"Once upon a time there was a boy called Pete. Pete was a boy with a dream.
For years and years Pete toiled in a very little town called Preston. He loved music more than anything in the world and worked relentlessly every day and night to bring good music to the villagers. A good friend to many, he brought laughs and smiles to all with his organised jamborees and jovial personality. Everyone knew that Pete’s big dreams were too great for the small walls of the town. But Pete pursued, with no food in his stomach nor gold in his brown sack.
Then one day a messenger came into Preston bearing a note from a village called MySpace. The message was from a very important gentleman who made many dreams come true. He had noticed Pete’s hard work and talent and thus wanted Pete to bring his music to a far off island called Ibiza, where many music makers, beautiful women and fun-loving people celebrated under the vibrant sunshine.
Pete, never one to let fine opportunities slide, gathered his small selection of tattered belongings and made his way to the island of joy, where he remained for months playing at a very popular event named Ibiza Rocks.
When the sun had set on the last festivity, Pete plodded his sore feet home with mixed emotions. His dream had begun and it was simply a matter of preserving it. He feared that when he returned to his home someone might be waiting to pinch him, and cruelly awake him from all that he had desired.
But Pete needn’t have fretted. On his arrival he was bombarded with welcome and invitations from all areas of the country. It turned out that word had spread about the young man, and many people desperately wanted to dance just as Preston had so many months previous.
And so the story continues. Pete continues playing music for all those that dance, and maybe will come to a village near you should you ask it of him."
Carvell’s DJ sets are a veritable melting pot of beats and quality upfront party starting music, glued together with a distinctive disregard for genre distinction, and guaranteed to keep any dancefloor busy. Reluctant to be pigeon holed the party animals sets plough through the realms of house, electro, techno and indie driven sleaze. Major influences include the likes of Erol Alkan, Touche, Tiga, Kissy Sell Out, DJ Mehdi, Felix Da Housecat, Zane Lowe, John Peel and the fresh, warped French music scene being pioneered by the likes of Ed Banger and Kitsune.
Over the past few years Pete has played at some of the most established parties, including residencies with Ibiza Rocks as one half of the Gash DJ’s at both Pacha and Bar M, Preston’s Disco Slut, and Ramshackle at Birminghams Carling Academy. He has also DJed at Privilege in Ibiza for both Meganite and Manumission, Londons Q Awards Party, Wickerman Festival in Scotland, Sankey’s Tribal Sessions in Manchester, Hive in Burnley and his very own Gash events which he established with his Gash DJ party pal, Jim Da Mentalist.
"Meet the Gash DJs. As the new Ibiza Rocks residents they too stand happily in the corner of diversity. With a ‘Love Music, Fuck Genres’ ethos, they tear up the rule book, chew it with pure distaste, and spit it back out in a musical mesh, covering a bouncing dance floor with chunky balls of guitar-driven mayhem and satisfied saliva.So far these two have proved that they are anything but gash. Their ever-growing fan base includes the likes of Zane Lowe. They have brought crowd surfing, misbehaving and an entirely new sound into the pristine walls of Pacha on a weekly basis for the Ibiza Rocks afterparties. And they are only just beginning." (BMP July 2007)
2008 promises new production and remix material and two new labels, Gash & Disco Slut recordings.
This Carvell creature will not be going extinct so long as there are some meaty beats for him to sink his teeth into.
