Sunday, 02 June 2019 12:29
ZANI’s Football Quiz
A fun and quick football quiz on ZANI by Soccernostalgia
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Sport
Tuesday, 05 December 2017 17:29
When Positive Energy of Madness met Danny Rampling November 1989
In the winter of 1989, I was privileged and honoured to interview Danny Rampling, for my then fanzine, Positive Energy of Madness. It was about two weeks after he had closed his ground-breaking club Shoom. In my eyes at the time, and even today, the end of Shoom was Acid House’s equivalent to The Jam breaking up at the end of 1982. As Shoom, like the Woking Wonders, meant so much to a lot of people. Personally, I found Shoom inspiring, beautiful and wonderful. I was very late to the Shoom party, yet I was welcomed with opened arms, moving, truly moving as I would dance the night away with a beaming smile on my face.
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Music
Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:02
Gio Goi 1988 Collection
Gio Goi is back, back on the shelves, in the clubs and on the streets as it releases its new range of clothing. But probably the most significant thing about its return is the fact its back in the hands of the guys who gave it us the first time round, The Donnelly brothers.
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Culture
Monday, 23 October 2017 15:35
A Celebration of Scottish House Parties
By now, the story of how Acid House and ecstasy was introduced to Great Britain at the end of the 80’s has been told more times than The Hungry Caterpillar has been to kids at bed time by their parents.
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Culture
Sunday, 31 May 2015 15:16
Shaun Ryder talks to ZANI
Salford, Greater Manchester, before it became the central home of the BBC, had been a part of England viewed as hostile, deprived, industrial as well as being hugely creative; spawning some major artists and bands that have not only been
successful but also have been highly influential,
successful but also have been highly influential,
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Music
Monday, 18 May 2015 18:30
World In Action Documentary - A Trip Around Acid House 1988 ITV
The documentary was originally shown on ITV's World In Action current affairs series and was produced by Granada Television. If you weren't there its defiantly worth the watch.
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Video of the Week
Monday, 07 April 2014 16:57
Frankie Knuckles Remembered
There are ONLY two words, other than the words themselves, which mean House Music … and those two words are … FRANKIE KNUCKLES.
I first read those two words in a New York Record store in 1987, when I was attending the New Music Seminar, looking for tracks to sign to my 'Urban' label. An up and coming DJ by the name of Paul Oakenfold and myself, were in Vinyl Mania on a midweek early afternoon, listening to
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Music Archive
Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:55
Andrew Weatherall -Archive -Interview : From PEOM
Andy Weatherall and I didn't always see eye to eye until around 1992 when I climbed onto the decks at “Bagley’s Studio's", whilst he was playing. Something then just clicked with us and he agreed to do an interview. An ideal time to speak to Andy as he was leaving the Boys Own fanzine and embarking on various projects.
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Music Archive
Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:48
Danny Rampling - Archive Interview : From PEOM
1988 was an important year in terms of music and fashion, there was an exciting counter culture emerging, called "Acid House", following in the tradition of Mods of the mid 60's, the hippies of the late 60's and the punks of the 70's, England was buzzing again and there was a media frenzy.Fashion in the mid 80's, was very conservative and not really saying anything. Then there was a slight flirt with 70's fashion, and all of sudden people were dressing down, jeans, trainers, smiley tee-shirts and bandannas, topped with yells of "acid!" Getting drunk was now not the done thing, there was a new drug in town called Ecstasy; "American House wives choice." And by God, they were good.
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Music Archive
Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:46
Dizzie Hites -Archive Interview -From PEOM
In the winter of 1989, Rap, was not seen as mainstream music and was still low on radio play lists. However artists like Bomb the Bass with Neneh Cherry with the evocative Buffalo Stance , and Mark Moore of S-express were helping to develop the UK urban sound.In 1988, obscure records were surfacing and doing the rounds on the decks in Acid House/Balearic clubs. Would I find Love by Dizzie Hites was one such record, which was being played on a regular basis at the clubs which I was frequenting.
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Tales of Aggro
