Moving to London at 17, I spent the next 20 years working in West End recording studios as a sound-designer for TV & Radio advertising, I met countless celebrities which was fascinating. I returned home every weekend to DJ in the South West for the first 5years. Finally, after selling my first decks, I severed ties with the mobile disco business in Wiltshire and committed fully to London life. This involved landing a job as a Radio DJ at the Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street every Saturday for 3 years. Following a year in Australia in 1990 where I worked at one of Sydney's top recording studios I returned to London and worked as a producer at Virgin Radio where I produced DJ's including Chris Evans, Russ & Jono and Roland Rivron.
It was during the early 90's that I got stuck into clubbing, Happy House was my favoured genre. I also started to mix dance albums for EMI and Universal Music, titles include Disco Mix 96, Club Land, ClubMix, Dave Pearce Dance Anthems & plenty more that are probably sitting on your shelf collecting dust. I was also a producer on Pete Tong's Essential Selection on Radio 1 for a feature called House Rules and travelled to clubs across the UK with a Radio 1 microphone in my hand - it opens many things!
In 1997 I left full time employment and founded Factory Studios in central London which is currently the top facility in town for TV advertising. As MD & head producer, I won many advertising awards and "gold discs". I also project managed the expansion of the business and designed the recording studios with a large budget to play with.
in the mid noughties Ali (my wife) myself and the kids returned to our spiritual home in Somerset and severed ties with London. After promoting some parties, I was asked to DJ back-stage at Glastonbury Festival, I was the resident DJ and couldn't believe my luck, thinking it was a burger van and finding out it was a huge marquee with a capacity of 1000 people - the Kate Moss area! Unprepared, I shipped my CD's in a Banana box however, this life-changing experience re-ignited my enthusiasm for DJ'ing. Following another stint at the Reading Festival, I purchased the loan decks from Pioneer and started to offer my unique form of commercial yet credible DJ'ing to the discerning party host. Six years later, we have a collection of great DJ's and entertainers that I have mentored. We have built great relationships with many fantastic venues including Babington House where I have been the resident DJ for the last 6 years and a legendary wedding venue. It's also just down the road so we look after all their production requirements supplying lighting, sound, decoration, entertainers, ideas and any other thing that they throw at us!
Ali is now heavily involved in the business and looks after our venue decoration work, as a qualified widow dresser she is the ideal person for the job and is creative with it. Our eldest son is eyeing up my decks so 30 years after I started I hope that my son has a go and enjoys himself like I have over the years.
Life has gone full circle, only this time the venues are better, the music is better and, it's a joyous thing to give people a good time and make them dance as your full time job.
I hope we can be of service to you on your big day."
Nigel x