Steve Wynne Jones

It was a rainy night in December 2001 that saw Steve's mum drive him out to Liffey Valley to buy a 2nd hand pair of Technics and that fateful journey along the M50 pretty much sums up his DJ career to date- plenty of crashes, long periods of motionlessness and plenty of crap music played through a shite car stereo. Thankfully, Steve likes to leave those days behind him nowadays, concentrating solely on bringing the funk to dancefloors as far afield as Kildare St, and..well...Eden Quay.

Steve's peculiar tendency to buy loads of stuff from certain genres, and then not buy anything for ages has led to a minor storage crisis in his 'intimate' bedroom setup, with countless shite tech funk remixes taking up valuable wardrobe space and old skool anthems jostling for room with the latest releases on Novamute, TCR and Botchit and Scarper, his current lables "du jour". Steve promises one day he'll throw some of it out, or sell it on eBay (more on that later) but seeing as he's still got copies of old Sega Megadrive magazines somewhere, it looks doubtful.

A self-confessed eBay addict, Steve's baragaining skills led in 2004 to the purchasing of a Roland MC307 groovebox, half decent Numark cd deck and a bundle of top notch breaks records, which he still insists was an impulse buy. With all this new equipment, Steve likes to spend drunken Tuesday nights mixing Big Pun acapellas with battered drillcore records and "mashing up" old sixties hits by the Byrds, the Doors, the Mamas...and of course the Papas. He does not own one trance record.

Steve rarely makes the effort to get gigs, and has only in his time made three mixtapes- one of which got him a couple of gigs in Electric City and one, Too Many SWJ's which was a hit all over Australia, thanks to some entreprenurial friends who brought it on holiday with them. As the cheif superintendent at Novadance.com, Steve single-handedly resurrected the site in 2002 and transformed it into the social phenomeon it is today. But Steve laughs off claims that his site is "bigger than Jesus". "Ha ha ha", he says.

Steve will mostly be playing breaks at 12 ten (not that airy fairy shite, but proper bass-heavy stuff) and probably a couple of acidy type tunes which he bought earlier in the week. Plus he will be modelling the latest in post-88 hardcore throwback T-shirts, and a new, streamlined haircut.