DJ History presents Secret Weapons
June 9th, 2008 by sparky
DJ History presents Secret Weapons will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Unleashing covert tracks from the dark vaults of dance music history are the boys from www.djhistory.com: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Michael Cook and a crew of hard-battling trainspotters. Just like the site, expect unknown gems, amazing edits and secret dancefloor stormers across the musical spectrum, all with a wiggle in their hips. “We play for nerds and birds, basically,” says Frank.
DJ History - Autobiography
We founded DJhistory.com in 2000 as a way of shamelessly promoting our book Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. Since then it’s attracted a loyal following of hirsute DJs and record collectors and become a support group for vinyl-related Aspergers sufferers. In 2008 we relaunched the site with a shiny coat of paint, a music shop and a slightly more professional approach. Our aim remains the same as always: to document the rich history of dance music and to collect and share knowledge about fantastic music.
- Bill and Frank, 2008
About Bill and Frank
Despite growing up in Lincolnshire only several cornfields apart, Bill and Frank met on the corner of Bond and Broadway in New York in 1994. Within a week they’d decided to write a book together on New York disco, having spent several nights trading club stories collected from Sound Factory veterans, Roxy drag queens, and a couple of ancient gay truckers from Jersey. Thanks to guidance from Doug Young at Headline, this idea greatly expanded its horizons and became 1999’s Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, the first book to trace the entire history of DJing.
In the wake of their magnum opus, Bill and Frank’s partnership led to further books, including best-selling DJ manual How To DJ (Properly), and a long-running series of professional house parties known as Low Life, plus of course this website. As well as their long-toothed experience as music journalists and magazine editors, both are DJs; Bill is also an experienced producer, remixer, chef, and catalogue consultant, and Frank has been known to be a senior digital creative in the world of advertising.
DJ History presents Secret Weapons will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
