Nicky Holloway (born 12 June 1963) is an

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DJ and

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, who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s, and has been called "a prototype of the superstar DJ".

Biography

Nicholas Holloway was born in

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. He began playing records in the

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scene around the

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in 1980. He first started to organise club nights, such as Special Branch in

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in 1984 alongside

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and

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. Holloway (with

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, Johnny Walker and

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) was one of the "Ibiza four" - four DJs who travelled to the island for a holiday in the summer of 1987. They visited a club called

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and met an

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DJ called

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, who inspired them to promote

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s back in the UK. Holloway opened the clubnight Trip at the

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at the end of May 1988, and was one of the first legal

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clubs. Trip changed its name to Sin, after the previous name's close association with

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. In April 1990, he opened the Milk Bar venue at 12 Sutton Row, London, W1. It hosted Paul Oakenfold on Friday nights and

and Dave Dorrell on Saturday nights,

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on Mondays, Danny Rampling's Pure Sexy and Glam on Wednesday

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and Lisa Loud playing FUBAR on the Sunday night.

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, Tony Humphries, the

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and

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got signed after doing spots at the club. During the summer of 1992, he opened venues in

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under the Milk Bar banner which ran for a couple of seasons, but later went bankrupt and had to attend rehabilitation.

, Lynn Cosgrove and Lincoln Cheng a club owner of

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in Singapore all chipped in to get him into the Charter Nightingale rehab clinic and for seven years he remained sober. Since cleaning his life up in 1998, Holloway has continued to produce music and is widely known as one of the first DJs in the UK to go digital, many of his Peers mocked him for this, however they soon realised the benefits outweighed the downside and within a few years where doing the same. Maverick producer Arthur Baker walked into his own club one night, The Elbow Room in Islington and was blown away by what he Nicky doing using a piece of software called PCDJ at that time laptop hard drives where too small so he had to carry around a full desktop PC. In 1999, Holloway helped create a DJ based website calle
Trust The DJ
with his close friend Lynn Cosgrove, which was so ahead of its time it ran out of funding before most people had broadband. Lynn Cosgrove still manages DJ

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. In 2008, Holloway started to run classic house club nights under the name of Desert Island Disco however after a few good years decided to stop doing the events as the format was being copied by many other promoters and he simply got bored. After a few years living in a pub called the Queens Head in Brixton, Holloway is now currently living in Barnet, north London and now organizes parties called Now & Then where the format is new and old music and still plays regularly for such events as Promised Land
Summer Solstice
He was recently included in a list of 50 DJs over 50 still cutting it.

Discography

Singles

*1988: Beats Workin - "Sure Beats Workin'" (

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) *1989: Beats Workin - "Burn Out Don't Fade Away" (FFRR) *1995: Velvet Underpants - "Where Is My Man" (SL2) *1996: Beats Workin - "Don't Keep Me Waiting" (

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) *1997: NWA vs. Oasis - "Wonderwall" (White Label) *1998: Sir Real - "Spirits High" (White Label) *1999: Holloway & Co.- "I'll Do Anything - To Make You Mine" (

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) - UK No. 58 *2002: Holloway & Co.- "Voyager" *2002: Beats Workin - "Everyway But Loose" *2002: Titty Twister - "Pussy Blowout"

Compilation albums

*1995: ''Ibiza 95'' (Forgotten) *1996: ''Decade of Ibiza'' (

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) *1997: ''Hog Zone Promo Compilation'' *1998: ''555 Promo Compilation''

References

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