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Unknown DJ – The System, 1995

Dean Sherry – Pod/System/Shaft Classics, 1997

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Will Storey
From 909originals.com

Geordie lad Will Storey got his break DJing at Dublin’s The System in the mid-90s, at the infamous Honey club nights, before the closure of that venue led to him being resident at the Temple Theatre during its formative years.

I met Damien Higgins [Honey promoter] at Leeds University. While I’ve been living in Ireland half my life, I’m from Newcastle originally, and I was studying in Leeds. I used to put on house parties on the campus, and Damien ended up randomly popping into one of these parties. He thought I was a good DJ and told me that he had contacts in Dublin, and he was planning on putting on the occasional nights in a club there, which was The System.

I just thought he was some crazy Irish lad. He was at a house party and loved the music, and was full of complements. I thought he was on a bit of a mad one.

So then, around late summer 1995, he got in touch to say ‘look, I have this set up now. It’s in The System, we’re going to have Mr C playing, and I want you to do the warm up slot’. It was a Friday night, as Tommy Stewart used to play there on Saturdays. What Damien managed to do was convince the club owners to basically fund his Friday nights, which were the Honey nights. He was always very good at convincing anybody to do anything.

So over the next year, we had Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Boy George, Luv Dup Twins – incredible bookings. These were A-list DJs. When we were in Leeds, we had gone to places like Back To Basics and Hard Times, just as young lads going clubbing, and really got a taste for it. Damien wanted to do something like that in Dublin, and, to be fair, there wasn’t really anything going on at the time.

I was getting the plane over every few weeks just to play, which was a great opportunity for me. I was still living in Leeds at the time. Then, around 1996, after I had moved over, The System got closed down. It was never meant to last, to be honest, there was no drinks licence.

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