On Thursday 3rd December I will be DJing at club Gatecrasher in Birmingham alongside Mr Hudson and many more. This is a brand new Indie, Pop and Funky House night in Birmingham that is kicking off with a bang.
The line up looks immense and I’m sure the event will go off like no other. Earlybird e-tickets for this event are only £6 but you’ve got to get in quick! In one week’s time paper tickets will be £7 otherwise its £10 on the door if there are any left.
I was lucky enough to see Mr Hudson perform in Bristol a short while ago as he supported Calvin Harris on tour and I can tell you that you are in for a treat. Combined with the other acts on stage (as well as me ) you’d be daft not to come.
The music policy for the night is a little different but theres sure to be something to suit everyones tastes:
Here are a couple of dates for your diaries over the next few days as its a bit of an action packed bank holiday weekend.
First of all, get yourself over to Platform Six where you can download the latest episode of my fortnightly radio show. Special guest mix this week from none other than Electro house DJ Piqué !!!! As always, the special guest mix is sandwiched between two very phat choice slices of hand cut funky house mixed by myself. Its a great show that also includes one of the latest tracks from Shola Ama and a bumpin’ cut from Crimes Against Disco!
Now on to the live events… Kicking off with TONIGHT. Yes yes, tonight you can catch myself on the decks up at the always funky, Funky End bar in Aldershot alongside the hairless wonder that is Tom Upton closely followed by the lanky legend Mark Masters. Free entry all night with music pumping out from 9pm until late.
If you haven’t got your fill of fresh upfront Funky House tunes by then, you can continue the party TOMORROW NIGHT over at the HaHa bar in Guildford. Usual suspects of Tom Upton and Mark Masters will be in control of your dancefloor, plus I will be there too to spin a couple of tunes. Once again, it’s free entry all night so to be fair you have no excuses not to turn up. Saturday will be a good one as I plan to have a couple of beers and dance around like a lemon.
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Items added daily from collections prove excellent hunting ground for long lost tunes. Recent developments saw integration with Utube to watch videos from your favourite tunes and a intelligent search. VinylSearcher.com is run by DJ’s for DJ’s and loves to have new relationships with new and creative websites. So check out the site. Enjoy.
Aldershot. Hm. Bit of a step down from Ibiza and Vienna isn’t it?
On July 18th I shall be heading over to the Funky End in Surrey to go and play some of that funky house music stuff alongside the incredibly talented and (incredibly bald) DJ Tom Upton.
Tom recently won a DJ competition where the top prize was a 45 minute set at Guilfest this year. So you know he’s gonna be good.
If you are in the area, come along, the door price is FREE and the music will be superb. I guarantee it or your money back.
Wow, what an amazing night. This was easily one of the best nights I have ever had in my life.
I met with the guys who run the Friday nights at Skykitchen downstairs in the bar of my hotel where we had a drink and a chat before they took me to the club. The driver took the scenic route and I was kindly shown a whistle-stop sight-seeing tour as we raced around the city. There is simply so much to see and do here that it is impossible to see it all in a day, let alone in one night.
We arrived at the club which itself is quite different to any where I have previously played. The club is situated inside of an old office block that has been renovated and the club itself is several floors up in what used to be the office block’s kitchen, hence the name.
Following on in this culinary theme, the DJ booth is located under a huge cooker hood and there are tv screens inside of microwaves and ovens behind the decks. It’s quite a mad and somewhat quirky set up they have here. But it works. Any venue these days needs to have it’s niche to stand out in the crowd and Skykitchen most definitely has that.
It is perhaps not the biggest club in the world, but I do not believe that a club has to be big in order to be great.
A plentiful supply of drinks were supplied behind the DJ booth and after introductions were made to the resident DJs, a quick bit of setting up and it was down to business.
The club started to fill up around midnight and by 1am it was packed with the crowd primed for an evening of funky house, UK style!
One thing that I love about music is that it has no language barrier. Yes, there are vocals in some of the stuff I play but a groove is still a groove whatever nationality your ear may be.
I started off with some uptemp funky vocal, took it oldskool, went a bit tougher and really did my best to show Vienna how we do things back home. They loved it, the dancefloor was packed for the duration of my set and I could not have asked for a better crowd. I could not fully understand what everyone was saying to me from the dancefloor but their smiles told me all I needed to know.
By 4.30am I was shattered. I dropped Underworld’s Born Slippy followed by Plump DJ’s Scram and that literally blew the place apart. By now I’ve been awake for 21 hours and no amount of Redbull could keep me from flagging. I packed up, shipped out and headed back to my hotel room where I fell asleep in an instant.
My body clock decided it did not want to stay in bed so I was up and about by 10am. In a way I am glad. Even though I still ache a little and a bit of tinitus remains in my ears, I pulled myself together and took a tour of the city. My flight home did not leave for another six hours so I had plenty of time to have a walk around and see a few sights. Check out my facebook if you want to see some photos.
I am going to do my best to make it back here again soon as one day simply is not enough. Next time around I will check the weather and - at the risk of sounding like a girl - bring some sensible shoes to wear. Fashionable shoes are one thing, but having cold wet snowy feet is definitely not reccomended.
I’d like to thank both Florian and Oliver from Skykitchen for inviting me to their club to play their Friday night. There is a rumour that I may return back to this quirky, charming club again and this is something that I really hope will happen in the not too distant future.
Im writing this from the desk of my swanky 5 star hotel room. Ive only just arrived here in Austria for what has to be one of the most exciting nights of my life.
Ive travelled up and down the country doing DJ sets before but this is the first time I have been flown to another internatinal city to go and do my thing.
