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Steve Davis exclusive interview: A DJ set on stage, the nerves are a match for playing at the Crucible

In one room a female performer is rapping in Spanish as a support band jams behind her, and students gyrate wildly on the dance floor.

In another, someone more synonymous with the green baize than the red haze of the laser show that lights up his head is hunched over a modular synthesizer pumping out electronic music.

Musically, it is a far cry from the 1986 Chas and Dave hit Snooker Loopy on which Steve Davis was one of its star performers. Welcome to Bleep Klub, a collective techno jamming session on a Monday night of the week of the World Snooker Championship.

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