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It all started when i was 7 yrs old, at my uncles old flat on Stockport road, Ardwick, Manchester. He used to babysit me some weekends so i ..d go to his. He had a small sound he used to do friends parties and functions with now and again, nothin.. serious, just one deck, a stereo amp, an e.q and about 6 decent sounding speakers, but when he had a party, it was big. One night i was caught in the middle of one of these parties as i refused to go to bed. From that night, i..d stay up and watch him play tune after tune and checked out the crowds reaction. I loved it and vowed from then i would do the same. Time went on and eventually he actually let me select a few of the tunes to be played. ..Rappers Delight.., ..Police and theives.., ..No woman no cry.., ..One nation under a groove.., ..Night nurse.., ..We are family.., ..Le freak.., ..Ring my bell.. were examples of some of the tracks, and as time went on i was playing the parties myself.
I bought my first piece of vinyl when i was 9 and from then to when i was 15, i progressed, teaching myself how to mix tunes together using an old tape deck and some turntables my friend borrowed to me, also to make remix..s. I..d record radio shows like Stu Allens..Buss Diss.. and Mike Shafts ..TCOB.. off Manchesters Picadilly radio. The only shows around Manchester ..dem times where i could get any decent music. I..d also listen to Capital radio and all the other pirate stations when i went to London , recording everything i could. I GOT GOOD!!
Those radio shows also got me writing raps and ..spittin.. lyrics wid my friends ..Moet.., Patti and ..Leggo.. at school. We ended up forming a crew called ..W.C.B.. (World class bombers) collaborating taggin.., rapping, beat boxing and dancing. The tagging thing got hot though so we had to give that up, but continued with the rapping and 2 years later, we joined up with another rapper called Mr.E and a Dj called Jay both from Warrington.Through this we formed ..Rebels in effect... We grew to be one of the biggest rap groups in Manchester, and headlined with people like ..Soul 2 Soul.., Overlord X and Many more. We got bigger and better doing shows all over the North West, the biggest being ..The Palace.. in Blackpool where around 3000 people came to see us perform live on stage weekly!! Now thats sayin somethin for a crew that didn..t even have a record out.We then won the Sky Magazine talent scout competition, which would be todays equivilant to ..Britains got talent.., winning Studio time, a photo shoot with the magazine and the chance to sign an album deal with Island records.
With the highs, came the lows and the deal fell through and our rap crew split up leaving my other option to Dj. Moet had been collecting Vinyl also, and we..d been throwing partys after some of our rap shows. These got popular and so we carried it on, forming a new crew with Leggo as M.C and we called it P.I.C.The parties got bigger and so did the name after we were asked to go on a new radio station called .. Love Energy... This was the start of something that would, and did take Manchester by storm!! We decided to do the shows differently from any other, and it made an impact on the radio listeners immediately. Through this station we got to dj at some big events and supported people like Mark Morrisson, Sylvia Tella, Beverley Knight, Mary J Blige, Dru Hill, D.M.X, and loads more i..ve probably forgotten about. (People who know, Message me if you remember any). We also made a name as one of the best Dj crews in the North West.
The station drew to a sudden close in 1998 but we continued to do what we did best. We held several residencies at clubs around Manchester, but played our most legendary sets at a pub called the fountain inn, in Ancoats. Then it was time for the next step, and in the summer of ..99 i decided to make P.I.C the first Manchester sound to have a residency in Europe. It was easy, i went to Tenerife with a few demo..s to meet my friend Scotty. Within 3 days, i had residency right in the heart of Veronica..s at a place called ..Oasis.. (formally known as Chess oasis).By mid summer I had all the crowds piling into this little bar with the skill i..d learnt over the years, and it became the official workers bar in Las Americas. I was soon joined by Moet and Dj Stretch, who was helpin Moet out back in Manchester and they soon got residencies in Soul cafe and other bars around Tenerife. This ran for 3 years and I was given sets all over the place including the 2 biggest clubs in Tenerife. Noctua and The Leapord Lounge. (I still go now and again to Dj at Busby..s with Snoop).
Back in Manchester, our name was still growing and a chain of Residencies followed but also with a chain of bad incidents. Bexx and Club 106 in 2002/3 saw 2 fatal shootings and the bad luck seemed to be following the crew around even though the nights were packed wall to wall with girls, girls and more girls!!! This saw a fall in the residencies we were offered and so it was time to change tactics. I was then offered a residency at a brand new superclub in the town centre called ascension on the condition that i..d do it as a solo dj under my name, Dj Devo. I agrreed and again this sprung me onto residencies in some of the biggest clubs in Manchester like M2 (see slides), Lucid (see slides), Babygrands, Sports cafe (see slides), Deansgate locs, Henry J B..s and to the present day, Opus and Birdcage. Around the same time, i joined a band run by my daughters mums boyfriend Alex, called Mamma Freedom, doing shows (see slides) and a few studio sessions as a scratch dj. Again, this was re -promoting me but this time as a solo dj and from then to this day i..ve been booked for either a party or gig around the world (Germany, Greece, Finland, Africa) and locally, every single week!!! D jaying is my life.....STILL and always will be. People out there who are into your music you know where i..m at and you know where i..m coming from init. ITS FROM DA HEART!! ALSO CHECK OUT MY REMIX..s at MY DJ SPACE AT MYSPACE.COM/DJ DEVOD(Get there through my friends link) Reach out to me wid a holla and i will holla back.....everytime.
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