dreese
05-15-2001, 01:32 PM
WHEN: Friday, May 18th
10 PM to 2AM....
WHO: MISS HONEY DIJON (NYC) & EVA (Neverstop/USC Sea)
WHERE: EGO
916 East Pike Street (1/2 block east of Broadway on Pike)
NOTE: Read more below about this DJ sensation. Come and hear
what people around the world are talking about.
MISS HONEY DIJON
Miss Honey Dijon -
A few years ago Miss Honey Dijon bade her native Chicago farewell for New York, where today she is the city's most glamorous and elegant jockette.Indeed, this self-proclaimed "gender illusionist" began her brilliant showbiz career as a dancer in Chicago's clubs. Here, she was exposed to seminal house DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles. At the same time, Honey was (believe it or not) eyeing a career in corporate America.It was not until much later that this social butterfly and beauty queen was encouraged by her many party-lovin' and DJing friends (Derrick Carter, Cajmere, Danny Tenaglia, et al) to get onto the decks herself. And this Miss Honey did with her natural flair and taste for both entertaining and spinning the best music from across the decades. The only loser was corporate America, compelled to forfeit its zaniest employee to the club and party subculture. Miss Honey will talk about everything and anything with authority and spunk. Over the course of an hour she admires Madonna's theatricality and laments the dearth of colorful pop stars in the 90s. She waxes lyrical about futuristic girl group Destiny's Child and approves Missy Elliott's femme-pop. Scarily enough, she reminds us that it's been a decade since Deee-Lite's Groove Is In The Heart came out. And Honey even hands out tips to the girls about the best cosmetics.Miss Honey brings a similar fluidity to her musical selections as a DJ. Honey is not among those who religiously and prudishly spin just the one style of music, but rather she will pull out everything from disco and New Wave to house and techno over the course of one evening. So why did this international DJ star decide to spend her New Millennium Eve in Melbourne, and not in one of her other regular haunts, like New York, London, Cologne, Paris or Miami? "Well, Australia has been one of the places where I've wanted to go for a long time anyway. It's going to be one of the first places to see the Millennium. And Melbourne is such a great party city that I just had to be there. It was actually the one wish that I had all year that came true for me. And I'm really into fashion and I've been reading a lot about what's going on in fashion in Australia and it's just a really exciting time right now, so I wanna be where it's happening! And another reason that I wanted to be in Australia is so I can wear my new Gucci bikini."So why did Miss Honey relocate to the Big Apple in the first place? "I left Chicago in '95 because I was a freak and I wanted to come here and meet other freaks," she says. "Actually, I didn't start DJing until I left Chicago, which is really funny because of all my friends, like Derrick [Carter] and Mark Farina and Cajmere... I mean, they gave me my first exposure to the party scene. When you go to a party in Chicago, you hear all sorts of music in one night. You can hear disco, you can hear old 80s classics, you can hear electro, you can hear tribal, you can hear everything, and it is about creating a mood and an atmosphere. In New York if you want to hear garage, then you have to go to a garage club. If you want to hear tribal, you have to go to The Sound Factory... it is so segregated. So when I got here, I had always been buying records, but I just decided to start spinning myself because I wasn't hearing that mixture of music that I wanted to hear. And, you know, it just blew up for me after that."The only musical style that Honey has yet to get into is trance, though she is careful not to discredit it. "Being a Black queen from the South side of Chicago, I like a lot of bass." Honey intends to premiere some of her own studio productions around the time of the Miami Winter Music Conference. One of her motivations for making music is that she does not hear many original dance records anymore, it's all formula. Honey explains how she listens to record after record every week in the stores and may buy, say, just five. And so Honey justifiably feels that someone needs to shake up things. She sighs, "between make-up and records, I'm forced to buy make-up."
10 PM to 2AM....
WHO: MISS HONEY DIJON (NYC) & EVA (Neverstop/USC Sea)
WHERE: EGO
916 East Pike Street (1/2 block east of Broadway on Pike)
NOTE: Read more below about this DJ sensation. Come and hear
what people around the world are talking about.
MISS HONEY DIJON
Miss Honey Dijon -
A few years ago Miss Honey Dijon bade her native Chicago farewell for New York, where today she is the city's most glamorous and elegant jockette.Indeed, this self-proclaimed "gender illusionist" began her brilliant showbiz career as a dancer in Chicago's clubs. Here, she was exposed to seminal house DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles. At the same time, Honey was (believe it or not) eyeing a career in corporate America.It was not until much later that this social butterfly and beauty queen was encouraged by her many party-lovin' and DJing friends (Derrick Carter, Cajmere, Danny Tenaglia, et al) to get onto the decks herself. And this Miss Honey did with her natural flair and taste for both entertaining and spinning the best music from across the decades. The only loser was corporate America, compelled to forfeit its zaniest employee to the club and party subculture. Miss Honey will talk about everything and anything with authority and spunk. Over the course of an hour she admires Madonna's theatricality and laments the dearth of colorful pop stars in the 90s. She waxes lyrical about futuristic girl group Destiny's Child and approves Missy Elliott's femme-pop. Scarily enough, she reminds us that it's been a decade since Deee-Lite's Groove Is In The Heart came out. And Honey even hands out tips to the girls about the best cosmetics.Miss Honey brings a similar fluidity to her musical selections as a DJ. Honey is not among those who religiously and prudishly spin just the one style of music, but rather she will pull out everything from disco and New Wave to house and techno over the course of one evening. So why did this international DJ star decide to spend her New Millennium Eve in Melbourne, and not in one of her other regular haunts, like New York, London, Cologne, Paris or Miami? "Well, Australia has been one of the places where I've wanted to go for a long time anyway. It's going to be one of the first places to see the Millennium. And Melbourne is such a great party city that I just had to be there. It was actually the one wish that I had all year that came true for me. And I'm really into fashion and I've been reading a lot about what's going on in fashion in Australia and it's just a really exciting time right now, so I wanna be where it's happening! And another reason that I wanted to be in Australia is so I can wear my new Gucci bikini."So why did Miss Honey relocate to the Big Apple in the first place? "I left Chicago in '95 because I was a freak and I wanted to come here and meet other freaks," she says. "Actually, I didn't start DJing until I left Chicago, which is really funny because of all my friends, like Derrick [Carter] and Mark Farina and Cajmere... I mean, they gave me my first exposure to the party scene. When you go to a party in Chicago, you hear all sorts of music in one night. You can hear disco, you can hear old 80s classics, you can hear electro, you can hear tribal, you can hear everything, and it is about creating a mood and an atmosphere. In New York if you want to hear garage, then you have to go to a garage club. If you want to hear tribal, you have to go to The Sound Factory... it is so segregated. So when I got here, I had always been buying records, but I just decided to start spinning myself because I wasn't hearing that mixture of music that I wanted to hear. And, you know, it just blew up for me after that."The only musical style that Honey has yet to get into is trance, though she is careful not to discredit it. "Being a Black queen from the South side of Chicago, I like a lot of bass." Honey intends to premiere some of her own studio productions around the time of the Miami Winter Music Conference. One of her motivations for making music is that she does not hear many original dance records anymore, it's all formula. Honey explains how she listens to record after record every week in the stores and may buy, say, just five. And so Honey justifiably feels that someone needs to shake up things. She sighs, "between make-up and records, I'm forced to buy make-up."