- Dave Haslam
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Dave Haslam is an author and DJ. Originally from Moseley, Birmingham,[1] and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. Having moved to Manchester in 1980, he DJ'd over 450 times at the Haçienda nightclub, including Thursday's Temperance club night in the late 1980s.[2] In the 1990s he also hosted the weekly night Yellow at the Boardwalk nightclub in Manchester.
In the mid 1980s he founded the fanzine 'Debris' and went on to write for NME.He also ran a music label called Play Hard records with bands such as King of the Slums, The Bodines and The Train Set releasing recordings. His journalism has since appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The New Statesman and elsewhere. In 1999 he published a book about the Manchester music scene, called Manchester, England, and, subsequently, books about superstar DJs called Adventures on the Wheels of Steel, and the music and politics of the 1970s called Not Abba; the Real Story of the 1970s (reprinted as Young Hearts Run Free; the Real Story of the 1970s).
His numerous other cultural interventions included creating an installation for the Berlin-based ‘Shrinking Cities’ exhibition; presenting a twenty minute talk on the North/South divide for BBC Radio 3; appearing on TV shows on BBC Two (including the recent series The Seven Ages of Rock), and on Channel 4, Granada TV, and Canal Plus (France); and, for two years, hosting a weekly music show on XFM. His 'Close Up' series of live interviews have attracted guest interviewees including Jonathan Franzen and Mark E. Smith.
His DJ history includes touring with The Stone Roses, aftershow parties for New Order, Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, and the Charlatans, and gigs in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Berlin, Paris, Reykjavik, Ibiza, Lima, and Geneva. He currently holds an infrequent guest-only night, 'Sweet Sensation' at various venues in Manchester.
He teaches music journalism at the University of Salford, and currently also lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University about the history and culture of Manchester.
References
- ^ Sandall, Robert (2005) "Pop: Not Abba by Dave Haslam", Sunday Times, 12 June 2005, retrieved 2011-07-06
- ^ Norris, Richard (2007) Paul Oakenfold: The Authorised Biography, Bantam Press, ISBN 978-0593058954, p. 120
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