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Paul Harris Grammy
winning artist with cutting edge band Dirty Vegas - started
his working life aged sixteen as an Assistant Trader in
the city his love of music was already prevailing, but mixing
the two worlds wasn’t easy. Leaving his beloved ‘discos’
at 4.00 am and still making it to work for 6.00 am was demanding
but Paul had a very specific goal in mind purchasing a set
of decks once this was achieved he was out of the city and
straight into Special Branch at Busbys, Nicky Holloway’s
Trip at the Astoria and Paul Oakenfold’s Monday’s
at Heaven. |
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Paul’s
first DJ break came aged 17 after constantly pestering the
residents at Philip Salon’s Troy night he was finally
offered a set upstairs every Friday playing what was then
known as ‘Balearic Beats’ (roughly translated
to anything he fancied a set which Paul can still be heard
spinning at highbrow fashion shows and private party’s!)
Simultaneously a new club opened across the road called
‘The Milk Bar’ so after finishing his Friday
night set, Paul could be seen throwing some shapes on the
dance floor to sets by Pete Tong and Dave Dorrell. The common
denominator of music meant that Paul soon befriended Dave
and Nicky Holloway and when Darren Emerson left his Monday
night residency at The Milk Bar, Paul slotted in nicely
- the Monday night gig continued for five years finally
concluding at the Velvet Underground |
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The
Monday nights were quickly becoming established as a London
‘Hang Out’ for promoters and producers Paul
soon found himself locking down residency’s at not
only the Milk Bar in London but Pimp in Wolverhampton, Open
@ The Ministry of Sound and Billion Dollar Babes @ Raw,
he was also guesting at what can only be described as the
ultimate nights in the heyday of clubbing venus in Nottingham,
the super glam Miss Moneypennys in Birmingham, Cream in
Liverpool and Golden in Stoke. |
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