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DJ Mek
From Folklore From The Dancefloor

“The Stone Roses played [at McGonagles] in 1986 and they got bottled off. The first club in Dublin with proper mixing and turntables and everything else was Majestys on Dame St and it was called the Rock Box, run by Tony Christie. This was in 1986 – there was hip hop, a little bit of early house, and scratch mixing. Then, in 1988 there was a club called Club Voodoo – Soul on Ice was another one – in McGonagles, and that was the first proper club, people were queuing around the fucking block.

“Jay Strongman played, Jazzy B from Soul II Soul, Norman Jay, Dave Dorrell, everybody. Me and Oisin Lunny used to warm up for them. They were proper club nights. At the start, the standard thing at these clubs you would walk in and you would have rare groove as they called it at the time, it was 70s funk. So you had rare groove and then into Latin hip hop, proper up front hip hop, and then for the last two hours of the night it was just straight up house music. Proper house music.

“At the time, Sides was not even on the map. Sides was unheard of, nobody went to Sides. It was McGonagles. And that’s how it went down.”

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