Since taking to the turntables in the early nineties Belfast based dj ‘Steve Boyd’ has played thousands of gigs, promoted hundreds of events and now owns one of Ireland’s most successful clubs ‘Thompsons Garage’. 

Steve’s universal approach to dance music has witnessed his involvement in many of its incarnations and genres. His involvement in the early progressive house scene led him to headline gigs at London’s Leisure Lounge, Imperial Gardens, Gardening Club and Velvet Rooms. Gigs across the UK and Ireland followed at Edinburgh’s Honeycomb, Dublin’s POD, Kitchen and Manchester’s Tangled. During this time Steve held down a residency at the seminal ‘Code One’ events at Thompsons. Steve was also a key player at hundreds of ‘All Nighters’ across Ireland. Throughout this period Steve played alongside Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, Nick Warren, Steve Lawler, Lee Burridge, Gordon Kaye, Slam, Anthony Pappa and countless others. 

Since those halcyon days Steve has gone on to become one of Europe’s longest running resident djs with an 18 year residency at Thompsons Garage. Covering each and every style of House music’s ever-changing genres Steve has played alongside some of the best in the business. Tony Humphries, Roger Sanchez, Joey Negro, Francois K, Danny Krivit, Angel Moraes, Grant Nelson, DJ Gregory, Graeme Park, Deadmau5, Mark Knight, CJ Mackintosh, Steffi, Prosumer, Ashley Beedle and many more have joined Steve during his spell behind the Thompsons turntables.

A truly versatile dj, Steve has held his own laying down Jacking House with Derrick Carter, tough Tech House with Matthias Tanzmann, soulful sounds with Miguel Migs and progressive soundscapes with Sasha. 

In the UK alone Steve has fired up the floor at London’s Ministry of Sound, Pacha, Turnmills, The Key and Area. Elsewhere in the UK Steve has supplied the soundtrack at Cardiff’s L’America, Derby’s Blend, Manchester’s Slammin Sessions, Brighton’s Everyday People, Edinburgh’s Stereotype and Birmingham’s Crunch to name a few. Steve's versatile style has also seen him spin at various events outside of the UK where hes has laid down blissed out beats at Ibiza’s legendary Cafe Mambo and Dubai’s 360 in addition to delivering pumping House sets at Pacha in Egypt, Cocoon in Germany, Dreamers in Spain and Curacao in the Caribbean. In Ibiza Steve has spun dj sets at Space, Es Paradis, Eden and Pukka Ups Sunset boat parties.  In addition to this Steve has completed numerous tours of Russia and headlined gigs across India, China, Arabia & Europe.

Steve's MISFIT mixes serve up Deep House through to Techno whilst his STEREO mixes and edits focus on straight up club cuts .. Enjoy! 




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