JOHN COURSE — PART 2: Signing AVICII, What Makes A Club Institution & The Business Of Dance Music
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Welcome back to Daniel Rant. This week we have a very special guest. Every week we have a special guest. I have invited back one of the biggest legends in the Melbourne music dance industry, probably Australian. He's come back. We've had a little bit of technical difficulties. We rolled up. There was a cancellation on my own that didn't get told to you. And then second to that, you rolled up to the old podcast studio and you got here in time. But we're here. We're doing it.
Hey, look, nothing like a few diversions along the way, right, mate? Adds to the story. Exactly. Like our career.
Exactly, exactly. So anyway, obviously for anyone who hasn't been watched the last episode, you can go back. It'll be attached right now. But we we went into somewhat depth. We talked about your early stages, how you started, I guess, different parts of your career, but we didn't really dive into the juicy stuff. So this part two is more so a really kind of reflection of the business side. Um bit more of a dive into the compilation sort of stuff that you did, which was obviously massive, and that career growth. to the iconic clubs you played, like Inflations, Redheads, all the stuff before One Love. And then lastly but not least, I really want to dig into um lastly but not least, I really want to dig into the business side of you.
Because as I said in the last one, we wrapped up, musically you are one of the biggest music business guys that I know. And I want to get deep in I want to get deep into that too. Yeah, cheers. No worries. So starting back from that, right? One of the parts that we didn't go into last time is that we kind of brushed over, but you You were playing earlies in the nineties and you were playing some of the biggest clubs.
Yeah.
What were the clubs you were playing back
then? My first two really big clubs in Melbourne, Chasers and Chevron. And my first club in Melbourne, after I won the DMC. This uh lady come down to Frankston to hear me DJ when I was playing like a local club in Frankston. And she said, we run this thing called a drinkers club at IDs. I didn't know what it was. It was a Tuesday night. She said, You wanna play the whole night? You go one hour on, one hour off with our resident. And you'd be part of the Tuesday night. And Drinkers Club was at IDs, which later on become on Greville Street um boutique. So before it was boutique, it was called IDs. And ironically, Draw, who from One Love and Stereosonic, who was a partner in that, he was the manager at the dr at the drinkers club at IDs.
And that's where I first DJ'd any gig that he had anything to do with. Um anyway, so I th I thought, you know what, it's a Tuesday night. I'm gonna do this gig. And it turned out that A lot of promoters from all over Melbourne. That was where they went. Tuesday night, drinkers club, cool music policy. Amazingly cool little venue. Did jazz on the weekends. Cake Sbrono used to play their early days. Super cool. I think Draw booked a lot of the acts there. So he was really into jazz and he's got a really wide music palette. And um this was their club night. And on the back of that, the promoters from Chasers used to go there. And they said, You want to come and play Friday, Saturday night at Chasers? And this is circa um eighty eight, eighty nine.
And after I started at um Chasers, then I got asked to play Chevron on Tuesdays, which was Sanction, which is one of the biggest uni nights I can remember back in the early days. I mean, in summer, I started at one, I finished at 7 a.m. I'm driving back to Frankston, daylight, Wednesday morning after playing music all night, you know, it was crazy. So it was I ended up doing Tuesday, Thursday at Chevron, Friday, Saturday chases, as well as twenty-first century in Frankston early before that on a Friday Saturday. And that was my regular thing for for a little while. And um they were the first two really big clubs was Chasers and Chevron. I mean, they were epic, like amazing dance flaws, amazing sound systems, and a really great music policy.
I mean, uh Friday nights at Chasers was everything from kind of hip hop through to house music, and Saturday was more kind of house music and a little bit of techno.
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