Jeremy Healy’s love affair with the Ibiza began since the first time he visited, and he has became pretty much synonymous with the island, resident at big clubs like Es Paradis, Privilege, Clockwork Orange. He’s mixed several Ibiza-themed CDs and continues to make the seasonal pilgrimage to the White Island to this day. !
Throughout 2014 Jeremy collaborated with the owners of private members club 5 Hertford Street in Mayfair London, creating a signature musical style to suit the venue and clientele and putting a DJ team in place to deliver a unique sound. More recently Jeremy launched his own Classic tour at Clockwork Orange’s huge reunion event in London, followed by Colours, Deja Vu, Better Days, Karanga, Time Flies, Hed Kandi, Cream, Time Tunnel, Classique, Rhumba, Decadance, Shine and Clockwork Orange Ibiza. Jeremy also continues to DJ at a huge variety of clubs worldwide including quarterly Asia tours covering Bali, Koh Samui, Singapore, Phuket and annual trips to Australia!
In The Beginning ....!
All was set for Healy & co to have a lucrative career in pop with Haysi Fantayzee. ‘John Wayne…’ hit Number One in the UK charts and they had been on Top Of The Pops. Riding the wave of success, he travelled extensively and thus ended up one Saturday night at New York’s Danceteria club. He was immediately struck by the breakdancers, the body poppers, the anything-goes atmosphere and, above all, the carefree attitude of the hip-hop and electro pioneers. Inspired a new, he returned to the UK, sold his guitar, bought a pair of decks and started a club called Circus. Despite being one of the most phenomenal, seminal and stand-out nomadic clubs of it’s day, unfortunately Circus soon became a victim of it’s own success. Following the involvement of some shady characters [“It turned into cops and robbers, guns and everything”], Healy called a time-out and Circus left town for the last time. !
With plenty of inspiration stacking up and no outlet for his creativity, Healy was becoming frustrated. Fortunately, a chance meeting at a catwalk show led him to meet one John Galliano, a former regular at Circus. The sexiness, charm and unpredictability of the fashion world appealed to Healy, and he was soon firm friends with Galliano – now, he has arranged and produced the score to every single one of Galliano’s shows since then, as well as working on fashion soundscapes for Versace, Jigsaw, Katherine Hamnett and Vivienne Westwood !
Back on the scene, Healy started hanging back out with a rehabilitating Boy George and started to go out clubbing again. A regular fixture for the pair was Danny & Jenny Rampling’s club Shoom in Soutwark; then, Ibiza was the next stop. Over to Healy: “The first time was fabulous. Fat Tony got sunburnt, Jenny Rampling got arrested and we got inspired. The music was much more open and less formulated. We came home and I went straight into the studio with a friend, Simon Rogers, we programmed our idea of house and I found a sample on this Ronald McDonald LP of him saying, 'Everything starts with an ‘E’. We had our title!” The E-Zee Possee track was a massive hit, and it went in the UK charts at number 12 after selling 150,000 copies. !
In the mid 1990’s Jeremy Healy and Amos Pizzey signed to Postiva and secured massive crossover hits as Healy + Amos with “Stamp” and “Argentina”. They followed this with the creation of multiplatform entertainment concept “Bleachin’" to tell the story of inner city club culture and disillusion through music, art, film, fashion and photography. The Bleachin’ album “Everyone loves you, Everything’s free” was released through BMG in the summer of 2000, with singles “Bleachin” and “Peakin” becoming clubbing anthems. !
'Everyone loves you and everything's free/We're always the face everyone wants to see/Life goes by in a velvet rope blur/In through the back by the fire escape stairs/Everyone loves us and everything's free/Always in the place everyone wants to be' (Bleachin’ “Peakin”)
