EP 22 // DJ HARVEY
Born Harvey Bassett, the world-renowned selector better known as DJ HARVEY needs no formal introduction, to which an attempt to encapsulate the privilege of participating his sets into words would be insufficient. In this episode, the nightlife luminary warmly invites us through the halls of his musical memory, from dancing alone and scantily clad to ABBA’s Dancing Queen, to discussing the legacies of Larry Levan and Freddie Mercury on both his life and spirit.
“There was a great moment back in the early ‘90s playing a gig at the Zap Club in Brighton, England and the sound system blew up... that sort of added to the drama... the tension would build and it was just a rather nice, magical moment when the audience started singing to me: ‘We wanna give you Devotion,’ which is the Ten City song and I just thought: “That was absolutely marvelous,” that one stuck with me...”
Illustration by Luke Edward Hall