I had hoped to write a blog post at Heathrow airport but their wifi set up didnt make sense to me. I had to buy minutes with one of the wifi providers and have may wifi login details emailed to me. How can I make a payment over an unsecured connection only to have my login stored in my email inbox which I could not yet access? Madness…
One of the most amusing things I saw at Heathrow were the pilots swaggering back and forth in their full uniform with colour co-ordinated air hostess totty in tow. I swear they were looping the departures lounge in order to get attention. Either that or they were lost. I really hoped that they were not my pilots.
The flight over here was fairly quick and smooth - it only took two hours. I had a chauffer waiting for me when I got to Vienna who took me straight to the hotel. I was able to practise some of my GCSE German on him which suprised even me as it all came flooding back. Luckily the weather was rubbish and so we had something to talk about.
The people here seem nice and friendly and do appreciate even a slight effort to chat in their language. What I did find strange at one point was being on the other end of a conversation where I am the one being talked loudly and slowly to, along with a flurry of international hand gestures to aid the translation. I had always thought that was the British way to speak fluent foreign …
I have had a brief look around the city where I am staying - brief only because of the bad weather here. Its a horrible grey sleet mist that has engulfed Vienna tonight and being from England that usually would have made me feel more at home. But back home it was just starting to get warmer. Is Vienna a typically snowy city? I have no idea.
My brief trip took me past a couple of familiar sights, two of which being a Subway sandwich bar and a Casino. When I saw those I knew I would be ok.
I really do not want to risk getting a cold tonight so I have made it back to the warm sanctuary of my hotel room, with my footlong BMT and am finishing off this blog post between bites.
Im on in three hours and I am very excited. Im also debating whether to grab a couple of hours sleep before I head out but I don’t want to risk missing my alarm.
Either way, dont forget to check out my set LIVE from the venue *if* I can get my internet access working. From about midnight tonight GMT take a trip to paulvelocity.co.uk/live and you might (or might not) see my DJ set being streamed across the internet. Either way I will record as much of the event as I can and upload it along with photos as soon as I can.
My next blog post will be after the event, so keep it locked - see you on the other side!
I’ve managed to secure myself a regular slot on the world famous SSRadioUK.com, one of the biggest names in internet radio for the House genre.
Launching on the 19th February, you can tune in live and catch me playing the best in fresh, upfront funky house music between the hours of 2am and 4am.
I’m putting this out there under the Platform Six banner and I will be hosting a regular 2 hour weekly show that will include exclusives, special guests and a couple of club classics alongside the usual helping of funky house and dancefloor dirt.
If you have any ideas for the show or any music that you would like to contribute, please get in touch.
And for my regular podcast listeners, don’t worry, my regular monthly mixes on my own site will still be pushed out on the 1st of each month.
To tune in live into my new airtime slot, all you need to do is go to www.ssradiouk.com and click on the “Listen Live” link in the top right corner. Or you can listen again in the archives after the show.
I’m jetting off to Austria next week to go and play a monster set at the prestigious Skykitchen, located in the buzzing heart of Vienna.
From what I make of it, Skykitchen is a converted old office block building where they have just reopened and are putting on huge queue-out-the-door parties all throughout the week.
I’m going to work out a way of uploading pictures from the event live onto my web site somehow so you can still follow the action even if you can’t make it.
On Friday 20th February 2009 if you happen to be in the area, drop in and say hello. It’s going to be a roadblock night of full-on funky house flavours.
I am a big big fan of the legend that is Calvin Harris. Calvin began making music at 15 and was signed to EMI and Sony BMG after his music was first discovered on MySpace. I genuinely don’t think that you can categorise his style of music, but I would describe it as electro pop funk.
Calvin Harris doesn’t tour many dates around the UK and any live gigs he has done lately have been for large festivals that have sold out and so I’ve always missed the opportunity to see him perform live.
However, I have managed to get hold of some tickets for Calvin Harris’ forthcoming gig in Bristol on the 25th April. I live just outside of London and I could have gone to see him live at Scala on 5th May but the main reason I am making the mini road-trip north is because he is going to be playing at TheKLA - on a sod-off huge boat!
I’ve never been to a gig on TheKLA before but it looks very impresive. I’m going to see Calvin Harris live on a boat party!!! Just had to share it. I’m so excited!
You can share the love too. Here are the rest of his tour dates:
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On Thursday 3rd December I will be DJing at club Gatecrasher in Birmingham alongside Mr Hudson and many more. This is a brand new Indie, Pop and Funky House night in Birmingham that is kicking off with a bang.
) you’d be daft not to come.
First of all, get yourself over to 
VinylSearcher.com has been around for 8 years now and have recently launched a new website. Primarily selling 
On July 18th I shall be heading over to the 
I met with the guys who run the Friday nights at Skykitchen downstairs in the bar of my hotel where we had a drink and a chat before they took me to the club. The driver took the scenic route and I was kindly shown a whistle-stop sight-seeing tour as we raced around the city. There is simply so much to see and do here that it is impossible to see it all in a day, let alone in one night.
Ive travelled up and down the country doing DJ sets before but this is the first time I have been flown to another internatinal city to go and do my thing.
Launching on the 19th February, you can tune in live and catch me playing the best in fresh, upfront funky house music between the hours of 2am and 4am.
From what I make of it, Skykitchen is a converted old office block building where they have just reopened and are putting on huge queue-out-the-door parties all throughout the week.
Calvin Harris doesn’t tour many dates around the UK and any live gigs he has done lately have been for large festivals that have sold out and so I’ve always missed the opportunity to see him perform live.