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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Ron Elliston has been behind the decks for some of the biggest names on the planet — Prince, Madonna, P Diddy… even Elon Musk. From high-end celebrity bashes to private fetish parties you wouldn’t believe, Ron’s seen it all. He came up in the acid house explosion, running raves in dungeons, illegal warehouse parties, and carnage that would make today’s clubbers blush. In this episode, Ron takes us deep into the underbelly of nightlife — the madness, the music, and the moments you’ll never read about in the papers.
This is the eventful life of Ron Elliston
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0:00.0 | When did the DJ and really take off for you? |
0:02.0 | So now you're here with DJed for Prince and Madonna and P. Diddy. Even Elon Musk. I think a lot of people invite me to because I've got a level of discretion, even though I'm saying it all out here now. Tell me about P. Diddy? I was starting to play at private fetish parties. Give an example what a fetish party is. If you'd think of an acid house party, it's exactly that same principle. |
0:22.1 | The only difference is we've got dungeon and a medical room. |
0:27.0 | We were filming in one of the Mafia guy's houses in Prague. |
0:31.2 | He gave us a own personal bodyguard who was walking around with a luga gun. |
0:34.1 | This guy was a bit weird because he had a whole Nazi vigalian. |
0:37.4 | I'm like, |
0:37.9 | Black Man. I was doing illegal parties. Just, I copied the wearer style thing. We had some |
0:45.3 | funny times getting nicked and everything. What's the funniest thing you've seen at party? |
0:51.3 | Funny story. So, Ron, have you ever seen anyone die on the job? |
0:54.8 | I'm going to remain anonymous as I explain this particular journey. |
0:58.7 | Uh... |
0:59.7 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. |
1:06.5 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall, where we've now had over 100 million views. Ron, welcome to the show, mate. Hey, I'm here. I'm here. Finally here. Yeah, I've been watching you guys for some time there. Yeah, had a lot of my associates on that. We have, mate. I'm very much looking forward to this one. Let's roll away back. How did you end up going from West Ham's ICF to get in the nickname, to get in the nickname Rubber Ron. Well, I was brought up in Upton Park Road. So when I was at school, it's the baddest thing. It was about five years of age. This older boy used to take me around trying to beat up kids, right? And the thing was, you've got to hate Millwall. I didn't even know what Millwall was. I didn't even know what West Ham was. |
2:01.1 | My first thing was being taught that you hate Mill, anyone that told Millwell. I didn't know. Anyway, as I grew up, got to the age of 10 or 11, and I started going over West Ham. So I met Cass over there and all the rest of them. So, you know, you like, we started for the North Bank. Yeah. then went to the South Bank, then went to the West Side. |
1:59.1 | And then they got to a point where I realized, |
2:01.1 | because I was going all the away games and coming back and then go, side of for the North Bank, then went to the South Bank, then went to the West Side. |
2:19.5 | And then they got to a point where I realized, |
2:14.3 | because I was going all the away games and coming back and then going clubbing. And I just thought, you know what, I can't, my life's got to change to go in the direction because I got more and more and more into the clubbing world. Yeah. And I took, I mean, I took it, It was a serious raver. |
2:15.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
2:16.4 | But before you became a raver, |
2:16.9 | what was that, |
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