Terry Farley – Influences
Terry Farley shouldn't need any introduction to readers of these pages, or for anyone with even the slightest hint of interest in the world of the electronic. Farley has been "clubbing and DJing at the coalface for over thirty years." An obsessive collector of early reggae 45s from Trojan and Studio One in his formative years which then trailed into funk and Northern Soul, Mr Farley then went onto become a key proponent of the emerging acid house scene. He DJ'd at 'legendary' clubs like Shoom and Spectrum and then there's the small matter of helping to create the seminal Junior Boys Own in the process.
He probably knows more about music than the rest of us do about our own homes, or cats. With decades of industry experience under his belt, there are few that can match his ability to be in the right place at the right time – it's as if he knows just where to be.
Here, Terry talks us through some of the tracks that have left the greatest mark on him.
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Now as a primary school kid I had watched older boys strut around like peacocks in their expensive Wing-tip brogues and Crombie Coats that cost far more than my old man had ever spent on clobber and had discovered the power that dressing the part has when it comes to girls and (probably more important when you’re a nipper) other boys. Suddenly, out of that Suede-head drabness came Adam Faith’s Budgie, a London low-level thief with a great barnet, brushed denim flares from Petticoat Lane and, on the odd occasion, sporting white clogs. Yep.White fucking clogs. He looked the bollocks. Adam Faith’s ‘Budgie’, the bloke I always wanted to be when I grew up.
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