About this Event
<h4>“Icon. Trailblazer. Activist. Warrior.” (Maxine Peake on DJ Paulette)</h4>
In Welcome to the Club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends.
One of the Haçienda’s first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman’s perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women.
Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.
DJ Paulette will be on conversation with Journalist and author EMMA WARREN. There'll be time for audience questions and book signing.
DJ PAULETTE
DJ Paulette is an award-winning DJ whose thirty-year career has seen her play some of the world’s greatest parties, from Manchester’s Haçienda to Ibiza Rocks and the Ministry of Sound.
EMMA WARREN
Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture for decades. She is the author of Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre a MOJO book of the year. Emma was a founding contributor to JOCKEY SLUT and wrote for the FACE. Her most recent book Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor is a landmark social history of the dancefloor that gets to the heart of what it is that makes us move.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Walthamstow Trades Hall, 61-63 Tower Hamlets Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 9.00 to GBP 36.00