After years of NOT getting this page done properly, we’re actually getting on top of it… You can keep an eye on this page and see how we’re progressing with adding our history that sort of thing!

The Beginning

Somewhere back in the mists of time (about 1998 a short period after The Fez Club first opened it’s doors in Cambridge) Christian Mayne was DJing at Chicago Rock Café (what you Cambridge folks may now know as The Place). Back then, nightclubs like that didn’t really do music other chart/dance/RnB and while Christian was rocking the students to a soundtrack of Britpop, Northern Soul and Big Beat, the management were deciding it was too way out for them… He needed a new place, somewhere open minded that were willing to take a risk on a student friendly night that didn’t stick to the rules… The Fez Club welcomed him…

The first incarnation of Fat Poppadaddys was born… unfortunately it had the name ‘Magic Mondays’.

Things were pretty good, a decent soundtrack of alternative hits were being played alongside a few club staples of the day, but something needed to happen to give Magic Mondays an identity of it’s own, and while they worked well, the Dance music was the thing everyone else was doing… the Modjo’s, the Stardust’s, the Basement Jaxx’s they all had to go… the thing we were really good at, the thing no-one else in the city was doing was pulling out forgotten funk, dancefloor jazz and northern soul gems and mixing them with the indie/britpop hits of the time and classic 60s alt-night staples. We found our niche, now we just needed a name…