The first Friday of each month will see the brand new clubbing brand host their party at the city’s coolest venue: Oracle.
This month we have invited one of the World’s most respected dj’s: the Hacienda’s resident Graeme Park. He’s last played in Leeds at the Loft for the Fac 51 Hacienda World Tour in early 2009 and it was a sell out!
After working in the 80’s at “Select a Disc” in Nottingham, when the first early house records began to filter through from Chicago, Detroit and New York, the shop’s owner decided to open a nightclub and Graeme was the natural choice for selecting the discs. Determined to showcase his own style of music, his reputation as a House pioneer soon brought him to the attention of Mike Pickering at the Hacienda in Manchester, who asked him to cover for him whilst he went on holiday in 1988. Simply put, there was no-one else in the country who could do the job. The Summer of Love followed, and Parky quickly became one of the biggest names on the emerging dance Scene. Aside from his 8 year residency at the Hac, he was the first British DJ to play places like Australia, South America, USA, Asia & beyond. As well as producing and remixing tracks for the dance floor. The Hacienda was a club without a purpose until House Music filled its Cathedral sized dimensions. It undeniably defined Graeme as a DJ, but in 2010 that can only been seen as one chapter in an ongoing Fairytale.
“Yeah, it was a very big Chapter. I guess the first was when I discovered I could DJ, and discovered House Music from the US. The Hacienda was Chapter 2, and three was when it reopened after closing for a couple of months in 1992. Chapter four, was when it closed, and not long after I played around the world; and Chapter Five is where we are now.”
As far as Graeme’s concerned, things are as fab as ever. But where is Dance Music and Club Culture heading? Well who better to ask than the man who wrote the Disco A-Z?
“I started doing it purely by accident”, he details. “And then I realised I was actually pretty good at it, but I never thought I’d end up doing it for over 20 years, and I see no need to stop. I still love playing fantastic tunes in clubs, and people still want me to do it too.”
And where we are now is a very interesting place to be. Aside from all the regular gigs and many productions and the various guises, Graeme has been celebrating his 25th Anniversary with a series of special nights all over the UK and Overseas, playing a selection of classic House tunes, as well as new and current tunes too.
We've also sorted out these amazing drinks prices ...
~ Selected Cocktails 2-4-1 (ground floor till midnight)
~ Bottles of Sol - £2.50
~ House Spirit & Mixer - £2.80
~ Double Vodka & Red Bull - £5
~ Bottles of Wine - £10
~ Jagerbombs - £2.50
But for those partying and splashing out we have tables available to book and some fantastic Champagne and Spirit by the bottle deals for you!
BOOK A TABLE BY EMAILING
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Venue: Oracle, 3 Brewery Place, Leeds, LS10 1NE - www.oraclebar.com
Oracle First Floor Club: Open 10pm till late
Oracle Ground Floor Bar: Open for pre-drinks and party from 6pm
If you are visiting Leeds for the evening we highly recommend you book in the Jury’s Inn Hotel which is directly opposite the Oracle venue, and you have a choice of places to eat including Howard Marks’s Tapas Bar Azucar.