So here is a little about me, past and present...........
Past
I started D.J.ing at about the age of 12 when I was lucky enough to get my first set of decks. It was a bit tricky doing mobile gigs at the time as, although I was a growing lad, I couldn't pass for driving! I met up with Graham Brown (Gee) at school, partly through his sister 'Anita' AKA (Fan, Cavey, Braaan etc) and partly from doing the Friday lunchtime school discos with Trim Morgan and some other guy (whose name escapes me). Graham and Anita have fabulous parents and at about the age of 14, we found ourselves getting carted around to do mobile discos in the back of Marion & Stuarts' Volvo estate!! We decided to call the mobile disco 'The Mark Brown Roadshow'.
After leaving school I had a few jobs including fencing, labourer and then working at Bucks Motor Company (Suzuki Dealership) playing with Suzuki jeeps and cars all day! Me and Graham carried on with the mobile part time, but I was looking to get into club D.J.ing so after doing a few spots for Enzo (legendary D.J. I used to roadie for) I managed to get a regular Friday night at a new place in Milton Keynes called Directors.
This venue was owned and run by Steve and Marie Micklewright and I had a great time there when I was working. My residency there lasted about 5 years in all and I have many fond memories (and some not so fond if you know what I mean). All the people were great, bar staff, door staff, other DJ’s as well as the punters. Had a fine time there and we all had a major giggle doing the re-fit in 1996. It was hard work for all but well worth the effort.
Sounds great doesn’t it......Plenty of free drinks, lovely ladies, late nights, parties. Well it was all that and more!! I have met some really great people over the years through DJing at clubs as well as running the mobile disco with Gee (back in the day!!). Clubs I have worked in include Directors (Milton Keynes), Sgt Peppers (Tenerife), Strathclyde Students Union (Glasgow), Fury Murray’s (Glasgow). Also done spots at loads of other venues, too many to mention (or even remember!!). I have supported Dave Pearce, Sash, DJ Yoda, Girls Aloud (lol), K-Klass, Mint Royale, DJ Nilesh (MOS).
Due to my day job now, I have pretty much given up the DJing, but I still do a show over the Internet every Thursday night between 8pm and 11pm. Also still play the odd gig here and there if asked to.
I am a very lucky man to have beautiful daughter, Lauren who will be 11 years old in January. I have been told by quite a few people that I am going to have my hands full in a few years when she gets older, and every-time I see her, I am starting to see what they mean! I get to spend every other weekend with Lauren, so the ones in-between are dedicated to job's, housework n chillin ;-)
I am currently working at Dell as a senior technical trainer for the server support teams based in Glasgow. I have been at Dell for just over 3 years now and began there as a “Business Support” agent, taking calls inbound calls, diagnosing hardware and software issues. Before that I was employed at IBM in Greenock just outside Glasgow, again, support IT systems for the finance company JP Morgan. In order to get into the IT field, I attended college and University for three years as a mature student and with a lot of hard work and studying, managed to come away with a degree in applied computing. I continue to study for IT certifications as well as administering some websites for clients and friends.
WHAT A GEEK :-)
If you have read through and thought 'He has missed something out here', please let me know. The memory is not as good as it used to be!!!!!