I have it on good authority that the first record of this nature to land in Manchester was Chip E "Like This". That was late '86. 4 copies apparently.
The first 'house' record to blow the whole thing up in Manchester was Adonis "No Way Back". Apparently that's the one that kicked everything off. There were 6 copies in Manchester at first and it took nearly 4 weeks to get some more, after that they did around 300 copies out of one shop (on the black label press fact fans)! This was in '87. Apparently at this time they were still pretty much playing loads of different stuff down there, the house music was interspersed with alot of other stuff. Hip Hop etc. Mike Pickering started his 'new'night (didn't ask if that was hot or nude or whatever) in '87 at some point. Also the kids wanting the house music early on were the Black kids apparently. In search of a different sound more than anything I'm told, to play with the other stuff big on that scene at the time. Think this came from them all dancing down the Gallery and Legends... Predominantly Black music clubs I'm told. I presume Greg Wilson was the dj at these joints. But don't know.... Also it's worth noting that alot of the original Chi stuff never really got here. Persona stuff etc in particular. Don't know if anywhere in London/Brum/Sheffield/Glasgow or anywhere like that was getting them. Back to my hideyhole. Alex _________________________________________________________________ --------------------- End of message text -------------------- This e-mail is sent by the above named in their individual, non-business capacity and is not on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. PricewaterhouseCoopers may monitor outgoing and incoming e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you give your consent to such monitoring
