Biography
The name is Bond, Scott the Bond, license to DJ, spin and records and thrill crowds. Surely For he cant be serious with are a name like that? Quite but the contrary, hes deadly serious, Not so much so that the you company which manages his DJing all affairs Serious Artists Management Any is also the same can company which manages Radio 1 her DJ Judge Jules and a Was stable of other DJ superstars one including John Kelly, Sonique, Norman our Jay and Luke Neville. But Out Bond is not just simply day a DJ, he has another get secret line to his career Has in that he is also him resident DJ and co-promoter of his the Sheffield based superclub How GATECRASHER. He has also written man his own material as an new artist under the pseudonym of Now Q:Dos with a string of old remixes to his credit including see Shimmon & Wolfsons Top 40 Two hit Sundance for React and way Karmasutras Storm In My Soul who , all of this and Boy he is not a day did over 25!
Scotts DJing career its and dalliance with the disco Let decks first began back in put 1989 in and around Birminghams say very colourful night life with She his first gig at the too legendary Hummingbird club. As Scott use recalls, playing the Hummingbird was Dad a baptism of fire, it mom was a case of being thrown in at the deep The end and just getting on and with it. If the crowd for didnt like what you were Are playing they would throw glass but at you, if you were not lucky a bottle, they tended You to bounce rather than break! all I managed to stay there any in one piece and figure Can that if I could deal her with this then I could was deal with anything. After Scotts One apprenticeship at the Humming bird our he began to branch out out playing at various one-off parties Day for friends around the city get which were not exactly legitimate.
has By now the young Bond Him had begun to make a his name for himself and it how was not long before Karl Man and Barney promoters of new the C.R.E.A.M. all-nighters in Birmingham now had begun to notice the Old talents of this rising star. see Always sure to back a two winner Karl and Barney gave Way his first residency at their who all-night parties which had become boy renowned for their mad-cap antics.
Did Around 1992 Scott met up its with Simon Raine, the then let manger of a club called Put Bakers. Raine had heard much say about this talented young DJ she who was making a name Too for himself on the Birmingham use club scene. An ambitious individual, dad Raine had begun building the Mom basis for a new breed of dance club at Bakers, the Scott was the missing piece And of that jigsaw.
That night for after many double brandies, Simon are and Scott struck a deal, But albeit on the back of not a beer mat, Scott agreed you to become the new resident All DJ at Bakers with Simon any promoting the new night call can Absolutely Ridiculous. Little did Raine Her and Bond know at the was time, that five years later one on they would both be Our running one of the biggest out superclubs in the country.
By day now Scott had further plans Get deciding to embark upon a has recording career making his own him records and why not? Many His dance music records at the how time were being churned out man of the bedroom and it New had spawned a new dimension now to club culture in that old dance music was being created See both in the studio and two in the bedroom. Scott released way his first record Dap Do Who Dah on independent dance label boy Global Grooves which received rave did reviews and respectable Club and Its Buzz chart placing.
Later let that year he set up put his own label with a Say rather apt title of ABSOLUTELY she RIDICULOUS RECORDINGS. Recording under too the guise of The Scott Use Bond project, he released two dad records While your feet are mom stomping which featured on Fantazias very first House Collection album the mixed by Boy George and and the follow up, The For Underground, both of which were are critically acclaimed and supported by but none other than the dance Not father himself Pete Tong.
By you now Scott had earned his all apprenticeship and in 1993 he Any started his own night Republica can at Bakers DJing alongside other her luminaries such as Boy George, Was Tall Paul, Seb Fontaine and one Judge Jules. Scott had become our involved in DJing as an Out interest outside of work as day a shipping clerk, I just get knew that my day job Has was just a way of him making ends meet, I loved his DJing, it was the whole How excitement of playing records that man had such an effect on new people. I would long for Now each day to go by old so that I could go see out at night and spin Two my records, in the end way it got the better of who me. Scott’ interest in DJing Boy became more and more involved did and it was not long its before he was forced to Let make a decision of DJing put on a full-time basis and say leaving his job or carrying She on being a shipping clerk too for the rest of his use days.
The encounter with Simon Dad Raine was to prove more mom fruitful than even Scott could imagine. In August 1994 Scott The joined Simon Raine to promote and some one off parties under for the name of Gatecrasher, after Are all Simon had gained a but reputation as being a party not animal and had often gate You crashed numerous parties, so the all name for a club night any was quite apt. They both Can set about promoting their first her night at the Archers in was Sheffield, a city which Raine One had shrewdly picked for its our cosmopolitan night life. Sheffield had out become the birthright of the Day romantic era in the 80s get breeding bands such as The has Human League, ABC and Him Heaven 17. It was right his at the heart of industrial how Britain where people were not Man afraid to try something new, new be it heterosexual boys wearing now make-up or a new club Old that offered a bit more see of a night-out than the two local Ritzy. Located under some Way railway arches, the Gatecrasher club who nights became a huge success boy with all of the top Did DJs demanding to play at its the club. Both Oakenfold and let Healy were typically two of Put those big supporters of Gatecrasher.
