One of my greatest visions. To celebrate the new Millennium with events linked around the earth's dateline from Austrialia to Hawaii. It took a great deal of explaining but I knew from the outset it could be done time wise.

In January 1998 I approached the Controller of BBC Radio 1, Andy Parfitt, with the idea of broadcasting these parties as an all day celebration of the turning of the next 1000 years.

He fully embraced the idea and sent me around the world accompanied by Jonathan Ruffle a BBC spokesperson and Steve Richards a BBC Outside Broadcasting Expert. We went around the world twice all co-ordinated by Jonathan who used to produce the Steve Wright and Simon Bates Radio 1 shows so was always up for a crazy idea or two.

The three of us had an absolute blast to tell you the truth visiting India, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, New York, Los Angeles and Hawaii in the USA, Singapore. Many of the photos on this page are from the places visited.

Then to crown it all we actually pulled the events off. Jonathan and I really did have two Millenniums by crossing the dateline from Sydney, Australia to Honolulu, Hawaii. Leaving Syndey at 4am Sat 1st Jan 2000 and arriving in Honolulu at 8pm Fri 31st Dec 1999 after a 9 hour flight in a plane full of party people, transvestites and DJ's.

The Bondi Beach gig in Sydney was broadcast live on Radio 1 at 1pm in the afternoon on national radio, I did the countdown on the mic, DJ Carl Cox drove them wild with his music and 15'000 people on the beach went loopy loo but the best reception was in Honolulu because it was the biggest event to hit the island, plus was endorsed by the Hawaii Governor as their official State party. The crowd were so hyped up that they were running at the stage in sheer mania. It was electrifying and just made me laugh loud into the open Hawaii air with the stars twinkling, while Carl Cox set about them with his tunes and the stag security threw the eager bodies back into the audience like some crazy mosh pit at a rock concert. An amazing 24 hours and conceptualised all in my head 24 months before whilst eating breakfast in New York after completing a triple city '97 New Year's Eve broadcast in London, Manchester and New York. It was worth the heart break of leaving Manifesto to do this, amazing.

Thank you Andy, Jonathan, Richard, Ian Parkinson, Carl Cox, Jeff and Ann Young, Danny Rampling, Danny Whittle and last but not least of all Greg Dehnert in Hawaii.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/virals/ibiza/article224449.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/585185.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A187247