FUNKIE JUNKIE is the result of an amalgamation of ideas, derived from some of the world's finest clubbing allegiance. From Deejays to clubbers to bongo players and bar staff, the FUNKIE JUNKIE henchman have uncovered the truth about what party people really desire to bring you the ultimate clubbing experience.

Looking back over the years, the FUNKIE JUNKIE creators found a platform from which to project their ideas and ensure that recent suspicions that house music is slowly losing its popularity are profoundly untrue.

Their findings were as follows…

In 1988, when acid house music arrived in the UK, "The Second Summer of Love"
was born, which would echo the hippy movement of the 1960's. It marked the beginning of a generation of Super Clubbers who would carve their very own place in history and be remembered for their outstanding deviation from rock and pop which charted the airwaves and reigned supreme during the early 80's.

In the mid 1990's, DJ mixed compilation albums became the ultimate phenomenon and adorned the Walkmans and ghetto blasters of every self-respecting clubber who wanted to take pride in their nocturnal activities. The sales of these collections soon took a nose dive, however as enthusiasts realised that they were almost always mixed on a computer with the headlining DJ a mere name used on the cover to increase the retail value.

It was around this time that the super club was born in the country's capital and The Ministry of Sound created a whole clothing range to further secure their trade mark amongst clubbers who ironically could not even venture into the club wearing such logos.

House music became an immediate release from everyday working week pressures and was the escape from the repression years of the 1990's. This popular culture was no longer seen as a stage for singers to announce their message to the world (as with performers such as Bob Dylan, during the 1960's) but it became a simple fun filled fantasy to be used and enjoyed with no real lasting effect.

Over the next 15 years only a few dance acts actually managed to make it into the mainstream and find lasting success, crossing the border of underground acts to popular chart culture. Examples being Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers, whilst amongst the house seen, the spotlight was taken away from the music producers and turned to shine on those that actually play the music; the Super Star DJ was born.

This is where FUNKIE JUNKIE has found that house music needs to be changed.
No longer should DJ's have the power to earn extortionate amounts of money to play other peoples musical creation's and be adored for their use of the work of others. In 1999 Paul Oakenfold famously earned a staggering £728,000 in one night by entertain a crown and he made it into the Guinness Book of Records. By the eve of the millennium, the cost of hiring such talent became so immense that clubbers were ordered to pay ticket fees of around £500 for one night of fun. It was the public who suffered at the hands of the incredulous club promoters.

FUNKIE JUNKIE have realised that since then in the past four years, the love of house music amongst the masses has been falling and spiralling out of control.
House music clubs, record labels and magazines have all collapsed under the pressure of such a commercialised world and the once sophisticated alternative to popular music culture has now become so advantageous that people are looking for an alternative.

FUNKIE JUNKIE aim to take the clubbing experience back from the Super Star DJ and give it back to the people who pay for the occasion, back to the people who work all week to save their hard earned money and open their minds and hearts on a night out with their friends to allow themselves to be uplifted to a better place where troubles and hardships melt away.

FUNKIE JUNKIE would like to ensure that house music is certainly not dead, going to die or going anywhere and we need all you FUNKIE JUNKIEs out there to help us ensure this.

Calling all Funky House Music lovers everywhere- FUNKIE JUNKIE has arrived.