Jeremy Healydrum and bass artist
JEREMY HEALY AWARDS; Gold Disc for sales of 150,000 on “Fantazia House Collection” Gold Disc for Haysi Fantayzee single 'John Wayne is Big Leggy' Silver Disc for Haysi Fantayzee album “BATTLE HYMNS FOR CHILDREN SINGING” Silver Disc for Haysi Fantayzee single “Shiny Shiny” DJ of the year award in Mixmag 1995 DJ of the year award in The Face magazine 95 /96 We fly through the cavernous high-ceilinged chamber of the enormous venue for Manumission Ibiza, turning between the podia, sweeping inches above the crowd, toward the centre of the swarm. Here, lit up from above by three snow-white spotlights, is a tallish, good-looking guy in a sleeveless T-shirt. He’s wearing a pair of headphones and quickly flicking through his record box with the panache of a rockstar yet the care of a librarian. A quick cue, then scratches and tricks begin to emerge through the thudding 4/4 beat; the crowd take new energy from the organic noise that’s being twisted, published and proofed live in front of their astonished eyes. Healy began dabbling in disco at a club called Planets run by promoter Phillip Salon. Salon’s intensively creative and rather eccentric personality rubbed off on Healy, who was paid to do the music, and Healy and his friends set up a pop group called Haysi Fantayzee. Over to Jeremy: “I had begun sprouting dreadlocks, which got my group an article in The Face, and subsequently some demo time at the EMI studio. At this time I lived in West Hampstead with Kate Garner and…
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