Revered DJ and author Bill Brewster presents The History of House Music. Bill penned the classic DJ history book Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and will draw upon three decades of research & interviews to give you unique insights into the creation of house. From it’s roots in the black gay community in clubs like the Warehouse & Music box through to it’s subsequent ‘gold rush’ as the sound left the Windy City and swept across Europe. 

Bill will tell the story of Celeste Alexander, the only woman DJ to play at the Music Box and explain how the first Chicago house hit ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ was allegedly stolen from Steve Hurley by his then flatmate Farley Jackmaster Funk. 

The talk will be accompanied by extracts & music from the likes of Marshall Jefferson, Farley Jackmaster Funk and Steve Silk Hurley.

Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm – come down early to grab a good seat!

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Whether he’s taking the roof off a club with his unique selection of deep and tough house music, enchanting a backroom with a genre-bending set of disco, Balearic, rock and hip hop or playing chillout music in a bay in Croatia, Bill Brewster is the man for all occasions. 

In a former life, Bill was a punk rocker, a chef and also the co-editor of football magazine When Saturday Comes but has been a record nerd all of his life. He began DJing in the 1980s, but came into his own in the early 1990s, particularly during a two-year stint in New York running DMC’s office, where nights at the Sound Factory and hanging out with Danny Tenaglia gave him the musical grounding you can still hear in his music today. Bill was also one of the founding residents at Fabric in London, a position he held for five years. There are few still playing regularly today that have his dedication, eclecticism and encyclopaedic knowledge of music. 

His parallel life is as a writer and with his long-term partner-in-crime Frank Broughton they have written four books together, including the acclaimed Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (latest edition published last July), How To DJ (Properly) and The Record Players. The pair are also behind the legendary DJhistory.com and their party, Low Life, has been running for nearly 30 years. They now spend most of their time on a dinghy moored on the Rochdale Canal. 

He has been working in the industry’s fringes for over 40 years including the running of various labels from Twisted UK and Forensic in the ’90s to Disco Sucks and Anorak in the noughties. Occasionally Bill finds time to secrete himself away in a studio to make music or cook up edits. And when he’s not doing any of that he has a family and a dog called Mavis to tend to. He is currently working on a secret project involving badgers, GM crops and disco.