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Did any dance artist end up in a 9 to 5 job?

  • 03-10-2005 5:53pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    ...Did any of the contributors to the whole scene in the late 80s/early 90s leave it all behind and settle down? I appreciate that many probably dj or produce, but I'm really looking for guys who were legends and ended up as accountants and mechanics...it must be so difficult.

    Think the guys in 4th Dimension, who blew away a packed City Hall in Cork when they supported the Prodigy in 1994, and had a very cheesy remix of a Sharon Shannon song at the top of the charts in Ireland around about then, ended up back in the family electrical firm in South Kerry.


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  • #2
    base2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 370 ✭✭base2


    Most of them would have jobs and the rest would rely heavily on sideline work. And Id say plenty more have ended up in some very ****ty jobs.

    What happens when your an old, unqualified, junky dj who cant get a gig any more? Grim.


  • #3
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    isnt one of the k klass lads a supermarket manager now?


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Helix wrote:
    isnt one of the k klass lads a supermarket manager now?

    :eek:

    No disrespect to supermarket managers, but that's EXACTLY the stuff I'm looking for...


  • #5
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    sorry it wasnt k klass, it was altern8


  • #6
    technobob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭technobob


    Helix wrote:
    sorry it wasnt k klass, it was altern8


    no they are still touring around pete
    doing live shows and dj sets


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  • #7
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    after a very very long time off

    they dont do much, just back in since the oldskule fad kicked off

    kklass are still gigging too

    but im 99% sure one of the altern8 lads was a supermarket manager after their fame disappeared


  • #8
    Eddie Brennan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭Eddie Brennan


    technobob wrote:
    no they are still touring around pete
    doing live shows and dj sets
    and are at Electric City after the Prodigy! That'll be the perfect end to the day


  • #9
    dSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Helix wrote:
    sorry it wasnt k klass, it was altern8
    Jeez, thats lucky!

    Didn't they burn a million pounds as some 'statement'?


  • #10
    KevIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,691 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    dSTAR wrote:
    Jeez, thats lucky!

    Didn't they burn a million pounds as some 'statement'?


    Your thinking of the KLF - Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond. They burned the million squids.


  • #11
    jaygrogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭jaygrogan


    I'd say they're kicking themselves silly now


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    jaygrogan wrote:
    I'd say they're kicking themselves silly now

    Read an interview in recent years where Drummond said he didn't regret it at all. He conceived the whole project as an artistic statement.


  • #13
    rabbitinlights
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,008 ✭✭✭rabbitinlights


    Deleted User wrote:
    He conceived the whole project as an artistic statement.


    Were they not found out to have faked that, They were brought up on charges for destroying the money (Which is very illegal) and they had to own up about it being fake money.

    s.


  • #14
    Eddie Brennan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭Eddie Brennan


    yeah sure they'd be locked up for burning that


  • #15
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    sure they couldve said it was fake money anyway, whos to know if it was or not


  • #16
    smeggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭smeggle


    Deleted User wrote:
    Read an interview in recent years where Drummond said he didn't regret it at all. He conceived the whole project as an artistic statement.

    As artistic as it was supposed to be - I thought the geezer a nutter - I mean A million!

    Thinks of recording studio dream :(


  • #17
    base2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 370 ✭✭base2


    Back then a million pound would have bought you 15 decent houses as well.


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