. I still go to Camden.
425
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,960
I walk around these streets,
and they're just soaked with the memories.
426
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,880
Up there was a really cool little studio.
427
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,520
They gave me free studio time,
and that's where I made my first record.
428
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,440
And from that became Faithless,
and the rest is history.
429
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,440
I think we really flew the flag
for dance music.
430
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,320
That was such an underground scene
that you couldn't find beyond pirate radio
431
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,960
and these very underground
warehouse parties.
432
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,520
It is amazing
how it's become a global force.
433
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,600
I definitely feel pride.
434
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,360
That's my scene.
I was there when it was born.
435
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:29,200
I saw what it did to people,
how it changed people's lives.
436
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,960
From these, I would say,
fairly humble beginnings.
437
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,040
♪ I can't get no sleep ♪
438
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,720
Good morning, London.
You're listening to Studio FM on 92.7,
439
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,560
and I'm waking you up with a bit of house.
440
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,800
We know it came from Chicago
about two-and-a-half years ago.
441
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,600
We know the music is good
and that we all enjoy it.
442
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,400
London is pumping at the moment.
443
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,960
Where do you think you're going to?
444
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,040
Mystery Tour.
445
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,360
- We don't know.
- That's why it's a mystery.
446
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,200
That's the mystery about it.
447
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,720
Most of the time,
my parents don't really know
448
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,320
that I'm going to
an illegal warehouse party.
449
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,760
I just say it's a warehouse party,
450
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,280
and they don't ask me
whether it's illegal or not,
451
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,360
'cause they don't really know
about those sort of things.
452
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,000
Okay then. See you later. Bye.
453
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,200
Dance music wasn't overground.
454
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,880
I felt I was there
for the birth of a movement.
455
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,880
I just understood this music,
and I was just hungry for it.
456
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,080
I can't describe it in any other way.
I was just-- Couldn't get enough of it.
457
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,160
And so I went on a sort of pilgrimage,
a personal pilgrimage, to find it.
458
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,040
Every weekend,
I used to go to Camden Market.
459
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,400
Camden was one of the first places
that sort of seemed plugged in to,
460
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,160
you know, what people were doing.
461
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,080
So people would congregate at the shops
462
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,920
because it was like a,
sort of, social centre.
463
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,560
It's where you'd find out
about these underground parties.
464
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,200
We'd have all the flyers for them.
465
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,880
It was like this secret cult of people
who knew about this magical thing.
466
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,840
There were record stores within
Camden Market also selling this new music
467
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,920
that I just couldn't get enough of.
468
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,720
I sold more tapes in Camden Market
than anything else.
469
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,600
And everyone was like, you know, thinking,
470
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,920
"What are you gonna wear tonight?
What are you gonna listen to?"
471
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,240
It was really exciting.
472
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,480
Camden was one
of the only places in London
473
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,560
you could buy rave clothing.
474
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,040
This baggy sensibility, the sense
that you weren't going to a club to pull,
475
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,120
so you get lots of people rocking up
in baggy trousers,
476
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,280
but with a kaftan
and with some Converse baseball boots.
477
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,680
These clothes are really cheap.
They're like throwaway clothes.
478
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,840
I go out raving
and then throw it away the next day.
479
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,360
Because the style was so specific,
480
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,280
you would spot them walking
down the street, and you would know.
481
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,160
You would clock them,
and you'd think, "They know.
482
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,960
They found this thing, this acid house."
483
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,400
I mean, it's so crazy to think
that this massive place
484
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,680
all started from a small stall
in Camden Market back in the '90s.
485
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,520
Nothing makes more sense than Cyberdog
in the middle of Camden Market.
486
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,920
Raves got bigger and bigger,
487
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,280
and the growth
of the use of Ecstasy in clubs
488
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,440
hit this moment, this musical moment.
489
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,000
You were absolutely inside the music,
490
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,600
inside this experience
that just rolled and rolled and rolled.
