'We all used to go out to Cream so spotted the gap in the market'

Clubs editor Emma Johnson chats to 909 Presents promoter Stuart Hodson to find out what the club night has in store this year.

Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Dave Seaman (not the goalie), Jeff Mills, James Zabiela. Each one an icon of electronic music. Some of the most successful DJs of all time, they helped shape the dance music scene both in the UK and around the world.

Liverpool clubbers could not get enough of them in the Nineties and Noughties, and thanks to nights like Cream and Bugged Out, they were here all the time. Now inspiring whole new generations of young wannabes, these musical luminaries have lost none of their appeal for Scousers of a certain vintage.

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And over the last decade promoter Stuart Hodson has been doing his best to help keep us dancing to their tunes with 909 Presents.

“We realised that there was a gap in the market,” says Wiganer Stuart, 44, when I ask him about the thinking behind 909. “We all used to go out to places like Cream. We still want to go out, and there was a gap for people our age to see the DJs we put on.

“People like Dave Seaman, Sasha and Digweed... they have been coming back to play in Liverpool for decades. People still want to come out for them. We did a Paul Oakenfold show last June and we had 1500 people in Grand Central. These DJs all want to come back to Liverpool, as well. They have great stories of playing here.”

It may essentially be looking to cater for a demographic that is not being served, but that doesn’t mean everyone on the 909 dancefloor is old enough to remember dial-up internet. “We have 20-year-olds,