Gary Chapman Biography

Gary is able to play most styles of music, he has built up a large collection of Dance, House, Club classics, R&B, Hip hop, indie, pop, Trance and many house music styles Including Vocal, Funky, Progressive, tech, Electro and Mainstream). Over his 5 year career playing at many nightclubs & bars he is seen Confident, alive and energetic in the DJ booth, getting the crowd to go crazy to his music. known for his passion & technical ability you will see him mixing and engaging contact with the crowd and feeding off there reactions. These successful performances have helped him to get where he is today, playing regularly in Bars & Nightclubs. When first starting out, DJing was a hobby and has now turned into a full time occupation as a professional DJ, searching for them floor filling tracks and staying on top of his game.
 
Gary’s Experience
 
Starting with current to past.

The year 2009 has seen Gary playing at even bigger & better events. On September 6th Gary Played at essex pride which was a festival which attracted over 3000 people in central park, Chelmsford. With a crowd of 2000 people in front of him Gary got out his best tunes and got excellent reactions from the crowd. With an on going residency on Fridays at the sovereign in Ramsgate, Gary now produces his own bootlegs & remixies which get played at many different events. For the second year Gary entered the Movida Corona World DJ Tournament in June which this year was covered by the MTV music channel, unfortunately Gary did not come 1st place this year, but plans on entering again next year for a slot at ministry of sound. Watch this space for more upcoming events !!!! The year 2008 was a big year for Gary. In the beginning of June he worked two nights abroad in Spain at Kiss Nightclub. He was offered to stay for the rest of the season but declined the offer due to work back in England. When getting back Gary entered the Movida Corona World DJ Tournament which took place at Kulture, (Brighton) on the 20 June, with the judging criteria being, quality of music, Technical ability and originality/musical journey. He came first place but unfortunately got knocked out of the round before the UK final at ministry of sound, London. On Saturday 26th July Gary finished one gig in Hertford and travelled to the Isle of Sheppy to do a couple of House music sets on the beach of Minster. This was to be Garys first experience at a gig of this nature. At the beginning of November 2008 Gary played his first gig in London, Leicester square at Metra night club playing to a multi cultural crowd with different nationalities he learnt about a totally different kind of crowd, widening his mind even more to different kinds of music. Now with one residency being at Ramsgate at a large bar playing commercial music which started 05/07/08 this was to be the first time this venue had music, and the bar has gone from quiet to being very busy, something Gary has helped to achieve.
 
How it Began
 
It all started when Gary was in his last year of primary school he started a small disco in his garden shed, for his sisters friends. Before long Gary was DJing for his friends at House parties as well, sharing his passion of music, at this stage his music collection was growing large and he was starting to get a real feel of the satisfaction of a full dance floor. After time Gary then got asked & took the opportunity to DJ at the woolpack in Chelmsford and since then started he has done many, many private events. In 2005 Gary met the Sunday night DJ from Chicago's in Chelmsford, where he was given his first ever set in front of a bigger audience in an clubbing environment, he was given a one hour set each week playing commercial house, at this stage Gary really wanted to get out there to play wherever he could. DJing was starting to turn in to a big passion, being influenced by DJs such as Eddie Halliwell, Tiesto and Carl Cox watching the way they react with the crowd and there music Gary really started to develop a hunger for playing music to dance floors.