If you were lucky enough to be buying records when Basement Jaxx first started releasing stuff on Atlantic Jaxx you had no idea what was coming.
I remember my dad buying "Faith" at a basement cassette-tape stall in Taipei; I remember the I.C.R.T. d.j.s never lingering too long on what any of Michael's songs were about.
If a one-child London couple each earning 25 grand a year – less than the capital's average – in voluntary or public sector sector jobs can just about stretch to buying a two bedroom basement flat in Leyton - or Brixton?
Robert Baile, 52, spent 20 years as a research chemist for Syntex Pharmaceuticals (now Roche) and five home-brewing in his basement before buying into the business in 1996.
Q Are you disappointed about having lost out on the chance to buy Filene's Basement?
Sotirios Kyrgiakos, a bargain basement buy from AEK Athens, is likely to follow him to Greece.
And so, just two months after arriving in London, she bought a nearby basement apartment near the canals, at 14 Duncan Terrace, for a hundred and thirty thousand British pounds.
She is good on the family details: the hamburger casseroles, the liquor-soaked cherries from her father's cocktails, the Polynesian-style wet bar he buys for the basement.
