what a guy you are Billy always raving at rong even when not djing awsome for trance👍👍👍👍👍

https://youtu.be/Q0lnH-YanXQ?si=A7ti7SoP0F2fEg58

Big Thanks to Novak Vision and the NITF for making this happen!

Enjoy and hopefully see you on a dancefloor soon x

Billy Gillies Live From Belfast Castle 10/07/2021

What a great night at Rong! 

Thanks to all that came along

Hope you enjoy the set x

Billy Gillies LIVE @ Rong's 10th birthday, Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 09/10/2021

Another Sold Out Show , Thanks for the continued Support 

Enjoy !

Ed Heaney Live @ Back To The Old Skool , Crues  16-4-22

Smashing night once again for Shorefest. Ridiculous amount of new music for this one. 

Enjoy x

Shugz LIVE @ Shorefest 2022, Seaview Stadium, Belfast

LUMINOSITY BEACH FESTIVAL 2022
23-26 June 2022 ▪ Beachclub Bernie's, Zandvoort - The Netherlands

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Billy Gillies @ Luminosity Beach Festival 2022

Wow what a night at the first ever Dockside Festival , Grove Park , Shore Road !

Ed Heaney Live @ Dockside Festival, Grove Park Sunday 10th July 2022

What a night! 🥵

Our first headline show in Edinburgh @ The Liquid Rooms went a little like this...🤌 ☠️

Kemonnnnn 🤕 

Buzzing ❤️

Symmetrik LIVE  @ The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh

What a night 🤯

Closing out the telegraph building on halloween night was a dream come true😭

Here’s our full live set for you to relive the moment 👻

Until next time x

Symmetrik LIVE @ Telegraph Building (Cream Presents Freaks 2)

My Live Set @ Ben Nickys Misfit Event SWG3 Glasgow 2022

Forry Live @ Ben Nicky Misfit Event SWG3

Billy Gillies Live @ Luminosity Pres Shine Amsterdam 17/10/19

Round two from the Isolation Station that is my home, Just short of two hours of trance, tech trance, hard trance and hardstyle! 

dig in troops, Thanks to everyone tuned in another massive success! WIll get another one going soon, Might do something a little different next time... Any suggestions on what type of set you would like to see let me know? Much love, 

Stay safe troops x

David Rust LIVE @ His Gaff pt.2 - 25/04/20

To listen to Billy Gillies is to capture true joy, because every song he produces and DJ set he performs radiates pure passion and vibrant spirit.

 

The Northern Irishman’s blend of quirky Eurodance synths, uplifting trance grandeur and hard-hitting bass rhythms goes beyond catchy melodies and expert timing, as breakout hits “Lagoon” and “Youth” tap into the very essence of what makes a night spent on the dancefloor with your best mates such a special experience.

 

That’s why he’s earned more than 145 million views on TikTok, filled a Creamfields tent with thousands of ravers at 1 p.m. on a Sunday, and why he’s managed to get an official remix of Madison Avenue’s 1999 hit “Don’t Call Me Baby” after ripping the iconic vocal off the internet.

 

Crowds chant his name from Taiwan to Texas because Billy Gillies dares to do something different; something unique to himself. Now, Billy Gillies is the next superstar-DJ-in-the-making, poised to take over the world.

 

Billy’s musical obsession started in the 2000s when his older sister started buying Clubland compilation CDs and dating a local DJ. One night, the boyfriend came over and brought his decks, but when the couple left to go dancing, 11-year-old Billy snuck into his sister’s room and started playing with the turntables.

 

“I was like, ‘what is this music? I love this,’” he laughs. “On the Christmas list for that year was a set of decks.”

 

His mom delivered with his first set of Kam belt drives, and Billy’s been mad for mixing ever since. Each Saturday, he’d head out of the house with a five Pound note and spend it on a new record (Tiesto’s Traffic being particularly influential). In turn, he’d spend the next week learning to mix that record in and out of his steadily growing collection.

 

When he was 17, he got his first taste of true Clubland. A year underaged, he caught an hour-long bus from Belfast to Banbridge and talked his way into a club called Coach. Japanese DJ Yoji Biomehanika and the UK’s own Lisa Lashes dropped heavy hard-house records all night, and Billy started dreaming of his own chance to rock a crowd, proper.

 

He knew that if he wanted to be an in-demand DJ, he’d have to come up with some original songs. In 2011, he locked himself in his bedroom with a copy of Ableton Live and didn’t come out until he’d mastered the basic trance sound.

 

He fell in love with music production and started sending his tracks to BBC Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules, who played them on his show every Friday night. For 19-year-old Billy, there was nothing better.

 

After spending much of his 20s as a self-described “party animal,” 28-year-old Billy once again locked himself inside his bedroom and churned out a ton of original tunes. The result? A spot on the lineup of Luminosity 2019 alongside major trance legends Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery and more. He played a set of all-original material, and when a recording was posted to Soundcloud, it earned more plays than any of the headliners.

 

“I’d brung a fresh sound into the trance scene,” Gillies says. “Everyone was making the same type of thing, where I just look back at my influences growing up and crammed it into the main trance style.”

 

International booking requests flooded in, sending him to Argentina to Australia—and then COVID struck. Many of his peers saw no point releasing music to a locked-down crowd, but Billy saw a chance to experiment.

 

“People need music in hard times, not just for clubs,” he says. “The music I was making around that time was proper emotional melodies, and it was resonating with everyone.”

 

He’d share each tune in a rough clip to Facebook or TikTok, and every post brought shares in the thousands. His fan base wasn’t just growing, it was ballooning, due in part not only to his masterful skills in the studio but also his effervescent personality that spills into each tune.

Billy Gillies LIVE @ Rong's 10th birthday, Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 09/10/2021

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