We slightly missed including the following piece in last week’s Men’s fashion special, but with this week’s celebration of International Men’s Day, I thought now would be a good opportunity to interview a leading promoter the club and festival world – Danny Gould of Clockwork Orange.
Danny is one half of the dynamic duo, Danny & Andy, the characters behind one of the UK’s biggest classic dance music brands – Clockwork Orange, well into their third decade of mixing madness and nostalgia in equal measures.
After a hiatus during the OO’s, recreating the Clockwork Orange brand was never going to be quick and easy. But from roots that were quite the opposite, Danny is a super clean-living successful site manager by day in central London, from the leafy Essex suburb of Billericay. He has relentlessly promoted the reincarnation of his beloved brand with charismatic cockney wit and honesty – to huge success. Although it has occasionally seen him banned from social media.
“My years of drifting into my Clockwork dreams and the brilliance they contained have now been fortified with the resurgence of Clockwork since 2012”
He has a young family, and I am more than understanding in this particular situation as I know how difficult it is to be taken away from your family to deal with the whole nightclub culture of arranging and promoting one on the biggest house music events in Europe. My own husband is one of the UK’s most successful DJs and this has taken him away from our family for alot of our lives together.
But Danny has become a successful DJ in his own right and is managing to juggle his professional career, family life and own well-being, along with his personal passion – Clockwork Orange.
The expansion of Clockwork from London to Manchester plus the explosion of festivals around the country, and the now massive Ibiza weekenders, shows how Clockwork is now a major player in the UK dance industry music scene in 2018 / 2019.
The Cheltenham Racecourse event next June is already sold out and that’s purely VIP tables and Gold Tickets. At £250 a pop. People want to be part of this rennaincance and I’m sure that Danny and Andy are living their best lives right now.
Asides from the struggle of being a husband and father and away from their home lives, Danny assures me that he and Andy are enjoying every minute of this manic lifestyle and it’s all sober clean living, which last time around – for most of us – wasn’t the case. With massive DJ line ups and sold out ticket sales, life couldn’t get any better.
Long live Clockwork Orange.
