From opening night on Kings Road, 8 April 1993, to the Spiegeltent in '26 — the floor has always been the same. Here's the soundtrack and the people who've played it.
The Residents
Two Eras. Three Floors.
“The floor has always been the same — a little bit sticky and very sweaty…”
— DJ Trev
Andi opened the doors. Trev kept them open. Two residents, three decades, three floors. Andi played the very first tunes at Jimmy's on 8 April 1993 — the early-years ear. DJ Trev, Harrogate legend, has been at the decks ever since. Together they continue the legacy.
The Early Years · Since 8 April 1993
Andi Aikman
Harrogate · The first tunes — opening night
The original DJ. Andi played the very first tunes at Jimmy's when the doors opened on Kings Road on 8 April 1993. If you ever danced at Jimmy's the first time around, you danced to Andi.
The sound: old-skool house, Britpop crossovers, UK garage, the curveballs only he has on dubplate. Stardust, Roger Sanchez, Pulp B-sides, ABBA reworks, the lot — woven with rarities you forgot you loved.
The tone: nostalgic without being a throwback. The exact records you danced to back then, played by the person who played them then.
Three decades of northern club residencies — Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield — and a Harrogate fixture for thirty-plus years. Host on Harrogate Community Radio. A vinyl collection that's seen the inside of every club worth being in. The one who's kept the Jimmy's floor open.
The sound: peak-time house, UK garage, big-room 90s. The bigger-cut end of the night — Renaissance-era classics, Haçienda heritage, anthems that demolish floors.
The tone: mixed straight off the decks in one take — no rehearsal, no laptop, no safety net. The way it used to be done.
Mixes drop on Mixcloud and SoundCloud. Pure 90s. No skips. Trev's Mixcloud + SoundCloud linked above.
Mixcloud · Andi Aikman
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SoundCloud · Andi Aikman
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Guests Who've Played For Us
The Legends Behind The Decks
Over the years Jimmy's has put some of the most important names in dance music on its decks. House pioneers. Haçienda residents. The architects of the sound. These are some of them.
Haçienda Resident
Graeme Park
Manchester · The original UK house DJ
Joined Mike Pickering at the decks of The Haçienda in 1987 and played there every week until the club closed in 1997. One of the men who broke house music in Britain. Still touring, still mixing, still essential.
Installed as Saturday-night resident at the Haçienda alongside Graeme Park after the venue's re-opening, then five years of guest spots at Renaissance and across the UK club circuit. Funky and soulful but tough around the edges — New York garage, tribal rhythms, filtered disco.
Wrote Move Your Body — The House Music Anthem in 1986. The first house record to put piano at the centre of the track and one of the genre's founding documents — Billboard's #1 in their 50 Best House Songs Of All Time. The reason a hundred million dancefloors exist.
A familiar name to anyone who's been out in Yorkshire over the last twenty years. Always on the right side of the night — old skool, anthems, the room reading itself. Edzy's played for us more than most.
More guests dropping in across 2026 — announcements via the early bird list.
What You'll Hear
The Soundtrack
Three decades of dancefloor classics — selected, sequenced and layered for a room that knows every word.
1989 – 1995
Rave & Old Skool House
Inner City, Black Box, 808 State, K-Klass. The original anthems — pianos and breakbeats.
1994 – 1999
Britpop & Indie
Oasis. Pulp. Blur. The Verve. Stone Roses. Suede. The era's defining sound.
1990s
Garage, R&B & Hip-Hop
Mary J. Blige, TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, Coolio. Smooth one minute, hard the next.
Late 90s
Big Beat & Trance
Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Sasha, Digweed. When dance music went mainstream.
Pure Cheese
Pop & Floorfillers
Spice Girls, Steps, S Club, Vengaboys, Aqua. The bits the room knows every word to.
Always
The Curveballs
The deep cuts. The b-sides. The bootlegs only Andi has on dubplate. Why you keep coming back.
Catch It Live
The Floor Is Open
Tickets for the Spiegeltent are on sale now — Christmas at the Bilton Club and the Ripon Cathedral silent disco drop next. Get on the early bird list to hear it first.