My first gig, funnily enough, was warming up in the Pier in 1988. When I used to go to the Pier as a clubber in those days 1987-88, they never played any Hip-Hop/House, so I started taking a bag of Hip-Hop tracks with me and asking the DJ at the time to play some of them for us, which to my amazement he did!

I carried on doing this for a couple of months and gradually the DJ began to get into the music and started to play some Hip-Hop and House tracks, which the punters seemed to like. As it was me that got him into the music, he offered me a job doing the lights, as the lighting jock was leaving.... I said yes, of course, and started to do the lights at the Pier.

One aspect of doing the lights in the Pier, at that time, was to warm up for the first two hours before the main DJ came on. So this was it, my chance to play my kind of music to a good size crowd, this was back in the days when you had to warm a club up properly!! Not playing all the Big tracks before 12.00pm etc, back then warming a club up was an art, something sadly lost in
todays club culture. The club back then was still playing commercial chart music, so it took some time for the punters to accept the new House sound, but they did eventually, and the club has never looked back.