Why?

I'm tracking down photos, videos, mix tapes and memories of that time and posting them on this blog. It was a fantastic period in my life that I shared with so many. Having not even thought about it for 12 years the sudden rush to pay my respects and share is overwhelming. Please feel free to contribute and enjoy.

George


Monday, February 13, 2012

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today



The first blog post comes courtesy of Tribal regular Oly Findlay. Cheers for popping this cherry Oly!


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At its height, when it had fully formed as a nightclub, strutting into TF you entered into a peculiar social mix. Posh students, plumbers, transvestites, dentists, uncle Peach, the unemployed, lawyers, doctors off duty police, hibs casuals (also off duty mostly, you hoped), psychopaths, politicians, pimps (all true by the way).

Maybe Mitsubishi's did help them from having differences with one another on the dance-floor, but like all the best clubs on the remote and tiny little ball that we live on, it was all about the music. Music that was other-dimensional, or like music that had been made in another galaxy. Or like music that didn't even sound like music at all. Music that still sounds great today. I'm happy to report that a lot of the young team these days love hearing those tunes. That's if you can find them on YouTube (and that's if you can remember what they were called).

Wouldn't have missed it for the world!

Oly Findlay

And the first Tribal Funktion blog share is Chicago's DJ Cajmere on the 3rd of August 1996.

Much more on the way. Enjoy
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5 comments:

  1. Chef De PartyFebruary 13, 2012 at 5:21 PM

    Oh my days! I've been hopin somebody would do this for ever!!! Happy happy happy memories of my favourite club of all time! Loved Tribal Funktion more than life itself for a good many years. It was a massive influence on me not just musically but spiritually as well. Tribal Funktion was like church to me. It was the place where house music became a religion more than just a medium of entertainment. I'm still what some people would call a house music fundamentalist to this day and will probably remain so till the day i die.

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    1. Chef De PartyFebruary 13, 2012 at 5:29 PM

      Thank you Mr T, Simone, Nicki and Gav for the tunes, the inspiration and the friendship and Rod the engineer for the biftas.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:10 PM

    Hey George, Great job with the site. I am not muh of a blogger or Flickr but here is a link to an album of flyers for back in the day. Peace peace NBx

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/8482060@N08/sets/72157629365884697/

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  3. Chef De PartyFebruary 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM

    I'm sure i've still got loads of old Tribal flyers as well will dig them out and upload photos as soon as i can mate. x

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  4. George DemureFebruary 18, 2012 at 12:50 PM

    Amazing. Pissing my pants with excitement (or is that old age?)
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