RIP DJ Stu Allan, Manchester house and hip hop legend

[Hamann Pineapple]

Good lad. Respect

 

[Withnail]

Rip Stu Allan....legend.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Manchester music institution. Said in another thread that when I was a kid I used to write in (sounds mad now that I’d hand write a letter, buy a stamp and take it to the post box to request a song!) and he’d give me a shout out on the radio. I’d tape it and take it into my mates at school!

What was it? Sunday nights, Key 103: House 20:00-21:00 and Hardcore 21:00-22:00?

He would play hardcore on a Saturday and Sunday would be more hard house. At the time everyone taped it and played it in their cars all week.

 

[TCIB]

R.I.P Stu Allan

 

[LongsightM13]

He would play hardcore on a Saturday and Sunday would be more hard house. At the time everyone taped it and played it in their cars all week.

He got ghettoised into the 140bpm speeded up hoovers and chipmunk voices Happy Hardcore shite later in life. But that was just a job of work
His real passion was Hip Hop.
First person in the UK to play Kool Keith, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest, Manc black music legends like 42nd Street, MC Buzz B and Ruthless Rap Assassins. Chapter & The Verse

 

[m7mcfc]

Buss Diss RIP

 

[Neil_K]

RIP Stu. A Manchester icon. Must have over 100 tapes in the garage of his shows from the late 80s. A true pioneer

 

[m7mcfc]

Manchester music institution. Said in another thread that when I was a kid I used to write in (sounds mad now that I’d hand write a letter, buy a stamp and take it to the post box to request a song!) and he’d give me a shout out on the radio. I’d tape it and take it into my mates at school!

What was it? Sunday nights, Key 103: House 20:00-21:00 and Hardcore 21:00-22:00?

Sunday nights yes but key103 never existed then he was on Piccadilly radio mid to late 80's.
The names are coming back to me now KRS One, Big Daddy Kane. Boogie down productions..ect

 

[Franny 1234]

RIP STU A true Manc LEGEND
Club Kenetic (stoke) Manchester hardcore.
Bowlers (Old Trafford) pure House music
Lucky enough to have seen him in Ibiza twice too. Lovely guy RIP

 

[LongsightM13]

Sunday nights yes but key103 never existed then he was on Piccadilly radio mid to late 80's.
The names are coming back to me now KRS One, Big Daddy Kane. Boogie down productions..ect

Pretty sure he moved over to K103 in the 90s, he was v much more house and rave than hip hop by then
But that was very much his first love and he was the first in the UK to play many of those you mention. Boogie Down Productions and KRS-1 especially, I think they appeared and performed on his show