Amnesia

had enough.

No, the one story I do say is that going to school, when I was driving to school in the morning, we'd drive by Privilege, well, back then it was Coup, and Amnesia, and I'd always ask my mom, and it'd be like, what are these people doing? And they'd come out of the foam party, covered in foam, and I'm eight years old, like, what are they doing, mom? They need to shower or whatever.

It was always a good memory.

So when I came back and I was 18, the first place I went to was the foam

times, but yeah.

I worked running an after-party.

It was a party for Amnesia on Sunday at S-Paradise, and that was the first club I worked in, in Ibiza for Clockwork Orange in 99, I think.

It's still exactly the same.

And I was going every single year, five or six times a year.

It was 83 that I got a job at Amnesia.

Ah.

That's where I started.

Right.

I was a resident at Amnesia, but it didn't last long.

It lasted for about not even a month.

So I decided to stay out there in 83, and then I went back out in 84.

Do you remember any of your biggest moments or highlights?

In Ibiza, the best nights I've ever had was definitely the opening party in 1989 at Amnesia, which again was Paul Oakenfold.

He used to have a little office just off in Chiswick.

And he said I'm coming coming, you know, there's just there's this thing going on in Ibiza.

Yeah And he said you can't put my name because he's mentioned in drugs.

You can't put my name Yeah, there were the early days and it was like it was literally the I mean we wasn't you when I could say it's the first Imprint I would be like I'll be stretching it because we were a fanzine, we weren't a big magazine.

But it was the first article, I think, that kind of talked about that club scene at Amnesia and what was going on and Ecstasy.

And he said, oh, I've got tickets for the opening, which coincided with being Boy George's birthday.

To get through the hard times, you'd be like, it's all good, mate.

We'll be on Amnesia Terrace one day.

We used to say that because me and him shared so many memories on that dance floor.

We've had some of the best nights of our lives there.

Like in order to make it, my belief is if you don't have the passion in this industry, you won't get very far at all.

It's what actually drives you through the hard times.

And luckily for me and Josh specifically, i think we both found someone in each other that had that same shared passion so like there's two sides of it as well like i was always looking to make sure i did right by him and he didn't want to let me down as well so it was like two people super passionate about their craft him being the music me being the promoter that has just driven us through this full thing and i think people don't see that behind closed doors like if we look back I don't know, even five years, me and him would message each other saying, wait till we're on Amnesia Terrace.

Like that was our thing that we said.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I, I remember being at Amnesia and j- just seeing Sven pull his white singlet over his head.

You know, he's such a performer and he just, he got it over his head and he's, you know, he, I don't know if he knew where he was.

Yeah.

I want, I wanna do Space.

I want to do Space.

I want to do Amnesia.

I want to...

From the pre-internet age, Jose started DJing in the 70s.

He was born in 56, I think, or 55 or 56. and he just had this knowledge that you know he just picked it up by osmosis you know just by being around it and because in Spain there wasn't like great radio stations in the 70s or something it wasn't like you could listen it wasn't a John Peel for example which is how I learned about a lot of music I listened to John Peel every night in the 1970s and early 80s but um Alfredo was another favorite from his days, you know, in Amnesia and later on.

But kind of like DJs at the moment, I love DJ Harvey for his, again, I like DJs who surprise me.

They don't just play in one kind of genre.

of...

He was getting more work in London, I think, than he was over here, Alfredo.

We brought him over a couple of times to play in London and everyone appreciated it because they remembered them early days in Amnesia and that.

Yeah.