2023-06-01
26 分钟This week Chanté reflects on the history of party holidays. As she gears up to go to Days Like This in Malta, she talks to Ant and MK who created DLT. And she chats to DJ S, founder of legendary garage night Pure Silk, about taking over Ayia Napa in the mid-1990s
This is the Guardian.
Will party holidays live on forever?
So today is DLT Day.
Finally.
The garage scene here is so interesting at the moment because you've got, like, all your London club promoters coming over.
With their club night.
Napa.
No.
What's Napa saying?
This year is massive.
The people who are in London, they're not even ready.
They don't know you're listening to pop culture.
With me, Shantae Joseph for the Guardian.
There is a long history of going on party holidays in my family.
Before I was born, my dad went to the first innovation in the sun and ended up DJing there.
My aunties and cousins used to go to Ayia Napa, and they would come back with some amazing stories for me.
I've been going to events like Recess, Danki and DLT for years.
And these events, many of them having started as small black day parties, have started to expand into huge party holidays.
So why are party holidays so important?
This one, I'm like, yo, I'm in a Guardian, bro.