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GRAEME PARK AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Posted on: 03-21-2012 Posted in: Tours

DATES

THURSDAY 21ST JUNE – AVAILABLE
FRIDAY 22ND JUNE – BOOKED MELBOURNE
SATURDAY 23RD JUNE – BOOKED SYDNEY
SUNDAY 24TH JUNE – AVAILABLE
THURSDAY 28TH JUNE – BOOKED DUBAI

GRAEME PARK BIOGRAPHY

The story of DJ Graeme Park really mirrors the story of the evolution of dance music and club culture itself.
Graeme found himself working in a Nottingham record shop called Selectadisc in the early 1980s, when the very first house records began to filter through from Chicago, Detroit and New York. When the shop’s owner also opened a nightclub, it was only natural he should turn to Graeme to select the discs. Determined to showcase this new style of music, his reputation as a house pioneer soon brought him to the attention of Mike Pickering at the Haçienda in Manchester, who asked him to cover for him whilst he went on holiday in 1988. Simply put, there was no-one else in the country who could do the job. The Summer of Love followed, and Parky quickly became one of the biggest names on the emerging dance scene. Aside from his eight-year residency at The Haç, he was one of the first British DJs to play places like Australia, South America, the USA, Asia and beyond as well as producing and remixing tracks for the dancefloor.

Whether through his sets, his radio shows or simply by getting to know that audience, Graeme has spent over 25 years getting his jocular personality across. He was there before it all started, he was at the forefront of the dance scene when it was at its zenith and he’s still there, still rocking it, years later – longer than some of the people on the dancefloor have been on the planet! And the best thing is he still loves it, still loves the music and still loves to play it for people to dance to.

‘Yeah, for my entire career I’ve been finding good tunes that I want other people to hear. The reason I keep doing it is simple: it’s my mission in life to let people hear good music.’

The Haçienda is now an apartment building (the developers asked Parky to DJ at the launch; he politely declined). At the back of the building there is a time-line, carved into steel, detailing the history of the club from Madonna‘s early performance to its closure. And there’s Graeme’s name not once, but twice, carved into the metal for time immemorial. What other DJs (what other venues?) have had that significance in clubland?