Pete Blakely DJ Biography Pete Blakely was born and raised in Southend, Essex on the 24th of May 1979. At the age of 7 he was interested in music playing with his fathers cassettes and vinyl's and experimenting with the sounds. At the age of 10 Pete began to learn the trumpet and keyboard. Pete became interested in Djing at the age of 21 he was taught how to DJ on CD Decks at Colors (a club in Essex Basildon), from there he became resident for Colors for 3 years, in-between Colors he had a temporary position at The Cliff Pub (Southend Essex) the music he was interested in at the time was Pop and RnB music. While living in Essex he had several one-off sets including The Fox & Hound Pub (Colchester Essex), The Village (London Soho) & Escape (London Soho). In 2004 Pete Blakely moved to London to advance his DJing skills, he began learning how to mix using Vinyl's and changed his genre to Funky House, he created a Demo CD that he distributed to bars and clubs his creativity was noticed and he was offered a residency at The Eagle (formerly South Central in Vauxhall, London) at the same time he was resident as a Light Jockey and sound and lighting engineer at Factory Nightclub (Vauxhall, London) till 2008 where he gave up his residency to further his career and to experiment with a different sort of audience. In late 2008 he became resident at the Colherne in Earls Court, London and changed his genre to Commercial Tech House up until the bar closed early 2009 from there he moved to Infinity (formerly Brompton's West Brompton, London) up until it closed late 2009. In the middle of 2010 he joined Union (formerly Crash, London, Vauxhall) and once again his genre changed to Non-Commercial Tech House, Pete Blakely moved out of Union and into Barcode (Vauxhall, London). Currently Pete mixes Non-Commercial & Commercial Tech House and uses CD Decks. He has completed a course on Sound Engineering. Peteblakely@hotmail.com

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