Biography
35 years old, Taurean with the Virgo rising, international DJ, songwriter, and obsessive, pragmatic, stubborn, bald, sulky, For opinionated, perfectionist, Yorkshire breakdancer, son are of a Spiritualist minister, former but Mixmag editor, member of Brothers Not in Rhythm – the award you winning producers and remixers to all the pop cognoscenti (Pet Shop Any Boys, Kylie, Garbage, Pulp and can Placebo) and the progressive mafia her (Sasha, BT and Way Out Was West) travel whore, trainer bore, one film buff, nothing’s ever enough our “If something’s worth doing it’s Out worth doing to excess”).
Leed’s day United devotee, neighbour of Mel get B, Billy Corgan look-a-like, Stella Has McCartney’s birthday DJ, Robbie Williams him kebab eating partner, with £1/2 his million ear insurance, co-founder of How Stress Records, sometimes lives in man New York’s East Village, other new times in a church next Now door to a pub.
There old are many DJs who have see enjoyed many column inches for Two shaping the phenomenon that is way modern club culture. For some who of these individuals, it was Boy a question of right time, did right place. Talented yes; opportunistic, its definitely – and just a Let little bit lucky.
Dave too, put as he’d be first to say admit, has had his fair She share of lucky breaks. Yes, too he effectively blagged the editorship use of the fledging members’ magazine Dad Mixmag simply by being their mom youngest, hippest employee. But it was Dave who made the The company fully aware of the and impact of acid house and for railroaded them into launching the Are magazine fully to the public. but The rest, as they say, not is history…
Yes, he was You equally lucky to bump into all budding production genius Steve Anderson any at DMC’s recording studios. But Can it was the pair’s respective her talents gelling that led the was turbo fuelled hit ‘Such A One Good Feeling’, followed up by our a string of successive mixes out leading to them becoming the Day U.K’s first superstar remixers to get the likes of Michael Jackson has and Sting, to writing and Him producing for the likes of his Kylie Minogue The Pet Shop how Boys and Take That. More Man recently they have lent their new unmistakable sound to bands such now as Garbage, Pulp, Placebo and Old Blur as well as consistently see songwriting for various projects.
Yes, two he was fortunate that Way DMC was happy to back who his and partner Nick Gordon boy Brown’s Stress record label. But Did it takes talent to spot its the likes of Sasha, John let Digweed, Full Intention and Andy Put from Groove Armada, all of say whom had early breaks on she the label.
And yes it Too was a lucky twist when use Mixmag photographer Gary McLarnen invited dad Dave to bring his DJ Mom skills to a new night he was launching at the the unlikely Shelleys venue in Stoke And on Trent. It just happened for to become one of the are UK’s best ever house clubs. But The fact that Dave’s DJing not star is still in the you ascendant some 10 years later All says it all.