491
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,760
It was about living your moment
based on how hard you worked in the week.
492
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,680
When Friday and Saturday came,
you're going out.
493
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,680
You had ravers in dungarees,
494
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,480
and they'd be, like, you know, wide-eyed,
and, like-- They want that drive.
495
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,560
The whole rave scene, really,
that I kind of became more known for,
496
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,800
countrywide and then worldwide,
497
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:17,560
was incredible.
498
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:25,240
There's definitely a mark
of British history and electronic music
499
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,080
and style and culture
of which no other country,
500
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,680
basically, can come anywhere near
close to understanding.
501
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,160
People were really loving each other.
502
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,560
They really felt
this deep empathy with each other.
503
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,960
Dance music is utopian.
504
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,800
It is about freedom and acceptance.
505
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,040
To have people
that you never met embracing you...
506
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,280
Black, white, gay, straight,
507
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,760
all these different people that were not
meant to care about each other,
508
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,440
suddenly being tolerant and accepting.
509
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,760
It was a really powerful thing.
510
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,440
I mean, it really was an ecstatic
and communal experience,
511
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,280
so, of course,
why wouldn't you hunger for that
512
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,880
in the difficulties of Thatcher's Britain?
513
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,320
There's no such thing as society.
514
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,440
Well, yeah, come to a rave,
and suddenly there is a society.
515
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,080
There is kinship.
There's love and acceptance.
516
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,720
I found a community.
I found music that just excited me,
517
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,880
and it felt like
it was the music of the future.
518
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,640
People talk about joy
and togetherness and whatever.
519
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,040
Also it's about risk.
520
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,080
In any scene, there's a moment
where the inmates take over the asylum,
521
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,840
and that's the great part.
522
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,240
And usually it involves
running from police and law-breaking
523
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,920
and all of the fun things.
524
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,960
- I'm coming there.
525
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,320
For ravers across the country,
this was the fifth Summer of Love.
526
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,000
For the rest of us, it was a summer
of increasing media controversy
527
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,720
over illegal parties.
528
00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:14,320
Castlemorton was the climax,
529
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,320
where the police failed to stop 20,000
people gathering for a five-day festival.
530
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,080
Oi, I want to ask you a question!
531
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,200
I want to ask you a question
in front of everybody.
532
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,400
You're meant to give a warning
before you use CS gas.
533
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,680
Why didn't you give a warning?
534
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,120
I want my fucking geezer back!
I want him back!
535
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,560
I want him fucking back!
536
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,000
What did you start it tonight for?
537
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,120
Warehouse parties are now
regularly being raided by the police.
538
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,640
- We're all enjoying ourselves.
- Yeah, we can see that.
539
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,800
Police say one major venue
540
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,240
has been in this disused warehouse
in North London.
541
00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:46,640
Earlier today, they closed it down
542
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,600
despite claims from organisers
that they actively discourage drug-taking.
543
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,360
Some newspapers
have called acid house music
544
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,640
a sinister and evil cult
which lures young people into drug-taking.
545
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,720
The message is certainly getting across.
546
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,760
It must affect the brain
in some way or another.
547
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,680
Unless it's just the music that does it.
548
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,040
All them lights flashing
don't do you any good either.
549
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,040
The Sun printed
this massive piece that said,
550
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,640
"Ravers bite the heads off pigeons."
551
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,520
All right, it couldn't be further
from what actually happened.
552
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,640
Probably out of control,
not behaving like normal.
553
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,560
That also brought home
to me how little the Establishment knew.
554
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,320
It was being misrepresented.
555
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,840
They didn't like people feeling unified.
556
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,400
If we all act as one,
you could overthrow the government.
557
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,760
So they're seeing
the power of the revolution.
558
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:39,080
It doesn't matter
if you are Black, white, Jew or Gentile,
559
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,280
you can go to one of these parties,
and you can enjoy yourself.
