A veteran of the harddance scene, overdrive started clubbing in 1991,his first taste was at a night called entropy wich was to become the legendery kinetic @longton leisure bowl.but it wasnt untill 1995 that he got interested in performing on the mic after seeing robbie dee the detonator @club kinetic.
Overdrive worked along side many hardcore-trance-teckno djs and mcs through the late 90s into the early millenium brisk,demand,dougal,sharky,scott brown seduction,sy,hms,loftgroover,producer,mark-eg,mcs-kurdy,robbie-dee,stixman,magica,charlie-b,connie to name a few.
Then in 2005 he got onto the hardstyle scene working along side-yofridis,cally an juice,brian-m an mcbunn,sam punk,led,kayem,rush-gbh,Dan baker,alex kid,hustler,rascal and many more.
Overdrive is also a dj now but still loves performing on the mic, he mixes various styles of dance from psy-trance hardtrance and of course hardstyle.

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