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Music
has always been a big part of joey's life. Aided by his dad at the age
of 13 he started to learn guitar and piano, he then took this on further
at school developing his skills. Rave culture also took hold of him at
an early age.
Still in primary school he was mesmorised as acid house swept across the uk. Once at high school and running with an older group of friends, the excitment of rave, the music, the parties, made him immerse himself in the culture. At the age of fifteen he and friend Darren Grant, helped by darren's older brother Robert starting putting on their own under 18's events in their home town on moodiesburn, near glasgow in their local community centre. The event was first called "THE TECHNOZONE" but was later daubbed "TLM (the lethal mix)" after there DJ/MC partnership name which was emblazoned on the front of their flyers. Joey started out MC'ing at these parties while Darren manned the dex. Their "TLM" events were a huge success from the very first one and joey had caught the performing bug! Throught
the mid to late 90's joey concentrated on MC'ing although he did DJ, but
more as a hobby throughout this time. After playing at their own event,
joey and darren then moved to a local nightclub @ cumbernauld airport
to do another under 18's event as resident MC & DJ. It was playing
at this club he was asked to MC for "tiny tunez records" live
P.A. showcase and played MC'd for them at numerous venues across the uk.
After playing a gig at "THE CORE" @ the calton studios in Edinburgh
with the P.A. he enjoyed the club so much that he started going every
fortnight and after bending the promoters ear for a while got a go on
the mic. His first set @ the club was MC'ing for the mighty BASS GENERATOR,
and he was to stay resident MC @ the club for its duration. When the night
finished @ the Edinburgh venue and the promoters teamed up with "NORTH" In
the late nineties, moving into the millenium joey became disillusioned
by the music in the hardcore scene and sought solice in other forms of
music like techno & trance. As these scenes did not use MC's joey
got more serious about DJ'ing and honed his skills on the decks. He also
done an HND in music technology @ college. Up to 2002 joey played mostly
trance and techno and dabbling in production at home. After meeting Thian
Brodie @ a gig he was playing at the arches in glasgow, Thian booked joey
to MC at his Hardcore event in leeds (UNITY) where he got a chance to
hear some of the new hardcore that was being produced and played out @
raves south of the border. The production had came on leaps and bounds
since hardcore's inception and it was this new sound and love of the hardcore
crowds that made him decide a career in hardcore producion was for With
a string of releases under his belt and even getting several track played
on radio one Joey's gig diary has been filling up rapidly! playing at
venues across the uk including, VIBEALITE, HTID, UPROAR, REZERECTION,
TWISTED & BRAINFIRE, BACK TO THE FUTURE, TIDY WEEKENDER, etc, etc
and with his first gig abroad in Toronto he is now an international DJ
too! check out where he'll be next in the bookings section of the site
and HARDCORE
2 DA BONE! |