560
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,840
There's something with the music
561
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,520
that just makes you wanna do
what you want to do.
562
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,440
You know,
you don't have to conform to anything.
563
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,400
There's no way of dancing.
564
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,640
There's no formal dress or anything.
565
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,520
You just go,
and you're happy for eight, nine hours.
566
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,320
From the age of about 13,
567
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,000
I was making my own little songs
and sequencing them.
568
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,640
And I started making my own tunes.
569
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,560
I'd just bought an Atari computer
570
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:16,040
off a guy I'd met browsing through records
in a stall in Camden Market.
571
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,840
And I had this in my mum's bedroom
with one keyboard that I had,
572
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,720
and I started making my own tunes.
573
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,480
This one. Faithless.
574
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,320
Reverence.
575
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,040
I love this song.
576
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,280
This is that iconic riff.
577
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,680
The stadium house moment.
578
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,920
It doesn't get
much more euphoric than that.
579
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:54,480
If you go back to "Insomnia",
it was just a moment where it's like,
580
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,720
"Oh, this is fucking interesting.
What the fuck is this?"
581
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:58,240
It's simplicity,
582
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:02,240
but it's the space in that record
that makes it go through the stratosphere.
583
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:04,880
And, of course, Maxi,
what he brought to it.
584
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,160
He was a Buddhist, Maxi,
585
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,800
so, you know, he brought that kind of
real spiritual thinking to the music.
586
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,840
♪ I only smoke weed when I need to ♪
587
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,000
♪ And I need to get some rest
Yo, where's the cess? ♪
588
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,400
♪ I confess
I burned a hole in the mattress ♪
589
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,840
♪ Yes, yes, yes, yes
It was me ♪
590
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,080
"Insomnia" started
to gather traction in the clubs.
591
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,160
They started playing it on Radio 1.
They got rid of all the old guard.
592
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,640
It was actually Pete Tong, he said,
593
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,240
"You've got to release this record.
You've got to put it out."
594
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:39,320
And it went to number three in the charts.
595
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,680
♪ When the light above my head went bam! ♪
596
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,400
And our radio plugger said,
597
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,200
"Please do a gig to let the world know
you've got an album out.
598
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,960
We'll get the press along."
599
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,840
And the first gig was
at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
600
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,560
This iconic venue
that I'd visited loads growing up.
601
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,760
The gig itself became a real buzz.
602
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:00,840
♪ I can't get no sleep ♪
603
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,160
When we saw the reaction of people
604
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,440
in a live scenario, drinking it up,
605
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,120
yeah, it definitely set off
a chain reaction of excitement.
606
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:17,880
Come on!
607
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,440
Now dance music,
it's ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
608
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,480
♪ I can't get no sleep ♪
609
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,240
There was some sort of
confluence that Maxi and I came together,
610
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,000
and he actively tapped into that feeling
611
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,600
that I'd had in that moment
where we come one.
612
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,280
At a gig. At a rave.
613
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,400
To commemorate our very first gig,
614
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:09,560
we were offered quite a lovely accolade,
which was a plaque outside the Jazz Cafe.
615
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:15,560
It was really lovely walking past
and seeing it up there every day thinking,
616
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,840
"God. We did that?"
617
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,440
And if, you know, we hadn't had
that chance to start at the Jazz Cafe,
618
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:26,200
all of those subsequent years of success
would never have happened.
619
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,640
Camden put me
into London music production world.
620
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,040
It changed the course of my life forever.
621
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:03,840
You know,
Dua really loves real dance music.
622
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,000
I was contacted by her team,
and they said,
623
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:11,960
"This album's coming out,
624
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,480
but we have this crazy idea.
We wanna make a club version of it.
625
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,480
And will you do it?"
626
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,120
I knew I wanted
to completely imagine the album
627
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,760
as if it lived in a club
that I wanted to be in.
628
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,400
It was such a beautiful crash course
in how to make a record.
