Horse meat disco biography definition

How did you guys meet?

I met James Hillard (also co-promoter and DJ at HMD) at a Basement Jaxx party in Brixton in 1999. I had met him through Severino (also one of our residents at HMD).

Where was your first gig?

Our first gig ever was at Substation South in Brixton – home of Queer Nation. Mine personally was a wedding!

Where does the name come from?

James was cleaning his flat and noticed a newspaper headline: “Horse Meat Discovered in Salami” so a bit of inventive editing and the name Horse Meat Disco was born! Horse Meat is big in France.

Where in the world do they react best to your sets?

The Parisians are, contrary to popular belief, an energetic and pretty clued up crowd. In the summer we were the DJs at The Lanvin / Acne party in the Louis XV suite of the Hotel De Crillon which is possibly the grandest hotel in all of Paris. It was an extreme glamour extravaganza I can tell you. Think of all those cliché images you have of the heady days of disco back in the seventies Horse meat disco nyc.