PAULETTE PODCASTS

Pitch Music & Arts 2025

High BPM dance floor wid classic Y2K dance trax. 
Techno, lil bit of D&B, house, Dancehall + Blak trax

2 LUBLY 4 GARBAGE TV

Unexpected genre blends featuring old school Hip Hop & RNB hits repackaged with an electronic twist. Top that lubly cing off with 90s Dance trax and you got a 2 Lubly special.   

Starting with Break it Down by Tjaka and ending with The Dance by DJ PGZ because Blackfulla artists always was and always will be shaking up the scene.

2 LUBLY 4 TRIPLE J MIX UP

Our Edit Of Cajmere’s ‘Brighter Days’

Brighta Dayz

Free DL

6 SENSE - Brighta Dayz

Today our guest on Line Noise is DJ Paulette, a DJ of 30 years standing, Haçienda resident, TV presenter, radio host and now author, of the book Welcome to the Club: the life and lessons of a Black Woman DJ. We talked about whitewashing in dance music, Manchester clubbing, lessons learned from three decades of DJing, the Haçienda, Beyoncé “saving” house music and much, much more. Photo by Lee Baxter.

Line Noise Episode 150 (DJ Paulette)

Fuck Jan 26th! Truthtelling served via: 

1.) Division - Barkaa 
2.) Final Form - Sampa the Great 
3.) We dat good - Flewnt and Inkabee 
4.) We can’t breathe - Dobby & Barkaa (
5.) Always Was Always Will Be - Karnage n Darknis
6.) Our People - 3% featuring Meyne Wyatt’s Monologue 
7.)This is Australia - Marrugeku + Beni Bjah
8.) Didge Dance - WVCHWY
9.) Free Free Palestine - SunTruth 
10.) Treaty - Yothu Yindi (Yolanda Be Cool Remix)

PROTEST MIX INVASION DAY  2024 - 2 LUBLY 4 Triple J

My debut book 'Welcome To The Club: the life and lessons of a Black woman DJ' published on January 23, 2024. As part of the book launch weekend events I was invited onto Hugo Rifkind's show on Talk Radio to tell you all about it, and make two album recommendations old and new. Listen back here.

DJ Paulette interview - Hugo Rifkind, Times Radio 27 Jan 2024

This month, my guest is a true icon in the UK dance music scene, and that is Manchester’s own DJ Paulette. 

A club kid from her earliest days, Paulette cut her teeth at Manchester’s number one club, before earning her first residency at Flesh, the beloved queer party at the infamous nightclub Hacienda. She helped forge the electronic music scene in the UK as one of country’s first and best-loved black female DJs, celebrated for her expert selection and her inimitable charisma behind the decks. She continues to carry the torch for the next generation of young artists — a journey explored at length in her new memoir. 

In this conversation, Paulette and I discuss her book Welcome to the Club, her vital and pioneering role in music, and what it means to be trailblazer. 

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Music:
"Sheroes" - Massey & DJ Paulette (2018)
"And I’m Telling You" - Donna Giles (Stonebridge Poppers Full Delight Remix) (1994)
"Violins & Things" - Massey & DJ Paulette (2018)


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2LUBLY 4 SOUNDGALLERY MELBOURNE/NAARM

13 & 14 November 24
I was recently invited by the Vienna Club Commission to speak on two panels - one for my book 'Welcome To The Club' and the other for QTiPoC cloubbing and safe spaces in Vienna at the inaugural Vienna After Dark electronic music conference and was also gassed to be hosted on Dalia Ahmed's show Dalia's Late Night Lemonade on Vienna's national radio station FM4. This is Dalia's interview - we talk about the Hacienda, feminism, the whitewashing of house and my dj philosophy. It's a little bit in German but mostly in English. Short listen 6 minutes.

