Name: Marcus Hobley Location: Midlands
Style: Main Room Prog & Hard Trance or Back Room Funky House.
Email: Marcus.hobley@severntrent.co.uk
Brief Biography: Major cities I have played in include: London, Leicester,
Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Derby, Coventry & Preston. Please
find below details of each gig's in each city:
Coventry: Coventry is my no means a clubbing meca but with it being my home town it was inevitable that I would play out here eventually. Having played in most of the smaller bars & clubs around the city centre, my real break came in 2001 when I started playing back room funk house sets at a night called Prototype, regular main room guests at the night included Lange, Armin Van Burren & Matt Hardwick. In 2002 I scored a residency with the Ibiza originating night Tonic who moved to Coventry to run weekly at the New Super Club the Institute. Here I was playing regular main room slots along the side the likes of Lisa Pin-up, Lisa Loud, The Sharp Boys, Brandon Block, Graham Gold & Corvin Darlik.
London: Within the Capital I have played at two of the key Hard Dance nights.
These are firstly Milk held at the 414 club in Brixton. This is an after hours
events running Saturday morning & nearly all of the biggest London Hard
Dance DJ's have played here.
9th February 2002 11:00 - 12:30 (Hard House & Trance Set)
12th October 2002 11:00 - 12:30 (Hard House & Trance Set)
Secondly I have also played several guest slots at the night Smile, which
is held at one of London's hottest newly, refurbished venue's the Viaduct:
4th May 2002 (Funky Tech & US House set),15th June 2002 4:30 - 6:00 (Trance
& Hard Dance set), 24th August 2002 22:00 - 23:30 (Warm up Trance Set)
12th October 2002 22:00 - 23:30 (Warm up Trance Set), 13th November 2002 23:30
- 1:00 (Hard Trance Set).
At this night I have featured along side some of the biggest London names
including: Ed Real, BK, James Lawson to name but a few.
Leicester: Monthly slots at the Trance night in Leicester called Escape:
25th January 2002 23:00 - 00:30, 1st February 2002 23:00 - 00:30,
22nd February 2002 1:30 - 3:00, 12th April 2002 12:30 - 2:00,
10th May 2002 21:30 - 23:00, 21st June 2002 11:00 - 12:30,
23rd August 2002 12:30 - 2:00.
Regular guest I have played along here include Passion Resident Marc West.
Birmingham: The Birmingham club scene has played a predominate part in my
life since 2000 & this is reflected in the quality of gig's I have had
there. Significant high lights have included playing in the Funky House Room's
at Both gods kitchen at Code, & at Sundissential at both venue's The sanctuary
in 2001 & D.N.A. in 2002.
In Addition to this I have also played at the more underground Venue's Such
as Subway city as well as well as the official Sundissential warm-up event
called Fluffy that runs at Bar 2 Sixty On Broad Street. On the funky house
side of things I have also played at the very glamorous club Hidden, at there
Wednesday night event called Treated, this night has had the likes of Eddie
Haliwell playing guest slot at.
I have also played guest slots on the radio station BRMB & BPM radio Birmingham.
Manchester: The highlight or 2002 came with a guest slot at an event that runs monthly in Manchester called Planet life, it is held at the Apollo Theatre & it was here that I played a set to a rammed 3,000 capacity crowd. In addition to this on Christmas Eve 2002, I am scheduled to play as Ascension a new 1600 capacity super club. I will be playing a main room warm-up for John Kelly who will be followed by Charlotte Birch.
Derby: I have played at the Trance Night M.O.tion held at the Gate House & am also due to play the Trance night Rubic held at Club Soda (Home of progress) on Sunday 13th October 2002.
Nottingham: Within Nottingham I Played Guest slots on the Radio Station FLY FM in 2001 & 2002. On the club Scene I have also played a Guest Slot at the night Sacrilege Guests here include Mark Leish (hotdog Resident). In October this year I also played a set at Bar Sinergy.
Preston: While in Preston I played a guest slot on the radio station Frequency AM this was the official warm-up show to the night feel as a result I featured on the flyers for this Feel event along side John Kelly & Scott Bond.
Ibiza: During the summer of 2002 I visited Ibiza for three weeks during this time I was promoting & playing at a funky house night called Rubik's Cube. This night ran at both Café Mambo on Thursday nights & The Bull Ball on Tuesdays. In addition to this I also played a set at Sugar Sea one of the Bars on sunset strip next to the legendary Café Del Mar.
Media Presence: I currently review records & club nights for the Website www.cyber-clubber.com
Production: I have recently invested in some professional study equipment,
including a Supa nova II synth, & plan have Trance material ready for
signing within six to twelve monthly.