Brian Damage

Aeo 1

After being taught to DJ by the one and only Ajax Dance Legend (R.I.P)
Dan and his lil bro Beni went on to throw a little party called “Dangerous Dan and
Bumpin Benny B’s Bargain Basement Booty Bar” they were joined by Ajax, Gus Da
Hoodrat and Jaime Doom and evolved into “The Bang Gang” quickly becoming
Sydney’s most infamous club night.
The Bang Gang ran for 5 years, and every Friday night became a home to a
melting pot of Sydney’s cool kids, nerd kids, club kids, skater kids, confused kids,
before / after work strippers and drag queens. The first “fluid” movement for
Sydney’s younger generation. The Bang Gang welcomed all shapes and sizes,
dress styles and sexual preferences.
There were nearly no rules to the music, it just had to be fun.
There was only one rule to the sex, it had to be respectful and consensual.
It was a LOT of fun.
The Bang Gang DJ’s went on to national and international tours of the USA, UK
and Europe, Japan and Asia, that included supporting Daft Punk on their Alive Tour
of Australia in 2007.
It was the best of times that suddenly became the worst of times. On February 28,
2013, the news came that AJAX had suddenly died in a tragic accident.
The Bang Gang wouldn’t be the same without him, the boys decided to part ways
and work solo projects.
As a DJ, Dangerous Dan has played club nights and festivals in most major cities
and a few unknown corners of the world. Sharing the decks and playing B2B with
artists such as Tiga, 2ManyDJ’s, Justice, DJ Mehdi, Busy P, Erol Alkan, Mylo,
Damian Lazarus, Art Department, Riton, Nervo, Lauren Lane, Kaz James, Ewan
Pearson, A-Trak, Boyz Noize, Steve Aoki, Aeroplane, Felix The Housecat, Jamie
Jones, Jesse Rose, Darren Emerson, Virgil Abloh, Stuart Price, The Scissor
Sisters, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, The YYY’s, and many more.
Playing late night club sets of underground house and disco to 300 people, or
banging techno/main-room/dance whatever you wanna call it to festival crowds.
Whatever the time, whatever the occasion, Dangerous Dan makes people dance
(and he can dance quite well himself)
What it sounds like in the words of Dangerous himself: “No trainspotting, no all
night deep house , no skank, no boredom, just pure fuckin party”

Aeo 1

Brian Briggs