GRAEME PARK

The story of DJ Graeme Park really mirrors the story of the evolution of dance music and club culture itself.

Graeme found himself working in a Nottingham record shop in the early 1980s, when the very first house records began to filter through from Chicago, Detroit and New York. When the shop’s owner opened a nightclub, it was only natural he should turn to Graeme to select the discs. Determined to showcase this new style of music, his reputation as a house pioneer soon brought him to the attention of Mike Pickering at the Haçienda in Manchester, who asked him to cover for him while he went on holiday in 1988.

The rest, is history... The Summer of Love followed and Parky quickly became one of the biggest names on the emerging dance scene. Aside from his eight year residency at The Haçienda, he was one of the first British DJs to play in Australia, South America, the USA, Asia and beyond as well as producing and remixing tracks for the dancefloor, including The Brand New Heavies, Inner City, Eric B & Rakim, New Order, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and more.

With regular gigs around the UK, Europe and beyond Graeme is still playing a selection of classic house cuts as well as new and current tunes too to audiences made up of die-hard regulars and new clubbers too.

Celebrating over 20 years on the radio with shows on Kiss, Galaxy, Key 103, Radio City and more, Graeme’s years of experience, his weekly Graeme Park Radio Show now airs on scores of radio stations both in the UK and overseas.

Whether through his sets, his radio shows, his productions and remixes or simply by getting to know his audience, Graeme has spent over 30 years getting his jocular personality across. He was there before it all started, he was at the forefront of the dance scene when it was at its zenith and he’s still there, still rocking it, years later – longer than some of the people on the dancefloor have been on the planet! And the best thing is he still loves it, still loves the music and still loves to play it for people to dance to.

‘Yeah, for my entire career I’ve been finding good tunes that I want other people to hear. The reason I keep doing it is simple: it’s my mission in life to let people hear good music.’

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