Dave Haslam

Dave Haslam is a former Hacienda DJ, now a radio broadcaster on XFM and the author of Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City and Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s.

In the LRB Archive:

• 77 Barton Street: Joy Division · 3 January 2008

  • Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins
  • Joy Division: Piece by Piece by Paul Morley
  • Control directed by Anton Corbijn

• Strangeways Here We Come: Ecstasy · 23 January 2003

  • The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E by Decca Aitkenhead

• What the Twist Did for the Peppermint Lounge on club culture · 6 January 2000

  • Adventures in Wonderland: A Decade of Club Culture by Sheryl Garratt
  • Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton
  • Saturday Night For Ever: The Story of Disco by Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen
  • DJ Culture by Ulf Poschardt
  • Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds
  • More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction by Kodwo Eshun

• Punk-U-Like · 20 July 1995

  • The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi
  • The Faber Book of Pop edited by Hanif Kureishi and Jon Savage

• Play hard · 20 October 1994

  • The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-93 by Nick Kent

• Hard Beats and Spacey Bleeps · 23 September 1993

  • Will Pop Eat Itself? Pop Music in the Soundbite Era by Jeremy J. Beadle
  • Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture edited by Anthony DeCurtis

• Diary · 25 February 1993

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