Promise/Eddie Halliwell in Seven Update Just got my copy of this week's Seven Update this morning and there's a bit in Buzz about Eddie, bigging up Promise too! Buzz: Eddie Halliwell Scratching with Trance? Superstar in waiting? That’ll be Eddie Halliwell. “I’m only small,” explains 22-year old Eddie Halliwell of his precocious fashion sense. “I don’t like it being baggy, I like to have tight clothes when I’m DJ’s. I really like Prada and Vivienne Westwood” Not too many hard house spinners go to battle in skin-tight Prada. But then, as the cliché goes, Eddie isn’t your standard Hard House DJ. You’ll see him playing at Gatecrasher, and he’s managed by the O’Riordan brothers’ Serious agency. But the details are unusual. He practiced mixing for five years before even thinking about playing out, for a start. And his style reflects that preparation – he scratches trance, layers basslines and melodies and prepares meticulously for performances; which span house, tech-house, trance, techno and hard dance. “If you’re just going ‘bang bang bang’ you’re not being very creative, are you?” says Halliwell. “There’s nowhere left to go. There’s a lot more excitement in playing with the crowd. The place for hard sound is towards the end of the night when people need picking up.” His brief DJ biography is heart-warming; riding shotgun with the meteoric DiY Manchester party Goodgrief (which used to be called Totally Mashed. You get the picture). He’s now hot property, a ‘next big thing’ and a modest, shy gent to boot. His accent is pure Hollyoaks, he hates TV (“Always have, It’s a waste of time”) and lives with his mum. “She came to (Newcastle’s) Promise. All the club was chanting my name while she was stood behind me. I was happy she could see why I do what I do.” Some mothers do ‘ave it. Joe Curtis, Seven Update 11/09/02
His mam was there - that's mint, I'd love my mam to be standing behind me when a crowd was chanting my name after a set - I'd be like - I thought these decks were a waste of money
Re: Promise/Eddie Halliwell in Seven Update lol, wasnt that when he dropped reloop-fuckin society and his mum didnt look overly impressed!!
Re: Re: Promise/Eddie Halliwell in Seven Update ha ha ha, that's the one. He seemed a bit embarrased by that a little later on
all due respect to Eddie, who has grown so much over the last year, and i aint slating him mark, but by playing Jurgen Vries-The Theme? i dunno about u, but i d be after him playing his hard trance, not "dave pearce trance"
just voicing my personal opinion… like I said I have a lot of admiration for him… im not slating him, or arguing…
Well i like The Theme!!! Eddie is class he is defo one of my fav DJ's!!!!!! Havent got a bad word to say about him!
