Twenty years
on the floor

I started at sixteen, playing clubs around Sheffield. That's where you learn the only thing that really matters: a floor tells you what it wants, and your job is to listen.

I moved over to Manchester and started working weddings and events alongside the club work. Two decades on, I've played more than a thousand weddings and events: barns, manor houses, hotel ballrooms, warehouses and a fair few marquees in fields.

Everything is mixed live, using current edits and mix tracks so it never sounds like a radio playlist. I read the room rather than run a set. If you've got a list of must-plays, brilliant, send it over. If you'd rather hand the whole night to someone who does this every week, that works too.

Full PA, top-of-the-range Pioneer decks and moving head lighting come as standard. Everything is PAT certified and covered by £2 million public liability, the paperwork most venues will ask you for.

Matt Hydes, Knutsford, Cheshire