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UPDATE; MAY 2011
DJ lil Alex is pleased to announce that he is now resident DJ for Wildfruit, Rebel, and National Student Pride. His residencies now read as follows;
every Wednesday; The Bulldog (2200-0200)
every Thursday; Mad Cow @ Charles Street Bar (2100-0200)
every Sunday; The Sunday Party @ Honeyclub (2230-0300)
Monthly (last Saturday of each month) – Wild Fruit & Rebel
Yearly (to be announced) – National Student Pride
lil’ Alex first hit the Brighton club scene in December 2006. He’d touched vinyl for the first time only one month earlier, and was coaxed into lessons with the legendary Richard Jones. A bet was formed and a deal created, and one month later, lil’ Alex played a warm-up slot at the infamous Religion, winner of realbrighton.com’s ‘Favourite Club Night’ for two years running.
lil’ Alex immediately shone through as a boy with potential, and by the next morning, he had been offered residencies with Religion, Charles Street Bar and Bliss.
In the coming months lil’ Alex stormed around the Brighton club scene. With his friendly and professional attitude, his enormous energy and charisma behind the decks (despite his height), and most of all his taste for tunes that shocked and surprised the dance-floor, jump starting it to life, lil’ Alex got thrown around the Brighton club scene like there was no tomorrow!
Within 6 months, lil’ Alex had scored residencies and guest slots in over 22 more venues and club nights, the highlights being Brighton Pride with Ministry of Sound at Concorde2, and some early morning slots at The Ocean Rooms, shaking the walls at the renowned electro after-party ‘Blow’.
For the rest of 2007 lil’ Alex bounced around Brighton pumping the dancefloors and the DJ booths alike, becoming known for dancing harder than the even most enthusiastic punter. His determination and stand-out style brought him to what he referred to as ‘greatest moment of his life’; the moment he was referring to was the New Years Eve midnight slot in Brighton’s largest gay venue ‘Charles Street’, take over by Religion for that night.
“It was an unbelievable feeling, for the first hour people had been drifting in and out, finding their slot for the big moment. By 11.55 the club was rammed, the busiest I’ve ever seen it. We played Big Ben’s Bongs out over the crowd and then I dropped a big based remix of Sandy B’s ‘You Make My World Go Round’. The feeling was indescribable, confetti cannons went off, people jumped and screamed… the place just went wild! I was lucky enough to have all my best friends in the booth with me to celebrate. The whole room was shaking!”
- lil’ Alex
2008 proved to be just as fruitful for lil’ Alex, if not more so. He spent the early half of the year playing his residencies and working on an album of his own remixes. He’d been studying various forms of music for most of his life, having attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, and taking a Music Production course at Brighton City College. He’d spent his youth bouncing around punk and rock bands, and teaching the drum kit in primary schools.
The album was released in August 2008 and proved to be a great success. The 11 tracks from ‘DJ lil’ Alex; The Re-edits’ were played across Britain, from Manchester radio, to bars in London, and Clubs in Portsmouth and Southampton. It was also briefly reviewed in Gscene magazine;
“But fret not, there’s some tasty tunes on the local scen to ge you through any seasonal lows, namely DJ LIL’ ALEX and his Re-Edits. Mashed up monsters lil’ Alex style, this 11-track CD is well worth tracking down as it showcases his twisted touch. Anthems, but not as we know them. ‘I like it like this, I like it like that!’”
- Gscene Magazine, Oct2008
The high point of the album’s success was when tutor and mentor Richard Jones pumped out lil’ Alex’s re-edit of Rain Down Love (Freemasons) to over 8,000 people in the Wildfruit tent, Brighton Pride, Aug2008. lil’ Alex also played his own mixes to the revellers at the Brighton Pride Street Party and the listeners of Juice107.2 simultaneously, and a week later played out to Manchester’s Gaydio listeners.
Since then, lil’ Alex has continued his domination of Brighton, picking up residencies in the Marina, and guest slots at The Brighton Coalition, and Brighton’s famous Hotel Basement Club ‘Legends’.
His most recent achievement is being recruited by the colossal Aeon events, who run the Nationally famous ‘Wildfruit’, playing at everyone’s favourite after party ‘Rebel Rocks’, and landing his own Aeon residency at Sunday cool club ‘Cash Queen’.
Since then he’s been working hard on new residencies and new mixes, more recently focusing his effort on a new album, due to be released before Brighton Pride 2009.