Human Traffic - Cameo Appearances

Cameo Appearances

  • When Jip first picks up Koop in his car, the DJ heard on the radio is Pete Tong, the film's musical adviser, who has a weekly Friday night radio show on BBC Radio 1.
  • The manager of the Asylum club is played by prominent DJ Carl Cox.
  • Director Kerrigan appears in two scenes as "Ziggy Marlon", the Junglist dancer in Koop's record shop who asks, "Any jungle in, guy?", as an early aficianado of 'TomToms', the precursor to the Asylum club, (the main club venue for the film), and in a later scene driving with Nina's brother on their way to the house party.
  • Jo Brand narrates the scene when Moff (Danny Dyer) is on the sofa hallucinating and losing touch with reality. Jo Brand, now a stand-up comedian, was previously a psychiatric nurse.
  • Howard Marks appears and narrates the scene on "spliff politics". Marks was a famous cannabis smuggler turned "motivational speaker" and author who wrote his autobiography Mr Nice about cannabis smuggling.
  • Bill Hicks is described as a "visionary" by characters in the film and features in one scene through archive footage.

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