Interview with DJ Snips ( youtube snips69)

Alright folks, Jonathan here. This is a pair of shoes and this is Snips. Hi there. Alright, so it's a good old mate of mine. I've known him for like six million years and he used to help me out in something called the World Dance which I used to do in The Feathers in Albarara and that was good fun, wasn't it? It was very good fun, yeah. So, about you, when did you start DJing and all that sort of stuff? 96, I think I got the influence off... I was going to clubs back in Aberystwyth and thought I'd give it a go, and it went from there really. I was collecting CDs and vinyl since 1990, and then I sort of did it back to front if you know what I mean, and then it sort of pushed me to Getdex. In a sense it's a good way because then you've got your music before you even get your gear. That's right. A lot of people they buy the gear and think, oh right I've got my gear, and it's like, I haven't got anything to play. That's right, that's right. Fair dues.

But I like your style as well, and very sort of piano orientated and stuff like that. Yeah, I do like the old pianos, yeah. And breaks. And what we'll do, we've got Sips playing in a club in, what was it, in Cardiff, wasn't it? That's right, yeah. So what we need to do, once we've got this video up, link that one underneath this one so people can see you playing. Yeah, cool. Which will be quite interesting. So real working DJ, real club working DJ, and he's spot on like. So what are your plans for the future then, DJing? You know, what would you like to do? Well, I obviously love to be playing every weekend and not do a 9-5 job, but that's obviously wishful thinking because it is hard out there. There's plenty of DJs out there, plenty of good ones, and a lot of good ones don't get noticed. Yeah, I know, I know. This is it, this is the whole idea of what I'm trying to do, is get people noticed. It's the wonderful thing. It's happening! It is. It's so cool, isn't it? It is. Yeah, it's surreal. Seriously, if you watch the video of...

This is what it's like. If people know you're a DJ and they know you can play diverse selection of music, then you just never know when that phone's going to ring. There was a comment left, it was like, oh money, money, but I didn't get much for that at all because there's no gear or anything like that. But at the end of the day, if you are diverse and you can play all kinds of music... You've got more chance of getting different work, haven't you? Yeah, exactly. Because even though you like house, hard house and sort of ravey styles, you can play all kinds of music, can't you? Yeah, that's right. That's what it's about. And you have to in some ways because, like you said, you never know when that phone's going to ring and if you've got the equipment or you've got the music to play then you've got to go out there and do it. You've got to go for it. That's right.

A bit of an insight here. Dee, what's it? Snips69? Snips69, yeah, that's right. Snips69, alright? That's his YouTube username. And by the way, practice and enjoy.

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