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Ahead of his city gig, Emma Johnson catches up with the legendary Sasha

SASHA is feeling under the weather. Im back from Ibiza with the rave flu, he croaks. He certainly has reason to be feeling less than 100 per cent. He has just reached the end of a summer which saw him play everywhere from the US to the Ukraine, then there were all those gigs on the White Isle.

And there is the small matter of his recent birthday too. Yeah, he laughs, thats probably responsible for it.

Then again, after more than two decades in the club business, you would think Sasha would be immune to the rave flu by now.

Seemingly not. The boy from Bangor, largely credited with kickstarting the superstar DJ trend (way back in 1991 he was the first DJ to grace Mixmags cover) all those years ago dashing between Shellys in Stoke, Cream in Liverpool and New Yorks legendary Twilo, is not actually invincible it turns out.

The summer was really hectic, four or five gigs in a weekend. The shows at Ushuaia (in Ibiza) were wicked.

I just did a festival in south Ukraine which was crazy and in June I toured the States.

Of course he did, isnt everyone going to America these days?

I have been going there for years, he recalls. But now with the whole EDM (electronic dance music) movement, the scene is ridiculously big.

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