#268. £12 Billion Ecstasy Explosion & Ibiza’s Dance Music Promoter - Danny Whittle
Eventful Lives
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Danny Whittle is one of the original pioneers of Ibiza's legendary Pacha nightclub. This episode is packed full of decades of parties where Danny speaks of transforming the 90s club scene and evolving the Pacha brand around the world. He also eludes to how much he spent booking David Guetta, Calvin Harris and even Swedish House Mafia. We also talk about his involvement in the Falklands war!
This is the eventful life of Mr Danny Whittle
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| 0:00.0 | You fighting in the Fultons War? |
| 0:01.0 | Yeah, I was on HMS Hermes. |
| 0:03.0 | We spent the whole time there. |
| 0:04.0 | How would you explain the Fultons to the listeners out there? |
| 0:07.0 | Well, it's definitely not North of Scotland, which I thought it was, but... |
| 0:11.0 | At 16, I went straight in the military, in the Royal Navy for six years. |
| 0:18.0 | Finally got there, I think the day HMS Sheffield was sunk was the day |
| 0:21.8 | we realised this wasn't a joke anymore, you know, there was 28 dead, and then actually |
| 0:25.9 | became a firefighter. My first rescue was, believe it's not, Christmas morning, 5 o'clock. |
| 0:30.5 | So the next movement from there, getting into the club world, name some of the biggest |
| 0:33.8 | DJs you've booked for Pasha over the years? The Swedish House Mafia. |
| 0:38.1 | Calvin, the first time he played for us, I think, was for 500 quid. |
| 0:41.6 | David Gett has probably been, because gone on to be the biggest star. |
| 0:44.9 | What's the most amount of money you've spent on a DJ for one night? |
| 0:48.0 | The most amount of money for one night would be... |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. |
| 1:00.0 | On this podcast I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. |
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| 1:11.5 | where we've now had over 100 million views. |
| 1:14.8 | Danny Whittle is one of the original pioneers of Ibitha's legendary Pasha Nightclub. |
| 1:18.9 | This episode is packed full of decades of parties where Danny speaks of transforming the 90s club scene |
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