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Legendary German DJ, producer and Grammy award nominee Paul Van Dyk opens up about his new album This World Is Ours

- EMMA JOHNSON

Hi Paul thanks so much for your time. It's an absolute pleasure to catch up with you again...

Thank you so much for having me!

We are very excited to have you coming back to for us in Liverpool. When did you last play the city

Too long ago! Can we say that? No, I believe it was just before the pandemic. October 2019 at Camp Furnace for Cream’s anniversary show.

You were here a lot in the days of Cream. Do you have any special memories from that time?

I remember one time when I'd been playing the Annexe when Oakey [Paul Oakenfold] had his residency there and I heard he was playing a track from my then just-released Seven Ways album.

Then the second track was from the Seven Ways album and then the third and the fourth, and he basically played the whole album. I was just standing there shaking, I just couldn't believe it. Oh, and I also fell down the stairs once too!

Are you looking forward to playing to the Liverpool audiences again?

Always. Back in the weekly Cream heyday, you used to get people travelling from all over the UK to club there.

Nowadays though, for the anniversary shows, you get a lot more of a pure Liverpudlian audience. As such you get more of a sense of the people and their spirit, I think.

How has 2025 been for you so far?