DJ Pikey

Name: Kevin Thomas
Age: 29 years
Location: Newport, South Wales
Occupation: Driver/Deejay
Biography:
My name is Kevin Thomas, more commonly known to people as ‘Pikey’, or ‘Welshpikey’. I come from Newport in South Wales and I’m 30 years old.
I’ve always been into dance music, even at an early age listening to hip hop, electro and moving into harder dance sounds like the prodigy in the early 90’s. I have listened to rave music since 1990 and have attended raves since 1992.
I have co-promoted events with James Watts, (MC Wotsee), in Wales namely X-plosion and more recently BPM. Being involved in these events has resulted in me building good relationships with almost every artist in the scene. It is through these events that I developed a taste for getting involved in the scene and eventually started DJ’ing hardcore in 2003 when I got a set of decks for Xmas. I quickly picked up the necessary skills from a lot of practice and spending time watching the main stream DJ’s.
In July 2005 I put out my 1st demo cd and received good feedback from promoters and established DJ’s. I acquired my 1st bookings in September 2005 at The Fruit Club, Swindon, for Jellybeanz and also Total Bedlam on the same night. Since then I have played for:
Candyball (New York USA)
HTID in the sun (Spain)
Addiction/Rebirth (Forres, Scotland)
Luminous (Glasgow)
Natural born ravers (Cambridge)
Xpressions (London)
Monthly Mayhem (St Ives)
Vibealite (Leeds)
We call it hardcore (Leeds & huddersfield)
SCC (Whitchurch)
Phutura (Loughborough)
Total Bedlam (Long Eaton)
Ravers reunited (Coalville)
Uproar (Birmingham)
Who's Hardcore? (Birmingham)
Hypnotize (Birmingham)
Discotek (Birmingham)
Monkeywrenched & Ignition (Stroud)
Ravers are forever (Bristol)(Resident)
Delerium (Bristol)
Oxygen (Bristol)
Back to the future (Bristol)
Distorted dreams (Bristol)
Totally Ardcore (Bristol)
Hybrid (Bristol)
Entity (Bristol)
Bangers & Mash (Bristol)
Firewall (Bridgewater)
Hard velocity (Bognor Regis)
Jellybeanz vs Sundissential (Swindon)
THC001 (Swindon)
Hardcore Creation (Swindon)
Fusion (Westbury)
Experimental (Bournemouth)
Q-Bic (Weston S Mare)
Hardcore distortion (Yeovil)
Pure Hardcore (Weston S Mare)
Nemesis (Swansea)
Atomic (Newport)
Port to the core (Newport)
Hard dane propaganda (Newport & Caerphilly)
Hardcore evolution (Cardiff)
Rude Awakening (Newport)
I have also played live on hardcore revolution internet radio.
My main influence has been Marc Smith. Also Brisk, Sharkey and Kevin Energy need mentioning. I like to play towards the tougher side of hardcore, playing tracks from labels such as Notorious, Kaotic, Nu Energy, Relentless, Next Generation, Thin n Crispy, Lethal Theory and others. I’d describe my style of DJ’ing as fast, hard, bouncy, adventurous and entertaining as I believe a DJ should also show personality behind the decks.
My plans for the future are to eventually write my own material as I have been learning from many different established names over the last few years about different aspects of hardcore music. In May 2006 I worked with Joey Riot to produce our 1st track together, entitled "summin 2 dance 2" and have also completed another track - "Move your body", both of which feature on DJ Kurt & Stormtroopers cd on Hardcore Underground. Please see discography below for all tracks released & to be released.
Discography:
Joey Riot & DJ Pikey - Summin 2 dance 2 - Lethal Theory
Joey Riot & DJ Pikey - Move your body - Lethal Theory
Joey Riot & DJ Pikey - Dr Evil - Lethal Theory
DJ Kurt & DJ Pikey - Gimme a bassline - Lethal Theory
DJ Pikey - Lets go - Lethal Theory
DJ Pikey - Renegade - Lethal Theory
Joey Riot & DJ Pikey - Sun goes down - Lethal Theory
I enjoy every time I play out but I’m always looking to better myself and play to bigger crowds across the UK.
Check out my .. mixes & profile @ http://djs.choons.net/pikey
And more info @ http://www.dontstayin.com/groups/team-pikey