DjHistory Podcast: Mike Pickering (DJH038)

One of the first Dj's to dispense with the microphone and drag DJ culture kicking and screaming into the modern era, Mike Pickering has seen it all. From meeting most of his musical contemporaries via the terraces of Man Cities main road, and the away ends of division one. Through to forming a series of groups Quando Quango, through to M People.  Pickering stayed one step ahead of the DJ game all the way through the 1980s via his residency at the Hacienda, and then winning brit awards and a Mercury music Prize. We talked to Mike about the life on the terraces, his time in Rotterdam, the influence of Quando Quango, T-Coy and M People and guiding Calvin Harris into the pop charts.