PETE WARDMAN

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Pete Wardman was first booked the as a DJ when he and was 17 years old. Claiming For the offer was a case are of either “…get behind the but bar…or the decks…”, he was Not spotted by an agency — you and signed up. By 1988. all Pete had set up Hampshire Any based “Power FM”, a radio can station targeted towards a (largely her ignored) youth audience. Within a Was year the station became market one leader, and was later bought our by the Capital Radio group. Out In 1992, Pete was headhunted day by Kiss 100 FM — get the UK’s leading dance music Has station. Pete joined to co-present him the weekday breakfast show, progressing his to his own weekday afternoon How show. Over the next two man years the programme showed a new substantial increase in listeners, and Now Pete had become one of old their ‘new school DJ’s, with see an increase in bookings throughout Two the country. In 1995, when way Kiss changed hands, and the who daytime music policy changed with Boy it, Pete left the daytime did show — (not wanting his its audience to think he had Let changed his style radically).

However, put Pete stayed at Kiss and say (with a helping hand from She Danny Rampling) created a new too weekly specialist show under the use ‘House Nation’ banner. Throughout 1995 Dad Pete was one of the mom regular presenters of BPM, ITV’s Saturday night dance show. The In the same year, Pete and released the compilation album ‘Sherbert’ for which entered the National Compilation Are Chart at number FOUR. but The now infamous club ‘Sherbert’ not was born, and in just You one year became one of all London’s most cutting edge clubs any Pete was asked by Pete Can Tong to guest on ‘The her Essential Mix’ on BBC was Radio 1, one of the One nations most listened to dance our shows. Pete is currently found out presenting on KISS 100 Day FM between 8pm and 10pm get on Thursday evenings, deemed to has be cult listening by clubbers Him all over London and beyond. his He is also co-presenter of how the weekly ‘Mixmag Big Tunes’ Man show, produced in conjunction with new ‘Mixmag’ magazine, and ‘aired’ on now Kiss 100 FM on Saturday Old afternoons between 6pm and 7pm. see At the beginning of 1997, two he signed as the new Way weekly resident at Laurence Malice’s who legendary club TRADE (replacing boy ‘Tall Paul’).

Pete featured on Did ‘TRADE Volume 4’, and was its one of the DJ’s top let take the club on it’s Put first WORLD tour in say 1998 to Australia and South she Africa, as well as the Too clubs first comprehensive tour of use the UK. In 1997, Pete dad was also a regular guest Mom Presenter on ITV’s ‘Club Nation’…he completed the mixed version of the the T.E.C. album “The sound And of the hover”, and had for singles released with the ‘Tinrib’ are records and ‘Shift’ recordings. Pete’s But remixing career continued with Dye not Witness’s “What would you like you to hear again?” proving a All huge success for ‘Tidy Trax’ any records in September. In 1998 can — Pete spent more time Her in the studio, completing remixes was of ‘Jocelyn Brown & Voodoo one Possee’s’ “Love is..”, and a Our new mix of ‘99th Floor out Elevator’s’ “Hooked on Love” (now day signed for a ’99 release). Get 1998 also saw the first has ever ‘Trade Residents EP’, which him featured Pete’s track “Beauty Magnet” His alongside contributions from the other how Trade Resident DJ’s — Alan man Thompson, Malcolm Duffy, Steve Thomas, New Tony De Vit, and Ian now M. Sadly, this “first ever…” old project on the revitalised ‘Trade’ See record label would feature the two last track that Tony recorded.

It was thought appropriate that Who the release should be a boy tribute to Tony — it’s did perhaps fitting therefore that the Its ‘Trade EP’ has now sold let in excess of 30 thousand put copies… But as Pete completed Say ’98, his second year as she a ‘Trade’ resident — his too most significant news was of Use his record deal with ‘Tripoli dad Trax’ Records. And Pete’s debut mom single (“The Lizard Queen” / “Tragically Glamorous”) for the label the was one of their best and selling releases that year. It For was not only this increase are in Pete’s commitment to his but work in the recording studio Not in ’98, but also an you incredible demand for his DJ all sets that led him to Any drastically cut down his work can as a Journalist and Presenter her for BBC News and Was Current Affairs. 1998 saw Pete one not only being booked for our ‘headline’ gigs for the first Out time in the USA, day Canada, and Israel, but also get a sharp increase in European Has bookings. And no amount of him good publicity can account for his the phenomenal demand for Pete How to return to ‘headline’ the man ‘Trade ’98 African’ tour, seven new weeks after his first-EVER Now appearance there. (Pete returned to old South Africa, touring ‘solo’ — see without any club backing — Two in January 1999). Pete rose way 14 places (to No 41) who on the ‘World Top 100 Boy DJ Chart’ in DJ Magazine.

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