Dave Haslam

Dave Haslam is an author and DJ. Originally from Moseley, Birmingham, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where the rumours were that Toyah Willcox was his girlfriend. Having moved to Manchester in 1980, he DJ'd over 450 times at the legendary Haçienda nightclub in Manchester, UK including Thursday's Temperance club night in the late 1980s. In the 1990s he also hosted the weekly night Yellow at the Boardwalk nightclub in Manchester.

In the mid-1980s's he founded the fanzine 'Debris' and went on to write for 'NME'. His journalism has since appeared in 'The Times', 'The Guardian', 'The London Review of Books', 'The New Statesman' and elsewhere. In 1999 he published a book about the Manchester music scene, called Manchester, England, and, subsequently, books about superstar DJs called Adventures on the Wheels of Steel, and the music and politics of the Seventies called Not Abba; the Real Story of the 1970s.

His numerous other cultural interventions include creating an installation for the Berlin-based ‘Shrinking Cities’ exhibition; presenting a twenty minute talk on the North/South divide for Radio 3; appearing on TV shows on BBC2 (including the recent series ’The Seven Ages of Rock’), and on Channel 4, Granada, and Canal Plus (France); and, for two years, hosting a weekly music show on XFM.

His huge and eventful DJ history includes touring with the Stone Roses, aftershow parties for New Order, Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, and the Charlatans, and gigs in Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, Paris, Reykjavik, Ibiza, and Lima. He currently holds an infrequent guest-only night, 'Sweet Sensation' at various venues in Manchester.

The www.davehaslam.com website [1] includes a 'gig-ography', information about the books, etc.

He teaches music journalism at the University of Salford and currently also lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University about the history and culture of Manchester.

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