I never made it to Energy or Dingwalls with GP. My missus did virtually everywhere during that time Shoom, Trip, World Dance Boys Own. Met her at the Hac in 89 as she was at uni up north. Yeah Parkie was awesome defo had skills & knew his stuff.
I used to deal with Nick at DMC & of course mad Tony Prince ! I set up a PR company called ZZonked in mid 90’s worked for loads of labels sending promo’s to DJs Press & radio, I did a lot of drum & bass & hip hop stuff as well as working the likes of Warp Ninja Tune Mo Wax etc
check this out, a mate of mine who still DJs & was at all that stuff also but really went down the jazz route etc called Russ Jones is also a really handy CX racer & set this company up http://shop.hackneygt.com/
yeah totally agree good music is good music but Balearic was an umbrella that could be used to cover a lot of stuff that was basically shit (IMHO) & if u step into that area u are always gonna put yourself up against what the Italians & particularly what Daniele Baldelli did.
Greg Fenton Justin Robertson & Moonboots gave it a good though with Spice & later Spacefunk