Lifestyle | Fashion Honey Dijon is a DJ on the go — in the 48 hours before we speak, she has played a five-hour set at Berghain, two hours in Ibiza and sat front row at Gucci’s London megashow. ‘I’m a bit knackered, but I’m fine,’ says the Chicago-born, 55-year-old trans musician and producer, who is beloved by a unique cross section of the queer community, the fashion industry, ravers, Beyoncé and Madonna . Last year she moved to London, leaving behind New York and Berlin, and today speaks from her sitting room, which is still full of unpacked boxes.
‘London nightlife makes me very sad in a lot of ways. Just like New York, there used to be so many clubs but now gentrification and all these laws are stripping away club culture,’ she says. ‘Most young people now only experience dance music at festivals — that’s not the same as clubs.
It’s not community, it’s not culture; festivals are entertainment.’ Dijon will still be playing Glastonbury among a host of other festivals this year, but it’s not the same as the magic that is born during a sweaty club set. ‘I can’t say who I am as an artist in an hour and a half.
My work is about bringing back clubbing culture.’ She shares that role, I say, with one Amy Lamé , London’s much-mocked ‘Night Tsar’, whose salary under the newly re-elected Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has increased to a controversial £132,000 a year. Dijon yelps at this figure.
‘The first thing I would do as London’s new Night .
