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SIMON ANDREWS<\/span><\/h1>\n

POINT BLANK FM<\/span><\/h4>\n
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TROUBLED SOUL SAFARI: SUNDAY 16:00 – 18:00 GMT<\/span><\/h4>\n
SOULFUL HOUSE, DEEP HOUSE, NU-DISCO, HOUSE<\/span><\/h5>\n

A passionate music collector who ended up a DJ\u2026 To cut a very long story short, I\u2019ve always loved my music. I started buying records from the age of 12 and so the collection began.<\/span><\/p>\n

I used to be a keen ice skater in my early teens and used to go to the ice rink every Saturday night where they had a DJ and everyone skated to music.<\/span>
\nI started slipping the odd two or three twelve inches into my skate bag and get the DJ to drop them; immediately Nitro Deluxe\u2019s \u2018This Brutal House\u2019 and Monie Love’sI Can Do This\u2019 springs to mind!<\/span>
\nNot far off from then, the house parties started. Not the \u2018house music\u2019 parties but those parties that started happening around 15 years old at school when someone\u2019s parents were away\u2026the logic back then seemed to be \u2018Oi Andrews, you\u2019ve got records, you\u2019re playing the music\u2019<\/span>
\nThis used to happen with a miss-match of \u2018dad\u2019s record players and dual amplifiers (no mixing console or variable pitch turntables!) \u2013 I enjoyed it, it was good fun.<\/span>
\nWithin a year or so I went halvsies with a good pal of mine at the time (Hey Colin) on a mixer and I saved up and bought some Technics turntables. The world of beat matching, scratching and tricks began to unfold\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to do my A-Levels at The Henley College and met a guy who became a very good pal of mine who was a year ahead of me, both literally and also in Dj-ing. I met one of the most technically gifted DJs I\u2019ve ever heard \u2013 Chris Giorgi.<\/span>
\nWednesday afternoons were free periods meant for sports. We used to go back to Chris and hit the turntables. Chris taught me a great deal, my mentor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whilst at college I did my first club for another pal Toby Winter. Benson\u2019s on Remenham Hill, Henley. A small-ish place, say 150 people? I was very nervous but the thing that sticks out in my head was having to get the bouncer to cut the padlock on my record box as I forgot the key!<\/span>
\nThe following year I did the big college party at Washington Heights in Reading in front of some 1500! Keith Nunnerly\u2019s \u2018Greed\u2019 flashes into my mind here.<\/span><\/p>\n

I left college in June 1992 and went to Magaluf to DJ for the summer, encouraged by my pal Brandon who was already out there, repairing cars or something.<\/span>
\nI had two residencies out there: Pappy\u2019s then later Sounds Bar opposite BCM. Djing 7 nights a week I met the BCM resident Des Mitchel who asked me to fill in for him, the biggest stage yet with a full 2000 people capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Went to University in Bournemouth and progressed to playing all the clubs down there.<\/span>
\nAround this time, I had my first taste of radio: Red Eye FM (1993). I played occasionally for a year or two including the live outside broadcast at the Bug Jam 1993 at Santa Pod.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2000 and I started a night with another friend in the West End, London. This ran for three years.<\/span>
\nShortly after that, in 2005 I joined Point Blank FM. I started doing 08:00 \u2013 10:00 every Saturday. After a few months, I got offered the Sunday 16:00 – 18:00 slot and am still there to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having been a member of The Loft congregation (and previously Trouble\u2019s House) since 1992, I was delighted that eventually my dream came true and I became a resident DJ at The Loft alongside my mentor and hero Paul \u2018Trouble\u2019 Anderson.<\/span>
\nThat just about covers that\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

INFLUENCES TIMELINE (Random thoughts that spring to mind):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1980:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam and The Ants \u2018Kings of the Wild Frontier\u2019: My first LP<\/span>
\n1983:<\/strong>\u00a0Billy Joel \u2018Uptown Girl\u2019: Plastic record came free w\/ McCaine pizzas -My first scratching on dad\u2019s poor old record player (shh, he still doesn\u2019t know!)<\/span>
\n1985:<\/strong>\u00a0Taping Mike Allen in the early hours on Capital Radio (Electro & Hip Hop)<\/span>
\n1986:<\/strong>\u00a0Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew \u2018The Show: My first 12\u2033<\/span>
\n1987:<\/strong>\u00a0Alexander O\u2019Neal \u2018Hearsay\u2019 LP, Eric B & Rakim \u2018I Know You Got Soul 12\u2033\/ \u2018Paid In Full\u2019 LP<\/span>
\n1988:<\/strong> Pete Tong \u2018The Soul Session\u2019 5-8 pm every Saturday night on Capital FM London \u2013 I used to tape this show every single week. Inspired me to track down the Soho record shops that contributed to the weekly Capital Nightlife 10 chart.<\/span>
\n1988:<\/strong>\u00a0Pet Shop Boys \u2018Introspective\u2019 LP, Eric B & Rakim \u2018Follow The Leader\u2019 LP, Derek B @We Got The Juice 12\u2033<\/span>
\n1989:<\/strong>\u00a0City Sounds, Proctor Street Holborn: My adopted main record shop for over a decade. Oddly i used to bump into Pete Tong in there often. Dave Selby \u2013 could sell rice to China.<\/span>
\n1989:<\/strong>\u00a0TEN CITY \u2018Foundation LP\/ \u2018That\u2019s The Way Love Is\u2019, Soul II Soul \u2013 Keep On moving (12\u2033) & Club Classics LP. My theme tunes to that summer; Tony Scott \u2018That\u2019s How I\u2019m Living\u2019 12\u2033<\/span>
\n1990:<\/strong>\u00a0Kiss FM goes legal. Start recording Paul \u2018Trouble\u2019 Anderson\u2019s \u201cAdvance Dance Mixshow\u201d every Saturday night.<\/span>
\n1991:<\/strong> The Milk Bar, 12 Sutton Row, Soho \u2013 Sneaked into check out Pete Ton & Dave Dorrell. The Underground Solution \u2018Luv Dancing\u2019 (1990)<\/span>
\n1991:<\/strong>\u00a0The Record Basement, Reading: Pete Sinclair, my good friend at the record shop who always sorted me out! Basscut \u2018I\u2019m Not In Love\u2019<\/span>
\n1992:<\/strong>\u00a0Trouble\u2019s House, Legends, Old Burlington St \u2013 Every Thursday night, \u2018Trouble-wear\u2019 on sale and where I clashed heads with Todd Terry trying to ask him to play his edit of Candido\u2019s \u2018Jingo\u2019<\/span>
\n1993:<\/strong>\u00a0Red Eye FM \u2013 My first radio station.<\/span>
\n1993:<\/strong>\u00a0The Loft, HQ\u2019s, West Yard, Camden Lock \u2013 MY CHURCH every Wednesday night until about 1999\u2026Dee Holloway \u2018 I Wanna Be With You\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough Already!<\/span><\/p>\n

LISTEN TO PREVIOUS SHOWS<\/span><\/h5>\n