629
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,440
I did not think at all
about what the reception would be.
630
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:50,360
It was this insane
fever dream of an album.
631
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,760
London is a place
that you can make a life in dance music.
632
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,240
If you're from London,
633
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:22,840
you innately know
that Camden is a musical place.
634
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:28,080
It's a melting pot of cultures
and club spaces.
635
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,960
Can everyone
please give it up for Eliza Rose?
636
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,280
Growing up,
we'd go to Camden quite a lot.
637
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,600
Some of the first songs I ever wrote
would've been in the Roundhouse.
638
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,480
They had this scheme,
639
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,280
and you could go and use the spaces
for really, really cheap.
640
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:55,560
Who knows?
Maybe I wouldn't have got into music
641
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,560
if the Roundhouse didn't exist.
642
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,320
- Hello.
- How are you?
643
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:00,400
I'm good. How are you?
644
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,440
♪ She's the baddest of them all ♪
645
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,440
♪ The baddest of them all ♪
646
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,400
B.O.T.A. started off
from the underground for sure.
647
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,400
I never, in any way, shape or form,
had intention of it going to the charts,
648
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,240
let alone going to number one.
649
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:19,280
♪ Do you wanna dance, baby? ♪
650
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,160
♪ I know you see me
Looking at you on the daily ♪
651
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,880
My perception, growing up,
of electronic music was definitely
652
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,600
that electronic music was, like,
for white people.
653
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,400
And so,
as a working-class woman of colour,
654
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,240
I didn't see that as something
that I necessarily connected to.
655
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:44,040
And, like, it's so amazing to see that,
actually, warehouse raving started
656
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,960
with this funk and soul and boogie
and disco by Norman Jay
657
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,040
in these warehouses around London,
658
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,200
and that was actually the blueprint
for then what was to come.
659
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,320
I didn't know my own history.
660
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,200
This music coming from Black heritage.
661
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,400
Then I kinda was like,
"I am going to reclaim it back."
662
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,840
We were real trailblazers.
663
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,480
We were bringing the root of our music,
the history of our music,
664
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:13,960
like you've never heard it.
665
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,560
Getting rid of the gatekeepers.
We were sweeping 'em aside.
666
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,400
The thing about dance music
was it created a space
667
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:24,840
to be a part of something.
668
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,800
It's all about wanting
to belong to something.
669
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,720
And I think, in a way, all of those people
that came from that time,
670
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:33,440
we're so lucky, in a way,
671
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,080
that we experienced things
in the way that we did.
672
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,880
And music was
the kind of full-on narrative
673
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:41,640
of everything that was happening.
674
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:44,160
Without music, there's no Camden.
675
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,960
The music is
the thing that prevails.
676
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,000
It comes from all of
what we went through to begin with.
677
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,400
The idea of me being a deejay is
to still spread the love of music.
678
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:06,480
Camden as a area has spawned
so many spaces of freedom.
679
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,520
And the dance floor is
where you can find that freedom.
680
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:17,840
This music speaks to our souls.
It makes us want to move.
681
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,120
It makes us wanna dance.
682
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,120
The lights move
the right way, and the song comes on,
683
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:28,160
and this thing happens.
684
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,520
And it is real, and it is magic.
685
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:37,680
Dance is incredibly important,
686
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:44,480
because it is the antimatter
to everything that...
687
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:47,600
...is wrong.
688
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,400
It is.
689
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,560
The more spaces
that we are able to create,
690
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,800
the more environments where people
feel like this is a safe space,
691
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,960
and a place where they can come together
and celebrate who they are.
692
00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:03,520
You know,
we need so much of that in the world.
693
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,680
And Camden has that power.
694
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,760
It's that sense of community
that's incredibly important,
695
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,320
'cause it just shows
that you can be who you wanna be,
696
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,720
and you should be proud of that.
697
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,440
This is the world I dream of,
698
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,840
where everybody is cool.
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