DJ Paulette on Flesh, how to rescue a dancefloor and writing her first memoir

A pillar of the DJ community, Manchester turntable royalty and an inspiration to a new generation, DJ Paulette is an icon in a time when that word is thrown around an awful lot. Selector, A&R, scholar, journalist, publicist, broadcaster, sometime singer, renaissance woman and all-round mensch, she’s now an author.
Her first book, Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ, is to be published by Manchester University Press this week. A treatise on the state of a multi-million pound/dollar industry, it discusses at length feminism, queer culture and latent prejudice, racism and ageism in the music business.
This isn’t some lurid tabloid account of clubbing excesses (though, OK, there are most certainly a few spangled moments), though it’s nonetheless captivating for that.
It’s a social and political history, a joyful document of what has been a pretty wild ride both for herself and for nightlife the world over, from Paris to Ibiza, Manchester to London.
She says that rather than pave the way, she ‘held the door open’ for those like her to come through. Of course, her contribution amounts to much, much more than that.
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[@wilhelminafinlayson6169]

PAULETTE YOU ARE KIND
YOU HAVE GREAT CHARISMA. YOU RESPECT YOUR AUDIENCE.. GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL YOU REACH FOR. YOU ARE A STAR
LOVE YOU LOTS.

[@laurenlewis7]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ EVERYTHINGGGG about this!! The answers from DJ PAULETTE were informing and shone on a light on many things I didn't know, so honest and also hilarious in parts with her intelligent gorgeous witty self 😍I loved it all truly👏🏾👏🏾 And many thanks for including the actual pictures of certain things mentioned. I didn't know about aswell shout out to whoever came up with that 💯

[@laurenlewis7]

*goes off singing sylvester you make me feel cause now that's stuck in my head 😂*

[@katjaruge5764]

🧡❤‍🔥🧡