Not long ago I was DJing in Eden in Ibiza with this guy called Dave Booth from Garlands in Liverpool. On the flight home we got talking about places in Manchester and he mentioned that he DJed at Pips. I went, “Pips? You’re joking! Me and Barney took our first record to Pips for the DJ to play.” “Yeah,” he said. “That was me. I was the one who put it on—cleared the fucking floor, it did.” Small world . . .
