For DJ Brandon Block, even when his reckless hedonism led to hospitalisation, he continued to use drugs. “All my mates were telling me not to do it, but we’d been partying all night and I was off my head. Brandon Block – superstar 90s DJ and fabled hedonist – wasn’t about to let a trifling bit of lung disease stand between him and his drugs. Recovering in a hospital isolation unit, he chomped a hole in the protective screen shielding the outside world from his raging infection. “I went to a warehouse party, took an ecstasy pill and never turned back,” he says.