Thomas Foley Interview Part 1.

Thomas Foley Interview Part 1.

Thomas Foley, who along with James Horrocks started up and ran React Recordings. They also ran the legendary Garage @ Heaven night.

Thomas has kindly agreed to be interviewed for this blog.

Part 1.

What clubs did you promote?

Garage 90-96 and Wildlife 98-99 both at Heaven.

Which DJs did you employ in your clubs?

Daz Saund,Trevor Rockcliffe, Blu Peter and Mrs Wood as residents at Garage plus numerous guest dj's. Notable guests included Frank De Wulf, Paul Van Dyk and Mark Spoon and PA's by Ramirez, Praga Khan and GTO. The Upstairs floor had numerous residents including Vicki Edwards, Princess Julia and David Drew from Catch A Groove (Soho record shop)

Wildlife residents included Danny Rampling. Guests inlcuded Carl Cox.

Garage was very cutting edge and pioneered the Euro trance and tribal and NY house sounds. Wildflife was a little more mainstream underground and press led, booking big name dj's.

Who were your favourite DJs?

All our residents

What clubs did you visit and find inspiring in the 90s?

I really enjoyed going to Germany and clubbing in Cologne, Frankfurt and the legendary E Work and Tresor in Berlin. Some of the owners of E Work came to Garage. The sound systems in Germany were excellent. I liked Mayday as it was only one huge room playing trance, so everyone was into that sound. In London I had some great evenings at Troll.

What records labels did you work for?

Danceyard which was owned by James H and Sue Macauley, then Dave Pearce's Reachin label and then React

What DJs and artists did you work with?

James can give Danceyard roster. Reachin had Boneshakers. React - view releases on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_Music_Limited


Part 2 tomorrow.