Welcome to the club

<p><b>Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac</b><br><br>In <i>Welcome to the club</i> Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career with help from some famous friends.<br><br>One of the Haçienda's first female DJs Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry playing to crowds of thousands all around the world and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19 with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace love unity and respect dance music is a world of exclusion misogyny racism and classism. But as Paulette reveals it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women.<br><br>Part personal account part call to arms <i>Welcome to the club </i>exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.</p>