Episode Details

She's been sober for 16 years. Before that, she was deep in London's club scene, doing d*ugs with celebrities, DJing alongside Alexander McQueen, and watching people around her not make it out alive.

In this episode, DJ, producer and author Jodie joins us to talk about her debut memoir "You Had to Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time" and she does not hold back.

We talk about:

•⁠ ⁠Sneaking into the London Astoria at 15 with a fake ID and finding her "tribe"

•⁠ ⁠Falling into a*diction on the dance floor and getting sober at 25

•⁠ ⁠Losing friends to a*diction, including Amy Winehouse a year after she got clean

•⁠ ⁠Structuring her entire memoir around the clubs that raised her Astoria, Turnmills, Fabric, Pasha

•⁠ ⁠Why she refused to read any other memoirs while writing her own

•⁠ ⁠Getting "discovered" by a literary agent she didn't even know she had

Plus a rapid-fire book recommendations round covering Elena Ferrante, Donna Tartt, Barbara Kingsolver and Sarah Waters.

This is glamour, grief, queerness, addiction and recovery no filter, no spin.

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Jodies Book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Had-Be-There-Noughties-ebook/dp/B0F6TM7XST/ref

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