Marshall & Terry Headline Return To New York Rave

Godfather of house Marshall Jefferson and fellow US house pioneer Todd Terry headline Return To New York's next London event, performing alongside regular guests 2 Many DJs, Princess Superstar and Nadia Ksabi.

As well as introducing proper house DJs for the first time, the organisers have also switched venues, ditching the luxury surroundings of the 5 star Great Eastern hotel in favour of the decidedly scruffier surroundings of SE1, a 5 room subterranean warehouse style club, beneath London Bridge. They've also tweaked their name to become Return To New York- Rave 2004 and promise that the new party will evoke the spirit of early 80s New York nightspots Danceteria, Area and the Paradise Garage.

Ironically, Marshall Jefferson never actually visited New York during the early 80s, telling Skrufff recently "I couldn't really afford to leave Chicago to visit somewhere just for the fuck (sake- slang Ed) of it. I didn't really have a major reason for going there at the time."

He did concede that the city's club scene single-handedly broke the world's first big house record in 1986, his ground breaking anthem Move your Body.

"Frankie Knuckles got a copy and his best friend was Larry Levan from the Paradise Garage in New York," Marshall recalled.

"At that time everybody would come from all over the world to visit the Paradise Garage to find out what Larry Levan was playing. He played that one and somehow Alfredo (legendary Ibiza DJ) got a copy of it, then some English people heard it in Ibiza and the next thing you know, there were people flying to Chicago trying to find out what house music was."
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