Was he DJing by now?
No. But we used to go round his house and play records. One day we said, ‘Shall we do something?’ Started doing some little bars and parties. From there we found this little gay club in Streatham. Didn’t even know it was there, lived there for a good seven years before I found this place. It’s underneath a pub, great little place, holds about 350, dark, really dingy, with a stage. It was like a gay cabaret place. Met the guy; asked him for every Friday. He said yeah. It was called Ziggys at the time, terrible name. But we just didn’t think of a name so we went with that. So you called it Ziggys too? Yeah! And we started putting on our nights every Friday. Packed solid. Me and Paul and we had a warm-up guy called Carl Cox. We had that place for seven years, from about ’81 to ’89. We changed the name twice, it went from Ziggys to the Funhouse to Project. Same place. What were the name changes to do with? By that time, I’d started travelling, I’d gone out to Ibiza in 1980 and ’81. I went
