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1/3 of Suono, Mr Peterlee (Escaped)....travelling acid house wilbury..doorman and host of after hours sessions @ td towers, soup fanatic and general all round good guy.About me? Years of playing football to a half decent standard in peterlee, came to a close after a half arsed attempt at a hugo sanchez hand spring, did my knee in, on a field in shotton colliery (fun city) in 1989. Recouperation fell by the wayside, after i started picking up tapes from club havana in boro, wear fm radio in wonderland and records from awa sheffield way..straight red card, onto the purple ohms. I got my first set of turntables in 1991 - starting out on a matsui hi fi separate and a £10 technics deck, from out the peterlee times, and a 'loaned' realistic mixer..needless to say, the first tapes i gave out, sounded like 2 pairs of rigger boots, getting a spin cycle in a knackered twin tub. My mixing started coming together, the following year, aided by wizzy water, a walkman, a pocket full of batteries and walks around peterlee at 4am. After 2 breaks in her majesty's health farms in the north east, i moved to newcastle in 2000. Since moving to newcastle, i've been involved in promoting, dj'ing and generally having a good laugh. firsty, i co - founded 'Reverb', which started off as a weekly house and techno night, then added a 'freestyle' room, hosting such names as 16b, andrew weatherall, billy nasty, mr c, grooverider, nils hess, carl craig, radioactive man, nathan coles, dj bone, funk d'void, vince watson, red planet, rennie pilgrem and percy x. That ran from 2000, until 2001.we somehow managed to hold it all together, for just over a year - occasionally, we do one off parties, to remind ourselves of how stressful it all is and how much we hate losing money. Nowadays, i'm involved in 'Suono', which until recently, was a sporadic club night, that has seen us hold parties in the tyneside cinema, the cluny,world hq and the sage. we've been fortunate enough to have the very excellent greg wilson play for us on numerous occasions, as well as manchester's hugely influential A Certain Ratio, and 2020 Sound System (Ralph Lawson, Dubble D and Silver City).our sunday sessions were held on tokyo's rooftop, in town. where we were well and truly graced, by the likes of kelvin andrews, moonboots, danny webb, deepdown / loveboat crew, phil mison, tadge and funnily enough, greg wilson.we like to think that we brought something different to newcastle on a sunday, for a year or so, and played some weird and wonderful music.I'm normally up for a beer, having a few like minded people back to TD Towers, kicking our shoes off, talking shite and watching the sunrise, from my 17th floor flat window.If you're invited, kick ya shoes off, wash ya feet if they're lifting and settle in with a drink and enjoy the music.xI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4