This Sunday 27th November Oldskool Sundays are proud to announce Dj legends Jock Lee and Lee Fisher and with the Hummingbird reunion coming up it would be rude not to have these Birmingham legends in the hot seat.

Birmingham based Jock and Lee embraced the national acid house scene with Lee Fisher and John Slowy's Hypnosis on a Thursday night at the Hummingbird Carling Academy Birmingham. Followed shortly after by Snapper club at the same venue, which was Jock Lee and John Maher's Friday night, along with Jock and John, DJ's such as Martin & Bear, Pretty Boy B, amongst others. This span off into bank holiday all-dayers with guests including Lee Fisher, Sacha, Carl Cox etc. Although illegal acid house parties had been popping up in Birmingham before, the first proper legal all night acid party/rave was at The Hummingbird also, and was called Biology, which was a London organisation. Acid house nights such as Spectrum took place in Tamworth and at The Hummingbird in Birmingham. Land of Oz at The Dome with Paul Oakenfold and Trevor Fung in 1989 which occurred on a Wednesday night, the same night The Happy Mondays played at The Hummingbird. Pirate stations such as Fresh FM and PCRL help publicize the music and parties, which help expand the scene in Birmingham. West End Bar was a major meeting place before parties, with Steve Wells and Steve Griffiths and was another important venue throughout this period of time. Electribe 101 hit the charts in 1988 with 'talking with myself'.


Jock Lee:
An avid collector of records since the early 80s, Jock Lee got his first taste for djing & promoting in 1987, running a small night in a pub basement, playing everything from New Order to the Fall to Public Enemy.

In 1988 a friend took him along to a night that was to change his life! The night was called Hypnosis, Birmingham's first weekly house club in the back room of the Hummingbird Club, run by Lee Fisher and John Slowly. After spending week after week there dancing to 303s and strobes, until it closed it doors at the start of 89, he was well and truly hooked by House music, a passion that has stayed with him to this day.

During the summer of 89, frustrated by the lack of house nights in Birmingham, along with long time pal John Maher, persuaded the owner of the Hummingbird to give them a trial slot on Friday nights (which at the time played a mixture of all types of music, except House). The first night was a great success; popularity grew until they took over the night, as the quote goes house music all night long; well with a bit of Happy Mondays thrown in too. Within weeks queues were up the road, the night grew and grew and soon it was the biggest weekly house night in the Midlands, pulling in 3000 loved up clubbers every week and was instrumental in the growth of house music in Birmingham.

In 1990 Jock along with new pal Lee Fisher turned his hand to radio, presenting Birmingham's one of the first house shows, on pirate station Laser FM, which established a working partnership that still exists between them. Later on further radio followed with his weekly show on pirate Starlight FM, Birmingham's first dance only station.

Jock continued to dj and promote parties through the early 90s, when in 92 Lee Fisher asked him to come and work at his new record shop Pure Records (Birmingham's first dance record shop), where he gained more experience and a bigger record collection. In 93 he took a change of direction going to work as manager for a new label that had been set up by Lee and partners, called Bosting Records, who later that year had a national top 40 hit, with the club anthem Mother-All Funked Up, and gained him the invaluable experience of working within the industry at a global level. In 1996 after 3 years of fun running the label, he decided on a change, setting up Lost Records, a mail order and retail business, selling dance records to the worldwide market.

Hummingbird Reunion, Friday 2nd Dec, 10pm-4am, The Other Room (Hummingbird small room)

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