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Lineup Noel Watson Glenn Davis Patrick Costigaan Few did more to change the shape of London club culture in the 1980s than Noel and Maurice Watson, Belfast-born brothers who moved across the lrish sea in order to pursue their interest in alternative music culture. From 1982 onwards they began running warehouse parties populated by members of London's post-punk art and fashion set. Initially, they championed hip-hop and electro, which in turn led to them mixing the influential Street Sounds Electro series of compilations for entrepreneur Morgan Khan. In 1985 they launched Delirium at the Astoria, an electro-turned-house party that would reflect the shifting sound of American dance music and help inspire music-makers and producers in London to follow suit. Regular visitors to the weekly party, which later moved to Heaven, included Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Danny Rampling. Naturally, Watson was also friends with other early London house DJs such as Mark Moore and Kid Batchelor Watson played a big role in the UK's acid house explosion of 1988, becoming a regular feature behind the decks not only at key London clubs and illegal warehouse parties, but also elsewhere around the UK. Between 1988 and 1990 he also worked behind the counter at Black Market Records in Soho, before devoting more time to his production career, working alongside brother Maurice, Phil Asher and Richard Cain on tracks that joined the dots between Disco & House music .