DJ Paulette At Radio FM4.MP3

It was a massive honour to be interviewed by ground-breaking journalist and the presenter of Channel 4 News, Cathy Newman for her inspirational Times Radio podcast 'The Ladder'.. This interview was broadcast on Friday the 14th of February and is available to listen to in full and for free via the Times Radio app.

DJ PAULETTE THE LADDER POD EDIT

THE CATEGORY IS … AWARD WINNING …
Award winning is no understatement.

Winner of the DJ Mag Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Award (November 2022) the Keychange (PRS) Inspiration Award (Sound City April 2023), the NTIA Ambassadors of The Night Award (March 2024), DJ of the Year (Nordoff and Robbins) Northern Music Awards 2024 and now awarded the Special Recognition award in the Manchester Culture Awards 2024 Paulette is indisputably a highly regarded DJ, broadcaster and now author, internationally celebrated, born and raised in (and still resident of) Manchester. Over a 30-year career, she has scaled the heights of dance music fame and hedonism playing disco, house and techno to huge crowds and in cool underground basements. She is a DJ who is renowned for consistently ‘smashing’ every set she plays. One of two women to have a monthly residency at the Hacienda, she went on to have residencies at Brighton’s Zap Club and London’s Heaven and Ministry of Sound, before serving successful stints in Paris and Ibiza then returning to Manchester to rise again in her birth and spiritual home.  Her second Essential Mix was broadcast on Radio One in February 2023. She is known for her monthly radio shows with Reform Radio, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM and has a Global Residency show produced in collaboration with The Radio Department that can be found on Apple Music. She is a stand-in for AFRODEUTSCHE, Craig Charles and Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music. And that’s just for starters.

DJ-wise she has played iconic B2Bs with The Blessed Madonna - closing the massive Homobloc party at Warehouse Project, she wowed the IMS in Ibiza in B2B with Radio 1’s Jaguar, she was a Glastonbury highlight in B2B with Erol Alkan at Stonebridge, closed Sonar By Day in B2B with Stacy ‘Hottwax’ Hale and tore up Draaimolen with IsaBELLA in the summer. She has shone consistently with sets for Womad, Latitude, Watergate in Berlin, Jaiva Glasgow at The Sub Club (Glasgow), Faith, Trade, HeSheThey at Ministry of Sound, Kaiku in Helsinki, Corsica Studios, El Row, San Remo, Stonebridge and Greenpeace at Glastonbury, Bugged Out at Drumsheds , Glitterbox at Hi Ibiza and Defected in Malta amongst many more. And then there’s Beams in London, for Warehouse Project – Glitterbox, Homobloc and Hacienda, in the NYC Downlow, Meatrack and Maceo’s for Block 9 at Glastonbury. Not to mention the Greenpeace ‘Rave Tree’, Beatherder, Brixton Disco Festival, Worldwide Festival in Sete, We Out Here, Mighty Hoopla, Horsemeat Disco in Berlin, Kelburn Garden Party, The National Theatre River Stage, Gilles Peterson’s stage for All Points East,  Manchester and Brighton Pride, Flow Festival in Finland, Homoelectric, Feel It at Omeara and Fatboy Slim’s ‘All Back to Minehead’ weekender with plenty more still to come in 2025!

Aside from that, Paulette is an events and exhibition curator and a regular contributor to radio shows as diverse as Jamz Supernova on 6Music, Radcliffe and Maconie, Afrodeutsche’s ‘The People’s Party’, Craig Charles’ Funk And Soul Show, Amy Lame, Anamatronic’s ‘Dance Devotion’, Eats Everything’s ‘Edible Beats’. She sits on the Regional Committee (North) and Live Events Committee for the Musicians’ Union and is a Power Up mentor for shesaidso.  Her debut book ‘Welcome To The Club: The life and lessons of a black woman DJ’ published in January 2024 by Manchester University Press to huge critical acclaim. Look out for a compilation, a paperback and audio book slated for end April 25.

DJ Paulette interview - Hugo Rifkind, Times Radio 27 Jan 2024

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