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Rocking the stones at Stonehenge

Ellie Jacobs meets the man who threw a party at the UK's most iconic heritage site

November 29, 2018 12:43
Paul Oakenfield DJs at Stonehenge
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As the sun set behind the ancient stones of Stonehenge and a perfectly orchestrated soundscape filled the ears of 50 hand-picked guests, Alon Shulman looked at the scene and smiled to himself. No one had ever staged a light and music event at Stonehenge before.

It wasn’t an easy task. The event, a fund-raiser for English Heritage, was kept secret and — thanks to silent disco technology — held in near silence. The guestlist comprised everyone from Shulman’s family, to celebrities and the cream of the clubbing world. It took a year to organise, and Shulman was on top of every detail, however mundane.

We meet in a popular North London café. He’s a DJ, so I reckon he’ll be wearing head-to-toe Nike and chains around his neck, covered in tattoos. But the man who introduces himself is smartly dressed. Shulman, who’s in his “early 40s” is charmingly polite and very well spoken, with piercing blue eyes.

He’s that rare person, someone who turned a teenage passion for DJing into a lucrative career that he loves. “My life is a project. I’m always working because I’m always living,” he says.