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PINK preview with DJ Miss Behavin’
Reported by VinDiesel
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Submitted 23-11-05 02:30
How many different levels can you use to describe the success of Miss Behavin’? Establishing herself as a successful international DJ, her residencies in Ibiza… or her accomplished production work that gained the recognition of none other than the Brit awards!
Without doubt her success can be described on many different levels. It has achieved her great recognition amongst her peers, tidy and most recently a sponsorship contract! As well as her jet setting career, she has been busy establishing her own management agency/website at www.femaledjs.com
In December we will be able to hear her play at the Pink Breast Cancer Charity event as part of an awesome line up including Lucy Fur, Nick Sentience, Phil Reynolds, Donna Birt and Tommy Four Seven. I was most fortunate to grab some of this very talented lady’s time for a chat about her DJing, her production and err…. how DJs dance!!
What made you get into DJing?
I’ve always loved music and as a kid I can remember making Ken take Barbie out to raves in my disco/shoebox! My mates and I started clubbing at a very young age. We spent most our weekends in London at Club UK and Bagleys. I remember seeing Nancy Noise and Lisa Pin Up DJ and I was totally fascinated! A mate of mine had decks so I conned him into teaching me the basics, then bought a set shortly after. Back then I was painfully shy so I believed DJing was always going to be just a bedroom hobby until one day when ‘the very nervous me’ was forced onto the decks to a crowd of 3000! My mate was so drunk he couldn’t carry on playing! I was so nervous; my hands were shaking so much I could hardly put the records on the decks! But the buzz I got from that crowd that night was amazing and from that moment I was totally hooked and never let fear get in the way again!
Describe the different styles of music you mix in?
I play mixture of pumping trance through to hard trance. I like to keep my sets very uplifting and euphoric. I play house music too and my sets are also very uplifting. If it’s uplifting, makes you feel good and makes you mile… I’ll play it!
A major part of your career has featured playing out in Ibiza. A number of hard dance promotions have gone out there but have failed to be as successful over there as they here. Why do you think this is the case?
When I think of Ibiza straight away I think of house music, don’t you? House nights are the ones that seem to be going strong out there, it’s such a shame that some hard nights have suffered. I don’t know why really, maybe the drugs are shite and clubbers can’t keep up to the hard stuff?! Or maybe clubbers feel they want to pace themselves? Hard dance events every night for a week would surely do some damage!
Describe your biggest break during your career?
My success with ‘Such a Good Feelin’ on tidy. Wow that certainly got my name out there in clubland! Chuffed to bits and still love the track!
You’ve played in many different countries and venues… but what was your favourite country/venue that you played in and why?
I’m addicted to DJing abroad and last year I got the travel bug, I didn’t want to turn my back on the DJing so decided to combine the two with gigs abroad. My management have lined me up with gigs at amazing clubs. The best atmospheres have been at Tidy Vs Godskitchen @The Metropolis (Norway), Eden (Ibiza), Fusion (Taiwan), Twisted (Vancouver) and Attica (Singapore).
A lot of people say that the Ibizan scene is over commercialized and has lost much of its innocence and hedonistic elements compared to the 10–15 years ago. Do you agree with this? How do you compare the scene now to when you first were a clubber out there?
I do agree, but things are definitely looking up for Ibiza now! My first experience of Ibiza was on an all girl holiday at 17 (what were our parents thinking letting us on that plane?)! But WOW what a magical time we had, this is back in the day when Eden was Kaos and Privilege was Club Ku! That memory for me is the REAL IBIZA. I returned to the island to dj in summer 1999, that was an amazing year, and so was summer 2000. 2000 and 2001 were the busiest summers I can remember. But yes I agree it did start to go downhill from there on... the place became full of beer monsters (the sort of guys that grab your boobs as you walk down the street), but they seemed to have buggered off now, maybe they’ve gone to Majorca or back to there prison cells! Anyway the proper party people are heading back to the island, so yeah Ibiza is certainly looking up!
I’ve been checking out your DJ website which is quite snazzy and features a lot about your career, news, charts, biography etc. How much of an effect do you think the website has had on your career?
Thanks! I cannot stress how important a website is for a DJ, especially for gaining work internationally. The majority of my booking enquires come via my website, I couldn’t live without it! I’m having a new one build next year, I’ve designed it myself I cannot wait to see it live!
I understand you also have a successful business under your belt... tell us more? Where do you find the time?
6 years ago my dad helped me set up Flipside Management, we have 6 female DJs and it’s great. The demand for female DJs especially abroad is so high. Due to workload it would be impossible to take on every talented female DJ out there, so last year we set up www.femaledjs.com (a website to get female DJs noticed with their DJ profile and their booking/or their managements details). That’s going really well, and growing very fast, neext year we are starting tour nights, so if anyone would like to host some female talent at your event, let me know!
What do your friends, family and work colleagues think of your career? Have they been to a lot of your gigs?
I have a very close family and they have been extremely supportive right from day one. When I lived with my parents they used to knock on the door when I was mixing and tell me to “turn the music up”! They are completely bonkers. Last weekend they flew over to Prague to surprise me and danced non stop till 4 am! My 86 year old Nan keeps a scrap book of all my interviews and some of my flyers, how cute is that?! Bless!
As for my friends, they are nuts, but yes totally supportive. When I played at the Pussycat Club in Brighton the theme was Alice in Wonderland. I went as Alice and turned up in a minibus full of my vodka fuelled mates as white rabbits! They danced so much on stage that I had to push them off as they decks kept jumpin! Love ‘em really though!
What do you think are the major qualities that would distinguish someone as being an exceptional DJ… one that is held with high regard in the industry?
It’s all about production and behind the decks it’s skill/technical abilities! I feel a DJ that can offer something different musically or technically from the rest will get noticed.
You’ve scored major success as a producer as well as a DJ. What persuaded you to get into production work?
Tidy suggested I get into producing and I love it! But I admit I’ve been slack, I have about 10 unfinished tracks lying around! But last month I kicked myself up the arse and I’ve just finished 2 new tracks both of which I’m very, very pleased with! Yeah!
You produced the hit track ‘Such a Good Feelin’ which went straight into the UK charts at no. 6. Explain how you felt when you heard the news about this great achievement?
If I’m totally honest I’m still buzzing and I just could not believe it when I heard the track had been selected for the Brit 2004 nominations, didn’t believe it was true until the nomination booklet arrived on my doorstep with my name in it!
Do you think there is too much mainstream music sampled within hard dance production… or do you think there is enough original creativity within the industry?
You’re right there is an awful lot of sampled music, but not only within hard dance production. To be honest I don’t think its such a bad a thing, I don’t know, everyone’s different, but personally I think if it’s produced well and works, then why not? Everyone likes to hear tracks that they are familiar with do they not?!
You are playing at the upcoming Pink the breast cancer charity event being organized by Lucy Fur. How did you feel when you were asked to play at this event?
I was happy to help and wanted to raise money for this amazing charity. A school friend of mine died suddenly of cancer earlier this year, it’s just awful. Ross we miss you. I’m proud of Lucy Fur for organising the event and happy to be involved.
There are some big name DJs that you will be playing alongside including Lucy Fur, Nikki S as well as people such as Nick Sentience, James Lawson, Donna Birt and Lizzie Curious. But before and after your sets…who are the DJs you wouldn’t mind going off and having a peek at and stomp to?
Hoping to catch sets of as many as I can. After I’ve finished I’m hanging around to PARTY!
Comments are often made on other DJs’ dancing. Do you classify yourself as a DJ that’s a damn good stomper?
Definitely, always have to do a little jump test before I leave the house for a gig to make sure nothing bounces out my top as I love to jump around when DJing! Have you noticed how girls swing side to side as they mix, and the guys normally rock forward like they are F**king the decks! Cracks me right up!
What are your plans for the future? Do you intend to play more gigs out in Ibiza, focus on your production work?
Next year is going to be a very exciting year for me. I’ll still going to be involved with the business side of things, but have decided to take a little back step from the day to day running of the company and give the others more control! I’ll have much more time for Miss Behavin’! I’ll be spending a lot of time in the studio next year that’s for sure and gigging, partying and partying!
www.djmissbehavin.com
www.femaledjs.com
All photos courtesy of Miss Behavin’. Not to be reproduced without permission.
PINK Breast Cancer Care Charity event
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Friday 9th December 2005
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Heaven [map]
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2200-0600
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£10+BF LIMITED earlybird tickets, £12+BF online advance tickets, £15 on the door
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www.heaven-london.com
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Buy online @ www.heaven-london.com
Email lucyfur@clubbedup.co.uk
Call 07766 147334/07771 736917
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Our aim is to raise awareness of breast cancer and funds for a great charity that sadly affects 1 in 3 people.
Did you know that approx 250 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year?
Did you know early detection is crucial in your survival rate of beating the disease?
Do you know the 5 tell tale signs of what to look for when examing yourself?
You will do!!!!!
Some of the scenes best loved dj\'s and promotions are coming together for one night to make this all possible, please be a part of it.
On the night there will be plenty of fun loving activites to raise cash, so bring plenty of spare change!
And of course the theme is PINK so plenty of that please boys and girls!!
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