Dean Cavanagh

Dean Cavanagh[1] is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, musician and artist born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In 1990, at the height of the acid house scene, he founded the club culture magazine Herb Garden and a band with Enzo Annecchini. His electronic music outfit, Glamorous Hooligan, was picked up by Warner Bros. offshoot Arthrob, and in 1996, they released a critically acclaimed album Naked City Soundtrax. Glamorous Hooligan's first album Wasted Youth Club Classics was released by indie label Mass of Black in 1994 Cavanagh has stated that his proudest moment was getting Robert Anton Wilson to guest on one of the tracks. As a musician, he featured on John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs TV show, in the late 1990s. As a clubland promoter, he ran popular underground house music, and techno, clubs in Bradford, called Tolerance, before moving on to Leeds, where he promoted the successful Soundclash club bringing in respected DJs such as Andrew Weatherall, Alex Patterson, Adrian Sherwood and J. Saul Kane.

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References

  1. "Dean Cavanagh". IMDb. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  2. "Irvine Welsh on Babylon Heights". the Guardian. 20 July 2006. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
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