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Hello and welcome to the very latest unfiltered which features Dave Haslam

Superstar DJ but also very very accomplished writer which as you read his latest book

Sonic Youth slept on my floor you will realize as much a part of his cultural development as anything musical.

There's one problem with this. I am one of those people that can bore on for England about

Manchester in 1990 because I moved there and got caught up in the club culture so just

give me a slap if I start prostrating myself at his feet. Where does one start with a description? We'll go with Superstar DJ and then we'll work out in the course of our time together how ironic that.

How ironic that label is.

You have written your fourth book, Sonic Youth

slept on my floor, which is a memoir.

Your previous books have had elements of memoir to them or bits of them

have.

In fact, in a way, this knits together the three themes of the previous books and delivers a, well, an astonishing overview of a period of British cultural history focused particularly on Manchester that I think personally

historians of the future will be fascinated by.

And I say personally because in a way I don't know how I'd conduct this interview if I hadn't been in

crowds that you've been playing to and I hadn't been in Manchester in 1988 briefly

and then I moved there in 1990 and I feel as a southern panzy that part of that whole cultural movement was going

through my veins and yet of course for a lot of the country they were just watching

it from the outside it's weird isn't it it's

almost not cultish but that that four-year period was was quite incredible for

everyone who was in it yeah definitely I mean I do believe that the whole experience, I mean if we talk very

specific about that idea of being on the dance floor say at the house, the ender, then I'm often in a room and I'm saying to people,

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