HABIT 4th BIRTHDAY | GREG WILSON | BOXING DAY | WHQ

HABIT 4th BIRTHDAY | GREG WILSON | BOXING DAY | WHQ



Habit celebrates its 4th Birthday with a unique guest, the Godfather and legendary pioneer of Electro-Funk...

GREG WILSON

Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester's majorly influential Legend. He was a pioneer of mixing in the UK and in 1983 he became the first ‘dance music’ DJ hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester's now legendary Hacienda club. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘Electro-Funk’. After retiring from DJ work at the end of 1983, Greg returned to spinning records 2 decades later to massive acclaim, with red-hot appearances at renowned nights including Electric Chair, Horse Meat Disco, Fabric, Back To Basics and the Sub Club, to name but a few. He’s also appeared in the US, Australia and various European countries during recent years, plus a number of major festivals in the UK and Ireland. In 2005 Tirk Records released ‘Credit to the Edit’, a compilation of re-edits spanning Greg's entire career, some even original tape edits from back in the day (Greg still uses his trusty old Revox reel-to-reel tape machine when DJing out). This wasn't Greg's first compilation either, having collaborated on most of the tracks to appear on the Street Sounds ‘UK Electro’ LP in 1984, as well as being the selector behind the ‘Classic Electro Mastercuts’ LP in 1994. Other firsts for Greg include being the first DJ to mix live on British TV (the Tube in 1983), putting together the first UK radio mixes of their type for Piccadilly 261 in Manchester (beginning 1982) and showing a certain Norman Cook how to scratch (Dec ’83).

Greg is a cornerstone of UK dance music’
TOM FINDLAY / GROOVE ARMADA

& SCOTT UDBERG

BOXING DAY
FRIDAY 26TH DECEMBER
WORLD HEADQUARTERS, CARLIOL SQUARE, NEWCASTLE
£10 EVERYONE
10.30PM - 3.30AM

WARM UP AT ENIGMA BAR FROM 8PM (OPP WHQ)

HTTP://WWW.CLUBHABIT.CO.UK

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Not usually a fan of going out on Boxing Day but there's no chance im missing this

Really pleased with this- been wanting him to come back to Newcastle for ages!

with the deluge of house and techno nights at the moment we thought it would be cool to do something a little different for our birthday.

great to be back at worldies again as well.

WHQ

I'll be at this after i see the turk play fire it up.

could Udberg be bringing out his 80's mix for a warm up?

His Myspace sounds pritty good

I seen some pics on RA of him using the reel to reels, would be good to hear it in action.

It was a proper torrential downpour on the terrace that night. Still remember him being quality even when he moved downstairs though :groovy:

You wanting the distro done for this one lads???
Ezy

irrespective of how internationally renowned greg wilson is, he'll always be humbled by the terkyer terrace and the dodgy mixer upstairs at the cosmic.

i still have that massive suono poster on my wall that he stuck his name on in 2005...

Quality night that. He played some awesome tunes.

"Dubtribe Soundsystem - Do It Now" Well aye!

I'll no doubt play "some" 80's records

Greg is easily one of my favourite DJ's.

Anyone who claims to be into music; whatever form it may be cant say that someone like Greg doesnt do it for them.

Personally if you're one of these people that states "the music matters" then for me there are only a handful of people like Mr Wilson that can really deliver on that front. But if you're not that anal and having a good time is top of your list then he's the man for that job as well.

I wasnt even alive when Greg was DJing and was still running around with He-Man figures when he was knocking out some absolute classics in a club somewhere. The fact that nearly 30 years on he's still attracting interest says it all.

quality booking, n should suite a boxing day nicely, best venue in town aswel, will defo b there

Very profound, if I wasnt already going, that would make me.

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Mixmag Number 2 night in the North for December.

definitly game for this. His R.a and fabric podcasts were quality.

Just been listening to his Fabric podcast...what a fine taste in music.

We saw him on the Space terrace @ We Love back end of September and he was quality. Gonna check this mix out and see if it's the same night.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=9988 :groovy: