Biography: It was around 1996, back when i was 13 that I started listening to John Peel. I listened to the radio a fair bit by this point, graduating from chart stuff to Mark and Lard's program, through the Evening Session, then stumbling across Peel's show, or more than likely was directed to it by one of the above. He was on Saturday tea-time back then, as I recall. I remember sitting in front of the football on Ceefax every Saturday afternoon, watching the goals dribble in, albeit in text form, and come 5 o'clock, round final score time, I knew that's when I had to stick Radio 1 on. Over the next eight years I would barely miss a Peel show, and was lucky enough to feature on a Cuban Boys Peel session in 2000, lending some helium-fuelled vocals to a cover of Bowie's Laughing Gnome. The impact Peel had on me is immense. Simply put, the man changed the way I listened to music, and gave me a hunger to do the same for others.
After ten years of DJing in and around London on a fairly regular basis, notably for five years as a warm-up DJ at Rough Trade's RoTa events, though at countless other nights through the years too, I decided it was finally time to go for the dream and try my luck with radio. In January I started a podcast called Kamikaze. I started it as essentially an electronic, dance and experimental show, though over the course of the year the boundaries have become a lot more blurred, and the output more varied. I have attracted 10,000 listeners to the show during my first year broadcasting, which has put one hell of a smile on my face, and am well chuffed to have been given the opportunity to have a regular show on Dandelion Radio, and hope you all enjoy the tunes I dig out for you...
