peep® podcast MAN-POWER the Joy of Dance Music. A North East Auteur talks Bed Wetter Influences with peep magazine. The Newcastle born DJ Geoff Kirkwood also goes into detail about the making of Bed Wetter and embarking on an Artist residency with The Sage Gateshead. #manpower #bedwetter #music #peepodcast
The name MANPOWER was devised as a ‘secret project’ and was promoted with homoerotic imagery and artwork, which depicted cowboys taking each others, this is Geoff’s words, was open to interpretation. It was around ten years later, that the DJ MANPOWER , realised this could be problematic, coming from a hetrosexual male.
Manpower goes on to say he a saw huge spike in notoriety and interest within his techno style style dance music and assumed this level of success would translate throughout his entire career. Manpower explains this early success was down too ‘New Energy’ and later discovered that this ‘new Energy’ only lasts for so long. The music audience inevitably looks for the ‘The Next New Energy’
Geoff Kirkwood, now explains to peep, that after ten years in the music industry, there is an ‘Old Energy’, which embraces the legacy figure mentality.
Manpower sites local entrepreneur - Paul Skevington as a major influence which has contributed to his world wide success and career in dance music. Manpower remembers playing at Newcastle’s ‘Stage Door’, Cosmic Ballroom gigs, along with ‘The Red Rooms’ and legendary dance night in Newcastle called ‘Nice’ , which were all organised and promoted by Paul ’SKEV’ Skevington.
Manpower also mentions Tommy Caulker and his legendary World Headquarters club as an iconic club night venue in Newcastle upon Tyne. WHQ will see thirty years at the top this coming weekend.
peep, take this opportunity to ask if the Bed Wetter album was more biographical than his previous house music pieces. Manpower explained that dance music can be a narrow field and wanted to develop his personal ideas. This idea and ideology developed the album Bed Wetter.
Geoff, reflected and said “ Experimental Music is For Bed Wetters” this, of course, was a ‘tongue and cheek’ comment and later realised that he himself, had to own the name and deep dived into the whole mindset behind the sound and the context.
All this and loads more !!! peep also ask about a favourite film or scene that has inspired him throughout his musical journey. Check it out and please subscribe to the channel.
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