Tonie's first outing on a set of decks was in the Autumn of 1979 at Flikkers, a gay club in what would later become Dublin's Temple Bar. Soon afterwards he traded in his trumpet for a set of Technics and there was no turning back. 

His music tastes run the gamut of jazz and orchestral to electronica and breakbeat. Old enough to be an original disco boy, when dancing he particularly loves deep, percussive house and anything in a minor key, with discordant strings and a rising bass-line. 

At one time of another he has been a leading player in some of Ireland's most significant club events, among them Flikkers, Sides, Horny Organ Tribe (H.O.T.), Elevator, GAG, Powderbubble, H.A.M. and Telefunkin. Several decades of dj and club promotion have also allowed him fund a parallel life of political activism and community work.

Although he retired from full-time work in 2007 (to concentrate on research and writing projects), Tonie continues to play at the special fixture that is Ping Pong Disco at Ireland's All Together Now festival.

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