DJ / Producer / Event Manager Tim Jones (aka Tonker Tim)

Tim’s musical style is described as Vocal House meets Rock Tec House, his recent bootleg remixes of The Beatles, Yello and T Rex are tearing up London’s dancefloors. Most Dj's play track after track, Tim's uniquestyle is to use the DJ deck, tools and digital workstations as instruments, creating a harmonix mix of music and samples to really move the audience.

Tim is first a foremost a DJ who loves music and moving the dance floor. Tim's DJing career began in the underground dance clubs of Brighton on the UK's South Coast. Where Tim worked warm up slots and shared the decks with some of dance-music’s most treasured DJs, including Fat Boy Slim and John Digweed. His UK break came back in 1998 where he was invited to play the Saturday main floor guest slot at London's long standing and famous gay club Heaven.

From that time Tim has worked with and promoted nights in almost all the main dance venues in London, including past residencies at The Fridge Brixton, playing at the infamous Love Muscle and the after hours Rise clubs, plus Crash, Barcode, Growlhouse at Fire, and now The Eagle London. Where now every Friday night he headlines Tonker, the busiest and sexiest weekly “Bear” event in Vauxhall

Tim was the first non USA DJ to be booked to play a marathon nine hour gig at San Francisco’s famous Real Bad charity party, during the Folsom Street Fair event, for a crowd of 5,000

International in the true sense he has been a regular in Sydney Australia for the Mardi Gras festivals, and played The Malaysian Circuit party Maydaze in Kuala Lumphor plus is a regular at Liquid Club in KL Malaysia.

Tim has also played at society parties such at Nubo restaurant in London, and various Pride and Bear Community events across the UK .
Monthly Dance Podcasts are now a feature of Tim's work - being one of the early adopters of the technology with UK DJ Pete Tong. The Podcasts can be found on Apple's iTunes under the name "Rise and Shine" and now attract a monthly download exceeding 35,000.

Tim has written numerous music articles for UK magazines and periodicals.

Tim Jones: www.timjonesmusic.co.uk

DJ / Radio Presenter Phil Marriott

Phil Marriott has been working as a DJ and radio presenter for over thirteen years, and continues to play at numerous clubs across London and the south, alongside working full-time as Head of Music and one of the main presenters on GaydarRadio in London.

During his time in radio, Phil has presented for Radio Victory, Win FM & Dream 107.2 (where he was Programme Manager), Virgin Megastores Radio (VMR), Impulse Live! (for Bruno Brookes’ media company, Immedia Broadcasting), Q Radio (working for ex-Top Of The Pops executive producer, Ric Blaxill) and GaydarRadio.

Whilst at GaydarRadio, Phil has played a big part in promoting the station across gay UK at various Pride events, including Manchester Pride – where he DJ’d to thousands on the main stage, as well as introducing acts like Freemasons diva Katherine Ellis, K Klass and Sophie Ellis Bextor. GaydarRadio were winners at the Arqiva Awards in London in 2008, where the team picked up the Digital Station of the Year award for the third time running.

During the same length of time as his radio work, Phil has become an established club DJ. He played a central role in launching the successful Friday nighter, Onyx at Area in London - as one of their resident DJ’ - and more recently has played at Mancunia in Manchester for Pride 2010, and SupermartXe (London) in 2009 and 2010. His gigs and residencies have also included Revenge (Brighton), Popstarz (London), Gorgeous (Portsmouth) and Legends (Brighton).

Phil has also taken his sound to some of the biggest events around the UK, including the summer festival gig headlined by Tiesto at Victoria Park, London on July 30th 2010. Phil was on the bill with Gareth Wyn (Cream) amongst other top DJ’s. Phil has also been a guest DJ at two Miami Calling events in London, playing alongside Lee Dagger of Bimbo Jones.

In June 2011, Phil took on the club promoter role to launch his own alternative night called Club i at Factory 65 in Vauxhall, London.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/DJ-Phil-Marriott-DJ-Radio-Presenter/120823117937007

Soundcloud:  www.soundcloud.com/phil-marriott

Podomatic:  www.djphilmarriott.podomatic.com

DJ Rick Parker

Rick music style is big funky piano fuelled house, his love of dance music started in his last year of High School listening to Trance and Happy Hardcore mix tapes. He was amazed at how the tunes were blended together - it was this that made him buy his first set of decks at the age of 17. Rick started to teach himself the tricks of the trade through hours of practicing; driven by pure passion for the music he plays which was originally the harder side of dance.

In June 2002 Rick was asked to play his first live set in Bar Beba (Macclesfield) – One problem - they wanted House. So for this gig, playing with records borrowed from a very good friend, he played it, and this was where the start of his love for house music began! With a Trance and Hardcore mixing background, this brings a unique style to the way he mixes Funky House.

Two years later, after moving to Manchester and building up his House record collection, he started to promote himself. The main breakthrough came in October 2004 when Rick entered ‘DJ Idol 2004’ which was held at ‘The Bar Café’ on Deansgate Locks in Manchester. During the competition, Rick was spotted by the owner of a new bar/club due to open in 2005 called 14 Lloyd St.

In March 2005 Rick received the call from the owner of Lloyd St and thus got his first residency at this 900 capacity venue. Playing 5 hour sets every Friday and Saturday night, with his unique style of Funky House Rick quickly got a great following every week. Rick’s ability to read the floor is spot on, keeping it constant all night long.

In the September Rick was asked to enter DJ Idol 2005. This was to be held at Revolution (Parsonage Gardens) Manchester. Rick accepted the invitation, successfully getting through to the final in December. The following month, Rick learned that the owners of 14 Lloyd Street had decided to sell up and were closing at the end of January 2006 - so he had to find something new!

Rick’s main ambition had always been to play in Manchester’s Gay Village. It was with thanks to Anni Hogan (who wrote, arranged and produced Marc Almond for 9 years, and was also Resident DJ at Spirit Bar - Canal Street – Manchester) that he finally got his chance.

In February 2006 Rick dropped a demo disk into Anni at Spirit and a week later was playing the only slots she could give him, mainly covering for resident DJ’s who were away and on Bank holidays. Whilst playing one Bank Holiday, Rick was spotted by the manager of Via (620 capacity bar/club also on Canal Street, Manchester) and was given his new residency where he still plays to this day.

Alongside Rick’s residency at VIA he has also had the privilege to guest at some amazing events around the world like… Tonker in London, Euroski Pride in Saalbach, Austria and Bisbee Pride in Arizona USA!