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I’d never thought about dj’ing but remember seeing Norman Cook dj’ing at Burberries Click Club around 1987 and mixing a Smiths track and James Brown track together – very interesting.
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We’d be buying New Order, The Bunnymen, reggae, 80’s soul, early hip hop. Things moved fast and I bought and listened to all genres, as most of my mates did at the time. Also, a few of my black mates at the time started going to jazz funk all dayers around the country and introduced me to all sorts of black American (and some British) dance music.
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Then the mod revival and two tone introduced everybody to lots of old great soul and sixties music of all genres.
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I’d listen to John Peel playing all these new bands and lots of great reggae. I started buying seriously when the punk thing broke and had started work so had more money. I bought a few records when I had the money but did a lot of taping off the radio! The charts were great with all the glam bands like T Rex, Bowie, Sweet, Slade and lots of great soul music too – ‘The Hustle’, ‘Love On A Mountain Top, ‘Hang On In There Baby’. I started getting into music as a kid in the early 70’s. We asked Steve to take time out to write a few words and reminisce on his past involvement in educating local dancefloors, and where you can catch him these days (well, soon as bars repoen). Jools Belgium, better known to friends and family as Steve, has been milling around on the Brum music scene since the 1970s.