“I was first introduced to DJing in 1980 when at the tender age of 12, I
joined the hospital Radio Station, Hospital Radio Hairmyres In East
Kilbride, Scotland .
It didn’t take me long to get involved in Mobile Discos at the age of
13! Then getting my first nightclub gig a year later (they believed I
was 18 at the time!!)
I remember that feeling at 14 years old, climbing a huge staircase to
this 80s disco “paradise” called Zanzi-Bar in Glasgow, a traditional
Mecca style club, open genre, a capacity of 3000 and with lots of fake
palm trees, neon lights, fog and lasers…. I was hooked. Within a
fortnight I was resident DJ.
That for me was the start of a long career doing something I loved, a
career that seen me work at the majority of clubs in central Scotland,
then move to Spain in 1988, first spending two seasons in Salou, one
year in Tenerife, one in Benidorm and one in Magaluf (I was young and
needed the money.)
I moved to Germany in 1993, and worked extensively in the clubs of
Hamburg, and surrounding areas, most notably I was resident at “Die
Insel”, Hamburg for three years. The club where Germany’s rich and
famous used to hang out every weekend, and I suppose the German
equivalent to Stringfellows in London.
A had a passion for Soul, music and all its sub variants (House, Reggae,
Motown etc) and this was reflected every weekend.
In the year 2000, at the ripe old age of 32, I took up a full-time
career in IT, and my DJing became more of a part time number. I left
Germany in 2005 to move back to the UK and again played the circuit in
Scotland before my main career took me back overseas, this time to
Zürich in Switzerland, where I’ve been based for the last 12 years.
Switzerland isn’t the kind of country that you come to for the night
life, so it became the final nail in the coffin, and I made the decision
to hang up my headphones when I moved here. A move that, when I look back on it now, may have been somewhat premature. Only a few years later, I was introduced to the Soul Weekender scene and realised Ishould’ve stuck with my passion a little bit longer.
So here I am back on the scene, like a bad smell. Well, a Swiss cheesy
one with Irn Bru roots..”
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