28/03/2024
skip forward 3 or 4 years from 1991, i was shunned out of City Limit, cuz i came out.. It was brutal.. The real owner of the place didn't want to have a gay dj .. I was let go, after a huge blowup with said owner and turned my back on the whole debacle. Within 2 months i landed a job at a gay cabaret bar, it was mostly show-oriented that's what most of the crowd came for. Had things a lot better in terms of i had nothing to worry about any longer from straight intolerant opposition at City Limit. I worked at Nitro till 96 and after having a particularly bad night at Nitro ,because of drama between me and a drag queen , i had had enough of that place too. If they would've cued their cassette music properly it wouldve been no issue but because it started on the wrong song when i pressed play, said queen went ballistic. Im not cueing anyone's songs to the first note.. Aint nobody got time for that then and certainly not now. But anyway i took a two year hiatus till 1998 and started at Phoenix in Bham . My style of music drastically had to change. While my female customers liked what i had previously played at City Limit, the guys all liked House.. or Pop ..so it was a bit of both, depending on who dominated in numbers that night.. Attempts at making that place edgier at Nitro were mostly shot down. There were only a few things i could bring in , and get away with, that were part of my side hustle at that time, doing a few raves, here and there.. drastically faster bpm music than what Nitro was ready for. Fast forward to 1998 the first year there it was House and Trance, but by the second year the bar closed for awhile and reopened as Phoenix..the owner did a complete 360 and wanted the place to be primarily CHR top 40 girl songs with a few circuit party style mixes..so for the rest of the years it was open i put up with the childish pop and circuit songs.. and the attitudes of the owner and the performers and their mostly unprofessional behaviour. I should've have divorced show bars back in the 90s and went with strictly playing raves, cuz look where it got me. That's mostly all i play now..whew..finally..