HPBC Presents: Dave Haslam (Live Set)

On the 5th February 2021

Tickets available HERE:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/hpbc-presents-dave-haslam-dj-/hyde-park-book-club/1626052

DJ and writer Dave Haslam DJ’d over 450 times at the legendary Hacienda in Manchester during the late 1980s and has since DJ’d worldwide (including shows in Peru, New York, Berlin, Barcelona, and Italy). He made his debut at the Hacienda on May 1st 1986. Ian Brown, Tim Burgess and the Chemical Brothers all later credited his eclectic Thursday night sets as an inspiration. In 1990 he toured America with Mike Pickering, Graeme Park, and Paul Oakenfold. Since the early 1990s he has hosted a variety of successful club nights in Manchester, including ‘Yellow’ at the Boardwalk. He’s played afterparties for New Order, Gorillaz, and Depeche Mode, and DJ’d in Paris many times; during Paris Fashion Week 2011 he headlined at a Paul Smith party at Cafe Carmen and has twice played at the prestigious Rex club in Paris (the latest, in 2018).
His recent DJ gigs also include a performance at Panorama Bar (Berghain) in Berlin (August 2015); and a headline set at the Electropicales Festival – Île de la Réunion – (May 2019).
He’s the author of ‘Manchester England’, a groundbreaking study of Manchester’s radical and musical history. On World Book Day in 2003 ‘Manchester, England’ was declared one of the ten books that best represent England (alongside books by the likes of Jeremy Paxman, Zadie Smith, and George Monbiot).
He’s subsequently written four more books; an alternative history of the 1970s (‘Not Abba’, some reviews here) and ‘Adventures on the Wheels of Steel’, a book about superstar DJs (reviews here), and ‘Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues’.