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Added 25th July 2008 by julie andrews

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Photograph
Pips
1978

taken in 1978 in the roxy room



*Please note: this isn't DJ Dave Booth, as was originally posted. - Abigail, MDMarchive
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“Very Warhol!!

Not sure if Dave Booth's role in the indie/dance crossover (and therefore everything which followed) had ever been properly written up? But I well remember him dropping Northern Soul and the Jackson 5 plus, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata, Steinski, Mantronix, Salt n Pepa, etc into otherwise post-Goth/Smithsy/Indie nights at Berlin/Asylum in about 86/87. Dave Haslam was the only other dj doing this at that time.

Later to DJ at Isadora's, Hacienda, for the Roses on tour and still big on the dance scene, resident at Garlands.”
27 Jul 2008
“i love this photo - i've known dave since the late 80s - he actually worked with me at the vinyl exchange for a while (on saturdays) and i've never seen any pictures of him before that period!

i remember him djing at Spike island and yes tony, you're right, boothy does need a bit of recognition - he was smack bang in the centre of the indie/dance/madchester thing.”
30 Jul 2008
“In the digital age we have, unfortunately, a plethora of banal photographic records, but stuff like this is pure gold. And all the more precious because of its rarity.
Dave Booth is a legend in Manchester, and probably doesn't get as much recognition as other DJ's.
This 'look' is one I remember well at the time and one favoured by those frequenters of the Roxy and Bowie rooms at Pips.
I love this archive.
Barbara”
15 Dec 2009
“I got Dave his first spot deejaying at Pips when the previous guy who did the downstairs "overflow" alternative room (I seem to remember him being called Tony, but not Tony Court who deejayed with me) got sacked. I put him forward because he was passionate about our music. This was during my second stint at Pips and we later went on to deejay together at Devilles. Just for the record though, I was the first deejay I know of to play "black" music in an alternative environment and that was in the Roxy room at Pips, starting with Sylvester, "Mighty Real" in 1978 when I used to deejay with John Richmond who went on to start his own fashion empire, and then when I returned there in 1981, introducing the likes of "The adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel". Dave will be the first to confirm that and we still have mutual respect for each others talent.
If anyone is interested in putting on a Pips commemorative night, I can offer The Venue as a location for it? Alan Maskell”
07 Nov 2011
“this is not me in this pic”
24 Feb 2012
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